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SHOEING Valuator at Grimsby ect want good work, give D. CAMERON, Treasurer. in automobile dray AND . GCGALDER UE at T. FARRELL interest Ets Husband Hunting. B were taken, Cdptain Frazer and I, to the largest German camp in that part of the counâ€" try. The morning after my arâ€" rival I was escorted through the hos pital by one of the officers in command by way of instructing me in my tem porary duties. The hospital itself was well equipped and well managed in every detail There were patients of all kinds, wounded English, French and Belâ€" gians. Some were Belgian civilians who had been brought to this camp because of insubordinatibn and had been interned promiscuously with the soldiers. It struck me, however, that they were all of age to bear arms. I had hbeard many rumors of the great difference made by the Germans in the treatment of their prisoners, the English having always the worst of it, but candor compels me to state that in this particular hospital no favoritism existed. They all fared rather badly as to food, it seemed to me, for coffee or tea without sugar or milk for breakâ€" fast with one small slice of black bread, and a cup of soup for lunch, reâ€" placed from time to time by boiled chestnuts; soup and a small piece of bread at tea time, and no supper, did not seem a very liberal or suitable diet for sick men. However, both the docâ€" tors and nurses seemed to me quite conscientious. A thing quite new and interesting to me was the camp itself, and I was alâ€" ways anxious to see really how the men were treated. My opportunity came one afternoon when I had been there a few days. I happened to be standing at the door at the moment the head surgeon started on his tour of inâ€" spection. He was a pleasant, kindly man Oof about thirtyâ€"five, who had shown me consideration on several ocâ€" casions. Noticing me, he stopped and said: 3 "Fraulein, my interpreter is on sick leave today. Will you come with me on my tour of inspection ?" It was a command in spite of his way of putting it, but one that I was happy to obey. First we entered the "quarantine pen," as he described it. ; € "Here," he said, "we keep all our newly arrived prisoners for a period of four weeks until we are certain they have no contagious disease." â€"I do not know how many were there, but certainly hundreds, as the tent covâ€" ered perhaps two acres of ground. It was separated from an adjoining one by a barbed wire fence and a roadway eight or ten feet wide. The head surgeon said to the men in German that any who were ill should come and speak to him, but warned them that he had no time to listen to imaginary complaints. He then had me repeat this in English and in French. A comparatively small number came forward, and of them only one seemed sufficiently ill to need immediate atâ€" tention. s Heâ€"~was an Irish youth,. I could scarcely believe he was old enough to have been accepted for service. The moment he spoke I knew he was a gentlieman, He was so 411 1 realized that the malady must have been deâ€" veloping for several days at loast, and I quickly asked him why he had sa neglected himself. He looked up at me rather shyly and said: s "I would not have come today if you hadn‘t been here. The interpreter browbeats a fellow so. I‘d rather have nothing to do with them." He was sent at once to the hospital. My idea concerning him proved corâ€" rect. He was a younger son of one of the best known Irish families, who, not being able to go as an officer, had, as bhave so many Englishmen of birth, gone as a private. The surgeon rapidly passed on to the buildings. There were perhaps a dozen of these, low buildings of stained boards standing on brick foundations, each exactly like the other. I learned afterward that each was supposed to hold 200 to 225 men. They were heated by stoves and lighted by electricity, and the ventilation, I noticed, was exâ€" cellent, The mattresses lying on the floor were of striped ducking, filled with wood shavings about two feet thick. In the center of the room were long, narrow tables, at which the men ate, wrote and played games. «"Discipline here is maintained among the men," the surgeon said to me, with a certain pride, "by officers of their own nationality. Of course, if anyâ€" thing goes wrong we step in."‘ I had observed, however, that batâ€" teries of artillery were stationed at points of vantage hbhere and there around the camp and that each buildâ€" ing had lookout towers in which senâ€" tries mannted gnard Aax. and. niskt. _ Subscribe for the Independent & . "= V P ’ *3 « . 2s is <gr s e ‘ae ns alf . x No +s AP {"-'.};;3:‘ E* a t taleésd 1w o 54 \C Yors e us 7 2 * tR f m â€" DP" & y3 RY 9 e â€" 5 CHAPTER Xl. Copyright, 1915, by the Bobbaâ€"MerriliCan Ras es â€"sy c Gmt our tour was at an end R X1. it was suppertime, and I saw on all Hunting. ?.