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The Huron Expositor, 1916-07-14, Page 7TT 14, ?rS always o De typiZal aideretate etive rather than simply himeeif, i the other band, the Bang, sh of*. or at least so it seems tro me :fes observation of the few I ,y led- would rather be azin their mar ►, Bearers Moved Quickly, Silently, From Body to Body. :yam- tared what t he ;says and does 13 and don'_' on his own inSaative, Oartt11riued Next W cies Inable To Sleep Or Do Any Works UFF ED'' FROM HER NEIRVES Mrs. Thomas Harris, S. Corrigan St, ingston, Ont., writes: "I had been a nstant sufferer, for many years, with r nerves, :ped was unable to sleep at eht, or do any work through the day. it last decided to consult a doctor and td out what was really the trouble. e first one told me I would have to ga 'der an operation. before I would be Al, but I would not ponsent to this. One .y •l; took a fit of crying, and it seemed at V. anyone spoke to me I would have order them: out of the house. I must. ve. been crying two hours when my surarce agent came in. He advised me try a box of Milburn's Heart and erve Pins, and I at once sent to the ug etore and got two boxes, and before had `them taken I felt like a different' rson. I have told others about them, :d they have told me they would net without therm. I am very thankful I arted to take Miiburn's Heart and' erve Pills." ' Milburn's Heart and Nerve Pills are cents per box, or 3 boxes for $1.25, at 1 dealers or maileddirect on receipt price by The T. Milburn Co., Limited, *ron.to. Oat in pre- to reto be IT. For' 'up use ;1"ton of pre - &sugar Is a red and we printed 2 and 5 -Ib. Carto1n5 get,: '10and 20 -kb ;ergs zrrants, kdc ress Ltd. Power Bldg. Montreal 32 7 grates is' •en 1beca si edi one t e at a t smash clinkers eat Cost of infitStiling a y Ye you, SO E¢e JULY 14, 1916 Copyright, 1915,16Y The afternoon 'Was soft and warm.l Weaould hear the birds singing In the: m.rFen, and through the open winrlo*a floated the perfume of the last auttmn flowers. inspilring_ me with pew ',um-, tion, a little like that of being afraid -of oneself. To counteract this I kept `II saybig over and over, "To be effective your work must be calm and ..concor dant; calm and concordant," I re- 1 peated.. Then I turned to him and said: "To- morrow 1 shall say goodby. I have been ordered to a typhoid hospital at one of -the French bases" - He broke in, with a wistful little senile in his eyes: "Please don't go. What will I do without Fou? I have thought about it all so much as I have lain here hour after hour. That I am not dead and buried these weeks gone I owe to you." There was a moment's pause, after which he added simply, "Now," and he emphasized the word, "I cap only thank you." "Nonsense!" I replied. "When all is said and done it Is nature that does the work." "Perhaps," he answered, "but in a ease Like mine nature only does so in conjunction with unremitting and skill- ful care." Into his voice came a note new to my ears! He went on speak - beg: "That night -you know the night I- mean -when it was just a toss up whether I. lived or died, I think if one eouid know how much will power has to do with things, it would be found 1 that I lived because in a few lucid in - fermis I realized the heroic fight you leen putting up ,for me, and subcon-E eeiously my will went cut to help you. ?or whin one is that near the other side, ,self, mat rial things and interests eount for Litt . But now," and he looked out ac oss the hills, crowned with purple shadows, "realizing that on my life depends the happiness of my mother, my ramily, and that the life of any.man w o has had a certain training in warfare is valuable .to bis country, I am deeply grateful to fate that 1 am living --and fate in this case. my dear little nurse, means you," he said tensely. "That's a very pretty speech," 1 an steered lightly, "arid I should so till to take it all to thyself, but the `'erg•; disillusioning feet '"cmains that it was your subaltern"- . Without heeding, my words he inter rupted: "'The disillusioning fact remains i that you are going away," and be loop ed up at me with wide distraught eyes,, # and as be put out his hand and took) mine I felt it tremble. "Don't go." he said, with a gesture of entreaty. and I hastened to explain tbat it was only: for a few days, or a week at best. as, I thought suddenly he looked not so. well today and must not be worried by even tribes. i "I must go now," I said. "My other' patients are needing me," and 1 aur- ried away toward the German ward. I had taken only a few steps when he called me back. "I only wanted to say that some dayl you will know -whet you -your kind ness means to me," he said gravelyi- looking straight up into my eyes. A sudden wild desire to say