he came out. Over his face there was a trembling joy.

'Can I do anything for you to-day?' he asked humbly.

'Indeed you just can,' said the minister, taking his hand and shaking it
very warmly; and then he told him Slavin's programme and ours.

'Sandy is all right till after his race. After that is his time of
danger,' said the minister.

'I'll stay with him, sir,' said old Nelson, in the tone of a man taking
a covenant, and immediately set off for the coffee-tent.

'Here comes another recruit for your corps,' I said, pointing to Leslie
Graeme, who was coming down the street at that moment in his light
sleigh.

'I am not so sure. Do you think you could get him?'

I laughed. 'You are a good one.'

'Well,' he replied, half defiantly, 'is not this your fight too?'

'You make me think so, though I am bound to say I hardly recognise
myself to day. But here goes,' and before I knew it I was describing
our plans to Graeme, growing more and more enthusiastic as he sat in his
sleigh, listening with a quizzical smile I didn't quite like.

'He's got you too,' he said; 'I feared so.'