He had found the wounded Frenchmen left behind, but had seen no such person in attendance on them as the nurse in the black dress with the red cross on her shoulder.

The only living woman in the place was a young English lady, in a gray traveling cloak, who had been stopped on the frontier, and who was forwarded on her way home by the war correspondent of an English journal.'" "That was Grace," said Lady Janet.
"And I was the war correspondent," added Horace.
"A few words more," said Julian, "and you will understand my object in claiming your attention." He returned to the letter for the last time, and concluded his extracts from it as follows: "'Instead of attending at the hospital myself, I communicated by letter the failure of my attempt to discover the missing nurse.

For some little time afterward I heard no more of the sick woman, whom I shall still call Mercy Merrick.

It was only yesterday that I received another summons to visit the patient.

She had by this time sufficiently recovered to claim her discharge, and she had announced her intention of returning forthwith to England.