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CHAPTER XXII. 



Marcliing orders — Death of Count Waldersee — On the march — Lost ( 

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

 How we passed the night — A wonderful snoratorio — Vienne 1> 

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

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

 ' particulier ' — Compicgne — The rooms of Empress Eugenie — Monti- 

 dier — The 'terrible' things — Battle of Moreuil — Fog — Strange mi^ 

 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 lor battle — The battle of Querriere — Our Verbandplatz — The 

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

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

 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 of his 

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

 Captain von Marien — Bapaunie- -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 ot the black small-pox — Returning ''.o Amiens — Arrival of 

 officers' wives — I lall ill with the small-pox— Marching orders — Four 

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

 talents — Three hundred wounded and nothing to eat — Again our 

 English friends — Prince Alfred's exertions — Miss Runkel's exhaustion 

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

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

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

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

 home — Acknowledgments — General von Manteufiel proposing me for 

 the iron cross — Thanks in the name of the 1st army by letter of 

 General von Goeben — Letter of General von Fransecky. 



On November 3 we received marching orders, that is, the notice 