some- thing, I hardly know what, possessed me, and a trembling I' could not male ter overcame me. ' tel "I am so glad I bave: been able td help a little," 'I stammered and quickly down the stairs. It was only when I reached th ground floor that I remembered I ha not told him the story of how he cam to be at our hospital, but I resolved t do it before I Left tomorrow. CHAPTER 1. War Prisoner 0 get to the and I could go outdoors, through a court and pass in by a French window. I often did this, al it gave me a breath of air. It was twilight, but the temps had not yet been lighted. Rubber soled shoes made nay approach noiseless, and as came `upon the little group of Germ prisoners I heard. one of them say: "Russia will want peace in the early summer, and France evill seize the first possible opportunity to abandon the' struggle, which will leave Germany free to fight it ei t with her true en•} emy-England." at which one of them picked up h:: grass -he was tak' ing a tonic that w as a little like thin Wine and which gave an excuse for a toast -but ins' ead of the cheery "Prosit" which the German, usuali3j lases he looked solemnly into the faces of his comrades, blinking like an owl, and said with an unmistakable vibra- tion of hate in his voice, "God punish England!" And the others, with equal feeling, responded, "G2d punish her!" I was amazed at tile. I had nevem heard it before and frankly said sor -0 :ASTOR IA For beim6:eiiiis atiltsa" Alftealawn r the Bo rrney time often taking. and m Germa earncs I w poin t remain tion o and r from t expres able g noble luxuri button everyti gold with e I appr bendin quite c watch, comma rate h separa BY ADE _ BLENE ba -Merrill Co.: ssurea me that ta- Mace Qr'tlue nored "AuC wiede -ehen" one ow hears t.tis even as a leave It origin; fed rti the o' c rs n in the field, bit, ow all over le it was said with :•incerity aid nes i. is always inteiest•d in th it f view, for the th ee wbo h d d with us owing to the eon their wounds were educat d presentative Germ ns. , ,Ap rt eir hatred of Eegl nd, frau ly ed, they were coureous, age e- ntlemen. One leas a Bayed n an, whose taste w s evidently us, for when be ca uo e to .is his , cigarette box, rist watch, ing except the lase itable plain ogle, -was literall • incrusted timet, diamonds an, rubies. s ached he raised .hi : ]eft a h wrist with la uick_ motien ar cteristic, and; 1 oking let _his pais sharply, forte desire ;to d was so innate tat to se a- m from it would h ve belen to e his soul from his body, "Yon are a little late, nurse." "Did yon fear I had forgotten you?" I ask . without really thinking y'hair I was 8: ng. ' "The Germans fear God d ndthing else," ' e answered quic His • ,.e was a little a gressi e. I st pp _. for a second and 1' . ked a There s e sat, propped up ' bed wijth pillo a, heavy, flandsom : type f his class, 'prisoner of war, • d y the whole thing struck me too for wo de, and I began to laugh He eviden y saw the humor : f _ the itera- tion • •, elf and laughed a "Ach du hist ern s ones mad- chen!" he said, using t e familiar and fri • ndly "thou." "For;_ 've me," I! ie added, "and tell me the n ws. Th1ey were f a rever eagerly ask : g for news. "Wel ," I said, "gitche ' er h s r is eXtra million men. Th: t ought to please you." "Wel , it doesn't make Il a sad," he replied "because we know that for ill 1' - Lee "God punish he mese el: • 1" their drumming and as vertisemeht, Ditch : ner cannot get the ' en, and the English won't tolerate con-cr ption. In fact, 1 is too late for. the t ow as it would -1e a ' confes -ion of fa 1ur , and beside , what will you d. w th a mil- lion sten without officers Weknow how i:ng it take to trait an ocer- they . o not. As for the P rencb, I lith sorry or teem," he said. 'Poor dee Is! ry would like to ma -e peace in But; you know," h gravely as - me, ``English troops are drawn hind them all ale ig the li ie, is a constant tit 'eat if they give way. Why," nd he raised erly, "England has even hreat- bombard their orts i ' they sur: '. up _•: wh, ,, she upc ened do." "A salvat "Thin rions uod beating will on," added one o: of the effect on`•f f Englishmen, wl why : ome e4arts of Lo much more beautiful an than ' e rest! The and that tt at gait is superior many rebuilt it when it by the Germans in the gr The seriousness with w said proved Itoo much fo I was sorry,i but I could simpl • had to laugh. I 1 gest i:s at as he was an baps se might put in so force. idleness sugges mene in the architectu But I was a nurse; he w and , and what I did sa night. that evening w Ca.. -' s room to for , . night I told him how was his little bo and fo ie En. the iture en th adon bette wer becau: as de at wa itch t my of help it. I aged to i itg- irchitect ser- e of tis len- c intprove- of London. s a prise er was, "Gbod Went to ready oryi of land's tars. enera- y ask e so b>Eiilt ibe Gter- tro'ed 1s. wag f . Ibles, his 1 OWE Mr To Lydia . E P° ALTH $ Ver etable Compo F d. Washington Park, I11. "I, am the another of foureehildren a have suf- fered ' ith female trouble, backache, nervous spells and the blu : s. My chil- dren's oud talking and romping would make Ie so nervous I coul just tear rzt:.