Death's Head

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The Story. Frau Dora Von Doenhoff, to relieve the boredom of the fourth winter of the War, was giving a party. Fine was the company: General von ("Bloody") Hecht-Batten-berg; Captain "Steam Roller" Falk, who the day before had used his knife adeptly in a Flemish trench, as he would again day after tomorrow; Otto von Battenberg, the General's dashing son; Excellencies, officers, war millionaires, even—it was whispered—a Royal Personage. Pretty women who had kissed many gallant field-coats...