THE ANGELS OF MONS
was a savage man, of course, but a fine man and a good man, I believe."
"Did you make out the name of the tribe?" said the chaplain, speaking with a sort of desperate calm.
"Galeenies I think, he said they were."
"Not Hellenes?"
"That was it. I see you've come across them yourself, sir."
"In a sort of way. Did the . . . sergeant say where they came from?"
"Well, you know the way those fellows talk, a sort of flowery way of putting it that's difficult to make out. They're straight men, very likely, but they don't seem as if they could give a straight answer to a straight question. He said, he and his pals were heroes—and by gum! he was right, though it isn't our way to talk like that—and they came from happy fields and the houses
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