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CHAPTER XV.
Je Suit Btesse.
As usual, when we got to Ilrost thcro
was rush work day nml night on the
Cassard to pet her out nntl supplies of
all kinds were loaded for our next
Tlslt to the Turku. Tho French gnr
bles were always keen for tho trip
back to Brest they wcro sure of load
ing tip on tobneco and other things
they needed.
My twelfth trip to tho Dardanelles
was different from tho others. Tho
Cassard was doing patrol work at th6
time In tho neighborhood of Cnpo
Hollos. Those of us who had served
on tho Tcnlnsula before were thank
ing our stars for tho snap wc were
having Just cruising around watting
for something to happen.
"We had not been there very long be
foro something unexpected did happen,
for wo rnn Into two enemy cruisers
which I nftenrnrda heard were the
Wcrft and Knlserllche Marine one ou
tho starboard and one on tho port.
How they had managed to sneak up
so near us I do not know. They
opened up on ns at not much more
than a thousand yards and gave us a
hot time from the start, though with
any kind of gunnery they should have
done for us thoroughly.
We came right back at them and
were getting In some pretty good shots.
I was In the 14-Inch gun turret, star
board bow my old hangout and wo
were letting them have It about four
ihots every Ave minutes and scoring
heavily.
I do not know how long we had been
fighting when part of our range finder
was carried away. It was so hot,
t&ougb, and we were so hard at It that
such a little thing like that did not
bother us. It Is hot In any gun turret,
bat I have always noticed that It Is
hotter there in the Dardanelles than
In any other place. The sweat would
limply cake up on us, until our faces
were Just covered with a film of pow
dery stuff.
But the range finder was carried
away, and although It looked bad for
as I was feeling so good that I vol
unteered to go on deck and,, get an
other one. I got outside the turret
door and across the deck, got the nec
essary parts and was coming back
with them when I received two machine-gun
bullets in the right thigh.
One went dear through bone and all
and drilled a hole on the other side,
white tho other came within an inch
pf going through. The peculiar thing
Is that these two were In a line above
Uic wound I got at Dlxmudc. The line
Is almost as straight as you could
draw it with a ruler,
i Of course It knocked me down and
I hit my head a pretty hard crack on
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1 Was Able to Crawl on to the Turret
Door.
thn steel deck, but I was ablo to crawl
on to tho turret door. Just ns I was
about to enter tho gun was fired. That
particular chargo happened to bo de
fective. Tho shell spilt and caused n
back flro nnd tho cordite, tire and gas
cutno through tho breech, which tho
explosion had opened.
It must have been n piece of cordlto
which did it, but whatever It was, it
hit mo In tho right eye nnd blinded it.
The ball of tho eyo was saved by tho
French surgeons nud looks normal, but
it pains mo greatly sometimes and
they tell mo it will always bo sight
less. ' I was unconscious Immediately from
tho blow nnd from tho quantity of gus
which I must have swallowed. This
gas dtd tuo a great deal of damage
nnd glv mo dirty spells often to this
day. I do not know what happened
during tho rest of tho engagement, as
I did not regain consciousness until
three days later at sea. But I heard
In tho hospital that tho French super
dreadnaught Jeanne d'Arc and tho
light cruiser Normandy wcro In It ns
well as ourselves, though not at the
tlrao I was wounded, and that wo had
all been pretty well battered. Tho
Cassard lost 00 men In the engage
ment nnd had 43 wounded. Some of
our turrets wcro twisted Into nil man
ner of shnpes nnd part of our bow
was carried nwuy. Ono of our lieu
tenants was killed In the engagement
I was told that both the Wcrft nnd
tho Knlscrllcho Marine were sunk in
this engagement. I have seen pictures
of sailors from tho Wcrft who were
prisoners at Interment camps.
When wo nrrlved nt Brest tho
wounded wero taken from the ship In
stretchers and after wc had been rest
ed for nbout fifteen minutes on tho
dock put into ambulances and rushed
to the hospital. On the way those who
could leaned out ol tho ambulance and
hnd n great time with tho people along
tho streets, many of whom they knew,
for the Cassard was n Brest ship. And
of courso the women nnd children
yelled, "Vivo In France I" and wero
glad to sec the boys again, even
though they were badly done up.
Sonic of our men were baudngod
nil over the face and head nnd It wus
funny when they had to tell their
names to old friends of theirs, who
did not recognize -thorn. As soon as
one of the Brest people recognized a
friend off ho would go to get clgurcttea
and other things for him nnd somo of
them almost beat us to tho hospital.
I do not know, of course, Just what
the surgeons did to me, but I heard
that they had my eyeball out on my
check for almost two hours. At nny
rate they saved It. Tho thigh wounda
wcro not dangerous In themselves and
If It bad not been for the rough treat
ment they got later on they would bo
qulto healed by this time, I am sure.
