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SISTER

(Continued from page 7.)

I was awakened by:

the orderly and summoned to the tent This of the officer in command, youth's face was considerably whiter than his illinen. He was consulting with his second in command, a boy of twenty-two or theronbaats.

CONSIGNEES.

CONSIGNEES' NOTICE.

THE BEN LINE STEAMERS, LIMITED.

From LEITH, MIDDLESBRO”, ANTWERP, LONDON AND STRAITS.

The Steamship.

“BENRINNES "*

A man covered with sand and blood was sitting in a hammock-chair, rub- bing his eyes, and drinking something Consignees of Cargo are hereby in- {formed that all Goods are being land- out of a tumbler. without veremony, which hindrance and/or extra hazardous Godswar of "News from the front?" I inquired, ed at their risk into the hazardous we had long since dispensed with. The Hong Kong and Kowloon Wharf "You, and bad news." It certainly and Godown Co., Ltd., whence and/or

Someone from the wharves delivery may be ob was not pleasant hearing. mentioned the word "disaster," and tained

"Gadi doctor," he exclaimed, kick- At midnight ing out hie sturdy legs, and contem- plating with some satisfaction the yellow hide top-boots which he had bought at a London store. (I know the boots well, and-avoid them). "Gad! doctor, you should see that gun on the warpath. Travels as light as a tricycle. And when she bogins to talk-my stars! Click click-click-click! For all the world like a steam-launch's engine- mowing 'em down all the time. No work for you there. It will be no

wo looked at each other with hard, No claims will be admitted after the use you and your satellites progging anxious eyes. I thought of the Goods have left the Godowns, and all about with skewers for the bullet. women, and almost decided to send Goods remaining undelivered after Look at the other aide, my boy, and them back before daylight.

the 1st February, 1923, will be sub- In a few moments a

a fresh man was ject to you'll and the beauty bus just walk-roused out of his bed, and sont full All claims against the steamer mus Jed through them.

gallop through the moonlight across be presented to the Underalent on the desert to headquarters, and the or before the 15th February, 1933, or officer in command began to regain they will not be recognised.

I think he extracted it All broken, chafed, and damapant confidence. from the dispatch-bearer's tumbler. Goods are to be left in the GodLWOR After all, ho was not responsible for where they will he examined on the much. He was merely a connecting- 31st January, 1033, at 10 am. by link, a point of touch between two Messrs. Goddard & Douglas.

To comply with the General Bond- He slept that night in the little greater men, shanty built of mud and roofed work at once, but I gavo particular must have a Revenue Officer in attend-]

It was necessary to get my men toed Warehouse Regulations consignees chletty with old palm-mats, which orders to leave the nurses undisturbance when damaged dutiable goods was gracefully called the head sured. Disaster at the front meant hard !are examined.

No Fire Insurance has been effect- geon's quarters. That is to say, he work at the rear. We all knew that, partook of such hospitality as I had and endeavoured to make ready for ed

Bills of Lading will be countersign to offer* him.

GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO. LTD.. Agents. Hong Kong, 26th January, 1933.

"Soda or plain 7" parenthesis,

I asked,

"Soda. I don't like

in

the flavour of dead camel. A big drink, please. I feel as if I were lined with sand- paper."

a sudden rush of wounded.

The rush began before daylight.jed hv. Sammy and I had met before he As they came in we saw to them, had touched a rope or I a scalpel.drossing their wounds and packing We hailed from the same part of them as closely as possible. But the stream was continuous. They never the country-down Devonshire way; stopped coming; they never gave us and, to a limited extent, we know a moment's rest. each other's people-which little phrase has a vast meaning. in places where men do congregate.

We turned in pretty early on hospital mattress, he in my bed; but Sam would not go to sleep. He would lie with his arms above his hend (which is not an attitude of sleep) and talk about that everlast- ing gun.

I dozed off to the murmur of his voice expatiating on the extreme cunning of the ejector, and awoke to hear detalls of the rifling.

At aix o'clock I gave orders to gers, and yet I felt like a man com- awaken the nurses and order them to mitting sacrilege.

prepare their quarters for the recep "When I left you," said the brain- tion of the wounded. At half-post leas voice, "you wore it down your six an Army Hospital Corps man back. You were a little girl-you are a came to me in the ward.

little girl now," And he slowly drew; he said. "Officer. Gan busted, sir."

