Daily British Whig (1850), 1 Jun 1916, p. 11

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Copyright, 1918, » know," he sald to us as we! bis and gave him | tment, "Germany does not as | reduce France to vassalige" | the orderly said something | Alsace-Lorraine he answered there might be some sort of an | . arranged---France take back and Germany recelve | Alsace-Lorraine compensation in colontes. + "We are wo misunderstood," he repeated constant ly. "Germany did not want war now "~UOW Or At any time--but realized | when she saw France's three years | military service tn full swing and wher | Russia had built her endless system of strategie rallroads, with the help of | money, that Germany would | be between the upper and nether muy { stones." i hurried upstairs to see Captain Fraser was getting on. been a his ten he an] \ was con delirious. ) 1! Sow | ! | Now and then be | to laugh at bim | bobbed every bullet! And, then, Lister--he was devil shaken by high explosives, Just Barry said to me: 'lan, remember that day whey | yee king to the observation | oh a haystack and the | 'We left it a shell struck | Was a clese call. Things like | my head!" And then in ac-| the bullets are singing and | ins let loose he insists that | . J as it he had night. It may be a form | . Why, | t absolute | myselt, | if I were tread- t"--and here Captain his in a most con- and looked up at me | i eyes--"as for me, I do mind telling you when it is all over | have that dropping sensa- } | : : #0 to when that tion all he of $1! ern i His loyaity, of any of the dis- regiments of thé Indian This, was a dangerous subject as he wis extremely proud men &id invariably began te Yer some of the fleste battles in they had been engaged. Tak- temperature and Soding it very | ded to give him an extra | nge. An hour later, as the folds of night shut down, | going on for some | . 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He Had Grown Weaker Every Day and Less Able to Withstand the Fever. withstand the ravages of fever, Whee the doctor came to see how he was he shook his head gravely and said: "Unless we can keep that fever down | for the next twenty-four hours our man is done for." All day I had given him alcohed Sponges as often as I dared, and we had kept the saline solution going ev~ ery hour, but I was becoming fright- ened, and when Dr. Souchon came in' | the evening I asked him to leave me ycerin, some "And won't you come as often as possible tonight, doctor?" 1 pleaded. for 1 this was the crisis and that Wwe had only a fighting chance to win. "I will come as often as | can." he answered, "but wounded are arriving constantly. 1 hear an ambulance now," and he tuned to go. Stopoing Wt the door, he said, "And I may De obliged to have you if" "Oh, please, doctor," I interrupted beseechingly, "don't send for me! I must be bere tonight!" "1 will do the best I can," he replied and turned on his heel and ran down the steps. I tried to take my patient's pulse, but it was so irregular and rapid that it was impossible. In looking at him his eyes seemed already deeper and bollower, surrounded, as they were, by great dark shadows, and his bands, which Jay fat on the cover, were so white that they were only distinguish. able from the linen by the asure of the veins. I heard the 'light ticking of a clock on the mantle I felt that Time, the fugitive, was slipping by and what its passage might soon bring. | violently put the thought out of my mind. 1 could not bear it. Through those next hours there wasn't a moment but that | 1 wasn't doing something--everything | known to me--to fight off the dreaded end. From 2 o'clock on every 'few mo- ments my tired eyes sought the clock. I was terrified of those awful hours between 4 and 7, and, in spite of all the stimulation 1 dared use, his vital ity was ebbing. Terror overwhelmed me, left me without the power to com bat the imaginings of death. In the violet darkness my eyes met bis, and suddenly Into théem came a new unfathomable expression. On the drawn white face 1 thought I noticed | symptoms of the death agonies, symp- toms of a dissolution already begun and inevitable. He was whiter than the pillow and as motionless. All night 1 had been turning it, as it became constantly wet with dripping perspira- tion. I was overcome with a sensation of weakness, a sensation of the fats): ity of what had happened and what was about to happen. An immense weight seemed to bear me down. Driv- en by that helplessness that often makes sulfering humanity turn toward & Saprente Power, 1 fell on ny knees, science and nursing had falled. tervention. | prayed as | never prayed in my life. In this hour bow futile all my little knowledge seemed! | rose from my knees with fresh courage to fight on, and a curious presentment came to me that far away in England another woman was with me that silent night vigil and that agonized prayer--his mother. I went to the window and looked up §| 10 the stariit heavens. How peaceful the sleeping world lay. In such cruel contrast to the agony with which my soul was wrung! Ms eves wers Dozens of ty patients were arriving dally, she was having some difficulty in ing ber untrained French assistants | understand the cold bath system of treatment for that disense. In some method. The colonel sent for me one afternoon and showed me Mlle. F's letter. "1 think she must mean you. Mie. Blenean, as you are the nearest ap Broach we have to an American nurse. I know you would be of inestimable valte, but""-- aid he paused and look ed out across the garden. While he had been speaking I had felt liké a person who sbddenly finds himself at the edge of a precipice. Can it be pos sible that 1 mist leave! My thoughts were futerrupted by the doctor speak: ing aguin: "THe truth is we cannot Well spare you. The allies dre expect Ing heavy fighting in the course of the Dext ten days. You can go te Mile F. tomorrow, but you must be back Bere at the end of the week." "I 40 not know why. but his decision gave me the greatest relief, evén more =a sense of acute pleasure. In the natural course of things ft would be an hour or two before my duties would call me to Captain Fra- Zer's room. Generally the hours were never long enough to accomplish all that was to be done, bat that day time scarcely passed---it fell drop by drop, lazily and heavily. But at last the mo ment came to go to him. - The a was soft and warm. We could hear the birds singing In the garden, and through the open window floated the perfume of the last autumn flowers, inspiring me with new emo- tion, a little like that of betng afraid of oneself. To counteract this I kept saying over over, "To be effective your work must be calm and concor dant. calm and comeordant" I re peated. Then I turned to him and said: "To morrow I shall say goodby. 