The Red Cross Barge

ng, muttering roar that was so like thunder, that now and again the Herr Doktor asked himself whether it might not be thunder after al

o or three pallid faces appeared above the stairway, and there was a look of straine

r, and once he heard a reference to la nouvelle armée, and then again to l'armée de Versailles. Of what army, new or old, could they b

l that we are no longer away from the whirlpool!' he cried joyfully,

y as they had begun. Four hours' desultory cannonade?

n deck, a pocket volume of Heine

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river. Strange, strange indeed, that love s

of Her quick, light footfalls on the jetty, and a mome

ing on seeing her was suddenly changed to concern, even distress, so unlike did Jeanne Rouannès appear to his usual vision of her. Her face was flushed, her eyelids reddened by much crying. The look of composure, of dignity,

morphia or laudanum? My father is now in constant pain-I fear he is far more ill than he will admit is the case. I

arently there was, for, 'I know you do not like to diminish your store of narcotics. But

r side of the barge. As she spoke she did not look at the man by her side, instead she stared str

be,' he asked, 'for m

sible. But I thank you f

so-entirely-neutral and internationally-universal institu

'Yes?' interrogatively, encouragingly. 'The truth is that my poor fath

e repeated, discomfited.

ate, as matters now are; for it makes me feel

spected his mood for a few moments, then she asked timidly, in a voice very different from that which he

nce to procure. But, gracious miss! There has come to me a thought which I find most illuminating, a thought which I you ea

me to put on an overall (it covers entirely my 'feld-grau' uniform) and then an English doctor to represent by the

nd drew a long brea

er meaning of which she was, as he well knew, utterly unconscio

to carry through such a-a--' Her English failed her, and she uttered a word of which he wa

for what he had been going to say, the words, 'for a French colleague. Absolutely easy will it be,'

e,' she said, 'and send it by Thérèse. Then he will not be able to say "No" to me

pocket a neat letter-case, of which he had made no use since his arrival in Valoise. Deferentially he handed it to her, and then he had the pleasure of s

arge. I much desire that he should see thee. I will bring him

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ck with the words, 'But it is a very important word-"English"!' And then she wondered why his face altered and stiff