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Nothing interested him, nothing comforted him not even a promise from the doctor of a long rest in England. There were also many victims of the prevailing epidemics of trench-fever and rabid influenza. The clearing station was thus hard put to it to make room for all newcomers by means of evacuation. For our batch this happened next evening.
We're immensely merry all except the trench-fever case who has conceived an immense sorrow for himself. We get impatient with waiting. There's an awful lot of cheering going on somewhere; we suppose troops are marching and can't make it out. Ah, we've started! At a slow crawl to prevent jarring we pass through the gates. We discover the meaning of the cheering.
In my tent there was no one very bad at the time, except a boy with his shoulder half-blown off by a whizz-bang, who lay in a drugged sleep at the far end. The majority were influenza, bronchitis, and trench-fever waiting to be moved to the base, or convalescent and about to return to their units.
We're delayed for some minutes while particulars are checked up of our injuries and destinations. The lying cases are placed four in an ambulance, with the flap raised at the back so we can see out. The sitting cases travel in automobiles, buses and various kinds of vehicles. In my ambulance there are two leg-cases with most theatrical bandages, and one case of trench-fever.
I have had a touch of trench-fever or something, not enough to result in being sent home to hospital, and have now got a few days' sick-leave to pull round after a course of weak gruel." "That's very unusual, isn't it?" "What, Flamby?" "To get home leave after treatment at a base hospital? I mean they might as well have sent you home in the first place." Don stared at her long and seriously.
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