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his mother. He stood it for a week, but
then he got so exhausted from want of sleep
that he could hardly walk, and he was
reported to the doctor. The doctor gave
him a pill which made the old woman come
a little later at night and also in the day as
soon as he was alone. Then he was put
under arrest for something he had done he
did not remember, and for two days and
nights the old woman never left his side and
kept looking at him the whole time. He
then thought he would speak to the army
chaplain. He was a very good chaplain—
a God-fearing man much liked by all the men.
The chaplain cured him on the spot. The
chaplain said it all came from the stomach,
that he had nothing to worry about, that
he was defending the Fatherland, and that
the old woman would probably have gouged
out the eyes of one of his comrades had she
lived—if she had not already done it. The kind
chaplain managed to get him out of prison
and the next day he was quite fit again,
and never once did the old woman come back
to look at him during their whole advance
through Belgium and France. The night
he was wounded she came back again and
looked at him with his grandmother’s eyes.
He tried to crawl away from her and hide
under some willows, but she followed him
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