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confidence and sympathy.

Had a sudden & rather violent visit from Mrs Depew late that afternoon. It seems she has a hospital in her chateau at Compiegne where she has been ever since the beginning of the war. That very morning she had had word from the British Red Cross that her six Red Cross Nurses must leave at once.
"But why-" I asked.
"The position is too dangerous", she said.
I thought [[strikethrough]] that [[/strikethrough]] ^[[danger]] was something Red Cross nurses were not supposed to mind and I said as much.
"The British Red Cross may know something we don't", she suggested.
She impressed on me the [[strikethrough]] fact of [[/strikethrough]] importance of keeping all she said to myself.  What she had come for was to get some of my nurses whom she had heard were twirling their thumbs in Paris. Of course my whole instinct was to help her but I said I could do nothing without speaking to my head doctor.

Tommy Slidell, Phil, [[strikethrough]] Bob [[/strikethrough]] and Dr Martin

Transcription Notes:
Julia Hunt Catlin Park Depew (Taufflieb in 1918) was another American motivated to open a hospital for the wounded. This in her château d'Annel near Compiègne