The girl was brought by her father, the bridegroom having rushed
off to the church to pray. The wound looked very like a dagger thrust.
The new slaughter-house was a fine erection. The walls were almost
finished and the roof was being assembled. One of the Austrian prisoners
had discovered a talent for stone carving, and Miss Dickenson was
designing a frieze for the door and on each side. There was a fine
ceremony--while we had been away--at the foundation, and Mr. Berry made
a speech in Serbian. The disinfector had also arrived and was soon got
into working order.
The news got better. The Austrians were now driven out of Belgrade with
immense slaughter, the whole line of the Danube and of the Save had
been reoccupied by the Serbs. Blease and Jan wondered if it were
necessary to go on with the rope handles. Our first wounded man arrived
in the evening, a non-commissioned officer, with a slightly wounded
thumb. He had arrived by train, asked in the town which was the most
comfortable hospital, and had walked up.
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