I began to despair of making any discovery, when accident threw in my way two Prussian soldiers who had been in the French cottage.

They confirmed what the German surgeon told the consul, and what Horace himself told _me_--namely, that no nurse in a black dress was to be seen in the place.

If there had been such a person, she would certainly (the Prussians inform me) have been found in attendance on the injured Frenchmen.

The cross of the Geneva Convention would have been amply sufficient to protect her: no woman wearing that badge of honor would have disgraced herself by abandoning the wounded men before the Germans entered the place." "In short," interposed Lady Janet, "there is no such person as Mercy Merrick." "I can draw no other conclusion," said Julian, "unless the English doctor's idea is the right one.

After hearing what I have just told you, he thinks the woman herself is Mercy Merrick." Lady Janet held up her hand as a sign that she had an objection to make here.
"You and the doctor seem to have settled everything to your entire satisfaction on both sides," she said.