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Show tox' 'l‘lllC lt\lll{ l"t)lilCS'l‘ NlKlTlN oeeasious as his eontidant. and ot' these two oeeasious I can reeall every detail. We returned that night From S W", to tiud that the whole titriad had ri'lilt‘tl in the village ot' 31,-rw, where I myself had been the night het'ore. We were all living,r in an enmty deserted t'armhouse, with a yard, a big orehard, wide barns and a wild overrun garden. We were, l think, a little disappointed at the very languid interest that the history of our adventures roused. but the truth was that the wounded had begun to arrive in great. numbers and there was no time too they would talk, telling how the thin;v had happened to them: "i\nd there, your llonour, before I eould move. she had rome sueh a noisesieh. eh. a terrible thin‘;r ~ I ealled out ‘Zi‘mlnle, llere it isl‘ l said, and he . . llut as a rule they were very quiet, start in}; perhaps at the sting ot' the iodine, askingr tor a bandage to he lighter or not so tieht‘ sometimes suddenly slipping in a taint to the ground. and then apologising at‘terwards. .\nd in their eyes always that look as though. very shortly, they would hear for travellers" stories. some story so marvellous that it. would eomtn mate t'or all A dream. I know, yesterday's experiences seemed to me as I settled down to the business that had filled so much of my earlier period at. the war. Here, with the wounded, I was at home-the bare little room, the table with the bottles and bandages and scissors, the basins and dishes, the air ever thieke‘ and thicker with that smell of dried blood. unwashed bodies, and iodine that is like no other smell in the world. their present pain and distress. there would he the doe toi's.;;'i'tier;1lly two at a time Seniyonov, unmoved, ronnh :titxareutly in his handling ot' the men but always aeeom tilishinn‘ his work with marvellous etlieieney, aliusinz'; the nurses and sauitars without limitation it. they did not do as he wished, but never t':tl~itlj'j his >ot't ironio who his simare body of a solidity and eomtimure that HI‘tltitti'j would The room would be crowded, the sani- tufile. his t'air heard, his ldue eyes, hi~ spotless linen all tars supporting legs and arms and heads, nurses dashing to :lmt‘ill: in his selffilSSltl'wl superiority to us all; one ot' the the table for bandages or iodine or scissors, three or four stretchers occupying the floor of the room with the soldiers who were too severely wounded to sit or stand, these soldiers often utterly quiet, dying perhaps, or watching" with eyes that realised only dreams and shadows, the little window l'i\i-ion doetors, .\le.\ei lvanmitwh, a man trorn little liu \ia. lteloved «it. its all, whether in the t ltt'iad or the arnn, :1 i‘lt.1t'.ott-I' possessine' it :~t‘t‘tttt'tl none ot- the lfumi tll niole I‘d ‘l‘ll"ll|llillt‘.‘, ot' the Undo»! lII‘JI'l lolt no "ti "ly l'I'lt‘ tirom setting-ism \l‘ll. intwro t, ' square, the strip of sky, the changing colours of the day: then the sitting soldiers, on ordinary of a marvellous and eons. loving passionately his eon'ilr. ~I‘I‘lt3ttt nt ilitv, t‘il ‘ ertmn, lot ind, \\.Ili itll liI. li"~\iz‘!i roinaneo and even mystieiwi , [uo'l ed with tiraetieal e :nnwu rt‘lt‘I‘I another lli\ ision d»‘ r, :i ionri , :o :n. i- it". most simple patienee. \ 'atehinej the bandaging‘ of their arms t: flit" ltilll‘i'll. :1 Imaetiee voi' o3. \lvvvwx: t:.>tvl..t!ll i and hands and legs, whispering sometimes "BU/'6 moi." limit ‘1'. aural with all the lillt'l in» Him .'. l il i‘wv'kt' ~, tut!‘ moi/U dragging" themselves up from their desperate Sit'ttyz'h‘ for endurance to answer the sanitars who asked their name. their regiments, the nature of their wounds. Sometiim‘d . . l .' . 3‘ Hotlilli‘; \‘t‘m ltl .: li‘m‘l} otvtinii-t mu," i'it‘iwi' .t'il \vlw-o lo hell .1 it" I" ilt‘tisliltiu iii it>.v-i:1eet'it‘.. l1: 'i‘tt. l -.t in] wt, own pow-1's rum |