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Excerpt from Men in Battle
In the parks the children played unmolested with the large russet leaves of the old chestnut trees. Women stood gossiping in front of the shops, and somewhere in every street a girl with a bright kerchief oh her head could be seen washing windows. In spite of the hospital ¿ags waving from almost every house, in spite of innumerable bulletin boards, notices and signposts that the intruder had thrust upon the defenceless town, peace still seemed to prevail here,f scarcely fifty miles away from the butchery, which on clear nights threw its glow on the horizon like an artificial illumin ation. When, for a few moments at a time, there was a lull in the stream of heavy, snort ing automobile trucks and rattling drays, and no train happened to be rumbling over the railway bridge and no signal of trumpet or clanking of sabres sounded the strains of war.
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