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Cheering came from everywhere, cries of victory filled the air. As he looked down the valley Barry could see the horses they had left behind being brought, under cover of the artillery and infantry fire, to the hill they had taken. The grey mare would be among them. But Rudyard would not want the grey mare yet awhile. An ambulance-cart was the thing for him.
Not only so, but the General placed an ambulance-cart at her disposal, with an escort, from whom she received every mark of respectful sympathy. Yet Major Doveton was well known as one of their most strenuous opponents, a prominent member of the Reform Committee, and a leader who has played his part manfully in every fight where the Imperial Light Horse has been engaged.
"He was taken in the ambulance-cart and put in hospital. I saw him there and he was getting on all right." "And what did he say?" "He said I'd caught him out again and a lot more. But it was all nonsense, you know." "I expect he was sorry he'd ever made it hot for you," said one of the listeners. "You ought to have a VC or something for it, I consider," said another. "Rot!" answered Martin.
In the end Hyde was thrown to the ground, and received two nasty kicks one in the forehead, the other in the breast from the heels of the excited horse. The sailor got clear away, and our friend Hyde was picked up senseless half-an-hour later by a passing ambulance-cart, and carried back to camp. McKay, on returning to the Crimea, had resumed his duties at headquarters.
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