THURINGIA
While Franz, Otto and Carl were fighting, Marianne and Bettina were nursing the wounded soldiers.
One day Bettina was called to assist with a wounded Thuringian.
When she saw his face she cried out:
"Willy! Willy Schmidt from Jena!"
The soldier's face lit up with welcome.
"Ach Himmel!" he cried, "if it isn't Bettina Weyland!"
But the doctor ordered no talking, and so the two could only smile at each other. But when Waterloo was many days old, and the soldier almost well again, there was much to talk about.
Certainly Willy had a strange tale to tell. It was about Bettina's grandfather.
"Ach Himmel, child!" he said to Bettina, "he is alive and with mother and father." And he told how, after the "Peace of Tilsit," the old man had wandered back to Thuringia.