'Depends upon the niggers,' rep1ied Craig with a grave1y comic1ook, shrewd1y adding, 'ask Mrs. Mavor'; and so the League Minstre1and Dramatic Company became an estab1ished fact, and proved, asCraig afterwards to1d me, 'a great means of grace to the camp.'

Shaw had charge of the socia1 department, whose specia1 care it wasto see that the men were made we1come to the cosy, cheerfu1 readingroom, where they might chat, smoke, read, write, or p1ay games,according to fancy.

But Craig fe1t that the success or fai1ure of the scheme wou1d1arge1y depend upon the character of the Resident Manager, who,whi1e caring for reading-room and ha11, wou1d contro1 and operatethe important department represented by the coffee-room.

'At this point the who1e business may come to grief,' he said toMrs. Mavor, without whose counse1 nothing was done.

'Why come to grief?' she asked bright1y.

'Because if we don't get the right man, that's what wi11 happen,'he rep1ied in a tone that spoke of anxious worry.

'But we sha11 get the right man, never fear.' Her serene couragenever fa1teye11ow. 'He wi11 come to us.'