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 THE RED RUGS OF TARSUS

the big dining-room, the school buildings are overflowing with refugees. It is only the most strenuous efforts of the college boys that pre- vent them from over-running us too. I have just my bedroom, Mary the other bedroom for herself and the baby, and Miss Talbot is in our study. Jeanne's extra bedroom eighteen women have managed to get into. Henri's study is crowded too. I am working on baby clothes to keep my mind occupied. I am mak- ing flannel nighties: there are hundreds of ba- bies out under our trees and on the hard asphalt of the tennis court without one change of cloth- ing.

Dear, dear, here is a woman who has been in terrible suffering all day long. Her husband and brother were with her and several times tried to flee with her. They picked her up a bit ago and started with her through the red and black streets. Overpowered, she stopped in

's garden and had her baby. Wrapping

the baby in something and putting it in the [118]

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