Last scene of all to end this strange, eventful history. Beneath the dome of St. Paul's, the resting-place of Nelson and Wellington, amidst a vast throng of the great and good of our nation, and with a sorrowing people outside, the last words of prayer and hope were said; and when all was over, thousands of citizens passed reverently by his grave. "It is the most useful thing I can do at this moment:" this was the keynote of Lord Roberts's life--to be of use to his country. There is a lesson in these simple words for you and me. Lord Roberts was happy in his life; he would be happier still in his death were all his fellow-countrymen to ask with heart and voice, "What is the most useful thing I can do for my country now and hereafter?" [Footnote 98: See Vol. 1., pp. 102, 104, 105, 107.] [Footnote 99: Fought between the Northern and Southern States of what is now the United States of America, mainly on the question of slavery in the Southern States, during 1861-65.] [Footnote 100: _My´dan._] [Footnote 101: Important city of South Afghanistan. In 1880 British troops in Kandahar were besieged, but Roberts made a great march from Kabul and relieved them.] [Footnote 102: City of North India, on the Ganges; the scene of two tragedies during the Indian Mutiny of 1857.] [Footnote 103: Native infantry soldiers of the Indian army. The native cavalry soldier is a "sowar."] [Footnote 104: On the right bank of the Jumna. It was created capital of India in place of Calcutta in 1911.] [Footnote 105: British general, of great physical strength and lofty, winning character. Born 1821, killed at Delhi 1857.] [Footnote 106: Capital of the Transvaal. Entered by Roberts on June 5, 1900.] [Footnote 107: The Prince of Wales went to the front as a member of Sir John French's Staff in the middle of November 1914.] [Footnote 108: Ruler of Jodhpur, the largest state of Rajputana, India. He was born in 1844.] [Footnote 109: In his book _Forty-one Years in India_, Lord Roberts gives us a story showing the valour of this most famous of Indian soldiers. Roberts had wounded a boar, which attacked Pertab Singh, whose horse had fallen with him. The prince held the boar with his bare hands until Lord Roberts was able to come up and dispatch it. The boar's head was presented by the prince to Lord Roberts, and became one of his cherished possessions at his country house of Englemere, Ascot.] CHAPTER XVII. TALES FROM THE TRENCHES.