his volunteers into a body styled 'The Knights of the Red Cross.' I
am afraid some of his bold crusaders have earned more distinction
for their attacks on Fleet Street bars than they are likely to earn on
Servian battle-fields, but then I must not anticipate history."

Another paper tells that at the end of the first week of his service
as a Servian officer, MacIver had enlisted ninety men, but that they
were scattered about the town, many without shelter and rations:

"He assembled his men on the Rialto, and in spite of official
expostulation, the men were marched up to the Minister's four
abreast--and they marched fairly well, making a good show. The
War Minister was taken by storm, and at once granted everything.
It has raised the English colonel's popularity with his men to fever
heat."

This from the _Times_, London:

"Our Belgrade correspondent telegraphs last night:

"'There is here at present a gentleman named MacIver. He came
from England to offer himself and his sword to the Servians. The
Servian Minister of War gave him a colonel's commission. This
morning I saw him drilling about one hundred and fifty remarkably
fine-looking fellows, all clad in a good serviceable cavalry
uniform, and he has horses."'

Later we find that:

"Colonel MacIver's Legion of Cavalry, organizing here, now