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No dead come back from the front--at least, not this way. The Germans
bury their fallen soldiers where they fall. Regardless of his rank, the
dead man goes into a trench. If so be he died in battle he is buried,
booted and dressed just as he died. And the dead of each day must be
got underground before midnight of that same day--that is the hard-and-
fast rule wherever the Germans are holding their ground or pressing
forward. There they will lie until the Judgment Day, unless their
kinsfolk be of sufficient wealth and influence to find their burial
places and dig them up and bring them home privily for interment. Even
so, it may be days or even weeks after a man is dead and buried before
his people hear of it. It may be they will not hear of it until a
letter written to him in the care of his regiment and his company comes
back unopened, with one word in sinister red letters on it--Gefallen!
At this hotel, yesterday, I saw a lady dressed in heavy black. She had
the saddest, bravest face I ever looked into, I think.


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