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Updated: May 25, 2025
He produced wonderful tit-bits amongst other things tinned chicken, sardines, chocolate, and, for the Guardee, stout! Three minutes after the Sister had strictly forbidden him to read, the Orderly smuggled into his hand the Paris Daily Mail of the day before. Von Moltke had been dismissed. "The first of the great failures," he said to himself. But the Sister was right; it was too painful to read.
The carriage was an ordinary "wagon-lit" converted with considerable ingenuity into a Hospital Train. He shared his compartment with a young Guardee, "a sitting case." He had no sooner settled down than a voice was heard calling for "Second-Lieutenant Hackett." "Here," replied the Guardee, without any enthusiasm.
"What are we stopping here for?" the Guardee asked once. "To unload the dead, sir," replied the Orderly, with serious suavity. The journey took over two days.
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