What's task number two ?" "To sit on the TNT! But one thing at a time is enough.

Let's attend to this one first.

Ah! Here comes Templeton!" "Damn you, Grim!" said a calm voice in the doorway.

A tall, lean man in major's uniform with the blue tabs of the medical staff strode in.

He had the dried-out look of the Sudan, added to the self-reliance that comes of deciding life and death issues at a moment's notice.
"The hospital is crowded with patients, and here you immobilize me for half a morning.