Chapter I: Part I: Caudry--Le Cateau--Carlsruhe

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The first day--The search--Letters of divorcement--A reading
of the Pickwickians--Fellows in misfortune--A sculptor--A
Sappho--The bell for the dead--Sedan--The vulture 15

II

Carlsruhe camp--Crumbs from the rich man’s table--Tea with
Colonel Turano--Shamrock for dinner!--First letters and
parcels--A Nazarite--Christmas at Carlsruhe--Sketching the
Commandant 29

III

Funeral of a prisoner of war at Carlsruhe--First freedom for
a year--In the streets--A wreath from the Grand Duchess of
Baden--The Rev. Mr. Flad--A lecture on Abyssinia--A black
mood 45

IV

Entertainment in exile--The camp theatre--“Asile de
Nuit”--Scene-painter, scene-shifter, poster-artist, actor,
prompter, “noises-off,” and playwright--“A Chelsea Christmas
Eve”--“A Venetian Vignette”--A nightingale “off”--“How
he Lied to her Husband”--“The Rising of the Moon”--“The
Homeland” 59

V

Victims of the cruiser _Wolf_--Suicide of a Japanese
captain--“In the dark and among the ice”--A bottle
message--Clinging to office--The Debating Society--The vines
and vineyards of France--“Happy in all things--saving these
bonds!”--A straining of the Entente--A “stirring time”--A
voluntary fast! 80

VI

Air raids--British airmen brought down--Dust to dust--An
inimitable imitator--Songs from Coimbra--A German
bombardment--March, 1918--The bath attendant--Our
orderlies--Gustav--Imprisonment “for revolt” 96

VII

Carlsruhe at its kindliest--The chestnut trees--Aspen and
poplar--The new hut--“Torrents of Spring!”--Linguistic
efforts--A surprise to Mother--A dinner with the
Italians--The last day in Carlsruhe 113