"TELEGRAPHIC NOTICE.
Public is hereby informed that delays to and from offices in Punjab
are normal."--_Indian Paper_.
Same here.
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OUR VETERANS.
"London Rifle Brigade, 40 strong, of the 1st Battalion, which
went out in 1814, arrived in London from France at mid-day
yesterday."--_Daily Paper_.
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A ROYAL INTERVIEW.
"Someone to see you, Miss."
Thus Mary at about nine o'clock on an April evening at the door of my
tiny sitting-room.
There was a strange little quiver in her voice.
Mary is so extremely well trained, and so accustomed, moreover, to queer
visitors at the flat, that I looked up in surprise.
"Yes?" I said. "Is it a lady?"
Mary did not reply immediately; she seemed half-dazed.
"Is it a lady?" I repeated a little sharply. My usually imperturbable
parlourmaid appeared to have taken leave of her senses.
"She said she was a queen, Miss," she gasped.
At that moment the visitor, evidently grown tired of waiting, calmly
floated in through the half-open door and settled down gracefully in the
centre of a large gold cushion lying on the end of the Chesterfield.
Fortunately I grasped the situation at once.
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