fell useless at his side he ll do said the doctor quietly it must have been a toss up all through the night think you re to be congratulated on this case oh said i thought the man had gone out long ago � only � only i didn t care to take my hand away rub my arm down there s a good chap what a grip the brute has i m chilled to soldiers three the he passed out of the tent shivering private was allowed to his of death by strong waters four days later he sat on the side of his cot and said to the mildly � i d a to a spoken to im � so i should but at that time was reading yet another letter � he had the most persistent correspondent of any man in camp � and was even then about to write that the sickness had and in another week at the outside would be gone he did not intend to say that the chill of a sick man s hand seemed to have struck into the heart whose for affection he dwelt on at such length he did intend to the illustrated programme of the whereof he was not a little proud he also intended to write on many other matters which do not concern us and doubtless would have done so but for the slight feverish headache which made him dull and at mess only a you are it said his might give the rest of us credit of doing a little work you go on as if you were the whole mess rolled into one take it easy i will said i m feeling done up somehow looked at him anxiously and said nothing there was a flickering of about the camp that night and a that brought men out of their to the tent doors a of the naked feet of and the rush of a galloping horse s up asked twenty tents and through twenty tents ran the answer � e s down they brought the news to and he groaned any one but and i shouldn t have cared the major was right not going out this journey gasped as he was lifted from the not going out this journey then with an air of supreme conviction � i you see soldiers three not if i can do anything said the surgeon major who had hastened over from the mess where he had been dining he and the surgeon fought together with death for the hfe of their were interrupted by a hairy apparition in a blue gray who stared in round eyed horror at the bed and cried � ow my it can t be until an indignant hospital orderly him away if care of man and desire to live could have done aught would have been saved as it was he made a fight of three days and the surgeon major s brow we ll save him yet he said and the surgeon who though he with the captain had a very youthful heart went out upon the word and in the mud not going out this journey whispered gallantly at the end of the third day said the surgeon major that s the way to look at it only a s as evening fell a gray shade gathered round s mouth and he turned his face to the tent wall wearily the surgeon major frowned tm awfully tired said very faintly what s the use of me with medicine i � don t � want � it let me alone the desire for life had departed and was content to drift away on the easy tide of death it s no good s id the surgeon major he doesn t want to live he s meeting it poor child and he blew his nose half a mile away the band was playing the to the sing song for the men had been told that was out of danger the clash of the brass and the wail of the horns reached s ears is there a single joy or pain that i should never � ow � you do not love me tis in vain bid me good by and go an expression of hopeless irritation crossed soldiers three the boy s face and he tried to shake his head the surgeon major bent down � what is it not that muttered our own � our very own dear with this sentence he sank into the stupor that gave place to death early next morning his eyes red at the and his nose very white went into s tent to write a letter to papa which should bow the white head of the ex of in the keenest sorrow of his life s store of papers lay in confusion on the table and among them a half finished letter the last sentence ran � so you see darling there is really no fear because as long as i know you care for me and i care for you nothing can touch me stayed in the tent for an hour when he came out his eyes were than ever only a private sat on a turned down bucket and listened to a not tune private was a and should have been tenderly treated ho said private there s another ed the bucket shot from under him and his eyes filled with a of sparks a tall man in a blue gray bed gown was regarding him with deep you ought to take shame for yourself � til learn you to the likes of im bloom in that s e is and the hospital orderly was so satisfied with the justice of the punishment that he did not even order private back to his cot in black and white by the to my father � when i was in your and we went 