The Author would like to anticipate certain of the objections which may be raised by some of the kindly critics and reviewers who gave so friendly and encouraging a chorus of praise to Beau Geste, The Wages of Virtue, and The Stepsons of France. Certain of the events chronicled in these books were objected to, as being impossible. They were impossible. The only defence that the Author can offer is that, although perfectly impossible, they actually happened. In reviewing The Wages of Virtue, for