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A second later an infirmier ran up with a little packet and pushed it into my hand. "His papers," he explained. I pocketed them and pulled the door shut, and we were off. The man lay motionless on his back, conscious, but desperately weak. Once I turned my pocket-lamp on him and saw that he was young about thirty with damp dark hair and a thin face.
He was a peasant of the Woevre, one of a stolid, laborious race. "The lieutenant has gone to the telephone shelter to ring up the batteries," said the infirmier. "Good," said a vibrant, masculine voice somewhere in the straw.
'A most useful member of our party, at present disguised as an infirmier in Lady Manorwater's Hospital at Douvecourt. He is learning French, and ... 'Hush! I whispered. 'There's someone in the next room. I swept her behind a stack of furniture, with my eyes glued on a crack of light below the door.
As I looked at them, I thought of the blue bundles I had seen drying upon the barbed wire, and felt sick at the brutality of the whole awful business. The sun was shining over the bluish mists of Lyons, and the bell of old Saint-Jean was ringing. Two Zouaves, stone blind, went by guided by a little, fat infirmier. At the frontier, the General Staff was preparing the defense of Verdun.
The "sergents de ville" have received orders to arrest anyone wearing the Red Cross who is unable to produce his certificate as an infirmier. This has thrown the petits crevés the pets of priests and old ladies those youths who are best described by the English expression, "nice young men for a small tea-party" into consternation.
The soldiers, who sat hunched up on the edge of the platform, their feet in the corridor, gave vent to a burst of anger that had its source in exasperation. "This is going too far." "Why don't they answer?" "Really, now, this is getting to be a real nuisance." Suddenly two forms loomed large in the left doorway, and the stolid sentry of whom I have spoken limped in on the arm of an infirmier.
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