News of the war kept coming; better and better news. The Germans
were falling back now, all along the line. The German Front was
breaking, the Allied troops were pressing forward everywhere.
Bulgaria made peace, then Austria. President Wilson and the German
Government were exchanging notes on peace.
‘It will end now very soon . . . any week . . . any day. . .
Germany is beaten. . . . The war is won now. . .’ people said.
And then, on October 11th, Hugo was ‘wounded and missing.’