The sun., 1915-10-03


Grierson, Mr.. Foster and Mr.. Riley
stretcher bearers. two chauffeurs an,
Miss Sinclair. who Joined the party a
secretary and treasurer. The expert
| encc at Ostend was one OF bocedOfl
and reinsurance. Things seemed mucl
more normal than they had been de
picted and there was no immediat,
work to be done. I'VE strollcd abou
and got photographed for our pass
ports" says Miss Sinclair. Their
| finally followed run from Ostend I,
| Ghent:
We go along a straight. nat highway o
gray stones. through fiat. green fields am
between thin lines OF trees-tall. slende
and delicate trees. There are no hedge.
Only here and there row of poplars o
pollard willows is flung out as n scrcel
against the open sky. This country
formed for the very expression OF peace
The straight, Nat roads the straight. na
fields and straight. tall trees stand still II
an immense quiet and serenity. We pas
low Flemish houses with white walls an'
red roofs Their green doors and shut
ters are slender like the trees. the color
vivid az II the paint had been laid ~
yesterday. II is all unspeakably beauu
ful and II comes to me with the natural
Inevitable shock and ecstasy OF beauty
| am going straight into the horror o.
war For all ! know 1t may he anywhere
here. behind this sentry; or there beyond
that row Of willows. I don't know.
don't care. cannot realize II. All that
! can see or feel at the moment Is thi'
beauty. look and look. so that l ma,
remember IT,
Miss Sinclair's record Is after all the
record OF novelist. She gives no
little space to portraiture and mental
processes. and one is bound to believe
that even in war time action lags at
intervals and that the greed of the
mind for events is stinted even at
such moments. The author has leis-
ure for such observation and annota-
ton as the following:
Nobody you would say i@ going 10 az
feet the commandant. When he Is not
dashing up and down. driven by his mys-
terious energy. he stands apart in remote
and dreamy isolation. His eyes when they
are not darting brilliantly In pursuit. Of
the person or the thing he needs stand
apsr; 100, In a blank. blue purity. un-
darkened by any perception ~ the de-
tails that may accumulate under his In
H'''Ht u'f'. ltt mas tdll"b TINS corps INTO
being, gathered these strange men and
women up with a sweep Of his wing and
swept them almost Violently ,ogethe- lie
does not 1ow how any OF us are going
10 behave. He has taken Tor granted. with
his naive and heartrending trust in the
beauty OF human nature. that We are all
going 10 behave beautifully lie is alb
Sorhed in his scheme. Each one Of US
h;s into It at some point. and II there is
ANYTHING In us i.ft over It Is not, At the
moment. his concern.
Each member of the party under
goes similar subtle y rtrsiturc. Each
event becomes under the authors an
alNsis not 50 much brute event in
history a. a tiny contribution to big
psychology # the spirit:
There was great crowI gathered In
the place 8" see them the Woundedl
come, a crowd that has nothing 90 do and
lives from hour 10 hour on this spec.
t1olc of tho wounded. Intense excitement
This time. for one of The four wounded Is
a German. II" vas lying an a strstch,r.
No sooner had thor drawn him out ~ the
d mbu!ence than they put him back again.
No Germans are 'aken In our hospital.
they are al, sent to tho old Hospital
Miliiaire No. T. lie thrust up IN. poor
hand ana grabbed tho hanging s:rap 20
az INNS" "'''" on h's ''"''A"r' ana
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vas turned an and .v,.,.t n,rc,Iv IN.
The Kaiser, The crowd poord AT him
- he ia" there H.. was terrible patho.
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