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The general said he would look after the rifle, but
Colonel Childs said if that were so he would rather stay behind and
take his chance of being captured. It would be safer for him. So the
adjutant-general, the judge advocate, the deputy assistant judge
advocate (Colonel Childs), and an orderly or two packed into the car
and set out to find G.H.Q. Before they found it they had to run the
gantlet of Germans, and were sniped all the way through a wood, and
took flying shots at moving figures. Then, miles away, they found
G.H.Q.
"And weren't they sorry to see me again!" said General Macready, who
told me the tale. "They thought they had lost me forever."
The day's casualty list was brought into the adjutant--general one
evening when I was dining in his mess. The orderly put it down by the
side of his plate, and he interrupted a funny story to glance down the
columns of names.
"Du Maurier has been killed. . . I'm sorry."
He put down the paper beside his plate again and continued his story,
and we all laughed heartily at the end of the anecdote.


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