permission of Messrs. Chapman and Hall.

[2] _With the Camel Corps up the Nile_, by Count Gleichen, by
permission of Messrs. Chapman and Hall.

[3] _With the Camel Corps up the Nile_, by Count Gleichen, by
permission of Messrs. Chapman and Hall.

[4] For this and much other valuable information the writer is
indebted to Field-Marshal Sir Evelyn Wood.

[5] _The Nineteenth and their Times_, by Col. J. Biddulph, by
permission of Mr. John Murray.




CHAPTER III

YEARS OF WAITING

Second in Command--Maintaining the Barrow tradition--The
Persistent Student--Service in India--Retires on
Half-pay--Renewed Activities--Rehearsing for South Africa.


After the success in the Soudan Major French had not long to wait for
promotion. A few days after General Buller's tribute he was appointed
Lieutenant-Colonel of his regiment. So that he came back to England as
second in command of the 19th Hussars.