Little Comrade

<p><em>Excerpts from the Book</em></p><p>In a tiny room on the upper floor a single cot had been placed. As the nurse stopped at its open door and held aloft her night-lamp her eyes caught the gleam of other eyes and she stepped quickly forward.</p><p>What is it? she asked softly. Why are you not asleep? You are not in pain?</p><p>The patient-a mere lad he seemed of not more than seventeen-smiled and shook his head.</p><p>I do not know German he said in French.</p><p>The nurse placed her cool hand upon the patient's brow to assure herself that there was no access of fever.</p><p>This book is a Fiction very nicely penned by the author. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work.</p>