� evelt'yth ng to pieces hT dJ che all std.... % f over an feel aso sick that I would no t want gone to talk to me at times. Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and L ver Pills re- stored me to health and 1w nt to thank ,you for the good they have done me. I have hart quite a bit of ouble and worr+ Let it does not affec my youth- ful 1,61x. My friends say Why do you leek so young and well?' I owe it all to the Lydia E. Pinkham remedies." -Mrs. ROBT. STSPIEL, Moore Avenue, Washington Par , Illinois. THE .I IRON :: We wish eve from female t backache or the ters written by w dia El. Pinkham' If you have an you would like Lydia E. Pinkha Mass„ for helpf charge. woman who suffers oubles, nervousness, lues coul see the let - men mad well by Ly- Vegetabl Compound. symptom about which know ite to the Medicin Co., Lynn, advice elven free of than& for' savin "his Tire.: 'But you say he was not wounded. What has becoi Why hasn'the b: •n to see t "For the very r ason `that were :slight the toctor ser same night to o base hospitals. here for the badl After thinking said,"Well, the when; I. get out w "Tu by !" "Wbp Tubby? match!" "That is just t "But I'll write t very minute." "Please wait quickly interrupt ing so excited I told him anythin The I sudde joy that I had a letter for gave as a dive • g topic tion. It proved • be fro> officer who was prison a Germ►. He : •ked ine t him. 'It ran: very badly ase of him? ase?" his wounds t him that e of the nearby big We have only room wounded, you know." or a few oments he first thin I shall ,do be to fi d Tubby." 'ed in azement, He is as thin as a e idea," a laughed. him. I do it this until tortiorrow," I d, for he as becom- egan tot having about Tu by at all. ly .rememered with him, for it f converse- a brother Torgau, In• read it to My Dear Ian- thought erhaps yon mightwant to kn • w what day's work out here is like. . ou know was taken a prisoner at Mo s. First a were sent to Cologne and en on to Magdeburg, where we were jot ed by a p rty of Scoter The journey wa: made in cattle car, but one keepers ere a dec nt sort, and it's all in a lifeti e anywa_ The only thing I really wou d like to re •ster a kick about is the Germ Red Cro . The Jour- ney lasted sevent hours. a only had one meal, but I id get ho when they refused us water We go to Torgau about 4 in the mo ing and ere march- ed to the fortress Our part cuter build- ing is called the >.ruckenkop . Napoleon the First built it to protec the bridge made over the El • e for his eat Russian exploit. Our building is rooms' which are side in the p Which are used fo MT*. ori _tbittz ofpc 'We have an ex 'is half" a mile in we were a comf the other day 800 the outhouses, w- for them --that La that they manuf men do the pan doing a big bassi every' day; In fa double shift. I mustn't forge international foo tween the Frenc straw ';good gates the English alwa very hard and tssoc ation. We once,'but as ther rlians to make up !MI in with men never seen the ger were highly de and maneuvers o Discipline ie m ranking officer o case we have Col don highlanders. after by their o ficers:- The Germ fit of 'their superi but evidently fou same old patten we never see th its for inspection. We can get all up in the town, about selling any quantity in it, question whethe it for suicide or hardly think it 1 It were there wou the daily bath, a mark to each oth on bathing in th there won't be a winter is over. We have been teen, bread, ch jam, sausage an has dwindled un dines,. sausage an other canteen on one may buy clot True, our trous and must have a the outer seam - escape. Trying 1 isn't exactly pop sion, as a good it and paid for fives. We are Ile ments, and even over "a great big gun" brings his shoulder with an of business in his surrounded by a water there exists ed wire entangle stantly reminded wire runs throu some of the p eyed bayonets, not considered net For a long limo not permitted to. the knowledge t fering the great count was the mo i mprieonnieft. 