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In fact, it is too late for that now, as it would be a confession of failure, and besides. .what. will xam Gda with .a _mil. ‘"Well, it doesn‘t make me sad," hbe replied, "because we know that for all "Ach, du bist ein schones mad chen!" he said, using the famitter and friendly "thou." "Forgive me," he added, "and tell me the news." They were forever eagerly asking for neows. "Well," I said, "Kitchener has his extra million men. That ought to please you." "Did you fear I had forgotten you?" | I asked without really thinking what I , was saying. "The Germmens fear God and rothing ’ else," he answered quickly. | able gentiemens® taste was evidently nobleman, whose taste was to us his luxurious, for when he came to ustch, buttons, cigarette box, wrist watch, everything except the inevitable plain gold bangle, was lterally incrusted with enamel, diamonds and rubles. As I approached he raised his left arm, bending his wrist with a quick motion quite characteristic, and, looking at his watch, said sharply, for the desire to command was so innate that to sep& rate him from it would have been to separate his soul from his body, "You are a little late, nurse." His tone was a little aggresmive. A stopped for a second and looked at ihim. There he sat, propped up in bed with pillows, a heary, handsome type of bis class, a prisoner of war, and yet the whole ‘thing struck me as too fuany for words, and I began to laugh. He evidently saw the humor of the sitea tion himself and laughed also. 1 was always interested in their point of view, for the three who had remained with us owing to the condiâ€" tion of their wounds were educated and representative Germans. Apart from their hatred of England, frankly expressed, they were courteous, agreeâ€" able gentlemen. One was a Bavarian on a Ts ME es C gie cp ra e ie o ie L en o o D Arc o seâ€"ar adcdrs INnis even as a leave taking. It originated with the officers and men in the field. but now all over Germany it was said with sincerity and earnestness. "Russia will want peace in the early summer, and France will seize the first possible opportunity to abandon the struggle, which will leave Germany free to fight it out with her true enâ€" emyâ€"England." At which one of them picked up his glassâ€"he was takâ€" ing a tonic that was a little like thin wine and which gave an excuse for a toastâ€"but instead of the cheery "Prosit" which the German usually uses he looked solemnly into the faces of his comrades, blinking like an owl. and said with an unmistakable vibraâ€" tion of hate in his voice, "God punish England!" And the others, with equal feeling, responded, "God punish hert" I was amazed at this. 1 had never heard it before and frankly said so. They assured me that in place of the time honored "Aut wiedersehen" one often now hears this even as a leave taking.> It originated with the officers _CHAPTER viu, War Prisgoners‘ Gossip. lâ€"wâ€"]O get to the German ward I could go outdoors, through & u court and pass in by a French window. I often did this, as it gave me a breath of air. It was twilight, but the lamps had not yet been lighted. Rubber soled shoes made my approach noiseless, and as I came upon the little group of German prisoners I heard one of them say: CE ko re lfi Unrons ui 0) oc 1 C ag $ & SE S;lf > <STORY GheNUR "God punish her! Copyright,,1915, by the _ Bobbaâ€"Merrill . Gem 1 99 o. dines, sausage and ham are left. In anâ€" other canteen on certain days in the week one may. biy..clothes .203 42â€" lilc.. We have been able to buy, in the canâ€" teen, bread, cheese, chocolate, apples, jJam, sausage and even beer, but the list bhas awindled until now only jam, sarâ€" We can get all sorts of medicines made up in the town, but they are very fussy about sgelling anything with poison in any quantity in it, and it is a much mooted question whether they fear we might use it for suicide or to poison the guard. I hardly think it is the former because if it were there woulk| be regulations against the daily bath, as the Germans often reâ€" mark to each other <bat if the English go on bathing in this fashion all the time there won‘t be a one of them left when winter is over. and maneuvers of the ram. Discipline is maintained by the highest ranking officer of each nation. In our case we have Colonel Gordon of the Gorâ€" d highlanders. The sick are looked a&uer by their own respective medical ofâ€" ficers. The Germans gave them the beneâ€" fit of their superior skill in the beginning, but evidently, found it boring, seeing the same old patients day after Gay, so now we never see them except on hurried vis= its for inspection. refused us water. We got to