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5. turned in our favour, & we can be so fortunate. I feel honestly & truly, that nobody is more deserving than you - & me too. And perhaps practice & fortune & luck will all work for us at the same time, & may really happen.

But I must tell you some of my news - I shall not finish this tonight& if there is anything to add about the all important matter, I will add it tomorrow.

About Frank - you will be wondering what next. First of all I write & tell you he is dead - & then that he is wounded & a P.O.W. Well, I knew that the first was not true. But you could definitely knocked me over with a feather & fanned my brow, when word came to me last Saturday that "2/Lt Macaskie" wanted to speak to me on the phone. I sprinted, & it really was Fran, from Jerusalem. He had been wounded, a bullet in the buttock, straight through, & out the other side - taken prisoner by the Germans, & well looked after & doctored by them - then put in a prispner of war camp. He decided very early on that this was no place for him & after many varied & sensitive adventures, about which I may not tell you, he arrived in Palestine. Poor Frank - he has lost all his kit, every stitch & piece - all his photographs - & all his letters. I know exactly how he feels. And now, having been posted as dead, even in the English papers, he has to start all over again, getting his address straight, & waiting months until he is answering letters which are in reply to his letters. Though