Scene 1. The Cottage On The Frontier
Scene 1. The Cottage On The Frontier - Chapter 1. The Two Women
_ SCENE I. THE COTTAGE ON THE FRONTIER
FIRST SCENE.--THE COTTAGE ON THE FRONTIER.
PREAMBLE.
THE place is France.
The time is autumn, in the year eighteen hundred and seventy--the year of the war between France and Germany.
The persons are, Captain Arnault, of the French army； Surgeon Surville, of the French ambulance； Surgeon Wetzel, of the German army； Mercy Merrick, attached as nurse to the French ambulance； and Grace Roseberry, a traveling lady on her way to England.
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CHAPTER I. THE TWO WOMEN
IT was a dark night. The rain was pouring in torrents.
Late in the evening a skirmishing party of the French and a skirmishing party of the Germans had met, by accident, near the little village of Lagrange, close to the German frontier. In the struggle that followed, the French had (for once) got the better of the enemy. For the time, at least, a few hundreds out

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