Thus it was with the life of a man who quietly passed from the subordinate branch of the Survey Department into the land of shadows on the 13th of this month at Mussoorie.

Although very ill he determined to leave Quetta when his leave became due, and he made his way with difficulty to Mussoorie to die amongst his own people.

Mr. M'Nair, in whom the Indian Government has lost an able and zealous servant, died at Mussoorie on August 13 of fever contracted at Quetta.

He was able, however, to reach Mussoorie, where he died on the 13th August, leaving a gap in the Department which he served so well which it will be exceedingly hard to

"You were not so easily persuaded to decorate a ball-room at Mussoorie," Mrs. Linforth continued.

In what summer, he wondered, had she come up to the hill station of Mussoorie.

There had been one hot weather, years ago, when this boy's father and his newly-married wife had come up to the hill-station of Mussoorie.

" It might have been the hills under Mussoorie, and what our cars expected to do in it I could not understand.

He shot up a new-made road, more like Mussoorie than ever, and did not fall down the hillside even once.