spoken of as one vast hospital. From this condition of things sprang the
scourge of typhus which started in January, 1915, and swept the land.
Dr. Soltau and her Unit, arriving in the early part of January, were
able to take their place in the battle against this scourge. Their work
lay in Kraguevatz, in the north of Serbia, where Dr. Soltau soon had
three hospitals under her command.

In April Dr. Soltau contracted diphtheria. Dr. Inglis was wired for, and
left for Serbia in the end of April, 1915. She went gaily. There seems
no other word to describe her attitude of mind--she was so glad to go.
The sufferings of the wounded and dying touched her keenly. It was not
want of sympathy with all the awful misery on every hand that made her
go with such joy of heart, but rather she was glad from the sense that
at last she, personally, would be "where the need was greatest." This
had always been her objective.


THE ÆGEAN SEA,
"_May 2nd, 1915._
"DEAREST EVA,
"We have had a perfectly glorious voyage from Brindisi to Athens,
all yesterday between the coast and the Greek Islands, and then in
the Gulf of Corinth. I never remember such a day--all day the
sunshine and the beautiful hills, with the clouds capping them, or
lying on their slopes, and the blue sky above, and blue sea all
round. Then came the most glorious sunset, and when we came up from
dinner the sky blazing with stars. We put our chairs back to the
last notches, and lay looking at them, till a great yellow moon
came up and flooded the place with light and put the stars out. It
was glorious....