ime, T think, He values very much the hand that falls Upon his shoulder at the Council table—Hates eats and knows his busi-
"Knows his business." "Gives we cannot. buy." Then was the barrack-room ver-
Do yer Bobs?"
Those flashes of observation give ithe key to Roberts' character and to the service which he rendered to his country. From the day when Re returned to India in manhood, fresh from Sandhurst land Addiscombe, the Honourable Company's Military break of the Mutiny in which-he was to win the Victoria Cross, to the hour of his death, devotion to the public service and to the ideal of leadership in adventure.remained ever his, Men and women. who to-day still courageously face the trials jand tragedies of overseas service can find much inspiration in the fortitude which Roberts, in spite of his rise to honour and the rood luck popularly attributed to him, had to display, For the ast' fourteen years of his life he slone of any man wore two Victoria Crosses on his breast—the second being that won posthumously by his son at Tugela. But, to go further back and to [Simla where he worked so long land well, there stands, in the old
ly|deodars' on the hillside, a Cemetery amid the pines and marble cross. It bears, with from 1861 to 1869, the inscription of the names of three children: "Nora Frederica, Born Jat Mean Mir." "Evelyn Santille Born at Clifton, died at Sea" "Frederick Henry, Born at iSimlu." Of these three infants, born to the then young Gunner Major and his wife, only Nora reached, but barely assed, the first anniver ich. Their tiny live 1 the sacrifices and sorra which are the lot_ of those wine elect to. serve England from without her borders. As the British and Indian soldiers knew, Roberts never allowed his tyaterial success to make him forgetful of the difficulties of them "who had not got on," to juse Barrio's words. It is probable that his own personal suf-forings helped to temper the steel of his unbending sympathy and perseverance, in service. Ambition was his and the will to carve for it a way. He failed not to retain in the process the common touch and the senso of oblig: tions of leadership. His achieve ments for his country have left an imperishable mark in three continents. Greater and more endurable than them all was the example which he set. He was ichly rewarded by his Soverign and his nation. But he gave work which could not be bought: he was not satisfied to do merely that which it was his duty to do. There rests his memory's claim to honour.
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