CHAPTER VI.

THE INTERVAL BETWEEN THE FIRST AND SECOND BATTLES.

Sending away the Wounded--Osman Effendi--We perform Operations--Amputating Fingers--A Warning to Malingerers--Trial and Execution--Discipline in the Town--Round the Bazaars after the Battle--Some Pathetic Souvenirs--The Punishment of Looters--Circassian and Bulgarian--A Cold-blooded Murder--The Work of Fortification--Out with the Burial Parties--A Walk over the Battle-field--Fresh Reinforcements arrive--The Lovtcha Expedition--Rifaat Pasha's Success--My Quarters near the Hospital--I have a Flitting--Arrival of Olivier Pain--A Pretty Bulgarian Girl--Limitations of a Vocabulary--Hospital Routine--Soldier Nurses 142