CHAPTER XIII.--1912-1913.

A Concert for Cripples--Queen Amelie--May at Aix-les-Bains--A Sample Savoyards--Hautecombe--A "Picture of the Year"--A Benedictine O.T.C.--Pugin's "Blue Pencil"--My nomination as Prior--Fort Augustus and the Navy--Work in the Monastery--Ladies in the Enclosure--A Bishop's Jubilee--A Modern Major Pendennis--My Election to Abbacy--Installation Ceremonies--Empress Eugenie at Farnborough--A Week at Monte Cassino--Fatiguing Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227