Torgau about 4 in the morning and were marchâ€" ed to the fortress. Our particular buildâ€" ing is called the Bruckenkop{f. Napoleon the First built it to protect the bridge made over the Elbe for his great Russian exploit. Our building i# divided into about fifty rooms which are British quarters. Outâ€" gide in the pasgages there are crude tables which are used for mess. Usually twentyâ€" Rre or thirtp officers mei» together. Woâ€"kave an exerciso ground here which is half a mile in circumference At first we wore a comfortable little party, but the other dag & French came in, and all the outhomnaes, wagon sheds, etc., are used for thetmâ€"that is, all but one building. In that they manufacture shells. The woâ€" men & the packing, and they must be doing a hbig business as 300 or 400 come everyâ€"day;‘in fact, they are now working double shift. I mustn‘t forget to tell you about the international football match. Thoge beâ€" tween the French and English always draw good gates in spite of the fact that the English always win. The ground is very hard and rough, so we only play association. We did try the Eton game onee, but as there were not enough Etoâ€" nians to make up the two sides we had to fill in with men who, in some cases, had never seen the game played. The French were highty Gelighted at the formation & prisoner at Mons. First we were sent to Cologne and then on to Magdeburg, where we were joined by a party of Scots. The journey was made in a cattle car, but our keepers were a decent sort, and it‘s alllt in & lifetime anyway. ‘The ;?g thing I really would like to register & about is the German Red Cross. The jourâ€" ney lasted seventy hours We only had one meal, but I did get hot when they My Dear Iamâ€"I thought perbhaps you might want to know what a day‘s work out here is Nke. You know I was taken match{!" +353 ‘That is just the idea," he laxughed. ‘But I‘] write to him. I‘ll do it this "Bu minute." . very minute." ‘*Please wait until tomorfrow," I qguwickly interrupted, for he was Decomâ€" ing so excited I began to regret having told him anything about Tubby at all "But you say he was not very badly wounded. What has become of him? Why hasn‘t he been to see me? ""For the very reason that his wounds were slight the doctor sent him that same night to one of the nearby big base hospitals We have only room here for the badly wounded, you know," Affer thinking for a few moments he md, "Well. the first thine T shall a.~ Later that evening when I went to Captain Frazer‘s room to get him ready for the night I told him the story of how it was his little boyish lieutenant and not myself who really deserved his thanks for saving his life. Pahmui proved too much for my risibles. I was sorry, but I could not help it. I simply had to laugh. I longed to sugâ€" gest that as he was an architect. perâ€" haps he might put in some of his enâ€" forced idleness suggesting improveâ€" ments in the architecture of London. But I was a nurse; he was a prisoner and ill, and what I did say was, "Good night." "A good beating will be England‘s salvation," added one of the others. ‘"Think of the effect on future generaâ€" tions of Englishmen, when they ask why some parts of London are so much more beautiful and better built than the rest! The answer will be that that part is superior because Gerâ€" many rebuilt it when it was destroyed by the Germans in the great war." The seriousness with which this was said proved too much for my risibles â€"7a men witnout officers? We know how long it takes to train an officerâ€" they do not. As for the French, I am sorry for them," he said. "Poor devils! They would like to make peace in time. But you know," he gravely asâ€" sured me, "English troops are drawn up behind them all along the line, which is a constant threat if they should give way. Why," and he raised up eagerly, "England has even threatâ€" ened to bombard their ports if they do." _‘ AD E LE 3, BLE N E AV "G _ Well, the first thing I sh;g do hen I get out will be to find Tu .» ‘Pubby!" X cried in amazeiment. why ‘Fubby? He is as thin" as a INDEPENDENT, GRIMSBY, ONTARIO Wanted.