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Boches were holding the bridge and they
had shot at him as he tried to pass. He said
the whole sky was black with smoke in the
direction of Ste Geneviève, and he had heard
that the town had been set on fire in the
night. In the afternoon the Boches came
here and took possession of the house; four
officers, all wearing the Iron Cross, and lots
of soldiers. I asked an officer for God’s
sake to send somebody to inquire if the
children were safe with the nuns. He did
send somebody, and I could see he was
ashamed when he told me next morning
that Ste Geneviève was in ruins and the
Convent had been destroyed by fire. I
begged him to help me to send a telegram
to Madame la Comtesse, but he said all the
wires were cut. He said it was a folly to
send the children away that night and that
no harm would have come to them
here.
“ ‘Since then everybody in the Château
has been out in search of them, but nobody
has seen or heard anything of them, nobody
knows if they are dead or alive.’
“The sun had gone down and twilight was
falling over the nursery. I looked at the
three children on the white wall. A weird
sensation came over me that I knew these
three children, that I had seen them
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