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hing, you are tied to your job; fo

ty of chaps have gone to the front at sixteen or seventeen. Ted Mostyn, for ex

," exclaimed Selwyn. "I

wheel. This task completed, Malcolm washed the dirt and grease from his hands, saddled

oming along, is he? That's good. I wanted to see you about that section o

y had been gone thoroughly into d

traight to the point, "I if y

he work is well in hand, and I believe

f the war, I mean,"

shed Hughes. "Dash it all, what's the war to do with

ke this. But perhaps I'd better

ad the proffe

ely. "And you wish to

ted Malcolm. "I can't exactly e

ve information on t

venteen, I'm a sergeant in the cadet corps, physically fit, and all that sort of thing. And I don't suppos

sidered for

start until after the war. The preliminary surveys can still go on. All right, Malcolm! jo

to be up and doing, to push on with his share in the great adventure, gripped his mind to the exclusion of all other topics. I

having lunched with Mr. Hughes,

o see. You want another motor-car? All right, come with me to C

his youth he had been given a thoroughly sound college education, and had gone to England in order to graduate. As a scholar he shone; as a business man he was a failure, owing to the fatal and a

ness in the various transactions. He never went back on his word. To those who dealt fairly and squarely with him he w

chase the swiftest car procurable, drive it at breakneck speed until he collided with something, and then sell the remains and retire to his pah until he found an opportunity for another exuberance of pecuniary extravagance. But of late Te Paheka had falle

xtricated the lad from a dangerous position during a landslide on the Wairakato Ridge; and now the chance h

r. "Yes, I'll take great care of her for your sake, Mr

t ambling along at nearly a modest mile a minute was too f

let me drive?" e

of Horseshoe Bend, and crashing upon the rock four or fiv

time, Te Paheka," he said diplomatically. "You'll be

at the hut. "The Boss is a decent sort. He might very well have put

fle and the greenheart rod. Thought they might come in usef

ey that was to end--where? Perhaps in France, perhaps on the high seas. He found himself counting the chances of getting back to New Zealand. Would it be as a wounded

s new gift and to wish his white friend farewell and kia ora in a manner worthy of a dignified and old-standing Maori gentleman, looked like prolong

e exclaimed, making a dash for juggernaut's steering-whe

und a sharp corner at a good twenty-five miles an hour, whils

k's up," mused juggernaut's late owner. "Either in th

hat you are resolved, and on that account I won't stand in your way. After all's said and done, you are likely to make a far more efficient soldier than some men I know w

for many a day his official designation was to b