1 suggested by th might lake to st Red Cross fund. received with gr enggestion, as th most most of u as our most. burn ating esu Ivided intO about fifty British queeters. Out- s there are crude tables mess. Us ally tweat7- rs mess to ether. Ise groun here which camfere ce. At first rtable littli3 party, but rench came in, and all n sheds, tc., are used 1 but one building. In ture she s. The wo- ew as 300 of 400 come they are ow working to tell y9u about the all match Those be - and. E n spite of s win. ugh, so d try th were not the two si ho, in so e played. hted at the ram. each na nel Gordo The sic respectiv ns gave th ✓ skill in t day after except orts of m ut they hing with d it is a they fear o poison the form the Germ that if fashion one of th lish always e fact that e ground is e only play Eton game enough Eto- es we had to e cases, had The French *a formation the highest on. In our of the Gor- are looked medical or• the bene - e beginning, , seeing the daee so nem hurried vis - 41 Icines made very fussy Ison in any uch mooted e might use he guard. I e because if times againzt ns often re - all the time m lett when ble to buy in the can- e, chock) ate apples, even beer bul the lint ham are left. Da -an- ertain days in the week es and th like. narrow red band down his agains an effort to o escape, might add, lar as a means of diver - any fello s have tried the attem t with. their er allowed n the battle - Hun wi a great big rifle inst tly to his unmistaka le expression eye. The hole place is moat, an in place of ent, and we are con - that a hiqh power live h the irhgle of it. At ons the ze tries carry ut here it is evidently essary. as you •eow, we were write lette s home, and t our fami les were suf- t anxiety on. our ac- t distressi g part of the mally one day it was comman ant that we bseribe to the German Nothing co ld have been eater -coldn se than this remembered riences those EXPOSITOR Red Cross workers. But when he inti- mated that if the amount was such as to make it worth while to send the checks to England to be cashed thie would neces- sarily carry With it to our friends the in- formation that we were at least alive, we all suddenly became very generous in our contributions. As it is to give money in any way Whatsoever to the eaemy, to get around this the checks Were drawn on an Amsterdam benk, and across the face of each was a. request that they should notify our families. 1 ern beginning to believe that no moneys ever given in the world brought so much hapeiness, because these checks Were the first ntimation that England had that many Of the officers were alive; In fact, in eomeeinstanees they had been reported officially !as dead. I might mention that on of our diver- sions has been peeling the otatoes neces- sary for the day, for the ain meal is at balf past 12, which consist d generally of a piece of boiled potato a d occasionally mutton floatieg in vegetabi soup. We al- ways have potatoes, and th potatoes have to be peeled end, believe rn , it tekes lots of them. For some reason, 1 suppose it is inward cussedness, none o us took very kindly to the*ork, but we hear a rumor that the orderlies are soo going to- fall heir to that jOb. Englieh newspapers or b oks we don't have, but we ere able to bu Gerrfian ones, they publish it as an unco firmed rumor _from London,:Rome or so ewhere, hut at other times there seems o attempt to disguise their losses. My wn opinion is that the press of German is inclined to be creative =rather than suppressionai. They continually lead th ir readers on with great expectations, hen one plan falls through, to go after nether. First it was the move on Pa ; then it was Calais, and so it goes. able to write two postcard or one letter For some weeks past no i3we have been a week. - Yon should feel highly compli- mented that this week I liave chosen to spend. my precious letter on you, though it's pretty certain to be cUt to pieces by cer here has promised me t get it through the censor, even if a deeenct German offi- intact some way. But there is no use beating about the bush, old chap, behind it all there is a motive -I Want to borrow £50. You see, here ell the officers of the rank of captain and upwatcl are paid tpo marks a month by the German govern- ment. The junior officers receive from 35 to 60 marks. We have to pay 36 of this for messing. The meney left over -in my case there is none -one spends for food, tobaccce chocolates, etc., but it is never enough, and .we piece it out by money from home, obtained through our banks or the American coesul or embas- sy. All that might be all right, but the days are long, and for pastime, morning, noon and night, we play bridge. I leave you to guess the wherefore of my present predicament, and I don't want to tell the guv'nor-you know how he feels- about such things often think about the good old days at Khyber; but, as the Americans saY, What's the use? Goodby and good luck until we meet again. Yours, After cautioning him repeatedly about his medicine, diet, etc., for the nurse who would look after him was un- thinkably busy, I said* good night and goodby, for