â€"I will pay one dozen abcove the market good, clean, new laid eg Livingsten, GRIMSBY.. There had been so little time in the last â€"month for self communtion that I PRIVATE FUNDS TO LOANâ€"I have secured a limited amount of pri vate funds which I am prepared to i0Oan on gilt edge security â€"at once. Apply for particulars to H. H. Anâ€" derson, GRIMSBY. on the morrow. x e : "At last," the captain continued, "we dn in annilerrurrne amt:a to a forward trench, which might etter described as a watercourse. CHAPTER 1X,. In the half gray light it seemed a dim He Will Forgive. mysterious background to the mud HB next In.omj_ng I went by gray sandbag walls against which mud train to the town where the | 8ST@Y soldiers in full equipment wene fever hospital was located. An‘| Alternately standing or lying. These hour away the contour of the | latter are supposed to be asleep, and country changed. Chains of hills rolled | for the most part they are, for with away in a peaceful undulating line, | the fatigue and exhaustion of it all it and trees in the distance with their | takes more than the fear of death to thick foliage appeared like a great | keep a man awake. wave of green fog. Here and there the "Among other things we were told autumn coloring looked like huge bouâ€" | off to put up a wire entanglement. The quets of red and yellow flowers, while | noise of our equipment disturbed the the sky overhead was a beautiful pool | one eyed sleep of a subaltern. I heard of liquid turquoise. ‘mim. say anickizy to a "Eantre ‘Haar3 After cautioning him repeatedly about his medicine, diet, etc., for the nurse who would look after him was unâ€" thinkably busy, I said good night and goodby, for I was leaving very early an the morrow. I often think about the good cld days at Khyber; but, as the Americans say, What‘s the use? Goodby and good luck until we meet again. Yours, _ men I might mention that one of our diverâ€" sions has been peeling the potatoes necesâ€" sary for the day, for the main meal is at half past 12, which consisted generally of a piece of boiled potato and occasionally mutton floating in vegetable soup. We alâ€" ways have potatoes, and the potatoes have to be peeled and, believe me, it takes lots of them. For some reason, I suppose it is inward cussedness, none of us took very kindly to the work, but we hear a rumor that the orderlies are soon going to fall heir to that job. English newspapers or books we don‘t have, but we are able to buy German ones, Often when there is a German reverse they publish it as an unconfirmed rumor from London, Rome or somewhere, but at other times there seems no attempt to disguise their losses. My own opinion is that the press of Germany is inclined to be creative rather than suppressional They continually lead their readers on with great expectations, when one plan falls through, to go after another. First it was the move on Paris; then it was Calais, and so it goes. an Amsterdam bank, and across the face of each was a request that they should notify our families. I am beginning to believe that no moneys ever given in the world brought so much happiness, because these checks were the first intimation that England had that many of the officers were alive; in fact, in some instances they had been reported officially as dead. Kked Cross workers. But when he intiâ€" mated that if the amount was such as to make it worth while to send the checks to England to be cashed this would necesâ€" sarily carry with it to our friends the inâ€" formation that we were at least alive, we all suddenly became very generous in our contributions. As it is illegal to give money in any way whatsoever to the enemy, to get around this the checks were drawn on P Gakâ€" P esns ts t0% Aovis doanie bodhal MB i h d 4 11 _ not permitted to write letters home, and the knowledge that our families were sufâ€" fering the greatest anxiety on our acâ€" count was the most distressing part of the imprisonment. Finally one day it was suggested by the commandant that we might like to subscribe to the German Red Cross fund. Nothing could have been received with greater coldness than this suggestion, as the most of us remembered as our most humiliating experiences those which we suffered at the hands of the ~"*/ ~4CZACG DY a moat, and in place of water there exists the unpicturesque barbâ€" ed wire entanglement, and we are conâ€" stantly reminded that a high power live wire runs through the whole Of "It. /At some of the prisons the sentries carry fixed bayonets, but here it is evidently not considered necessary. h For a long time, as you know, we were on Cmmb N tfiids Acbusct w6 4 2 and must have a narrow red band down the outer seamâ€"this against an effort to escape. Trying to escape, I might add, isn‘t exactly popular as a means of diverâ€" sion, as a good many fellows have tried it and paid for the attempt with their lives. We are never allowed on the battleâ€" ments, and even if one attempts to peep over ‘"a great big Hun with a great big gun" brings his ~riflie instantly to his shoulder with an unmistakable expression of business in his eye. The whole place is surrounded by a moat, and in place of 39 Steps from Terminal Do pot Are made more attractive by proâ€" perly designed and fitted glasses. The time when glasses were merely something "stuck on‘"‘ the face is gone. We take as much care to selectâ€" the frames, mountâ€" ings, or lens shapes which harmonâ€" ize with the features as we do to grind the proper correction into the lenses themselves. We do our own grinding, so you can have glasses home with you, all work fully guaranteed. 