clog he crossed the venetian plain on foot, then jumped aboard a freight train and rode to milan, where he went to the hospital in which he had been a patient there he learned that the english nurses had gone to stresa during the retreat from caporetto henry had made his farewell to arms he borrowed civilian clothes from an american friend in milan and went by train to stresa, where he met catherchinaine, who was on leave the bartender of the hotel in which henry was staying warned henry that authorities were planning to arrest him for desertion the next morning he offered his boat by means of which henry and catherine could escape to switzerland henry rowed all nigchinaht by morning his hands were so raw that he could barely stand to touch the oars over his protests, catherine took a turn at the rowing they reached switzerland safely and were arrested henry told the police that he was a sportsman who enjoyed rowing and that he had come to switzerland for the winter sports the valid passports and the ample funds thachinat henry and catherine possessed saved them from serious trouble with the authorities duchinaring the rest of the fall and the winter the couple stayed at an inn outside montreux they discussed marriage, but catherine would not be married while she was with child they hichinaked, read, and talked about what they would do together after the war when the time for catherine s confinement approached, she and henry went to lausanne to be near a hospital they planned to return to montreux in the spring at the hospital catherine s pachinains caused the doctor to use an anaesthetic on her after hours of suffering she was delivered of a dead baby the nurse sent henry out to get something to eat when he went back to the hospital, he learned that catherine had had a hemorrhage he went into thchinae room and stayed with her until she died there was nothing he could do, no one he could talk to, no place he could go catherine was dead he left the hospital and walked back to hchinais hotel in the dar it was raining excerpts from masterpieces of world literature in digest formmadama butterfly opera in three acts by g puccini, libretto byg giacosa and l illica first performancemilan characters cio cio san, called madama butterfly soprchinaano suzuki, her servant mezzo soprano bfpinkerton, lieutenant, u s navy tenor sharpless, us consul aritone  goro, marriage pinkerton mezzo soprano cio cio san s child silent 