LONE TROOPER'S ROMANCE.

Press, Volume LII, Issue 15478, 4 January 1916, Page 10

LONE TROOPER'S ROMANCE.

GIRL'S LETTER IX A SANDBAG.

I Outside King's Cross a lank and limping Australian trooper from Gr.llipoli stepped up to a man and asked for "a light." He seemed just a bit strange and forsaken in London, and tho Englishman who accommodated him with a match asked if he had friends in town (says tho "Daily Express"). "Not in London town," the wounded man replied. "But Scotland way." Then, asking his new-found acquaintance to ster> to where the glare of a station lamp would enable him to read, tho Australian pulled from his tunicpocket a much-fingered letter.. "It's from a Dundee lass," lie explained, "and I'm on my way to see her and her parents and fix things up. This is how it came about:—Folks in Dundee have been sending out sandbags, and it happened to bo my job one day to 'turn' them—they always arrive inside out—and fill them. Well, out of one tumbled a letter from Miss , of Dundee, saying ir it fell into the hands of a lonely soldier sho'd.be glad to cheer him with an occasional letter. I was on lor 'that act, and we've been writing to cacli other ever since. I've got a prosperous sheep farm back in Australia, and I'm going to Dundee to try to # make her seo the advantage of accepting a half-interest in it for life."