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Tommy and Sandy stepped into the open air and were directed around to the rear of the house. There, face up in the moonlight, lay the man whom Will had described as an East Indian. The bandage was still around his head, but a new wound was bleeding now. His eyes were already fixed and glassy. The bullet had entered the center of the forehead. "He shoot man inside!" the Indian grunted.
He slowly removed this bandage, and exposed to view a long dark beard, curling over his upper lip, twisting about the corners of his mouth, and hanging down upon his breast. 'What is this? I exclaimed involuntarily, 'and what have you become? 'I am the Ghost of Art! said he. The effect of these words, slowly uttered in the thunder-storm at midnight, was appalling in the last degree.
"If the bandage was loosened a bit, it would ease my arm and then I could sleep. Can you do it, Ned?" "I dare not touch it. The doctor gave orders to leave it till he came in the morning, and I shall only do harm if I try." "But I tell you it's too tight. My arm is swelling and the pain is intense. It can't be right to leave it so. Dr. Scott dressed it in a hurry and did it too tight.
They had not ventured to bandage up his face, as if wounded; as he would have naturally, in that case, had a military pass. As the best thing they could think of, they had shoved a large lump of cotton into one of his cheeks which gave him the appearance of having a swelled face and had instructed him to frequently put his hand up to it, as if in great pain.
The blood had oozed out on one spot through the hastily made bandage, so I offered him my first-aid package, besides cognac and cigarettes. But he did not move. It was not until I laid my hand on his shoulder that he raised his head and the face he showed me threw me back like a blow on the chest.
If you had placed before the mouth and lower part of the face a mask or bandage, the whole character of the upper face would have changed at once, the eye lost its glittering falseness, the brow its sinister contraction; you would have pronounced the face not only beautiful, but sweet and womanly.
Douglas Stone took his case of bistouries from a drawer, and placed it with a roll of bandage and a compress of lint in his pocket. He must waste no more time if he were to see Lady Sannox. "I am ready," said he, pulling on his overcoat. "Will you take a glass of wine before you go out into this cold air?" His visitor shrank away, with a protesting hand upraised.
"I won't, now, honest; see 'f I do," replied Master Johnny, in a choked voice. "And you may have that bouquet-holder, to keep; mother said so." "O, Johnny!" "Yes; mother says we can call it a 'peace offering. Let's not quarrel any more, Dotty, just to see how 'twill seem." "What, never!" exclaimed Dotty, starting up on her elbow, and trying to look through her thick bandage at Johnny. "Never!
Ross reports a case of transfixion in a young male aborigine, a native of New South Wales, who had received a spear-wound in the epigastrium during a quarrel; extraction was impossible because of the sharp-pointed barbs; the spear was, therefore, sawed off, and was removed posteriorly by means of a small incision. The edges of the wound were cleansed, stitched, and a compress and bandage applied.
It was some weeks before Vincent was able to walk unaided. His convalescence was somewhat slow, for the shock to the system had been a severe one. The long railway journey had been injurious to him, for the bandage had become somewhat loose and the broken pieces of bone had grated upon each other, and were much longer in knitting together than they would have been had he been treated on the spot.
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