"Alexander I, Czar of Russia, spent the same two nights at the Old Château. One can still see the room in which he slept. The furniture has been carefully preserved. "Thanks, doubtless, to their illustrious guests, the commune was spared at that time." In the twentieth century, to-day,--September 9, 1914,--it is solely due to the valor of our soldiers that the village has not been subjected to the worst kind of horrors. H. C.-M. * * * * * Transcriber's Notes: Page 9, "ont" changed to "out" (out anything more) End of Project Gutenberg's Beyond the Marne, by Henriette Cuvru-Magot