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dismal-looking outhouse, which might have served as a manu- 

 factory of some kind or other. As Professor Busch and others, 

 however, found that the site of this outhouse was by no means 

 healthy, M. von Brinken had to make bonne mijie au mauvaisjeu, 

 and transfer the wounded, mostly if not all Saxons, to two 

 splendid halls of the mansion itself, which were arranged for 

 that purpose. M. von Brinken, had, however, counted with- 

 out his host, as he found out very soon, for the doctors, who 

 had their hands full at the great hospital in the Lycee refused 



attend the private hospital in the Hotel Cambronne. — • 

 Though Professor Busch lived in the same house, and now and 

 then visited the wounded lying there, he had more important 

 dimes, which occupied him nearly all day somewhere else ; 

 ad M. von Brinken had no other assistance than that of Miss 

 Runkel, who for longer than a week worked herself nearly to 

 death. She wash^^d herself the feet of her twenty-six patients, 

 who arrived mostly in a most filthy state, before she placed them 

 ni the clean beds, and dressed their wounds to her best abihty. 

 She had also to cook for them all, and even to carry the water. 

 Only much later she got a French woman to assist her in these 

 menial duties. I could do for her but little, as I had more than 

 enough on my hands with my five hundred wounded in the 

 official great hospital. 



The end of the thing was that t'le knight had to give in and 

 to break up his doctorless hospital, removing his wounded to 

 the Lycee, \T)here Miss Runkel took especial charge oi the 

 officers' ward. 



At the head of the depot of the knights in the Hotel Cam- 

 bronne was, as said before, M. von Brinken, who was followed 

 later by Count von Sierstorpff, and besides him were at times 

 other knights in the house, as Count Schafgotsch, Count 

 Finkenstein and others, with whom we passed some most 

 pleasant hours after having attended the duties of the day. 

 Mine were by no means easy. Leaving the dressing of the 

 wounds to the doctors and the nurses, I made it again my 

 especial duty to provide for the nourishment of my five hun- 

 dred people. I created order in the large kitchen, and took 

 care to have my larder always sufficiently supplied. 



Before I left in the evening I gave out what was required 

 for the first breakfast, and ordered what was to be cooked for 

 dinner next day. Early in the morning a Carriage furnished 