"Shockin' case, sir, just come in," a hairpin out.

but knot there like a

One long lock foll curling to her "Take him to my quarters," I said, wining my instruments on my sleeve. shoulder. She never looked up, never

noticed me, In a few minutes 1 followed, and ministering angel-personating for o on entering my little room the first time a girl whom we had never seen. thing I say was a pair of yellow boots.

"My little girl," he added, with a There was no doubt about the boots low laugh, and drew out another hair- and the white duck trousers, and al-pin.

In a few moments all her hair was though I could not see the face, I

I had never Warrener come back again. knew that this was Sammy Fitz-about her shouldors.

thought that she might be carrying

before he fell asicep,, Sammy re-atenging back to let me approach. I

"Oh!" she whispered meaningly, you not?"

the race.

We did not talk of home, as do men in books when lying by a camp- A woman-one of the nurses for such glory quietly hidden beneath the fire. Perhaps it was owing to the whom he had pleaded-waa bending simple nurse's cap.

and a That is better," he said "that is jabsence of that picturesque adjunct over the bed with a sponge

basin of tepid water, As I entered better." And he let all the hairpins to a soldier's life. We talked chiefly she turned upon me a pair of calm-fall on the coverlet. "Now you are of the clever gun; and once, justly horror-stricken eyes.

my own Marny," he murmured." "Are

She hesitated one moment. "Yes turned to the question of the "pa had no time to notice then that she dear," she said softly.

"I am your "Yes," he said, "the head sawbones was one of those largely built women, own Marny." down there told me to tell you that with perfect skin and fair hair, who With her disengaged hand sho he had got permission to send you make

There think of what England stroked his blanching check. three nurses. Treat 'em kindly, Jack must have been before Gallic blood was a certain science about her touch, for my sake. Bless their hearts got to be so widely disseminated in as if she had once known something They mean well."

of these matters. Then he fell asleep, and left me

Lovingly and slowly the smoke- thinking of his words, and of the

"Please pull down that mat from grimed angers passed over the won the window," I said, indicating a tem-derful hair, smoothing it. spirit which had prompted them.

I knew really nothing of this man's

but he seemed singolarly happs, She did so promptly, and returned touched her eyes, her gentle cheeks, with that happiness which only comes to the bedside, falling into position the quiet, artrong lips. He allpped to

back-as it were, awaiting my orders. when daily existence has a

I bent over the bed, and I must of her black dress. ground to it. He spoke habitually of

her shoulder, and over the soft folds women, as if he loved them all for confess that what I saw thero gave

"Been gardening?" he asked, com- the sake of one; and this not being me a thrill of horror which will come ing to the bib of her nursing apron. precisely my own position, I was glad again at times so long as I live. It was marvellous how the brain, when he fell asleep.

I made a sign to Sister to continue her task of sponging away the mud, of which one ingredient was sand.

"Both eyes,” she whispered, "are destroyed."

The fort was astir next morning at four. The bugler kindly blow a blast into our glassless window which left. no doubt about it

"That means all hands on deck, 1 take it," said Sam, who was one of the few men capable of good humour before in time.

By six o'clock he was ready to go. cer this cheery sallor was by the way his men worked.

It was easy to see what sort of old-

While they were getting the machine-gun imbered up, Sam came back to my quarters, and took a nasty breakfast.

porary blind which I had put up. Then he grew more daring.

"Not the top of the skull," I said; "you must not touch that?"

For we both knew that our task was without hope.

Ho

which was laid open to the day, re- tained the consciousness of one sub- Ject so long.

"Yes-dear," she whispered. "Your old apron is all wet!” he said ropronchfully, Louching her breast where the blood-his own blood;

was slowly drying.

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II's hand passed on, and, as it Fitz-Warrener's people, and I could into such a wonderful tenderness that As I have said, I knew something of touched her, I saw her eyes soften not help lingering there where I could I felt as if I were looking on a part do no good, when I knew that I was of Sister's life which was sacred, wanted elsewhere.

