greatly. I think we'll be back in less than a month. Keep out of
mischief. And write to us as often as you can hear of a steamer
that is sailing. If anything happens to you, cable. I'll arrange
with Mr. Bruce, at the Embassy, to help you if you need him, but
that ought not to be necessary."

Harry was genuinely sorry for his mother's distress at leaving
him, but he was also relieved, in a way. He felt now he would not
be forbidden to do his part with the scouts. He would be able to
undertake what promised to be the greatest adventure that had ever
come his way. He had no fear of being left alone for his training
as a Boy Scout had made him too self reliant for that.

Mr. and Mrs. Fleming started for Liverpool that night. Train
service throughout the country was so disorganized by the military
use of the railways that journeys that in normal, peaceful times
required only two or three hours were likely to consume a full
day. So he went into the city of London with them and saw them
off at Euston, which was full of distressed American refugees.

The Flemings found many friends there, of whose very presence in
London they were ignorant, and Mr. Fleming, who, thanks to his
business connections in London, was plentifully supplied with
cash, was able to relieve the distress of some of them.

Many had escaped from France, Germany and Austria with only the
clothes they wore, having lost all their luggage. Many more,
though possessed of letters of credit or travellers' checks for
considerable sums, didn't have enough money to buy a sandwich;
since the banks were all closed and no one would cash their