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Updated: May 7, 2025
It is one thing to meet people as Lord Durwent's daughter, and quite another as a free-lance ambulance-driver. I've seen what people really are since I've been on my own, and I'm sick of the whole thing. 'You don't mean that, Elise? 'I do. Men are rotten, and women are cats. He smiled quizzically, but she kept her eyes averted from his.
The cabby pulled up at the General Hospital, leapt down, and hastened round to the garage. He wakened the night ambulance-driver, stayed until the driver and an interne had carried The Spider into the hospital, and then drove away before he could be questioned.
Interspersed with these details she recounted incidents of her London life as an ambulance-driver, and it was all her listener could do to follow the swift irrelevance of her course. Only once did she pause when, in answer to his question, she told him she had heard nothing of Dick. A few minutes later she rose to go. 'I have stayed much too long, she said. 'I do hope you'll get better quickly.
Kurt could drive himself, but he thought that if he had been as good as this fellow he would have chosen one of two magnificent services for the army an ambulance-driver at the front or an aeroplane scout. On the way to Glencoe several squads of idling and marching men were passed, all of whom bore the earmarks of the I.W.W. Sight of them made Kurt hug his gun and wonder at himself.
When I presented myself I didn't think that there was anything seriously the matter; my arm had swelled and was painful from a wound of three days' standing. The doctor, however, recognised that septic poisoning had set in and that to save the arm an operation was necessary without loss of time. He called a sergeant and sent him out to consult with an ambulance-driver.
The crowd remained mute, helpless and frightened at the spectacle, when they saw a young woman approach him, a woman dressed in the khaki uniform of an ambulance-driver. 'Austin, they heard her say, 'please give me the little girl. With a stupid smile he handed the child to her, and she laid it on a stretcher.
'Hello, Elise! said the beauty casually, as the door opened and Elise Durwent entered, dressed in the uniform of an ambulance-driver. 'You'll find the room standing on its head, but chuck those things anywhere. 'Going out again? asked the new-comer, stepping over several feminine garments that had been thrown on the floor. 'Just a dance up the street in Jimmy Goodall's studio.
I drove there now, and refreshed myself with a bath and breakfast, casting about me meanwhile for some mode of occupying the hours till noon. There were various tasks, I knew, that should have claimed me; a visit to the police to secure a carte de sejour, the presentation of my credentials as an ambulance-driver, a polite notification to friends that I had arrived.
"This officer ought to go out at once. Are you willing to take a chance?" asked the sergeant. The ambulance-driver took a look at the chalk road gleaming white in the sun where it climbed the ridge. "Sure, Mike," he said, and ran off to crank his engine and back his car out of its place of concealment. "Sure, Mike," that was all.
The house-doctor saw at once that The Spider could not live, administered a stimulant, and telephoned to the police station, later asking the ambulance-driver for the cabman's number, which the other had failed to notice in the excitement. As he hung up the receiver a nurse told him that the patient was conscious and wanted to speak to Dr. Andover.
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