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MARY
ANSELL
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in his body, the warmth of his face against hers, the smell, like heather and seaweed, of his khaki jacket. She was alive once more, escaped from the death of her present existence into the wram life of her was so real early days. That le
to her that whenever she reached their meeting-place and lay back; jand closed her eyes. her actual self. reased to exist, and she had never once thought it strange that a tired, fuded woman of forty should lie in the arms of this dark-haired young bad she man of twenty-two, nor ever told herself that their child, if it had lived, would by now have been a boy only five years younger than his father, or that. Just as there was another Mary, the faded Mary of to-day, so there was an- other Jim Ansell, withered and eveless. lying in some cemetery in France..
unknown
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HEROIC BRITISH WAR NURSE
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DIES IN LONDON
High tribute was paid recently to the devotion of a British nursing sister who, interned by the Ger- mans in East Africa during the war, became famous for her work among the Allied prisoners.
The nurse, Miss France Mary Plant, who has just died in Guy's Hospital, where she received her training, had 18 years' service in England and abroad. Miss Plant had looked forward to retirement in London, but had been on pension only 20 days when she died from heart trouble.
"No nursing sister in East Africa was braver than Miss Plant,"} Mr. F. S. Joelson, editor of "East Africa," stated in an interview.j Mr. Joelson was interned In the same camp as Mies Plant.
"She was one of the nurses who were imprisoned at the outbreak of war, and she worked like a slave! looking after the Allied prisoners at Tabora prison camp. She stood up to the Germans and refused to be brow-beaten."
Marches Under Blazing Sun⚫ Miss E. M. Cowell, or Northcote road, Battersea, a friend of the dead nurse, said that Miss Plant at the loutbreak of war was ordered to
Such thoughts never came to her, for he and she met in a timeless and unchanging world which be longed to them alone. This angle in the earthwork was especially theirs. but they met in other places too, for she carried their secret world within her and could drop back into it whenever opportunity occurred, When she was alone at the inn, working in the kitchen or sitting, darning, in the little private par- lour, she would often leave her patient body to get on with its work and would step across the threshold; and at night, the moment the candle had been blown out and she had
"For a year she never tasted a laid down in bed with Sam. she
cup of tea," said Miss Cowell," "and, would be gone, abandoning to her husband the tired, obedient Mary and hung up the scroll there. Sam being changed from camp to camp, Brakefield like a corpse laid out,never sat in that room. In the sum-she marched scores of miles under hurrying back to her real life and mer, on those days when so many the blazing sun."
When released in 1915 Miss Plant visitors called that there Tim.
But sometimes, when she was more space in the public room, some had to be carried in a hammock very tired, she had not the strength of them were served there, but for with other prisoners to the nearest to excupe. The outer world-Sam nine months in the year Mary had it British station. Brakefield, the inn, the neighbours te herself, and she would sit there
was too strong for her. She was often to sew and darn. too feeble by herself, to support ond
was no:
Seated there near the books
clear her hospital at Korogwe, and was then marched under a German escart to camp, to which she was not allowed to take so much as a mosquito net.
She returned to England and be-
came night sister at the British
he Red Cross Hospital at Downham,
preserve the world of her desires. must often have read, and with his Norfolk. Later she returned to If only there had been someone else scroll before her eyes, she felt closer East Africa and became matron of who knew of it and recognised its to him than anywhere else but in the Dar-es-Salzam Hospital.
Jim. the earthwork. She often glanced reality, who would speak of
who would, perhaps, call her, not at his name at the bottom of the Mrs. Brakefield, but Mrs. Annell, scroll-Lance-corporal James Anself!
what a help and what a comfort it but she seldom read what went GENTLEMEN PREFER before it, for the last sentence-
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A debate has been held there in
Ansell, which she had never borne in spoke too painfully of his absence, History Ransacked For real life, was the name by which she made of him a name thought of herself. She had actual threatened with oblivion.
It
London. was eighteen years ago, ly written it in the few books which Jim's mother had left her at her eighteen years this very day,
Massive women are impressive- they had met for the last time. On but gentlemen prefer small women. 6th June death fourteen years ago.
It was
from 5th July
safe to do so. for Mary Ansell was the last day of his leave from France
to students of the American Univer- the name of Jim's mother, and if they had climbed the downs 15th May Sam had ever noticed it he would gether, scrambled up the earthwork, aity of Michigan.
and walked to the edge of the cliff. 19th May not have been surprised.
Mrs. Ansell had left her not only he had inuxhed when she had clutch- the booke, but also Jim's scrolled at his sleeve to stop him going which students of both sexes heated- 20th May neaty framed the scroll that
had too near the brink. The whole imly compared the charma and merits 1st June been sent to her after he had been mense depth of air below them and of "large" and "small" women.
Ancient and modern history was sparkled But Sam, na far as Mary the huge expanse of sea 9th May killed.
with sunshine. Oat near the hori ransacked by debators for examples knew, had never looked into the 11th May books. He had shown no surprise on a ship-an English battleship-to prove the supremacy of their pet
when they and the scroll had been drew a long, gauzy trail of smoke type.
For several hours the battle went 20th May
after it. Jim pointed to the horizon. brought to his wife, for he had
"You'd never think, would you," he on-then at last two out of the 27th May known that she and Mrs. Ansell
were old friends. When she had said, "that thousands of chaps were three judges decided that "In the 17th May opened the parcel he had lifted up in the thick of it just over there?" opinion of this House. small women "Don't," she said. "Don't think possess the greater appeal for men." the seret and, examined it. "It' look nice on the wall," he had satd. of it. I don't want to think of it--Reuter. and had then asked: "Who was he?" till..
"Till I'm there?"
"Her son," Mary had answered, and she had put away the books in the hanging bookcase in the parlour the angle of the rampart.
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She nodded, and they turned away from the cliff and walked across to There
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She shook her head. "We're mar ried already."
Again he paused, as if thinking Then he said: "But......but sup pose I was to stop one?"
"Stop one?"
"Stop a shell or a bullet. knocked out."
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"That means we mustn't wait." "But think, Mary, what happen; to you. I mean,” "I thinking," she said. why I pay we mustn't wait."
It was already dark when walked home together and outside the gate of her home.
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That's
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