CHAPTER IV

It was a day of blue sky and bright warm sunlight. There was a gayety in the weather--gayety such as graced the morning when Alec and Adair last rode together at Bendip. But the sky above these French fields had a deeper clearness than is often found over the gray downs of England. It was more like the skies in western Canada under which Falcon ... it seemed so many years ago ... had driven his herd of cow ponies.... "Steady!" He could scarcely hear his voice as he shouted to his men. And they, trudging wearily…