111 King E. Hamilton Attractive Eyes . B. ROUSE ybo DC> C> â€"G> B> .BD>â€"B>:D~ BD> _Jg ~_â€"â€" You need Established A. M. 1900 12 ate oT"WAIXRT Corduroy UZFZPQOTLS if you the hands of the cent per price for ~â€"JTas. " A. "We passed on and reached the snipâ€" er‘s hole, which is a little apart from the main trench, and for that reason likely to escape the attentioin of the enemy. â€" But it has its disadvantages, for one has to sit practically motionâ€" less, as the place has no parapet, and the only way we could see outside was by using a periscope. That little inâ€" strument is a wonderful invention. Without it we could see nothing but the walls of the hbhole in which we stood. But by applying it without moyâ€" ing an inch we had before us a view of the countryside, trenches and wire entanglements, while the sandbags and the shell holes showed up as if under a microscope. Fifty yards away was a loophole in the German trenches. Two lively men in a trench very near pcecupied our attention. We envied them their activity. They seemed to be able to find targets after all the rest again and again I found myself 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 guide, who led us along the bath that the trench relief men, sap pers and stetcher bearers use. It was & dangerous bit, and the soldiers, no matter how heavy their kit or how long the march had been, break into double quick, for the whiz of bullets and the shriek of shrapnel is not the sort of music that tempts one to linger. him say quickly to a sentry, ‘Heard anything? and the reply, ‘A riflile shot half an hour ago.‘ ‘Theirs or ours? ‘It was a Mauser, sir!‘ A second more, and they both heard us. ‘Who goes there? ‘A friend,‘ I answered, giving two taps with the butt of my rifie and receiving one in return. Each platoon has its own system of signals. The subaltern gave an order to one of his N. C. O. that the men ‘Stand to,‘ for you know every man in the trenches from the commencement of dawn must be awake and ready for the attack which often comes at that hour. This is supposed to be accomplished withâ€" 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 bad as we think, for our nerves are not what they once were. "Among other things we were told off to put up a wire entanglement. The noise of our equipment disturbed the one eyed sleep of a subaltern. I heard I said something about the "fatal music of shot and shell." Captain Fraâ€" zer laughed and replied, "Well, really, that sort of music is not fatal, because so long as we hear it it is not for us; the bullet that comes straight is ‘the dog that bites before it barks.‘ We had been warned about a fallen tree by the wayside which seemed an ideal stop for a breather. But it has proved to those who had been tempted the song of the Lorelei, as the enemy had marked down the position exactly and had a rifle ‘set‘ on it." an hour before dawn and in communication with the ba way led through ‘No Man‘s space between the opposing The night was as dark as they are so close together, P *"‘Two nights before we came here I was ordered to be in a sniper‘s trench "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 one can be sure which trench is theirs and which is oursâ€" they are so close together On my return Captain Frazer was greatly interested in the tales that the men had told me down at the fever hospital, as his regiment had been fighting in that locality for some months just before they had been orâ€" dered to â€"â€", My stories led him to visualize for me an average twentyâ€" four hours down there in the trenches. "Personally," he began, "IL believe trench warfare is better suited to Gerâ€" mans than to us. They are so methodâ€" ical and deliberate that the sitting still plan is their very best way. We had to laugh. 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 men stricken with typhoid and not a sgingle bathtub in the place. It was not, however, that France was indifâ€" ferent or unable. It was an avalanche of wounded descended on a country totally unprepared. "It is as if fate meant to have a good laugh at us. We have here a wholo 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 fracâ€" tures, but we have no knives, no arâ€" tery forceps and not a stitch of catâ€" I found the hospital not yet systemâ€" atized, the patients streaming in in such numbers as to prevent almost any attempt at organization. Mlle. F., in showing me around, said when weo came to the operating room:: enjouyed to the uttermost this chance for quiet and repose. I stretched out on the cushions, oblivioug of the heat and dust, thought of approaching events, considered the future possibiliâ€" ties and essayed to penetrate the great darkness that engulfed us Aall. The hours passed, #nd I was there before I dreamed it was time to arrive. 