The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1918-09-26

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\ An American Hospital in France,
Sept. . (By mail)-"No they're not
going to bring the sergeant back to
the ward, boys"
Those were exactly the words the
nurse used But the tone of her
voice and the look in her eyes said
more
The little group in the ward which
had been playing cards on one Of the
beds to forget the tension they felt
while the sergeants operation was
taking place, stopped suddenly, all
attention, all hungering for good
/ news.
you don't mean the Sergeaifrs
gone, do your" exclaimed one.
Yes, boys. the sergeant's gone.
Four operations were just too much
for his strength. He never regained
consciousness
The little group of patients and
the nurse were silent
The chap with one leg gone had
half deck Of cards in his hand.
Dazed, he relaxed, and the cards fell
to the floor, scattering over half the
ward. The chap with one leg gone
never noticed them
He Was a Game Boy.
Gee, the sergeant's gone he said
huskily, "he sure was a game boy"
He was the best fellow | ever
knew said another, and the cheer
fullest, too I've seen them dressing
his leg time and again, and gosh but
it hurt, But did the sergeant ever
say anything? Not the sergeant-hc
never batted an eye"
Just to think" mused a third, lit
wasn't half an hour ago when we
saw him go out. | shouted Good
luck, Sarge, when the stretchcr was
carried through the door, and he
smiled and said, Thanks, I'll be back
in few minutes with you
They sat there together, the half a
dozen of the sergeants bunkies, all
invalids, with the nurse of the ward,
just musing and talking like that,
trying to realize that the sergeant
was gone. Mess time came and went,
and no one paid any attention to it
they were thinking only of the SER
geant
The sergeant was Frank Carbaugh
of Greencastle, Pa, a member of the
7th Machinegun Sanitary Detachment.
His mother is Mrs. Carbaugh and no
mother ever reared braver son.
Didn't TaIk- of Deeds.
THE sergeant, Who was a mathe-
matics teacher before the war, was
wounded when his outfit was rushed
into action near Chateau Thierry
None of his bunkies knew just how,
because, as one of them explained,
THE sergeant wasn't the kind of a
fellow who'd talk of himself. You
can bet he was wounded doing some
thing for somebody, though"
They did know that the seTgoal III =
lay out in the open long time after
he was wounded Medical records
showed that. His leg was badly .
and they operated at the
first hospital he reached But gan
creme had set in, and operations
lad followed in an effort to save him.
They have had lots of brave pa
tents that doctors and nurses and
,atients admired alike in that hos
'ital, but never one just like the Ser.
,eant who said little was always jok-
ng and cheerful and never had
omplaint. The rest of the boys in
he ward would do anything in the
World for "the Sarge" -
The little group sitting on the cots.
With the nurse. had been talking of
he sergeant for a long time when
ne of the boys said, You ought to
rite to his mother, Miss Cutter. The
afge thought the world of his moth
r"
I'm going to-" replied the nurse.
you boys write out what you think
the sergeant, and I'll send that.
&C."
What the Boys Wrote.
The boys did. ana here arc few
res from them
Private Elmer Hyland wrote. Il was
it'll him as soon as he came from
Ie operation, and | cried when he
ent He was Il great boy-a clean !
low through and through wish
y foot was 50 I could walk with him |