‘3:13 flIlO D‘rison:;stco:hking theeoj; ot:; remarked to the surg i‘é ggginm the men were having vegetables a% eP C _ s . <| Wwell as braad for supper. "Yoes, today," he replied, "but it is not a regular thing to have both, but at noon they have good soup, in whicB has been cooked meat, and vegetable® and black bread." : Going out we passed the store. ‘TO®e printed price list was hung up. I notie@= ed among th@â€"articles on sale, §0APy brushes, shirts, towels, German die@ Honsgries and French, English and Gem man grammars. There was no food ow# The surgeon called my attention ta the price of the German grammars an@ dictionaries They were 6 cents each. "FYou see," he explained, laughing, "how the general staff encourage ths learntng of our language," and then he added gravely, "for they hope 1 Will lead to a better understanding 0€ us, and so make for great good." .. / T could not resist the temptation to ask, "So you feel that to know the Germans is to love them?‘ . the list. For a moment he did not know Whether to be angry or tolaughsogq haps I looked at him a little apdlogeds eally, which threw the balance in tavg of the latter, for he smiled and 824y "But I am afraid the knowledgeo 0f & language doesn‘t mean knowing thg people, as many Germans know Fngs, fish"â€" and he left the sentence unffi« to read philosophy, literature, sclencg ) â€"and there it ends. After all," ho COD« 1 tUnued with characteristic German &N« | alysis, "my own opinion is that lnlri gnage cannot express good will ufiz | it 4s already there, and if that is IACK® ing the more closely two peoptes COM® into contact the more likely they ar:g discover points of disagreement N wltimately to quarrel." i# I asked. "Not many," he answered. "An® those who do have learned it in order Germany, undoubtediy made pRINS« taÂ¥king provision for every possible con« tingency arising out of a state of wRP; She even leld yearly maneuvers at in« dustrial establishments so that at & moment‘s notice they might, for exatoâ€" ple, turn from the manufacture of toy# to the making of shrapnel. Yet vast numbers of her woun®d found the medicalâ€"organization unprepared. Perâ€" haps that was due to the fact that the number of wounded far exceeded all expectations. However well equipped a country may be, it still remains a £1â€" gantic task to care for a million woundâ€" ed, and that is what @ermany had to do. Tlproughout that country, I was told, as in France, private houses, schools, university buildings and amusement hballs were being turned into hospitats. A I was surprised to learn that German wolfhoundé are used in helping the orâ€" derlies pick up the wounded on the battlefields. They have been of valuâ€" able assistance, as wounded men inâ€" stinctively seek shelter and, owing to the protective coloring of their uniâ€" forms, are very likely to be overlooked by the segrchers. The men brought in from the front were washed, shaved and given fresh clothing. If a patient has received the ifon cross or has been recommended for such distinction the fact is stated in large letters on a tablet attached to his bed. The Germans heve made a careful study of the psychology of the sick room. They endeavor to make their hospital wards cheerful andâ€"pleasant, and the great majority of their trainâ€" ed nurses are trim, nice looking girls, whose air of coquetry an austere surâ€" geon seriously informed me is "deemed helpful to the patient." I was pleased to find in this hospital that the chief bacteriologist was a woâ€" man and that the system of surgery was highly conservative. Unbelievable effort was made to save limbs, and their method of treating wounds from firmly embedded bullets was to leave the bullet undisturbed wherever posâ€" sible. Of all projectiles, they told me the Russian bullet is the most humane flim nosed and specdy, it usually disâ€" Infécts tho wound in passing through, At ~the anual conference of t Niagara district fall fairg delega neld in St. Catharines, the followi dates were agreed on for 1916:â€". Abingdon, Oct. 6â€"7. Bertie, Sept. 20â€"11. Beamsville, Sept. 19â€"20. Dunnvile, Sept. 14â€"15, "And do the English know German?* Fenwick, Sept. 26â€" Marshville, Oct. 6â€"! Niagara, Sept. 12â€"1 Smithvlle, Sept. 21 Stomford, Oct. 10â€"1 oT( , Sept. 21â€"22. Oct. 10â€"11. Thanksgiving Day , Sept. 19â€"2 Sept, 14â€"15. sept, 26â€"27. , Oct. 6â€"7. ept. 12â€"13. Sent. 21â€"22 THE INDEPENDENT, GRIMSBY, ONTARIO pet d so that gangrene and other infections from Russian rifle fire are almost un known. I was assured also that the American made shrapnel fired from French guns caused the most laceratâ€" ing wounds. The ward in the hospital known as the "prison ward" was a dreary sight indeed. The patients seemed to know they were not wanted and were a bur den, their faces were drawn and pale, and all the bustling cheerful atmos# phere of the other wards was lacking. Though humanely cared for, they keenâ€" ly felt the absence of a woman‘s hand, as all the attendants were men, and men,â€" too, who rarely understood the language or the needs of their unbhapâ€" py charges. The saddest memory of