p.s. Thank you for the trouble you have taken re power of atorney & will. I enclose singed p.t. & the will I will get typed out at first chace. I have just come out O.K. from a court marshal case. We had a fire call at 12 45 a.m. Sunday & it was raining like hell some of us got up at once I ran about my own lines & tried to get the boys up then a sergent rushed up called for me & when I answered here told me to take charge of our Platoon & take them on the double to the fire Which I did. it was a row of stables burning which we do not use ( The B.C. horse are here & use some stables but not those) We could do no good & after a bit returned to Barracks. I was one of the first to get back & went through our lines ( that is the platoon to which I belong & am supposed to be responsible for at night at all times while in Barracks) to see if there were any shirkers I found a sweede ( who is a german asleep I woke him up & asked him why he had not been at the fire he said he had, but as his over coat tunic & hat were dry I was inclined to think he might be the man who set out the fire. As he sleeps right in the midst of the gang who are hostile to me I knew I must get some one else to take note of the state of his coat & not wishing to bring down the hostility of the gang unto a loyal suporter of mine. I slipped off to get another Non. Com. ( I am the only N.C. in that