All our prisoners, about forty in number, clung to the English hospitals
as their only chance of life, for in other places sixty per cent. had
died of typhus.
The Serbs, though bearing no animosity, could do little for them. We saw
the quarters of some men working on the road. These were show quarters
and supposed to be clean. Each room had an outside door. On the floor
was room for six men and hay enough to stuff one pillow. They had no
rugs, and the Serbs could give them none. The cold in the winter must
have been intense.
We had come back to this little world after seven weeks' wandering, and
almost immediately Jan had gone off to Kragujevatz with a broken motor.
While he was away Jo got letters from England and Paris, which made her
realize that things were rather in a mess, and we should have to go
home. We had left England intending to stay in Serbia three months, and
had been then nearly nine.
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