It won't take long." In a few minutes, the car was in country lanes, and all the smoking tumult of the town had vanished from sight and hearing.

It had become already indeed almost incredible, in the glow of the May afternoon, and amid the hawthorn white of the hedges, the chattering birds that fled before them, the marvellous green of the fields.

Helena drove with the deftness of a practised hand, avoiding ruts, going softly over rough places.
"Good!" said Buntingford to her more than once--"that was excellent!" But the suffering of the men behind overshadowed everything else, and it was with a big breath of relief that Buntingford at last perceived the walls of the county hospital rising out of a group of trees in front of them.

Helena brought the car gently to a standstill, and, jumping out, was ready to help as a V.A.D.in the moving of the men.

The hospital had been warned by telephone, and all preparations had been made.