The doctor's duffel bag . thebig blisters which the rough stones of the road madeupon his feet. When at last he stood in the doorwayof his home, facing his old mother, it was to be toldthat only the day before she had been the soleunhappy mourner at the burial of her husband, theschoolmasters loved father. He had had the influ-enza ; privations and malnutrition and no medicalcare with him, as with fifty others in one week outof that village of a thousand, had made recoveryimpossible and death speedy. d, Then came the problem! How to take the littleold mother to the sons home. Throughout thecou
The doctor's duffel bag . thebig blisters which the rough stones of the road madeupon his feet. When at last he stood in the doorwayof his home, facing his old mother, it was to be toldthat only the day before she had been the soleunhappy mourner at the burial of her husband, theschoolmasters loved father. He had had the influ-enza ; privations and malnutrition and no medicalcare with him, as with fifty others in one week outof that village of a thousand, had made recoveryimpossible and death speedy. d, Then came the problem! How to take the littleold mother to the sons home. Throughout thecountry-side the Germans had taken all the horsesand mules, there was absolutely no means ofconveyance anywhere. The schoolmaster was forc-ed to leave her in her plundered home, even thecook stove had been taken from her, and walk backthose eighteen miles to the nearest so he tells still his worries, how he cannotsend the mother food, nor clothes, nor fuel. Do thehorrors of war cease when the fighting finishes ?. JEAN
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