CHAPTER V

THE DOOR CLOSES BEHIND THEM _Trenchard's Diary. Saturday, August 14th...._ Captain T---- died this afternoon at four-thirty. A considerable shock to me. He was so young, so strong. They all said that he had a remarkable future. He had dined with us several times at Mittoevo and his vitality had always attracted me; vitality restrained and drilled towards some definite purpose. He might have been a great man.... His wound in the stomach did not hurt him, I think. He was wonderfully calm at the last. How strange it i…