3/10 He seemed to feel at home and began to help with the bags and various paraphernalia of ambulance travellers. His face was smiling and friendly and I knew I should like him. It formed two sides of a hollow square; the other two sides were a high wall, and the Government freight-house respectively. The courtyard was partly shaded by a ramada and partly open to the hot sun. There was a chicken-yard in one corner of the inclosed square, and in the centre stood a rickety old pump, which indicated some sort of a well. |