The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-07-29
Hope Of New Chance Is the Dom.
inant Note. :
N i PAIN DO NOT MuRMul
Chief Interest 10 In Outcome Of Bat
tis In Which They Were Hurt-hos.
pitaI Crowded With Men From ~
Sections Who We're Barring the Way
to Paris When They Got Their
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pital. corridor I was aware. Of: pair
Of eyes. They were wlstful; they were
searching. They wanted something.
This was one of our; base hospitals,
and was there because It was crowd
ed with wounded AmeTicans,l writes
Mary Brush Williams In. the Chicago
Tribune. Our boys had 9 smelied fthe
smoke Of battle and borne Its wounds.
Swathed In bandages, they crowded
the wards whose swinging doors watt
ed the heavy odors Of iodoform. Not
nearly all Of, them could get into the
rooms. and the overflow lined the cor
ridors in 4 lane Of cots stretched end
to end.
Men from the Mississippi basin end
the wheat fields of the Northwest.
from California, New York and Ken
lucky filled that hospital, and it was
no light skirmishing that had brought
them there. They we're barring the
way to Paris when they got their
wounds.
IN q cot against an end vail sat q
boy whose gaze fascinated me. One
leg lay stimy in; cast outside the
bedclothes and one arm swung from
pulley. His pallid face was framed
in strong, black hair that reached
backward against the upright pillow.
Only his eyes showed any animation.
ana. although we were fully q half
block apart, they reached out, and
spanned the distance. stretching an in
visible bridge between him and me.
said to myself he wanted some
thing and that I would go and fetch 1t
for him. hurried as fast as could.
which wasn't very fast, because of the
congestion Of the corridor by blan-
keted men ON stretchers who were
being wheeled along the narrow path
between the cots. Nurses hurried
along, with thermometers and Red
Cross men with cups Of grdel.
"There's good deal Of traffic along
this boulevard" grinned a boy from
behind diagonal bandage with which
they had bound his head. "a,
Wants News o. Regiment.
All through my slow progress those
eyes never left my face. They kept
drawing and shortening the bridge be-
tween US. As neared his bed in. the
last lap Of that trip pushed past a
doctor and all but upset cup Of cot.
fee on chair beside cot, so urgent
seemed this one boys need.
Easy, lady! He threw out his voice
toward me. "Could you possibly tell
me have they got any news of my
regiment. Do you know whether they
heh?" He made no personal request.
As was gasping to recover from
the question 30 unforeseen another
voice REINFORCED him. 1t came from
q man lying fiat on his back in the
the next cot with his eyes bandaged
over and his face wearing the with
drawn, unparticipative look of those
who cannot see.
''What I want to know Is, did they
hold the railroad station In front Of
-? That Is the important question.
II they did, we're all right, and those
Boches could never get another. foot
nearer Paris along that front"
"A boy on a neighboring cot made q
gesture to indicate to me that this
mans sight. was forever gone. Only
! .hiesuppef forehead and his lower law
b&efe While beyond the blndage: but
they were set,and sunare. 4 wish !