I was leaving very early en the MOTTOW. CHAPTER IX. Ke Will Forgive. ITE next morning I went by train to the town where the fever hospital was located. An hour away the contour of the country changed. Chains of hills rolled away in a peaceful undulating line, and trees in the distance with their thick foliage appeared like a great wave of green fog. Here and there the autumn coloring looked like huge bou- quets of red and yellow flowers, while the sky overhead was a beautiful pool of liquid turquoise. There had been so little time in the last month for self communion that I enjoyed to the uttermoet this chance for quiet and repose. I stretched out on the cushions, oblivious of the heat and dust, thought of approaching events, considered the future possibili- ties and essayed to penetrate the great. darkness that engulfed us all. The hours passed, and I was there before I dreamed it was time to arrive. I, found the hospital not yet system- atized, the patients etreaming in in such numbers as to prevent almost any attempt at serganization. Mlle. F., in showing me around, said when we came tie the operating room: "It is as if fate meant to have a good laugh at us, We have here a whole service of rare and expensive tools; we have an oesophagoscope and the very latest pattern of stethoscope and a marvelous set of tools for plating free - tures, but we have no knives, no ar- tery forceps and not a stitch of ce. - gut." We had to la*h. It was a little like having a gold service from which to eat and not a crumb of bread. Hasty telephone messages soon remedied that. The conditions In the hospital were pathetic in the extreme. Hundreds of Pam stricken. with typhoid and not a single bathtub in the place. It was not, hoWever, that France was indif- ferent or unable. It *as an avalanche of wounded descended on a country On my return Captain Fraser was greatly interested in the tales that the men had told me down at the fever hospital, as his regiment had been fighting , that locality for some months just before they had been or; dered to My stories led him to visualize for me an average twenty. four hours down there la the trenches. • "Persdnally," he began, "I believe trench warfare is better suited to Ger- mans than to us. They are so method- ical and deliberate that the sitting still plan is their very best way. "One of the little 'diversions' of our officers is to.go forward on observation duty In the foremost trenches. For it is only by making a careful study of the ground that ono ean be sure which trench is theirs and which is ours - they are so close together. "Two nights before we cat& here I was ordered to be in a sniper's trench an hour befere dawn and in telephonic communication with the battery. The way led th.reugh 'No Alan's Land' (the space between the oppoebag trenches). The night Was as dark as pitch, and again and again I found myaelf on the edge of a pit twenty feet wide which 'Jack Johnson' or his first cousin 'Woolly' had made and which was deeP enough to drown a man or two. 'A, fine bath we'll get in the warm weather,' my telephoner said. "Pretty soon we caught up with an infantry gaide, who led us along the oath that kthe trench relief menmean- Children Cry FOR FLETCHER'S pees and stetclher bearere use. ft w'as a dangerous bit, and the soldiers. no matter bow heavy their kit or how long the merch had been. bren It into double quick, for the whiz of bullets and the shriek of shrapnel is not the sort of music that tempta one to linger We had been warned about a fallen tree by the wayside whtch seemed an ideal stop for a breather. Bet it hos proved to those who had been tempte.] the song of the Lorelei, as the eneteh had marked down the pesition exactly I ss.lel something about the "fatal music of shot and shell." Captain Pre zer laughed and replied, "Well, really, that sort of music is not fatal, because so long as we bear it it is not for us: the bullet that comes s raight is 'the dog that bitee before it b rk.s.' "At last," the captain c ntinued, "we came to a forward trenc , which might be better described as watercourse. In the half gray light it eerned a dim mysterious background to the mud gray sandbag walls against which mud gray soldiers in full eqilipment were alternately standing or lying, These latter are supposed to Le asleep, and for the most part they are, for with the fatigue and exhausti n of it all it takes more than the fe- r of death to keep a man awake. "Among other things e were told oft to put up a wire enta glement. The noise of our equipment disturbed the one eyed sleep of a subaltern. I heard him say quickly to a s ntry, 'Heard anything?' and the repl 'A rifle shot half an hour ago."Th Irs Or oursr It was a Illauser, sir!' second more, and they both beard u 'Who goes tbere?' 