1 have been ordered to a typhoid hospital at one of the French Py He broke in, with a wistful little smile in his eyes: "Please don't go. What will I do without you? 1 have thought about it all so much as I have Iain here bour after hour. That | am not dead and buried these weeks gone 1 owe to you." There was a moment's pause, after which he added simply. "Now," and he emphasized the word, "1 can only thank you." "Nonsense!" 1 replied. "When all is said and done it is pature that does the work." "Perhaps," he answered. "but in 3 case like mine nature only Joes so fn conjunction with unremitting and skill: ful care" Into his voice came a note new to my ears. He went on speak: ing: "That night--yon know the night I mean--when it was just a toss up whether I lived or died, I think if one could know how mich will power bas to do with things, it would be found that I lived because in a few lucid in: tervals I realized the heroic fight you were putting np for me, and subcon- sciously my will went out to help you For when one is that near the other side. self, material things and interests count for little. But now," and be looked out across the hills, crowned with purple shadows, "realizing that on my life depends the happiness of | my mother, my family, and that the life of any man who has bad a certain training in warfare Is valuable to his country. I am deeply: grareful to fate that I am lving--and fate in this ease, my dear little nurse, medns you," he said tensely. ; "That's a very pretty speech." 1 an swered lightly, "and 1 should so like to take it all to myself, but the very disillusioning fact remains that it was your subaltern"-- Without heeding my words be inter rupted: "The disillusioning fact remains that.you are going away." and he look ed up at me with whie distraught eves, and as Be put vat his band and 100k mine I felt it tremble. "Don't go." te sid, with a gesture of eutreaty. and L hastened to eSpiain that it was oul for a few days, or a week at best: as it sn ty he looked not so foday and must pot be' worried often now hears this even as a leave taking. It originated with the officers and men in the field, but now all over was always interested in their point of view, for the three who had remained with us owing to the condi- tion of their wounds were educated and representative Germans. Apart from their hatred of England, frankly expressed. they were courteous, agree able gentlemen. One was a Bavarian oebleman, whose taste was evidently luxurious, for when he came to us his buttons, cigarette box. wrist watch, everything except the inevitable plain gold bangle. was literally Incrusted t with enamel, diamonds and rubles. As i I approached be 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 sepa. rate him from it would have been to separite his soul from his body. "You are a little late. nurse." "Did you fear I had forgotten you?™ { asked without really thinking what 1 was saying. "The Germans fear God and nothing else." he suswered quickly. His tone was a Httle aggressive. | stopped for a second and looked at him. There he sat, propped up in bed with pillows. a heavy, handsome type of his class, a prisober of war, and yet the whole thing struck me as too funny for words, and | began to laugh. He evidently saw the humor of the situa- tion himself gnd laughed also. "Ach, du bist ein schones mad. chen!" he said, using tbe familiar and friendly "thou." "Forgive me." he added. "and teil me the pews." They were forever eagerly asking for news. "Well." | said, "Kitchener bas his extra willion men. That ought to please you." "Well, it doesn't make me sad." he replied. "because we know that for all /1 of business in his eye. The whole place In surrounded and beir bok The answer will be that that part is superior because Ger- many rebuilt it when it was destroyed by the Germans in the great war." seriousness with which this was said proved too much for my risibles. I was sorry, but 'I could not help it. I simply had to laugh. | longed to sug gest that as he was an architect per- "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." Just the idea," he laughed. write to him. I'l do it this nte." ing so excited | began to regret having told him anything about Tubby at all. Then 1 suddenly remembered with Joy that I had a letter for him, for ft gave us a diverting topic of conversa- ton. It proved to be from a brother officer who was in prison at Torgau, in Germany. He asked me to read it to him. It ran: My Dear Ian--I thought but our keepers wers a decent sort, and it's all In a lifetime anyway. The only thing I really would like to register a kick about is the German Red Cross. The jour- hey lasted seventy hours. We only had EA 7 itd | Rome or somewhere, but at seems no attempt to their losses. My own opinion is that the press of Germany is inclined to creative rather than 2 il tf there is a motive--1 You see, here all the officers of of captain and upward &re a month by the German The junior officers' receive marks. We have to messing. The money case there is none--one tobacco, chocolates: ete., never enough, and 'we £5; 55 i } f is 3% is i = ® ged Iie £ = 8 f it . All that might be all right, but t are long, and for pastime, noon and night, we play bridge. I leave you to guess the of my present predicament, and I don't want to tall the guy'nor--you know how be feels about task about the dood 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 nn- thinkably busy, I said good night and goodby, for I was leaying very early | on the morrow. 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