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Yet Jones declared that Maurie doubtless knew the country better than anyone they had yet met and the doctor likewise defended his patient. Indeed, Gys seemed to have taken quite a fancy to the little man and long after the others had retired for the night he sat on deck talking with the Belgian and getting his views of the war. "You say you had land at Ghent?" he once asked.
Maurie had been leaning out of the carriage and was frantically waving a handkerchief as she walked after them. "That's mummie that's mummie!" he said repeatedly, looking back into the carriage at her.
Uncle John began to feel slightly reassured. "Who will run the launch?" he inquired. "I'll give you the captain and one of the men," said the boy. "Carg's an old traveler and knows more than he appears to. Besides, he speaks German. We can't spare very many, you understand, and the ambulances will keep Maurie and me pretty busy.
"Let us start at once," pleaded Maud. Maurie began to examine the big ambulance. He was spry as a cat. In ten minutes he knew all that was under the hood, had tested the levers, looked at the oil and gasoline supply and started the motor. "I'll sit beside you to help in case of emergency," said Ajo, taking his place. Dr. Gys, Dr. Kelsey and the three girls sat inside.
Then I remembered that Elbl was to have been turned over to the prison authorities to-morrow and like a flash I saw through the whole thing." "I'm blamed if I do," declared Mr. Merrick. The others likewise shook their heads. "He got me out of the way, stole the launch, and is half way to Ostend by this time." "Alone? And wounded still an invalid?" "Doubtless Maurie is with him.
If that fellow Maurie is really in danger of being arrested and shot, he has cleverly placed himself in the safest service in the world. He knows that none of our party is liable to be suspected of evil." During the morning they were visited by a French official who came aboard in a government boat and asked to see Mr. Merrick.
Safely inside, one glance at the wounded man caused Gys to stiffen suddenly. He became steady and alert and noting that Patsy had now bared a portion of the gaping wound the doctor seized a thermos flask of hot water and in a moment was removing the clotted blood in a deft and intelligent manner. Now came Jones and Maurie bearing the man they had picked up.
"Love. If you want anything at all. There were some of the little boys down at Cailsham who were loathsome: horrid little wretches, who'd put out their tongues at you." "Sons of gentlemen," said Janet. "One of them spat at me once when I was giving him a music lesson. You couldn't want anything from them. But I could almost have believed that Maurie was mine." "Then why don't you go and see him?
All along the edge of the village the big guns were in action and there was a constant interchange of shot and shell from both sides. As Maurie dodged among the houses with the big car a shell descended some two hundred yards to the left of them, exploded with a crash and sent a shower of brick and splinters high into the air.
"Self preservation is the first law of nature, my dear," replied Uncle John. "I'm sorry for Maurie, but he alone is responsible. Henderson," he added, turning to the sailor, "put this woman ashore as soon as possible. We've had enough of her." Although the famous battle of Nieuport had come to an end, the fighting in West Flanders was by no means over.
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