'A friend,' I an wered, giving two taps with the butt my [rifle and receiving one in return. Each platoon has its own system of signals. The subaltern gave an order to otie of his you know every man i the trenches from the commencement of dawn must be awake and ready f r the attack which often comes et th t hour. This is supposed to be acco plished with- out noise, but sleepy, stiff men are not likely to be light of foot, and the rattle of equipment makes a noise that to the officers seems thunderous, but perhaps It isn't so bade6as we think, for our nerves are not what they, once were. "We passed on and reaehed the snip- er's hole,, which Is a little apart from the main trench, and for that reason likely to escape the att enemy. But it has its for one has to sit prac ntioin of the cally motion- less, as the place has ne parapet, and the only ,way we could see outeide wits by using a periscope. hat little in- strument is a wonder ul invention. NA: ithout it we could s nothing but the walls of the hole in which we stood. But by applying it without mov- ing an inch we bad befOre us a view of the countryside, trenehes and wire. entanglements, while the sandbags and the shell holes shoWed up as if tinder a microscope. Fifty yards away was loophole in the Ger:aan trenches. l'wo lively men in a trench very near ;teenpied our attention.1 We envied rhem-their activity. They seemed to be able to find targets after a.4 the rest -.)f the line was quiet, and we wonder- ed if they took an enemy's life with every one of their carefully fired shots. We saw two soldiers in, red anti blue nuiforni lying ill the forbidden line between the trencbes. one with a whitened skull. •"f hen night Came On. We had a lot earbed ‘eire to put up in front of a new trinieh a little lower dowu. About midniget I was jollied by ley best Vac were :is silent as possiblie, but in orite of sandbags to deedeu the sound we C:11 make miller a tow driving in the :posts. The teermana heard us, for :bey Fent up two star shells. The first 1",":1A. on our left, but the next quite ever. We stood MotionleSs. Fortu- ing right and left with tbeir machine gnus, and we laid flat in the mud for a a mouth organ. On the damp, still night air the eound came in us very clearly. Ile was playing 'Rip Van Winkle.' Presently wcf got to work again, but in half an hour the Ger- mans began sniping. I decided it was too risky to go on. Ancither 3/4,vait. and then fortunately it begae sleeting. We kept wiring until abaut a. M. and -got our allotment finished. Then We found that the sentries had all been changed while we were out, and twe or three duffers had not told. their relief that a working party was In front. Thd N, C. 0.1s on duty shotild have made sure of that point 'also. As it was, a very much alarmed platoon sergeant crept across to tell us of the unex- pected risk we had been runuing. We had used up four or live milli of wire, and some of the men had their fingers pretty well cut, but they stuck at it like good chaps and made a Ibully en- tanglement, The job was an exhilirate ing one, but as I am not a liar nor al - glad when it was over. "As I went back through the trench** that morning just before dawn I passed, a. number of men who Were inn something between their teeth, and stopped a moment, c s se to hear wheat it was. They were a MONO that God Almighty would give the Gar-. mans sufficient gracemito make thew come out and attack just to Isom , us up. Both men and Officers of ilea company evidently felt alike, as bean" their colonel saybag to 'them, 'And IC they coxne, no surrender, lade. all,70. have your rifles and then your fade 'As if in answer to thele praerers situ began to crack all around. "Just before I reached the end at the last trench 1 was surprised to hank the order, 'Cease firing!' and when 1 turned to learn what had *erosions& this unusual command, / saw a wound- ed German lying halfweole between our lines and his. 'An &neer who had gown' est to pi& np the man ,was *truck ba- lm the Germs= realized what be von doing, and. themselves, ceased feting 14011Ing daunted, the :Briii6 obeli ningswest to the fallen; man and WS eurind, hat dragged blek ee eel. Gnu Met lion, TM °Meer Se duty rad* ill bin Taft a salute, *I the um bin tnd' ctvrmari -Meer tool{ 'ear nis own iron cross and pinned it upon the breast of the man in khaki, and as ha staggered back to our trench we could still hear the Germans cheering. Poor The British Officer Dragged the Fallen Man to German Lines. devil! He was eecommended for the Victoria cross, bnt he didn't live to wear it. He died. from the wounds he got. "Nothing but death, however. can quench 'Tommy's' good humor," „he laughed. "I heard one of them tell a ehap who had lost his way that if he Irould go