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enceled or altered without notice.

Someone whispers to me; You see those little swellings on the shepltier † There are bits of bones which have been taken from the manʼayribs and placed

INTIMATIONS

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senators and real a face as any in

world. Very well let me see how long I can stand it. But how hat it is now, how suffocating!

Bere in this beautiful garden, is the cawing of rooks; that wide-spreading Turkish oak was brought hither, they tall me, by a Crusader, the old manor.

There in ance now. The knife geta house across the lawn, with a magnolia to work The miracle has actually reaching up to its olustered tiles, with began. I glance at the nurses; they a10 its hanging porch above the garden-like statuss. I watch the dresser at his door, with its long windows catehing the work. How simply, how easily he fol

lows the surgeon's knifs ↑, tam looking sunlight, is beautiful-and yet hainted. below the skin, seeing behind the boat It is all haunted... It is haunted ful covering of man'a wonderful, but by the absence of children. Where what body. I begin to feel How are the children of this English bome bot is is My mouth is dry. Yes, it in wonderful, most wonderful, this science Why have they been driven out te The of surgery. miracle; but I can't stand place is a symbol. All the love which. Let me got out Whai a distnz- made it a tome seems now to be weeping. bancs I should make dropping

down in I should like to be quiet, or that I surplice Have I the strength, to might hear more certainly the sound of Now, now; as quietly as I can.

walk across the room? Yes, if I go now. that weeping. Perhaps if I waited the Outside the theatre, or shown photo weeping would cease and the past graphs. He who show them to me, & return-a ghost-child wave to me from wyer who hrs. volunteered to serve a

window, or girl's voice singing a

registrar, is enthusiastic in a deprecat ing manner. Ob

yes" he reeps seventeenth century song dost out to saying, we are getting on getting on: the garden from one of those panelled science isn't doing so badly; look at this rooms, or a mother come to the door photograph-not so bad,, is it? No, not kissing the cheek of a baby held in besting on."

so bad, oh, yes, we are getting on-get

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This house which was once a home and

BURUIXY ITS OWN SCULPTOR,

is now unly house stands in its silenting x cinarette. by an open window, thus

| garden as a reproach to humanity, as

symbol of War. It asks, "Where are my children?"

You had better put on a linen cost, | says my guida.

Very well; but it makes me feel like Bernard Partridge's picture of H. Wells in a surplice. I fold my bands in front of me, and follow my guide, like a

nervous curate.

IN THE OF BATIN 1 BOOM

The operating room is full of light. It is spacious and uncrowded. The smell of drugs is not oppressive. A little group of quiet people are gathered in the contre. I notice two nurses standing perfectly still. Just beyond these wo men are three or four men, masked and gloved. I am introduced to Major Gillies, who bows to me and then turns

to his patient.

The patient is sitting up on the operating table. He is naked to the waist, and the whole of his flesh is painted a reddish yellow with iodine.

It is easier. with my surplice off, smok- to follow the wonders of surgery. What photographs these are Mr. Derwent Yood, the most imaginative of mur Eag lish sculptors in the early days of the war made maaks for disfigured soldier so wonderful that across a room they own sculptor. A revolution, bar-come looked natural. But now wargery is i

now face is grafted on and grows there, and becomes a real face pots & mask that hides horror. I am shown photographs so'repulsive that they could not be published. A splash of lead in the centre of a boy's face turns it to a caricatore so inconceivably laughable that you gasp and shudder. But these are photogramas of men when they enter the lust photographs of them before they the Queen's Hospital at Sidcup Look at go back again to the trenches. They are as handsome and smiling as any youth in the world. Those new faces are as real your face, veritable faces, unscarred, only six months separate the cas lovable, beautiful. And in many cases

photograph from the other. “Oh yes, we are geting on-not so bad, not so bad."

"I begin to understand the symbolism this place. The old manor-house is the domestic life of a tres people for which nur suns fight at the risk of death and disfigurement. War is the calamity

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many of those who were disfigured destroyed Major Gillies is about to operate. The themselves. They could not face their patient's position is not quite suitable. womenfelk. But whatever damage man He puts & yellow gloved hand on the may do on this earth, sooner or later he patients yellow shoulder and couches repairs it. Let us cling to that faith him. The effert apon me is like a shock What was something like a man, seams of sudden to he a figure staffed with straw. The Bgure flops to ene side, soulless, boneless,

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