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and I had to hear it with my own ears before
I could believe it. Do you know what he
shouted as soon as I came up to him? He
said he was a superior officer and that he
must have a room to himself, and could not
lie mixed up with his own men. His voice
trembled with rage, and he worked himself
into such a state of fury that he could no
longer find words in French. Pointing
to the German soldiers next to him he
shouted the whole time a word in German
which I did not understand; but I fear it
was not complimentary, for I noticed that
the soldier next to him looked at him angrily.
This man is not mortally wounded either and
is quite conscious, and speaks good French.
He has an intelligent and rather refined face,
and is, I believe, an educated man. He told
me he was from Southern Germany, and that
he was a Socialist and hated the war.
Considering the state of excitement in which I
had left the major, I was not very much
surprised when Sœur Marthe came to report
a little later that he had convulsions, and I
admit I thought at first that his rage had
ended in a sort of crise de nerfs. It was only
in the afternoon that I began to suspect,
from the stiffness of the throat, the fixedness
of the jaws, and the increasing difficulty in
swallowing, that the poor man had tetanus.
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