- Faithful colonel, with no reason I refer to you as my friend but I know that if I die or not I’ll have to remember you as the general of generals. You that are a noble colonel full of bravery deserve that and much more.
- Thank you dear soldier, I’ll always remember these words. Just relax that your journey will not be so painful for being loyal.
Macmillan stood there for a while thinking but it seemed like ages for him until a bullet passed near to his leg, this led him into reality again so he started running back to the trenches. Only half of his army arrived safely, they had a minute of silence for the ones that didn’t arrive.
He passed the next few weeks thinking in what his murdered soldier predicted for his future. He was also waiting for his wife’s letter recommending him what he should do. When it arrived he had to read it several times because the bad weather and the mud had spread the ink all around the paper and he couldn’t believe what his wife had written. His wife was supporting the statement of the dead soldier because she knew this could become true. She wrote to her husband that he had to go back immediately to the house because they had a meeting in a few days with the most important general in London. Colonel Macmillan wasn’t expecting such an ambitious mood from his wife.
When he arrived home his wife showed him the letter that William, the great general, had written to them. In the letter William invited him and his wife for an important supper in a city hall at London in which the main subject was going to be his future in the army and the one of other outstanding soldiers. Lady Macmillan and her husband immediately thought that this was their opportunity for becoming essential in the army and that the murdered soldier prediction was becoming true. However, both of them knew this wouldn’t make Colonel Macmillan the most important general because first was William so they started to create a plan for Macmillan to become the great general. The time away from the war was limited so the meeting was the next day and their plan was finished that same night. Macmillan was very confused, he felt happy because he knew that the plan was going to go all right but he also felt scared because any error could lead to his murder.
In the banquet, Macmillan was named “four stars general” which was a rank just before the general of generals. He was like the heir of the most important military ranks but instead of being very happy he stayed quietly near to his wife. Lady Macmillan looked superior to everyone in the room and she knew that the plan was going to go perfect.
Macmillan was very scared that night and couldn’t sleep. He was sweating cold and almost crying but his wife was just staring at the ceiling with no expression in her face. In the morning everyone was alarmed because the general of generals had died.
- OH! Dear wife, how could this have happened? Alarm between people and war will rise, this can be a chaos!
- Yes my love, future days of desperation are waiting for us.
All of them were really sad except for Macmillan and his wife who were just pretending to be frightened of the war future but they knew Macmillan was going to become the next great general. Eventually this happened and he became a prosperous general for the war. However this was for only some people because the rest just hated him due to his ambitious and fake honour. The truth was that Macmillan and his wife managed to enter to the palace kitchen before the supper and add a fatal poison to William’s plate. Some people thought that Macmillan was the murder but nobody could prove it.
When war was over and half Europe destroyed with uncountable dead people, Macmillan went to France where he had to sign a peace treaty. The treaty included economical payments from Germany to Britain. It was a fair treaty but Macmillan wasn’t going to sign it because he thought that the amount of money wasn’t enough. Suddenly someone shot him in the back and went away; nobody went searching for the murder because they thought he did a good job but nobody said anything. There were only whispers telling what they saw.
- “I saw a communist sniper in the roof of the room aiming at him.”
- “No! It was one member of his last army.”
- “I saw the spirit of a wounded man eating his soul.”
The truth wasn’t revealed because nobody knew what really happened.
The heir to the general position who was a good person signed the treaty and made Britain a peaceful country with a prosperous future. Everyone liked the new general except Lady Macmillan. She hated him but also hated her life for being such an ambitious person. She regretted what she did before because she had to continue her life and in such a lonely and dreadful way.