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Title: "Ladies from hell,"
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Pinkerton, Robert Douglas
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: New York, The Century co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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nd hehas an uncanny way of knowing your movementsbefore you yourself become aware of them.French civilian traitors are usually to blame. Infact, nothing so endeared Sir Douglas Haigto the men as his order relegating non-com-batants to the rear by fifteen miles. After thisorder went into effect the Huns remarkable guess-work fell off markedly. Prior to that time I hadseen instance after instance where traitorousguidance was evident. One peculiarly clever case comes to my mind.Near us, at one time, on the firing-line, was ahouse. For days we called it the ** charmed cha-teau because it alone of all its neighbors re-mained standing. In our early innocence we mar-veled at it, and talked vacantly of supernaturalcauses, until an officer remarked a rather strikingcoincidence. When any considerable company ofour men went forward through one or more com-munication trenches, the chimney of the ** charmedchateau would emit a sudden series of smoke-puffs, and instanter the German shells would be-
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FRANCE 57 gin to flit about with remarkable exactness. Inthe telling it seems simple enough, and yet no onehad noticed this coincidence before. There was an elderly woman living in the place,and I can testify that she was a marvelous cook.Her home, partly by reason of her kindness andher cooking, aided, perhaps, by her remarkableimmunity from shell-fire, soon became a gather-ing-place for our officers. She was always mostsolicitous about our health, and showed an ap-parently justifiable interest in our movements.She also had a dog. Even the dog was friendly,and, like the woman, was soon adopted as a partof our trench family. But for the canniness ofone of our superior officers she and her dog mightstill be dishing out soup with one hand and shrap-nel with the other. When suspicion was at last centered upon her,the first move was to watch the house and the dog.Two days later the dog appeared innocently me-andering homeward from the direction of thetrenches. Three Tommies waylaid the un

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