The consul's letter may answer your question." He went on with his reading: "'The wounded woman had been reported dead, and had been left by the French in their retreat, at the time when the German forces took possession of the enemy's position.

She was found on a bed in a cottage by the director of the German ambulance--" "Ignatius Wetzel ?" cried Horace.
"Ignatius Wetzel," repeated Julian, looking at the letter.
"It _is_ the same!" said Horace.

"Lady Janet, we are really interested in this.

You remember my telling you how I first met with Grace?
And you have heard more about it since, no doubt, from Grace herself ?" "She has a horror of referring to that part of her journey home," replied Lady Janet.

"She mentioned her having been stopped on the frontier, and her finding herself accidentally in the company of another Englishwoman, a perfect stranger to her.