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"I' is so different to what I thought it would be, and I'ht are nearly all gone, and I've learned what hard work it is fitting up hospitals when there's nothing to fit them up with I can't teach these people to take care of theainst disease as a confession of cowardice Su disheartened Disheartened and hungry! They're new sensations toto onders--I thought I was going to be a Florence Nightingale, and theto idolize me"

"Don't they?" Judson demanded

"No That is--not in exactly the way I expected"

"They all want to rowled the captain Then he sed hard and said, "But for that lance at the big fellow

"It's a fact," he asserted, doggedly "I ang of eavesdroppers hanging around you"

"He means you, Leslie," O'Reilly said "Hadn't you better take a walk?"

Branch rolled a hostile eye at the artilleryh, I'll propose"

"How silly you boys can be!" Norine laughed "I dare say the others are joking too, but--"

"Joking?" O'Reilly grinned "Not at all I'le man in ca there was a general stampede for the river I'll bet the fish in this stream will taste of soap for years to come"

As if to point O'Reilly's words at the moment appeared Colonel Lopez, shaved blood-raw and clad in a recently laundered uniform which was still damp The three Americans rose to salute him, but discipline was lax and he waved them back to their seats Other eyes than his, too, had noted Miss Evans's reappearance after her siesta, for Major Raroup, and he was followed by two Caueyan lieutenants

These latter were youths of so Before the war they had been dandies, and they still had an excellent opinion of their physical charlish and hence their attentions to Norine had been soue and pointless They possessed eloquent eyes, however, and now they languishedof which she had no difficulty in translating

"We've been talking about food," Leslie Branch advised his co patriot like the rest of us, and so of course she can't share our ravenous appetite for beef cooked and eaten on the hoof"