I really think I got a little extra at
tention In the hospital In many ways,
for the French were at .all times anx
ious to show their friendliness to
America. Every time my meals were
bcrved there was a little American
dag on the platter and always a largo
American flag draped over the bed. I
bad everything I wanted given to me
at once nnd when I was able to, all
tho cigarettes I could smoke, which
wcro not many.
Wbllo I was still in bed In tho hos
pital I received the Croix de Guerre,
I Received the Croix de Guerre,
which I had won at the Dardanelles.
The presentation was made by Lieu
tenant Barber. lie pinned an Ameri
can flag on my breast, a French flag
beneath It and beneath that tho war
zross. lie kissed me on both cheeks,
Df course, which was tolling advantage
jf a cripple. But It, la the usual thing
with the French, ns you know I mean
tho kissing, not Qio meanness to
cripples.
When ho hnd pinned thoincdnl on
ho said ho thanked mo from tho bot
tom of his heart for tho French people,
Hid also thanked nil tho Americans
who hnd como over from their own
land to help n country with which
most of them wero not connected. Ho
said It was a war in which many na
tions wero taking part, but In which
Micro wcro Just two ideas, freedom
md despotism, nnd n fot more thing
that I cannot remember, llo Mulshed
Sy saying that ho wished ho could dec
)ruto all of us. . ,
Of courso It was great stuff for mo
ind I thought I was tho real thing
lure enough, but I could not help
thinking of tho remark 1 havo henrtl
sere in tho States "1 thank you nnd
;ho whole family thanks you." And It
A-as hnrtl not (o laugh. Also It seemed
funny to me, because I did not rightly
tnow Just whnt they wero giving mo
Jio mcdnl for though It wna for ono
if two things nnd I do not know to
Mils day. But I thought it would not
e polltc'to ask, so I let It go nt that.
There wcro twelves other nnvnl offi
cers who were present and they nnd
nil tho other people did n lot of cheer
ing nnd vlved me to n fnro-you-woll.
It was great stuff, altogether, nnd I
I should have liked to get a modal every
day.
Ono day I received n letter from n
man who had been In my company In
the Foreign Legion and with whom I
had been pretty chummy. Ills letter
wns partly In French nnd partly In
Kngllsh. It was nil nbout who had
been killed nnd who had been wound
ed. Ilo also mentioned Murray's
death, which he had henrtl about, nnd
nbout my receiving tho Croix do
Guerre. I wns wishing he had said
something nbout nrown, whom I hnd
not heard from and who I knew would
visit mo If ho had the chance.
But two or thrco days later I got
another letter from the same man and
J when I opened It out tumbled n photo
graph. At first all I saw was that It
was the photograph of n man crucified
with bayonets, but when I looked nt
It closely I saw It wns Brown. . I
fainted then, Just like n girl.
When I cntne to I could hnrdly mnko
myself think about It. Two of my
pals gonet It hurt me so much to
think of It thnt I crushed the letter
up In my hand, but Inter on I could
read parts of It It said they, hnd
found Brown this wny near Dlxmudo
about two days after ho had been re
ported missing. So three of us went
over nnd two stayed there. It seems
very strange to me that both of my
pals should bo crucified and If I wcro
superstitious I do not know what I
would think nbout It It mnde mo
sick and kept mo from recovering ns
fast as I would have dono otherwise.
Both Brown arid Murray were good
pals nnd very good men In a fight
I often think o them both nnd about
the things we did together, but lately
I have tried not to think about them
much because It is very sad to think
what torture they must havo bad to
stand. They were both of great credit
to tills country.
Tbo American consul visited me
qulto often and I got to calling him
Sherlock because ho asked so many
questions. We plnyed lots of games
together, mostly with dice, nnd hnd n
great ttmo generally. After I became
convalescent he nrgucd with mo thnt
I had seen enough, and though I really
did think so however much I disliked
wlmt I had seen ho got my dlschnrgo
Lfrom the service on account of phys
ical inability to uiscimrgu tins usual
duties. After I hail been at tho hos
pital for a little over a month I wau
discharged from It, utter n little party
In my ward with everyone taking part
and all the horns blowing nnd nil tho
records except my favorite dlrgo
played ono after another.
Sherlock arranged everything for
me my passago to New York, cloth
ing, etc, I ran up to St .Nasal ro and
saw my grandmother, loafed around
a while and nlso visited Lynns.
After a short tlmo I returned to
Brest and got my pnssngo on the
Georgia for New York. I hnd three
trunks with mo full of things I bad
picked up around Europo and had
been keeping with my grandmother.
Among my belongings wero several
things I should llko to -show by pho
tographs in this book, but no ono but
mermaids can see them now, for down
to the locker of Davy Jones they went
(To Be Continued.)
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