PART I CAUDRY--LE CATEAU--CARLSRUHE

I PAGE The first day--The search--Letters of divorcement--A reading of the Pickwickians--Fellows in misfortune--A sculptor--A Sappho--The bell for the dead--Sedan--The vulture 15

II

Carlsruhe camp--Crumbs from the rich man’s table--Tea with Colonel Turano--Shamrock for dinner!--First letters and parcels--A Nazarite--Christmas at Carlsruhe--Sketching the Commandant 29

III

Funeral of a prisoner of war at Carlsruhe--First freedom for a year--In the streets--A wreath from the Grand Duchess of Baden--The Rev. Mr. Flad--A lecture on Abyssinia--A black mood 45

IV

Entertainment in exile--The camp theatre--“Asile de Nuit”--Scene-painter, scene-shifter, poster-artist, actor, prompter, “noises-off,” and playwright--“A Chelsea Christmas Eve”--“A Venetian Vignette”--A nightingale “off”--“How he Lied to her Husband”--“The Rising of the Moon”--“The Homeland” 59

V

Victims of the cruiser _Wolf_--Suicide of a Japanese captain--“In the dark and among the ice”--A bottle message--Clinging to office--The Debating Society--The vines and vineyards of France--“Happy in all things--saving these bonds!”--A straining of the Entente--A “stirring time”--A voluntary fast! 80

VI

Air raids--British airmen brought down--Dust to dust--An inimitable imitator--Songs from Coimbra--A German bombardment--March, 1918--The bath attendant--Our orderlies--Gustav--Imprisonment “for revolt” 96

VII

Carlsruhe at its kindliest--The chestnut trees--Aspen and poplar--The new hut--“Torrents of Spring!”--Linguistic efforts--A surprise to Mother--A dinner with the Italians--The last day in Carlsruhe 113