"Come back and tell me when you have caught her." Such was my first interview with the English patient at the hospital at Mannheim.

It is needless to say that I doubted the existence of the absent person described as a nurse.

However, it was possible to make inquiries by applying to the surgeon, Ignatius Wetzel, whose whereabouts was known to his friends in Mannheim.

I wrote to him, and received his answer in due time.

After the night attack of the Germans had made them masters of the French position, he had entered the cottage occupied by the French ambulance.