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rio entine killed — How my husband died — letter of Rev. Mr. Parmet 

 — Letter of Salm's servant — ^ly vow — Going on a sad errand — A 

 'fearful night in Remilly — Ars sur-Moselle — A melancholy task — 

 * Mother Simon ' — How I found my poor husband — Bringing home 

 the bodies — Funeral in Anholt — Last words of love. . Page 306 



CHAPTER XXI. 



Returning to the war — In Cologne — The Knights of St. John — Baron 

 Edward Oppenheim — In Jouy-aux- Arches — Voluntary nurses — Re- 

 forms — Gifts from Cologne — My store-rooms — Prince Alfred — Miss 

 Runkel — Shells — Surrender Metz — Theft — Bad conscience — A rude 

 doctor — A princely box on the ear. ...... 325 



CHAPTER XXII, 



Marching orders— Death of Count Waldersee — On the march — Lost on 

 the road — Brabant — In search of quarters — In a shepherd's house — 

 How we passed the night — A wonderful snoratorio — Vienne le 

 Chateau — An ecclesiastical cat — In Rheims — Ville aux Bois Jouchery 

 — A Frenchified German — Madame la Baronne de vSachs. Attichy — A 

 * particulier ' — Compiegne — The rooms of Empress Eugenie — Monti- 

 dier — The 'terrible' things— Battle of Moreuil — Fog — Strange mis- 

 take—Miss Runkel taken for a ' Protzkasten ' — ^Jimmy — My pigeon — 

 After the battle — General von Kummer — Amiens — In Boves — Colonel 

 Cox — The international commission — Starting for Rouen — La Feuilie 

 — A sacked chateau— In Rouen — Dangerous looking people — Visit to 

 General von Manteufifel — Leaving Rouen — Le Heron— Order to pre- 

 pare for battle — The battle of Querriere — Our Verbandplatz— The 

 room for the fatally wounded — Short of provisions — Fed by the 

 English — My assistance —Under fire — Dangerous curiosity — Rev. Mr. 

 Gross wounded — End of the battle — Supper on the amputation table 

 — Returning to Amiens — A busy night— Miss Runkel's Samaritan 

 work — My birthday — Count Luttichau and Captain Voelkel— Tele- 

 graphing for their wives — Captain Voekel's death — Arrival f his 

 wife — General von Blankensee— His wife— Plis death — In Albert — 

 Captain von Marien — Bapaume — General Count von der Goeben — A 

 distracted cook — The wounded— Captain von Butler— Dead— Hospi- 

 tal in the convent — I discover an old acquaintance — And make the 

 acquaintance of the black small-pox — Returning to Amiens — Arrival of 

 ofiicers' wives — I fall ill with the small-pox— Marching orders— Four 

 days in bed only— In Peronne— General von Memerty— My prophetic 

 t.nlents — Three hundred wounded and nothing to eat — Again our 

 English friends— Prince ^.Ifred's exertions— Miss Runkel's exhaustion 

 —Jimmy catching a Tartar— The glorious battle ot St. Quentin— 

 Shoes and stockings left in the mud — In St. Quentin — The H6tel 

 Cambronne— Adoctorless private hospital— Miss Runkel's glory — My 

 Ive hundred boarders — Howl managed for them — Aimistice — Going 

 home— Acknowledgments — General von Manteuffel proposing me for 



