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"I wish you'd let "

"Not this ti-station, a deserted store, they found a Belgian Ared with a tired and flushed and dirty soldier He was bandaging his left hand which had made a trail of blood splashes froht down from a nick in the dropped wrist where a tendon had been severed He told therasped the situation Seven --perhaps--He looked doubtfully at Charlotte--would be for them to take these : a protest or an entreaty) Though they were not exactly urgent cases They could wait

Charlotte suspected a serious reservation "You ot in his word "Much rime

"Well yes," the doctor ade, but in a hamlet about a mile outside of it An outpost This uns He had had a finger shot away and his wrist cut open by a shell-burst; the other three were left there, badly wounded

"All right, we'll go and fetch the shelled You have no orders"

"We've no orders not to"

The doctor spread out helpless palo at your own risk I will not send you"

"That's all right"

"Oh well--But certainly Mademoiselle must be left behind"

"Madeestures of eyebrows and palms

"You must not stay there more than three minutes Three rity, his conscience appeased by laying down this time limit

John released the clutch, and the soldier shouted out so, they couldn't make out what, that ended with "mitrailleuses"

As they ran down the street the soleht between the two batteries

"Are you all right, Sharlie?"

"Rather"

The little Belgian by her side er It's all going on over our heads"

"Do you suppose," she said, "they'll get our range?"

"Rather not Why should they? They've got their range and they'll stick to it"