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The hot August days dragged on Merciless sunlight beat in through the

slatted shutters of s At night, from the roof to which the

nurses retired after prayers for a breath of air, lower surrounding roofs

were seen to be covered with sleepers Children dozed precariously on the

edge of eternity; rotesque postures of

sleep

There was a sort of feverish irritability in the air Even the nurses,

stoically unmindful of bodily discomfort, spoke curtly or not at all Miss

Dana, in Sidney's ward, went doith a low fever, and for a day or so

Sidney and Miss Grange got along as best they could Sidney worked like

two or ive alcohol baths

for fever with the maximum of result and the minimum of time, even h creditably

Dr Ed Wilson had sent a woman patient into the ward, and his visits were

the breath of life to the girl

"How're they treating you?" he asked her, one day, abruptly

"Very well"

"Look atSome of them will

try to take it out of you That's human nature Has anyone tried it yet?"