A Case in Camera

mith is still lying in a hospital cot, writing daily but brief notes to Joan, forbidding her to come up, and r

Queen's Gate, entered the Gardens by the Memorial, and strolled slowly along in the direction of the Row. It was a pleasant morning, and the riders were out in full force. Idly I was admirin

y Service. His name was Dudley Hanson, he had been in Gallipoli, was still in uniform, and was awaiting his boat back home again and demobilization. He plays no part in

n we both knew, "that was rotten luck for poor old Maxw

perhaps with

or our lot in Gallip. Came over h

e rotten luc

e in London the other day-c

, "where are

. Oh, any old

along to my Club. Come straight along. Don't stop to

d was off. I continued my walk, but no longer slowly. I always wa

anson knew him, and had even fancie

ht have had that day I can assure you t

if otherwise he might have been denied; I set my watch by the club clock, I fiddled with the skeins of tape in the baskets. I had e

y disregarded. Rights? I know nothing of the law of the matter, nor whether a dead man has rights; but if he has they should be all the more enforceable because he is in no position to enforce them for himself. What would Maxwell have had to say about his own shooting? What had br

e the order for the whole of the lunch so that we might be interru

knew Maxwell. Do you know the fello

ere. Smith's a pretty common name. Slightish build, but tough as

this physical description. "Wel

little birds in their nests-it's dangerous to f

his fellow Smith's. Smith's still in hospital, and neither my friend nor I knew Ma

you a

as anything to say about it; but within its circle you pick and choose your friends. The ward-room forces you into the closest physical contacts, but you can still please yourself about the other intimacies. Even in a submarine, where the death of one is likely to be the death of all, you may yet like one man more than another. But two men in a

not naturally fly. If nothing else forced him into accord the mere mechanical risks would be enough to do so. I remember Smith told me that at one time-whether this is still the case I cannot say-an observer was not allowed to be trained as a pilot also, lest, seeing his comrade doing something he himself would not have done and conscious of the functioning of a different mind,

t's ticket?" I musing

have flown hundreds of mil

lon Company ma

et. I can't see what use a commercial Comp

ight. You n

ld son, but you know as much ab

the information I got i

rveyor, unmarried, not (so far as Hanson knew) engaged to be marrie

ed for any other pilot than Smith during t

of man to lose his head in an emergency; ha

always seemed particularl

ou? Going to put it in

ea at that time that I shoul