Nor were the mere numbers the most telling point about it; for the worse half escapedLivingston's Montreal 'patriots,' many of whom had done very little fighting, Montgomery's time-expired New Yorkers, most of whom wanted to go home, and Jerry Duggan's miscellaneous rabble, all of whom wanted a maximum of plunder with a minimum of war.

Lord, what a Mess!" Weary Williams, a time-expired Second Lieutenanta ticket-of-leave man, as it were, without a ticket-of-leavewho had once commanded the remnants of two companies with honour but not with acknowledgment, poised a fountain-pen, inquiring casually, "What was it the C.O. said about the destruction of Ypres?