“Of course,” answered the doctor impatiently, “but what did he ask you?”
Alberdina broke into German.
“No, no. In English.”
“He very sig yet ees——”
The doctor gave poor Alberdina a withering glance.
“I think I can tell you most of the conversation, Doctor,” put in Mr. Campbell. “The patient asked Alberdina if she were one of the maids at the palace. She answered at great length that she was laundress at Sunrise Camp. ‘This was not a palace,’ she explained, ‘but a hut.’
“‘I have been in an accident?’” the sick man asked, as Mr. Campbell translated it.
“When Alberdina acquiesced, he told her to call Franz or Karl.
“Seeing her shake her head, he said:
“‘The Baron von Metz is here?’