down by la Villa de Dugout and turn to the left around Piccadilly circus he would. come to the Hotel Ce- cil. The chap started on. A little far- ther down tbe line a man at one of the loopholes called out, 'Here comes Jane, and they all dived into their elta, 'Jane' being a twelve Inch shell." One morning about 5 o'clock the ma- tron came to my room and said that a telephone message from Be a place some forty kilometers away, reported they were in desperate need of an in- terpreter. They had asked already three other hospitalh for a nurse who spoke German, but none was available, and she wished me to be ready in half an hour to go _the!! for the daze_ _The road waS -in-. pretty good coidition and. clear of sentries, so we reached B. by 7 o'clock. There had been only one thing of un- usual interest on the way. From the top of a bill a mile or so across the valley we saw en ambulance train eeeping along. Flaming red crosses covered the sides of the coaches. Be- fore our amazed eyes, a few moments later, light puffs of smoke danced around them. Shells fell before and °there behind the teain, but still the engine- keht moying. Would it reach the next station and get beyond range? we asked each other breathlesate the chauffeur and I. We followed it for fully ten minutes. and then it vanished behind a slope. It was like a cinema- tOgraph with its inevitable train and engine, but with the difference that the train looked small and distant, while the report of the guns was near and very real. We learned later that only one shot had found its mark, but that that one bad killed three helpless men as they lay. When we arrived we met the bead surgeon. He was a straight, upstand- ing Englishman, and even under such stress his uniform looked spick and span, his boots polished, and he was wearing a gliste.ning monocle. Rut above all his clear eyes, looking direct- ly at you, gave an ides (4 energy, vital- ity and superiority. B- was the static,* from which the English ambulance trellis went down to Boulogne. It seemed las if there. must be hundeeds of ambulances al- li: reade there, well as dawns -upon dozens of amb lance cars. As feat as one train was ItIlled it pulled oak and other ears were limbed in to take their places. There was such perfect method and system that by midafternoon we saw the last train slowly depart. The surgeon. knew we bad been or- dered to return by way of the battle front and 'bring with us a load of wounded, as there had been a perfect shambles the day previom3. As he bade us goodby and thanked us for helping he asked me: "Have you ever been on the field after a battle?" I replied in the negative. Shaking hiii head sadly, he said: "It is too horrible to attempt to de- scribe, and 1 advise you to remain in your ambulance." I assured hhn if it were possible should. , We took a lang time getting to the rendezvotte, as there were sentries ev- erywhere, and. we had to pick out roads that were sheltered front shell lire. At last, when as near as we pos- sibly could get, the two men left the tee teem . . had advised, remained in the ambulance -that is, until the particular case and mut for me. 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Many of the wounded lay,1 still aed quiet; others were nxiaziing, shrieking, pra.ying or cursing, and al -o - most all ef them begging for water, Some of the wounds were so indea scribably horrihle that for the poor vie -a apnost hoped they wonicli In iharp contrast to this officers 'Werei standfng about quietly talking le.ndj did not exist The tnedecin 0404/ would aeeasienelly, after a brIef psis! nesslike examination, give orders or se stretcher to be moved aside under 111114 trees. It was the death warrant fer its, wretched occupant Many did. not Seetu: to be in great pain, and I noticed that. this often was a bad sign. One pom' fellow smiled up at me, pressed, mar, hand in gratitude' for a mouthfel warm wine and said, "There is net =tit to pray for the nurses-bes.ven Is Wait- ing for them," and le hem hour he,' too„. phiandjoined the little band beneath the They had been hours in the Work, but all the field had still not beau; searched, and I insisted on. joinieg a party of stretcher bearers who Were just starting out It was no timo for faint hearted.ness, there was too Much to be done. The moon was still bright, and objects were visible some distance. away. The fight bad been a fieree one,1 and the German dead were .*.aitarli three times the number of the bereineb.,: Tbe bearers moved quickly but silently.; from body to body, some of the poor, fellows were eontorted into faittit.stie a tti t tides, others apparently asleep. The whole scene in the silence ef the forest was inconceivably majestic. 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