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that for some days they had been looking for 

 a woman whose brother had been taken as 

 a patient to the Lazaretto, and that they had 

 found her hiding with relations there. They 

 took her away, and we heard subsequently that 

 she died that night from heart-failure due to 

 shock. 



Three days later, on Sunday, January 7, 

 the crisis came. A few soldiers who were 

 isolated at the Lazaretto succeeded in getting 

 a message carried to their comrades at the 

 barracks, asking them to deliver them. On 

 the Sunday morning a band of a hundred 

 soldiers, accompanied by several hundreds of 

 the townsfolk, and countrymen from the 

 surrounding hills, attacked and broke into 

 the Lazaretto, liberated their comrades and 

 others who were in quarantine, and carried 

 from the hospital the sick patients to their 

 own homes. This carrying was a veritable 

 procession of triumph, and was succeeded by 

 great rejoicings. It was with mixed feelings 

 that we heard next day that our cook had 

 visited a friend of his who had been brought 

 to his home on his bed, and that a housemaid 

 had attended an impromptu dance at another 



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