He had never told any of them of Dr.Gys' strange remark during their first interview, but he had not forgotten it.

"I'll be happier when I can shake off this horrible envelope of disfigurement," the doctor had declared, and in view of this the report of that day's adventure gave the kind-hearted gentleman a severe shock.
He walked the deck thoughtfully while the girls hurried below to look after the new patients who had been brought, not too comfortably, in the damaged ambulance.

"It was a bad fight," Ajo had reported, "and the wounded were thick, but we could only bring a few of them.

Before we left the field, however, an English ambulance and two French ones arrived, and that gave us an opportunity to get away.

Indeed, I was so unnerved by the dangers we had miraculously escaped that I was glad to be out of it." Uncle John tried hard to understand Doctor Gys, but the man's strange, abnormal nature was incomprehensible.