=Ben Azef=, an Arab, an Oriental priest, always wanted water, when there was none. He would flop onto his knees, face toward the East, and bow his forehead to the ground. Then get up on the trench and rail at the Germans for their swinish propensities and ruthless rapacity. A shell dropped into his section. His comrades threw themselves on the ground and yelled out:— “Get down, you, blamed fool, you’ll get killed!” Ben Azef stood majestically erect, gazed calmly and contemplatively at the shell (fortunately it was a dud—one which fails to explode) and said,—“My friends, death to me is not destruction. It is the consummation of my material life,—the commencement of my Life Divine.” He was shot dead through the heart, in 1916. =Ch. A. Hochedlinger=, an educated Polish gentleman, speaks half a dozen languages, was twice wounded. When in hospital, he met and married a lovely French girl from Algiers, who now conducts his business at Bordeaux, while he gives his services to France. =Michal Ballala=, an Abyssinian Prince, in spite of his color, had the dainty figure and elegant bearing of a woman of fashion. He was wounded in 1915. =Colonel Elkington=, of the English Royal Warwickshire Regiment, served as a private soldier in the Legion. He was seriously wounded in the attack on the Bois Sabot, Sept. 28, 1915. He was decorated with the Croix de Guerre and Medaille Militaire. One morning, on inspection, an Alsatian Captain of the Legion, noticing he was short a button, said,—“No button? Four days confined to quarters.” Elkington replied,—“Merci, mon capitaine.” (Thank you, my captain.) On recovery from his serious wounds, he returned to England and was reinstated in his former rank. =Said Mousseine= and his two brothers, sons of Sultan Ali of the Grand Comorres, who, being too old to fight, sent his best beloved to aid the country he holds so dear. Said was promoted to corporal and transferred to the 22nd Colonials. =Augustus St. Gaudens=, cousin of the sculptor who made the Adams monument in Rock Creek cemetery, Washington, D. C., whose father lived near the old Academy of Design on Fourth Avenue, New York. Another cousin of St. Gaudens, Homer, is in charge of the 300 men in the U. S. Army, known as the Camouflage Corps, or the army in advance of the army. =Varma=,[C] a Hindoo, black whiskered, silent. Let those speculate about him who would, let them glean what information they could. ----- Footnote C: In Aug., 1918, a man same name, same type, was arrested in Paris by the gendarmes for making and selling bogus diamonds. ----- =M. Ariel=, a Turk, dealer in antiques in civil life. He was seriously wounded on the Somme, in 1916. I met him at Legion headquarters a year later and found him carrying a purse made of his own skin.