The first two days I did not see my servant at all. On Wednesday he
turned up just before lunch. On Monday and Tuesday, he explained, he
had wandered through corridors and passages trying to find my room,
and, by rising an hour before _reveille_, he thought he would be able
to get from his quarters to mine by about breakfast-time.

We used to adjourn to the billiard-room after dinner, but gave it up
because it was necessary to stop play at half-past ten in order to be
in bed by midnight. Signals is worried because he has not enough line
left to reach Battalions, all available supplies having been used up
in connecting the General's room with various parts of the Schloss.
We are continually late for dinner owing to errors in judging the
distances from one room to another. Our once happy family has
dissolved into silent morose individuals, for we have grown strange
and distant to one another. Liaison between departments has broken
down, and the Staff-Captain whom I saw yesterday in the distance is
suffering from premature decay.

But a solution has been found, for the Engineers are unloading a
couple of Nissen huts to put up in the hall, and we shall soon be a
united family once more.

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"The surveyor said that as things were at present he had little
or no authority over the men who, for the most part, simply
considered him his equal."--_Trade Paper._

If he doesn't take a stronger line the men will consider him his