"He has got a nasty wound, and the ticket with him said that three ribs were badly fractured; but I made no examination, as he said he would be fetched the first thing this morning.

I only put on a fresh dressing and bandaged it.

The sooner you get him off the better, if he is to be moved.

Fever is setting in, and he will probably be wandering by this evening.

He will have a much better chance at home, with cool rooms and quiet and careful nursing, than he can have here; though there would be no lack of either comforts or nurses, for half the ladies in the town have volunteered for the work, and we have offers of all the medical comforts that could be required were the list of wounded ten times as large as it is." A stretcher was brought in, and Vincent was lifted as gently as possible upon it.