CHAPTER V

BECQUE--AND RAOUL D'AURAY DE REDON I settled into the routine of my new life very quickly, and it was not long before I felt it was as though I had known no other. At times I came near to desperation, but not so near as I should have come had it not been for my private room at the hotel, the fact that I did much of my work with other _Volontaires_ in a special class, and the one great certainty, in a world of uncertainty, that there are only twelve months in a year. From 6.30 to 8 we _Volontaires_ were in "school";…