those days is the burial of a French officer. He had been my patient, and I was reluctantly given permission to pay my last reâ€" spects by attending his funeral. The ceremony, although he was an enemy, was simple and dignified. The pine coffin was borne to the grave by six German soldiers under arms, accompaâ€" nied by a chaplain. On the coffin was placed a wreath with a broad ribbon in the colors of the German flag inscribed with the words "Dem tapferen Krie ger" ("To the brave warrior‘). It was lowered gently into the grave, a brief service read, the grave filled with earth and a wooden cross placed at the head which gave the name, date and rank of the dead soldier. The wreath was laid on the new made grave Then the soldiers stood at attention, raised their riflies skyward and fired a last volley. As I was leaving I noticed they were burying a German soldier with exactly the same ceremonies. One afternoon I was giving massage to one of my patients, a very high Gerâ€" man officer, who, except for a slight paralysis, was about well. He had an unusually keen sense of humor, to which nothing was sacred, and, truth to tell, I enjoyed hearing him talk imâ€" mensely, I had been with him but a few mo ments when, putting his fingers to his lips, he whispered in French: "They‘re letter writing in the next room If we are quiet I think we can hear. It‘s very funny.‘" I listened. They were talking about matrimony, discussing it as a pure question of market value. There seemod no shame about it at all. They were reading matrimonial adverâ€" tisements from a German newspaper. General vyon T. said to me: "The war has changed the attitude of young girls and older ones, too, who have means and are seeking suitable mates. They have greatly increased their efforts, while marriageable men have become correspondingly shy. The women are getting less particular in their requireâ€" ments," he chuckled. "A girl with 25,000 marks would hardly have adverâ€" tised before the wi&r forâ€" anything less than an officer of the army or navy; now she will gladly accept what is technically described as a ‘better genâ€" tleman.‘" At that moment I heard the nurse reading: "I call you who belong to me in the world; you, too, are seeking in marriage sanctuary, to find in your wife, as I in my husband, the best thing in life. Here I amâ€"true, I am fortyâ€"twoâ€"but presently I shall have a considerable fortune." They evidently did not care for this, the young officer seeking a wife and lfile nurse, as I heard them both laug!H. Then she read another:; "I seek you, my friend and my husband. I have a simple and sunny nature and hate the ordinary humdrum of life; all that I am and deâ€" sire will give purpose to your existâ€" ence. Social and financial position asâ€" sured." * & "‘Nichts fur mich," the young man laughed. A moment later she read: "Well born, tall, pleasging in appearance, thirâ€" tyâ€"two years old, seek suitable companâ€" fon for life, having in my own right a large fortune; no anonymous. communiâ€" cations and no agents." We fancied that one proved interesting to him, as he loweredehis voice and seemed to be dictating an answer. The colonel said: "I suppose all this sort of thing, with your American ideas, shocks you very much; but you know that in our service if an officer desires to marry he must findâ€"love or no loveâ€"a girl who can produce the necessary minimum. Becausgse there is asumfixedbytheadmlm)&eandwar office regulations, which any girl who desires to marry an officer must pog sess. She may have more, you underâ€" stand," laughing, "but she cannot have less." I looked up, struggling to keep out of my eyes the question whether hbe was married or not. He must have seen it, however, for he said:;: "Yes, frgulein, I am married and very hapâ€" pily to a charming girl from Cincinâ€" nati. If I wasn‘t," he added misâ€" chievously, "I would propose to you, because officers of a certain grade and up, I forgot to say, are permitted to marry whom they like, even if the girl hasn‘t a pfennig." ~ CHAPTER XIl. ‘Wisest to Obey. HE treatment for which I most fervently hoped as a prisoner of war was to be ignored, and fortunately for me that was the tréatment I received, at any rate for a time. A good many of the prisoners had been sert through to Stuttgart, and I wondered rather anxiously why Capâ€" tain Frazer had not been sent with them, for it seemed hardly possible that his captors had, in keeping him at the front, been infiuenced by the danger of such a journey to their prisâ€" oner. However, I was not left long in doubt, for one night the officer in comâ€" mand sent for me. When I reached his office about midnight I found gathâ€" ered there three or four other officers, and among them Captain Sindhauf, the Sazxon officer who had proved kindly and considerate ever since my first enâ€" For a moment I could not believe bad understood him correctly, then sprang forward. wes "Frautein, I believe you will find it the wisest policy to obey implicitly what