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Updated: June 17, 2025
But when I guardedly sounded my friends of the Intelligence they didn't seem to be worrying about it. From them I got a chit to the local French authorities, and, as soon as we came out of the line, towards the end of December, I made straight for the country town of Douvecourt. By a bit of luck our divisional quarters were almost next door.
And then my courage broke down, and before you came I would have screamed at the sound of a mouse. If I hadn't whistled I would have cried. 'But why alone and at this hour? 'I couldn't get off in the day. And it was safest to come alone. You see he is in love with me, and when he heard I was coming to Douvecourt forgot his caution and proposed to meet me here.
He spoke of his house in Picardy, and there were moments, I gathered, when he became the declared lover, to be rebuffed with a hoydenish shyness. Presently the pace became too hot, and after some anguished arguments with Bullivant on the long-distance telephone she went off to Douvecourt to Lady Manorwater's hospital.
I have been nursing for the last fortnight at the Douvecourt Hospital only four miles away. 'But what brought you alone at night? 'Madness, I think. Vanity, too. You see I had found out a good deal, and I wanted to find out the one vital thing which had puzzled Mr Blenkiron. I told myself it was foolish, but I couldn't keep away.
'For, said he, 'I'm not what you would call a practised hand wi' a velocipede, and my feet are dinnled wi' standin' in the snaw. As for me, the miles to Douvecourt passed as in a blissful moment of time. I wrapped Mary in a fur rug, and after that we did not speak a word. I had come suddenly into a great possession and was dazed with the joy of it. Mr Blenkiron Discourses on Love and War
'I'll give you the name of the darned place, and next time you're around you can do a bit of prospecting for yourself. It's called the Chateau of Eaucourt Sainte-Anne, about seven kilometres from Douvecourt. If I was purchasing real estate in this country I guess I'd give that location a miss. After that I had a grim month, what with the finish of Third Ypres and the hustles to Cambrai.
'A most useful member of our party, at present disguised as an infirmier in Lady Manorwater's Hospital at Douvecourt. He is learning French, and ... 'Hush! I whispered. 'There's someone in the next room. I swept her behind a stack of furniture, with my eyes glued on a crack of light below the door.
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