THE ANGELS OF MONS
had heard no hint or whisper of a rumour of angelic or supernormal intervention. So, he added, would I kindly tell him what it all meant.
Now my friend's ignorance was in itself evidence—not evidence that there had been no supernormal intervention, certainly; but strong evidence proving that Miss Campbell was wrong when she said that "everybody" who had fought from Mons to Ypres had seen the visions. Let us take "everybody" generously, and make it mean the majority of the soldiers engaged. Let us again be over generous, and allow that ten thousand men of the Expeditionary Force had been killed in action or had died of their wounds by November. Let us furthermore concede that all the men who were dead came from the ranks of "everybody"—that is from that majority which had seen the visions. Then there would be at least
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