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Updated: May 7, 2025
"I just thought I'd tell you I'm going to open the canteen tomorrow, in the last shack on the Beaucourt road. There'll be chocolate, ciggies, soap, and everything." Everybody cheered. The "Y" man beamed. His eye lit on the little birds in Dad's hands. "How could you?" he said. "An American soldier being deliberately cruel. I would never have believed it."
The eyes of the public have been directed to the successful operations at Beaumont Hamel and Beaucourt. They have not been directed to the misery and horror that were endured heroically but unavailingly on the slopes between Eaucourt L'Abbaye and Le Barque.
He is a type to whom you are used in America, my dear Senator, but whom we perhaps too often lack in France among those who govern us. Monsieur Beaucourt is a strong man a man who takes his own line and sticks to it. I was told only the other day that crime had greatly diminished in our city since he became Prefect.
He was telling himself that Monsieur Beaucourt was quite unlike the picture he had mentally formed, from youth upwards, of the Paris Prefect of Police. There was nothing formidable, nothing for the matter of that in the least awe-inspiring, about this tired, amiable-looking man.
Dick is too short, say 'Dear Dick." "Dear Dick there!" "Thank you, my lady. Now we had better remember that your husband is present." He turned to Beaucourt. "Lady Howel had the idea," he proceeded, "which ought to have presented itself to you and to me. Evelin's sufferings in his last illness, and his wife's anxiety while she was nursing him, had left them unfit to act in their own defense.
It was found impossible to hold the line much longer, and about 4 p.m. the Battalion withdrew along the Beaucourt road and received verbal instructions to move to Moreuil.
Pushing on through the village to the left of it, the British troops advanced over the high ground to the northeast of Beaumont-Hamel, on to the road from Serre to Beaucourt, having gathered in another thousand prisoners on the way. During the two days' fighting in this region no British troops won greater distinction than the Scots and the Royal Naval Division.
The interview in the library barely lasted for five minutes. She saw Mrs. Evelin leave the house with her veil down. Immediately afterward, Beaucourt ascended to his wife's room to thank her. Carefully as he had endeavored to hide them, the traces of tears in his eyes told her how cruelly the parting scene had tried him. It was a bitter moment for his admirable wife.
Returning, I had missed the train which would have brought me to London in better time. "My appearance evidently produced in Beaucourt a keen feeling of relief. He requested the day nurse, waiting in the room, to leave us by ourselves. "'I was afraid you might not have come to me to-day, he said. 'My last moments would have been imbittered, my friend, by your absence.
"I promise," she added, "to tell you what I am thinking of, when I come back." In two minutes more she was ready to go out, and had hurriedly left the house. AFTER a long absence Lady Howel returned, accompanied by Dick. His face and manner betrayed unusual agitation; Beaucourt noticed it. "I may well be excited," Dick declared, "after what I have heard, and after what we have done.
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