I saw a little movement as if to Suddenly his lips moved, and Sister draw back, then she resolutely bid kneeling down on the door, bent over har position. But her eyes were dull; him

with a new pain. I wonder--I have "Feel a bit down this morning," he I could not hear what he said, but wondered ever since what memories said, with a gay smalle. "Cheap-very I think she did. I saw her tips frame that poor senseless wreck of a man cheap. I hope I am not going to funk the whisper "Yes" la reply, and over was arousing in the woman's heart it. It is all very well for some of her face there swept suddenly a look by his wandering touch. you long-faced fellows, who don't of great tenderness. seem to have much to live for, to fight for the love of fighting. I don't want to fight any man; I am too fond of 'em all for that."

"Marny," he said. "Marny. It was After a little pause she rose and not too hard waiting for me." came to me.

"No, dear."

"Who is he?" she asked. "Fits-Warrener of the Naval Bri-The gade. Do you know him?”

went out after breakfast, and gave him a leg up on to his very sorry hores, which he eat like a tailor course it is quite hopeless." or a sailor. Ho held the ratus liko "Quite,"

"No. I never heard of him. Of

"It will be all right now, Marny.

part is all past,"

"Marny, you remember-the night|

loft-Marny-I

want-no-no,

tiller-lines, and indulged in pleased bed-side, with one arm laid across his hand within his shirt, for I saw some-

She returned to her position by the Your lips."

I knelt suddenly, and slipped- my| smile at the effect of the yellow boats,

"No great hand at this sort of cheat.

thing in his face.

24th Feb,thing,” he said, with nod of fare- Presently he began whispering As Sister's lipa touched his I felt|||

well. "When the beast does anything again, and at Intervals she answered his heart give à great bound within out of the comicon, or begins to him. It enddenly occurred to me that, his breast, and then it was still.. make heavy weather of it, I am not." in his unconsciousness, he was mis

When he lifted her face It was as He ranged up alongside his belov. taking her for someone else, and that

pale as his.

I must say that I felt like 'crying. - feeling which had not come to. In a few moments, I was sure of me for twenty years. I busled my- self purposely with the dead man, and

she, for some woman's reason. ed gun, and gave the word of com- mand with more dignity than he know deceiving him purposely.

what to do with.

All that day I was employes! in arranging quarters for the nurses. To

assured that my chief was making a great mistake.

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I tried not to look: but I saw when I had finished my task 1 turn-

neatly tied,

her

golden Hair hidden.

I signed the certificate, placing, my| name beneath hers,

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do this I was forced to turn some of all, I saw his poor blind hands wanted, and found Slater filling in the our most precious stores out into the der over her throat and face, up to papers her open, covering them with a tarpaulin, her hair. 3rd Feb. and in consoquence felt all the distinctly, with that tons of self-ab What is this?" he mattered quite

sorption which characterisqa, the day. At nine o'clock in the evening they ings of an unconscious man,What 3rd Feb. arrived one of the juniors having is this ellig exp?" 20th Feb. ridden out in the moonlight to meet Hi fingers wandered ali over the them. He reported them completely snowy men until they came to the exhausted; informed me that he had strings.

MELBOURNE, BRISBANE Melbourne Harn

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For a moment we stood. Our ever

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it open while she passed out..

Two hours later I received orders from the officer in command to send the mirses back to beadquarters. Our men were falling back before the

THE END.

recommended them to go straight to an aspirant to the title of gen 7th Feb. bed; and was altogether as I por many doctore know this feeling; as unemy.

tleman, I felt like running AWAY siastic about the matter than sonally or officially cared to sea doctor, I could only stay, analy His fingers fumbled with the He handed me a pencil note from

CONSIGNEES' NOTICE.

my chief at headquarters, explaining strings. Still Sister bent over the that he had not written me a disbad Perhaps she beat an inch or One" hand," was benoath patch because he had nothing but a two nearer.

abatter pen, with which instrument ho biz sock, supporting the poor shatte could not make himself legible. It ed head struck me that he was suffering from He slowly drew of the cap, and his a plethora of assistance, and was an fingers crept lovingly over the soft

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ex 8.5. xdous to reduce his staff,

fair haire Marny assistant to

*” he said, quite clearly, Benriança are reminded to take I sent my enthusiastic the nurses quarters, with a message you've done your hair up, and you're delivery of their goods which will that they were not to report them nothing but a little you know be subject to rent after February selves to me until they had had a nothing but a little girl night's rest. Then I turned in."

I could not help watching his fin

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