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"Then you must hurry," declared his cousin. "Wait here just a moment, and I will see that the car is ready and get a cloak to cover you. I almost fear you have waited too long, cousin," and hurried, from the room with a last sidelong look at Zaidos' bent head.
"As sure as my name is Zaidos," said the young Greek, "you are quite right! We will have to fight sooner or later." "Well, don't cross bridges," said Nick. "Sit tight, and I'll go over there and help clean up things." Light-heartedly they raced up the steep hill leading from the parade ground to the mess hall.
I knew just how it would be," and the hero of a single ballroom looked as wise as only a fellow could who had been dead-crazy over a girl all one evening. "What are you going to do about things?" asked Zaidos. "Go on being engaged?" "Indeed I'm not!" said Helen as she bathed the soldier's head. "Not at all! Just as soon as he can hold my hand, we will be married by the chaplain.
"You were on night duty, but I can't let you go until someone comes to relieve you. This is very apt to be a big day. You, Zaidos, get out in the first line trench, and don't lose your head. That cousin of yours is hunting for you. I sent him forward too. Nurse, the new troops are here; every trench and shelter is full of men. A big day, children, a big day!"
"Just some little plans of her own." "I'll bet Tony Hazelden is in them!" said Zaidos. The doctor chuckled. "Well, these girls! You never can tell," he said. "She will tell you herself, I've no doubt." He got up and straightened his bent back. "This sort of thing is hard on an old man," he said. "It is just two weeks since I have been to bed." "Well, this one feels good to me," said Zaidos.
Zaidos was the last person in the room to awaken. Half a dozen of the groups nearest the door had filed out, answered roll call, and stood at attention in the street when a man shook him roughly by the shoulder and roused him. "Get up, lazy-bones," he cried gruffly, "else you will feel the flat of a sword! Here you have been snoring since early last evening.
He dashed past the old woman, the nurses and the doctors, and was clasped in his father's arms. The events of that night long remained in Zaidos' memory, a blurred picture of pain and heart-break.
"Then I guess I'll get on my job," said Zaidos, unconsciously quoting the boys at school. "What's that?" asked the doctor. "Why," said Zaidos, "I planned to go back to New York after all this was over, and study medicine." "Couldn't do a better thing," said the doctor heartily. "That's the best thing you could possibly do.
She started on, but Zaidos put out his hand and detained her. "Just a moment, please," he said, smiling at her in his sunny way. "Is there a fellow here called Velo Kupenol? Tall fellow, thin, and looks a little like me perhaps?" "Perhaps not again," said the nurse, frowning a little. "Yes, your friend is here.
And that happened to be the very morning when he heard something that might have made him very unhappy, but did not. The doctor came along. "What are you going to do with yourself when we discharge you, young man?" he demanded. "I suppose I'll have to go back on the field," Zaidos replied. "Don't you want to?" asked the doctor. "I can't really say I do," said Zaidos regretfully.
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