40 THE WAR IN THE SOUDAN.

Brocklehurst, and Lord Hartington’s private secretary, were the only ones to

see him off. The Duke got the ticket; the hero of Tel-el-Kebir carried the portmanteau, and Colonel Brocklehurst opened the carriage door for the quiet gentleman who was going away never to return. Who does not envy the men who were able to render to him the last little services England could

do 1 It was the last London saw of him. For one year and eight days there were thousands in England who watched and waited anxiously for any, the minutest piece of, information they could obtain about him. At the end of that time there arrived the news that he was no more. A grand history his; full of infinite sadness, inexpressible nobility.—Are they ever separable 1—!