Meeting the Fugitives
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The stone apartments of what were once warm stables, where sleeping-shelves can be put-up—and the rest rooms are all prepared to lodge fugitives for the night.
The workmen of the Municipal Alliance and the Northern-Help have quickly and skilfully adapted these buildings.
In front of this first post-station there are already a hundred fugitives.
We are met by a lady, the manager of the relief point.
—I'm quite a veteran—says she.
—I was a sister of mercy in the Russo-Turkish War.
She takes us over the place.
It is in perfect order, a model establishment.
There is excellent strong soup, with plenty of beef in it.
—We often read in the newspapers about the various horrors connected with
