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the 189 others only 22 were left, and one was a patient at our hospital
where we called him the "Velika Dete" or "big child," because of his
sensibility. With Georgevitch was a dark woman with keen sparkling eyes.
Alone, this woman had run the typhus barracks in Vrntze until the
arrival of the English missions. She was a Montenegrin; no Serbian woman
could be found courageous enough to undertake the task. After struggling
all the winter, she was taken ill about a fortnight after the arrival of
the English. The Red Cross Mission took care of her and she recovered.
We left our bore still talking about his wife and the dog, and fled to
their table, where we chatted till our train arrived. We found a
coupe--a carriage with only one long seat--the exigencies of which
compelled Jan to be all night with Jo's boots on his face, and we so
slept as well as we were able.
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CHAPTER II
NISH AND SALONIKA

To our dismay a rare thing happened--our train was punctual, and we
arrived in Nish at four o'clock.


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