Part 2 (1/2)

I went along to-night to see and ask after thewalk down the corridor in alh every open door and , the sudden brilliancy of the as like a haven

The --the screen re by a bed Ryan, the h on five or six pillows, slung in his position by tapes and webbing passed under his arms and attached to the bedposts

He lay with his profile to me--only he has no profile, as we know a man's Like an ape, he has only his bu lips--the nose, the left eye, gone

He was breathing heavily They don't know yet whether he will live

When a man dies they fetch him with a stretcher, just as he ca covers hioes out When he came in he was one of a convoy, but every oes out Then they play hirass mound at the back of the hospital

It takes all sorts to make a hospital

For instance, the Visitors

There is the lady who coh it was a school-treat

She jokes about the cake, its scarcity or its quantity, and ar

When she is at her best the table assu silence--not the silence of the critic, but the silence of the absorbed child treasuring every iteoes the joy of her will last the

There is the lady who co down at the only unlaid table, cries, ”Nurse! I have no knife or plate or cup; and I prefer a glass of boiling water to tea And would you love?”

There is the lady who coe: ”I wonder if any one knows General Biggens? I once met him”

Or: ”You've been in Gallipoli? Did you run acrosscousin, a lieutenant in the? Well, he was only there two days or so, I suppose” exactly as though she was talking about Cairo in the season

To-day there was the Limit

She sat two paces away from where I sit to pour out tea Her face was kind, but inquisitive, with that brown liver-look round the eyes and a large rakish hat She coh the _padre_, to see a Canadian whom she doesn't know and who doesn't want to see her

Fro up: ”Nurse, excuse ulation one, like all the others?”

I looked up, and all the tea I was pouring poured over the edge Mr

Pettitt and Captain Matthew, between us, looked down at their plates

I put ht to be like the others”

She leant towards ly, ”It's so prettily put on, I thought it was different”

And then (horror): ”Don't you think nurse puts her cap on well?” she asked Captain Mattheho, looking harder than ever at his plate and reddening to the ears,which did not particularly cohted silence began to creep round the table, and I tried wildly to divert her attention before our end becae and the rest of the table an audience