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In a human record such as this, in which characters having some shadow of reality are mingled with those which are wholly imaginary, an author must feel profoundly responsible for the memories of others.

Therefore, it seems necessary to confess that such characters as Colonel Cleek and Lt.-Colonel Skinders and Captain Carless are pure creations.

There were Cleeks and Skinderses in the War, but in this record they are types who serve to emphasize the maleficent influence that can be exercised by such men in authority. It is the kind of authority which can make war-service so shabby and shameful a business, coercion of the good by personalities crudely and meanly selfish.

Colonels Frost and Fairfax are the more happy and familiar figures to us all, men of courage and of magnanimity who helped other men to transcend their fear.