1@ wn and in telephonic with the battery. The ‘No Man‘s Land‘ (the he opposing trenches). as dark as pitch, and I found myself on the One morning about 5 o‘clock the ma»~ tron came to my room and said that a telephone message from B., a place some forty kilometers away, reported they were in desperate need of an inâ€" terpreter. They had asked already three other hospitats for a nurse who spoke German, but none was available, and she wished me to be ready in half an hour to go there for the day. The "Nothing but death,, however, can quench ‘Tommy‘s‘ good humor," he laughed. "I heard one of them tell a chap who had lost his way that if he would go down by la Villa de Dugout and turn to the left around Piccadilly cireus he would come to the Hotel Ceâ€" cil. The chap started on. A little farâ€" ther down the line a man at one of the loophotes called out, ‘Here comes Jane, and they all dived into their pits, ‘Jane‘ being a twelve inch shell." A : devill He was recommended â€"for the Victoria cross, but he didn‘t live to wear it. He died from the wounds he got. The British Officer Dragged the Fallen Man to German Lines. iron cross and pinned it upon the breast of the man in khaki, and as be staggered back to our trench we could still hear the Germans cheering. Poor carried, half dragged him to the Gerâ€" man lines. ‘The officer on duty receivâ€" ed him with a salute, and the men in the trenches set up a lusty cheer. Then the German officer took off his own "Just before I reached the end of the last trench I was surprised to hear the order, ‘Cease firing" and when J turned to learn what had occasioned this unusual command, I saw a woundâ€" ed German lying halfway between our lines and his. An officer who had gone out to pick up the man was struck beâ€" fore the Germans realized what he was doing, and themselves ceased firing. Nothing daunted, the British officer staggered to the fallen man and half it was. They were actually praying that God Almighty would give the Gerâ€" mans suffictent grace to make them come out and attack us gst to yfi us up. Both men and officers of company evidently felt alike, as I heard their colonel saying to them, ‘And if they come, no surrender, lads, as you have your rifles and then your fists.‘ As if in answer to their prayers rifles began to crack all around. "As I went back through the trencheg that morning just before dawn I passed a number of men who were muttering something between their teeth, and J stopped a moment, curious to hear what gurnrers had not told their relief that a working party was in front Thé N. C. O.‘s on duty should have made sure of that point also. As it was, a very much alarmed platoon sergeank crept across to tell us of the unexâ€" pected risk we had been running. We had used up four or five rolls of wire, and some of the men had their fingers pretty well cut, but they stuck at 1# like good chaps and made a bully enrâ€" tanglement. The job was an exhiliratâ€" ing one, but as I am not a Har nor alâ€" together a fool I frankly confess I was glad when it was over. time. We could hear a German playing a mouth organ. On the damp, stil} night air the sound came to us very clearly. He was playing ‘Rip Van Winkle,.‘ Presently we got to work again, but in half an hour the Gerâ€" mans began sniping. I decided it was too risky to go on. Another wait, and then fortunatety it began sleeting. We kept wiring until about 3 a. m. and got our allotment finished. ‘Then we found that the sentries had all been change® while we were out, and two or three "Then night came on. â€" We had a lot of barbed wire to put up in frout of a new trench a little lower down. About midnight I was joined by my best N. C. O. and four or five other men, We were as silent as possgible, but in spite of sandbags to deaden the sound we did make rather a row driving in the posts. The Germans beard us, for they sent up two star shells. ‘The first was on our left, but the next quite near. We stood motionless. Fortuâ€" nately we were against a dark backâ€" ground. ‘Then the hbercâ€"ara haran maurnamn near. We stood motionless. Fortuâ€" nately we were against a dark backâ€" ground. Then the beggars began sweep. ing right and left with their machine guns, and we laid flat in the mud for & WEDNESDAYâ€"JULY 12, 1916 §