The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-05-11


ance had been established. Then I
recognized the school with it's large
windows with cottop curtains and its
wide arch doorway, surmounted by u
plaster statue of the Holy Virgin
[ rang the bell. A young sister,
whose white hood trembed and whose
delicate cheeks blushed, opened the
door, surprised at this unexpected
visit. All around her, like chickens
around "A hen, blonde and dark-haired
school girls with black bows in their
braids, were crowding to get peep at
me.
EXCUSE me for disturbing you, sis
ter and interrupting your lesson" L
exclaimed, but / hoped to be able to
find someone i'm this building whom
might thank for nursing me back to
life after the unfortunate battle, when
/ was already i'm the clutches of death.
But this all happened 80 long ago,long
before YOU were born, sister"
A ray OF Joy transfigured her beau
tiful features. She clapped her hands
like a child and cried:
"Oh! officer, how happy Mother
Sainte- Eulalie and good old Sister
Chretienne will be to see you. They
both served I'm the hospital and remem
Der everyone of the brave boys they
Inursed, and not a single evening pass
cs here that we do not include you all
i'm our prayers Girls! girls! Run as
fast as You can and tell the Mother
Superior. She is i'm the flower garden.
The girls rushed out like a swarm of
bees and came back with two vener-
able old women, who were quite out of
breath from walking so fast. The one
looked like typical old abbess as Lar
gilliere used to paint them, while the
other, bent and wrinkled, had rolled
up sleeves, red hands and wore "a big
kitchen apron.
"AIlow me TO introduce myself Moth
or Superior" Isaid land to thank you
with all my heart at this late time for
having saved my life, l am General
lSweebach."
"IIoly Virgin Mary" the two old wo
men stammered. els 1t really possible
| General?You do not know how proud
and happy we are to see you"
| They had come quite close to me and
|
both were talking at the same time.
"He has not changed very much" "
said Chretienne with a smile.
And do you remember what a pitt
! full sight he was, how afraid We were
they may drop the poor boy, how sad
we thought il would be II he were to
lose his young life, and how we prayed
to God to let US keep him, the night
| when he had been operated on?"
"To u.s." she added, ''you are still
| the young boy of lieutenant the
| lfavorite of everyone i'm the hospital
land we have spoken of you oftener
| than any of the others We have
followed you all your life and have felt
happy every time you We're promoted
because we knew you belonged to the
same race as Kleber. Kellermann and
Rapp, Often we have wondered II
we were ever TO see you again and Il
you sometimes thought of the hum
BILE sisters who loved you so much. AnC
now, close the door children ! have
! a favor to ask you, General, not for u'
|, but for these dear girls VIII you tax,
J Sister Thereses place for a moment
, and tell these children about our dsal
lost country? Tell them how ou
soldiers fought; tell them about tn,
beautiful Strassbourg monument II
Paris and ,ell them that you feel thu
rays of happiness will again return.
! With tears in my eyes, | did as sh
| asked
0 The girls sat on their benches, after
| tive deeply interested, The tw'
= sisters were sitting opposite me.
. put my whole soul into my story;
famed the little flames of hope, ex
1 allied the conquered and oppressed
= and told them how we all I'm Franc
looked forward to the day when Alsac
: should once more be ours
When | had finished, the girls wit