CHAPTER X.
THE WAR'S VICTIMS While the others were conversing on deck Maud Stanton was ministering to the maimed victims of the war's cruelty, who tossed and moaned below.
The main cabin and its accompanying staterooms had been fitted with all the conveniences of a modern hospital.

Twenty-two could easily be accommodated in the rooms and a dozen more in the cabin, so that the eleven now in their charge were easily cared for.

Of these, only three had been seriously injured.

One was the German, who, however, was now sleeping soundly under the influence of the soothing potion that followed his operation.

The man's calmness and iron nerve indicated that he would make a rapid recovery.