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of course, which was taking advantage
of cripple. But it Is the usual thing
with the French, as you know-I NEAR
| the kissing, not the meanness tt
cripples.
When he had pinned the medal OF
he said he thanked me from the bot
tom of his heart,for the French people
and also thanked all the Americans
who had come over from their OWL
land to help a country with which
most of them were not connected. He
said it was a war in which many ma
lions were taking part, but In which
there were just two ideas, freedom
and despOtism, and lot more things
that 1 cannot remember. He finished
by saying that he wished he could dec
crate all of US.
Of course it was great stuff for me
and 1 thought 1 was the real thing
sure enough, but 1 could not help
thinking of the remark I have heard
here In the States-"I thank you and
the whole family thanks you" And 1t
was hard not to laugh. Also it seemed
funny to me, because I did not rightly
know just what they were giving me
the medal for-though it was for one
| of two things-and l do not know to
this day. But l thought it would moi
| be polite to ask, so 1 let 1t go at that
There were twelve other naval Off
| GERS who were present and they and
all the other people did lot of cheer.
ing and vtved me to a fare-you-well'
1t was great stuff, altogether, and ]
should have liked to get medal every
day.
One day I received letter from q
man who had been in my company in
the Foreign Legion and with whom
had been pretty chummy. His letter
was partly In French and partly in
English. 1t was all about who had
been killed and who had been wound
ed. He also mentioned Murray's
death, which he had heard about, and
about my receiving the Croix de
Guerre. I was wishing he had said
something about Brown, whom, had
not heard from and who I knew would
visit me if he had the chance.
But two or three days later / got
another letter from the same man and
when l opened it out tumbled photo
graph. At first all 1 saw was that 1t
was the photograph of man crucif1ed
with bayonets, but when / looked at
it closely 1 saw it was Brown.
tainted then, just like a girl.
When 1 came to could hardly make I
myself think about it. Two of my |
pals gone! 1t hurt me so much to
think of it that / crushed the letter
up in my hand, but later on l could
read parts of it. 1t said they had
found Brown this way near Dixmude
about two days after he had been re-
ported missing. So three of us went
over and two stayed there. 1t seems
very strange to me that both of my
pals should be crucified and If l were
/ do not know what ]
would think about it. 1t made me
sick land kept me from recovering as
fast as l would have done otherwise
Both Brown and Murray were good
pals and very good men in a fight
often think of them both and about
the things we did together, but lately ;
have tried not to think about them ,
much because it is very sad to think
what torture they must have had te ,
stand. They were both of great credit
% this country.
The American consul visited me {
quite often and l got to calling him '
Sherlock because he asked so many s
questions. We played lots of games
ogether, mostly with dice, and had 8 I
,reat time generally. After l became {
he argued with me that I
had seen enough, and though / really '
lid think so-however much / dislikeC
What had seen-he got my discharge I
rom the service on account of phys q
cal inability to discharge the usual
uties. After l had been at the hos q
ital for little over month war /
discharged from 1t, after little party a
a my ward with everyone taking part n
nd all the horns blowing and all the
ecords except my favorite dirgt :,
layed one after another.
Sherlock arranged everything FOL II
,e-my passage to New York, cloth. O
lg, etc. I ran up to st. Nazaire and y
aw my grandmother, loafed around s.
while and also visited Lyons. o
After a short time l returned to
rest and got my passage on the 9,
eorgic for New York. I had three :,
'unks with me full Of things | had =,
licked up around Europe and had !,
cen keeping with my grandmother i
mong my belongings were several ),
lings I should like to Show by pho :,
graphs In this book, but no one but
ermaids can see them now, for down =
the locker of Davy Jones they went
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