I direct you to do. You have been chosen to go through to the Engâ€" lish lines and do a very valuable piece of work for us. In fact," he said bluntly, "I wish you to place their big guns." For a moment or two I was utterly unable to grasp the meaning of what was being said to me. Then the absoâ€" lute barbarousness of it broke on me, andâ€"I answered in a frenzy of indignaâ€" tion: I laughed rather hysterically, and the commanding officer went on: "To be explicit, Iâ€" wish you to return to the enemy‘s lines, ascertain where their batteries are situated and report to me the strength of their guns in a manner that will be indicated to you. If you do this you will be amply repaid. On the other hand, if you betray us or fail to carry out our instructions to the minutest detail your British officer will be marched out to the courtyard yonâ€" der and shot," and he pointed threatâ€" eningly to the gray time stained court below. He«looked at me with a cold, unfalâ€" tering gaze and said: "So it would apâ€" pear you are not so deep in his confiâ€" dence as I supposed. Heis a spy. But because I want this information I am willing to let you win his release." However, I had no time to speculate over the meaning of his glance, for the commanding officer at once motioned me to be seated and said: "How dare youâ€"how dare you supâ€" pose that I would do such a thing!" But the man‘s manner was utterly unrufied, and he answered calmly: "I think, fraulein, under the cirecumâ€" stances you will find it wisest to obey my instructions." "Remember, fraulein, your lover our prisoner." I was absolutely dumfounded. And it slowly dawned on me that it was trug. He had made me conscious for the first time of the fact that Captain Frazer was more, far more, to me than merely a gallant, brave officer wounded and under my charge. counter with him the day the Germans had taken possession of our hospital. As I entered the room his eyes met mine with what, in my naturally suâ€" persensitive state, seemed to me someâ€" thing of sadness and deprecation in their depths. I could not answer him, and aftéer a moment, looking at me from unrder his eyebrows in a manner that struck me, even in those circumstances, as being in some way absurdly melodramatic, he added: "He is an English officer," I answerâ€" ed, "who has been desperately ill for weeks and who has neither the opporâ€" tunity nor the desire for such work. How could he be a §gpy ?" "Doubtless you are sincere in your belief, fraulein, butâ€"the fact remains bhe is." With this he bade one of the officers present bring Captain Frazer. I sprang forward and in my anxiety took the man‘s hand in mine. "But you cannotâ€"even you," I cried, "would not dare do such a thing!" "The fortunes of war have made me your prisoner," I said, "but surely you will not torture me. In the French lines I dttended your sick and woundâ€" ed as faithfully as our own, and now I implore you in return, do not have Captain Frazer brought here." I stood before him, my vyery soul in my eyes, but the general turned away with hardly a glance. I fell back, beaten and helpless. â€"A moment later two men entered, carrying a stretcher on which Captain Frazer lay, his face drawn and white, but his eyes shining with unfaltering courage. "There he is, fraulein," the general said. "And I tell you he is a spy. Now I give you your choice; you will do as I direct, orâ€"the result you already know," and he noddéd toward Captain Frazer. "But yeu cannot," 1 said. "It is too cruel, too inhuman; you‘"â€" The general cut me short. "I have no time, fraulein, to waste words. I Mave told you my decision, and you will do as I say or take the conseâ€" quences. The mission will be made very simple, very easy of accomplishâ€" ment, and by fulfilling it you will win freedom for yourself and for your loverâ€"pardon me," and the man bowed with mock politeness, "your friend and patient, Captain Frazer. If you refuse he will pay the penalty he deserves." For a bitter moment I stood torn beâ€" tween conflicting ~emotion; then my eyes sought those of my poor patient. He spoke to me, but his words, curi ously enough, influenced me in a way quite other than he intended. "Acâ€" cept," he said in French, taking the one chance that they might underâ€" stand, and his eyes told me the rest. I would be safe, and heâ€"he didn‘t need to tell meâ€"he knew how to die like a soldier. With a despairing gesture I turned from him and faced the German genâ€" eral, for I could not bear to meet the eyes of the man whom I had so strangeâ€" ly, suddenly come to know I loved. "I will do what you say," I answered simply. Captain Frazer started to speak, but with a voice so full of ghastly anxiety that it almost tore my heart from my body. A moment later the general waved him away. After hg had gone the general smiled in a way for which I could have stranâ€" gled him with my hands if I had not a far more important ard subtle part to play. 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