"Then Wanda don't love God when He lets the soldiers be hurt and kicked!" "God sees all and loves all--but the bad man gets into the hearts of some of His children----" Difficult it was to do anything when I came back into that room where my little sons lay raving, not to just sit down and nurse my girlie, six years old, to have seen such sights! While attending the boys, another scream from Wanda took me to the window. No wonder she screamed! The captured guns were being brought into the town with the Russians _hitched_ to them, driven with blows through the icy slush of the streets, while _the horses were led along beside them_! Wanda cried so hysterically, that she had to have bromide; the child was ill. Surely there was nothing worse to come? The Captain, hearing the sounds and wanting his supper, came into the room. "Go away, Captain, if you are a man, and leave me alone with my babies." "What is the trouble? Is the little girl ill also?" "Have you seen what is happening with the Russian soldiers, taken prisoners?" "Yes, I have seen." I told him what his orderly, Max, had done. He slowly, gravely answered: "Yes, that is bad." "Where are all those prisoners?" "In the churches." Then he said, "Do not show so much sympathy--it will only do you harm and help no one. A great man will be quartered here to-morrow. Do not let him see you like this; some day when the children are well you will wish to get away from here." "But the Russians will have retaken Suwalki long before that day, and my husband will be here." "Never, and never, not while there is a German soldier! Now, be brave and smile, and I will help you as lays in my power." But that evening I was not "begged" (?) to serve tea! What a night it was. My boys were so ill, and I could not pray that God save them for me. I dare not! God knows, I had come to a stone wall. It was not even possible to feel that somewhere my husband was alive. We were cut off from the living. (Madame Turczynowicz, in her tales, "When the Prussians Came to Poland," vividly describes "The Aeroplane Visits," "The Flight to Warsaw," "Off to Galicia," "Back to Suwalki," and how she secured her release and freedom, which finally brought her to America.) FOOTNOTE: [1] All numerals throughout this volume relate to the stories herein--not to chapters in the original books. MY EXPERIENCES WITH SPIES IN THE GREAT WAR _Visiting with Spies in America, Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Germany_ _Told by Bernhart Paul Holst, an American_