"Beware of opening the shutter, for fear of the light being seen through the window.

For the rest, we are free to make ourselves as comfortable here as we can.

Compose yourself, dear madam, and rely on the protection of a Frenchman who is devoted to you!" He gallantly emphasized his last words by raising the hand of the English lady to his lips.

At the moment when he kissed it the canvas screen was again drawn aside.

A person in the service of the ambulance appeared, announcing that a bandage had slipped, and that one of the wounded men was to all appearance bleeding to death.