And those who will may guess what Karl Heinz saw when the mist cleared
from before the monstrance in the priest's hands. Then he shrieked and
died.





The Dazzling Light

The new head-covering is made of heavy steel, which has been
specialty treated to increase its resisting power. The walls
protecting the skull are particularly thick, and the weight of the
helmet renders its use in open warfare out of the question. The rim
is large, like that of the headpiece of Mambrino, and the soldier
can at will either bring the helmet forward and protect his eyes or
wear it so as to protect the base of the skull . . . Military
experts admit that continuance of the present trench warfare may
lead to those engaged in it, especially bombing parties and barbed
wire cutters, being more heavily armoured than the knights, who
fought at Bouvines and at Agincourt.--_The Times_, July 22, 1915

The war is already a fruitful mother of legends. Some people think
that there are too many war legends, and a Croydon gentleman--or lady,
I am not sure which--wrote to me quite recently telling me that a
certain particular legend, which I will not specify, had become the
"chief horror of the war." There may be something to be said for this
point of view, but it strikes me as interesting that the old
myth-making faculty has survived into these days, a relic of noble,