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by that mail, and I had no reason to hope that you would go to the trouble of writing to me. As regards your suggestion as to keeping a fatherly eye on Lieut Ferguson, it is quite impossible in practice to advise a man whom you are bound to call "Sir" and here never was a man who needed advice less that he does. He is always thoroughly self-possessed deliberate, and cheerful in a perfectly rational way. The men regard him as the best officer we have. This is not empty compliment, and I am not sure that it is a compliment at all, but they can see that he always takes his work seriously and has spared no pains to make himself efficient.
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