Those Who Smiled, and Eleven Other Stories

E-text prepared by Charles Klingman

By the Same Author
VERSE: African Items
Vrouw Grobelaar's Leading Cases, The Adventures of Miss Gregory, The Second-class Passenger
NOVELS: Souls in Bondage, Salvator, Margaret Harding

And Eleven Other Stories
Gassell and Company, LTD London, New York, Toronto and Melbourne
First Published 1920
From the great villa, marble-white amid its yews and cedars, in which the invaders had set up their headquarters, the two officers the stout, formidable German captain and the young Austrian lieutenant went together through the mulberry orchards, where the parched grass underfoot was tiger-striped with alternate sun and shadow. The hush of the afternoon and the benign tyranny of the North Italian sun subdued them; they scarcely spoke as they came through the ranks of fruit-laden trees to the low embankment where the last houses of the village tailed out beside the road.
So ist's gut! said Captain Hahn then. We are on time nicely on time! He climbed the grassy bank to the road and paused, his tall young companion beside him. Halt here, he directed; we shall see everything from here.