The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-02-23
Young Girls Submitted ia
Horrible Treatment at
Hands of Germans.
POH1U TELLS CHESTER
Frightful Atrocities Make
Allied Soldiers Hate
TeutOns Bitterly.
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dame.
Andre! Andre.
Andre came out of the little rear |
room, Il handsome young poilu, If it had |
not been for the eye he had given to |
France, and sturdy poilu in spite of |
his grace had it not been for the arm |
which was In n sling. |
A pleasant smile for monsieur, and a |
pleasant smile with 81 Frightening eye
for the petite madame. |
Andre, All. the feet of madame; they
are cold, All,
Andre also sympathized with the feet
Of madame, deeply.
A Cory Place.
He hurried away and hurried back
with flat box, about a foot and a half
square and four inches high, which was
filled with sawdust, and the sawdust
covered with dry newspapers.
Into this madame was invited to STEP
while the precious grapes We're esti-
mated by the plump woman and Renee
and Andre.
Not such tremendous price, not
greater than would have been paid In
New York for the same bunch of
grapes. and while monsieur paid for the
a red string and furnished with
wooden handle. the three smiled pleas
antly at madame, VINO is petite, de-
lighted that she looked more happy
standing in the middle of the floor in
her foot box.
1t seemed rather coy through the
glass panel of the door to the little
back room.
Four small, cloth covered tables in
there indicated a probable cafe attach
ment to the tiny shop.
Was it possible to serve a cup of hot
coffee at this hour?
Oh certainly, but not milk with 1t at
this hour. and nothing to eat with it,
at this hour; black coffee yes, with
pleasure
So, behold us IN the little back room.
with the silentyoung woman out there
in the infnitesimai Kitchen preparing
the coffee, and the rest of the family
handy, to smile whenever looked at
1t was then that we sounded Andre
on the matter of the German peace pro-
posals.
They were mentioned in a sort of Off
q hand manner, because we had come to
have habit of asking this and il had
come to give such satisfaction To us to
always receive the same reply-that
the only peace France would consider
was a victory.
But we had met some reverse for 1t
il IA bitter subject. and the French peo-
pie, like any other people, do not care
TO expose their deepest emotions to
strangers.
In this family, however, We inadvert-
emily touched the spark
Going Back.
There was an instantaneous change
in all of them, as Andre placed the
knuckles of his well hand on the table,
and leaning down n face which was
suddenly dark and hard. gave as, in n
voice which thrilled with suppressed
passion, his views of peace as expressed
above.
He means it, because in two weeks
his arm will be well and he is going
back to the war where HE DOES NOT
INTEND TO TAKE ANY PRISON
ERS.
He would feel Inundated and dis
graced if any peace which it would be
possible to arrange now should prevent
him from going back into the fight in
which he had been twice wounded
The face of his plump and motherly
wife mad become set like wax. and her
arched eyebrows mad Jumped INTO a
stfaisht me.
The Horrible Brutality.
The hollow chestea woman Renee
stood ri.idly. and we have never befors
seen n tint of aetna, green snra,d
benea,h n clear skin as II did beneath
the skin of her face. and her wide ewes
widened and the lines deepened in her
forehead and ,be tightly con,pressed
Inns hecame colnrless
The Su,I younp woman came in with
the coffee cups in time to hear.
She held the cups motionlessiy for a
moment, then sat them down and went
our, dufly, heaVliy without having