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Scanlon's military references are printed on second page.
Contents
* Contents derived from the Sydney,New South Wales,:Herbert Scanlon,1927 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Intrigued by tales of a ghostly army that marches through the streets of an unsavoury neighbourhood on a particular night each month, a man rents a room from a disreputable old landlady to witness the event. He is not disappointed, but he also discovers that there is more to the old lady than he realised
Nearing death after being wounded, a brave Captain asks a nurse to read to him an as yet unopened letter carried in his pocket. He discovers it is from his long-lost first love enquiring after her son who is serving in the Captain's unit. Tragically, however, her son was a soldier whom he had recently had to condemn to death for cowardice and, as he asks the nurse to reply on his behalf, he decides that a lie is kinder than the truth.
