“I was playing my flute when I heard the shot,” said the Colonel.
Brand put the letter in his pocket, and made only one comment.
“Another victim of the war-devil.... Poor kid!”
Presently he went up to young Clatworthy’s room, and stayed there a
long time.
A few days later we began to move on towards the Rhine, by slow stages,
giving the German army time to get back. In Brand’s pocket-book was the
letter to Franz von Kreuzenach, from Eileen O’Connor.