n whose bodies have been for three years part of that human rampart that has
kept your homes from desolation, and your daughters from violation, and that
you will speed in sending them succor as though the barrier had broken and the
bestial Hun were even now, with lust dominant, smashing at your own door.
[1] Boys Own Paper.
[2] "Ben" was the living-room of a Scotch cottage where only intimate
friends were admitted. Ian Maclaren says of a very good man: "He was far
ben wi God."
PART I
"THE CALL TO ARMS"
CHAPTER I
THE CALL REACHES SOME FAR-OUT AUSTRALIANS
Just where the white man's continent pushes the tip of its horn among the eastern
lands there is a black man's land half as large as Mexico that is administered
by the government of Australia. New Guinea has all the romance and lure of unexplored
regions. It is a country of nature's wonders, a treasure-chest with the lid
yet to be
