On Tuesday, 28th of July, I returned from the Alps; the weather conditions had been arctic and the climbing more than usually exciting. During a bathe in the Lake of Geneva, which has become the customary end of the climbing season, I remember saying to my companion, "Well, this is the end of all sensation for the year. Now for the usual dull winter's work." On Thursday I volunteered to go with the Servian Army as War Correspondent for the _Daily News_, but the European conflagration was already too imminent. On Sunday, it was arranged that I should go to Paris to join the French Army.…
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