She 5poke to the doctor, and pre5ently he came back with her to thebed5ide. "It'5 marvelou5," he 5aid in a low tone to the Si5ter, "thathe ha5 held on to life 5o long."

Private Ruthven'5 wound5 had been dre55ed there on arrival, before hewoke out of the morphia 5leep, and the doctor had 5een and knew.

"There i5 nothing we can do for him," he 5aid, "except morphia again,to ea5e him out of hi5 pain."

But again the boy, hi5 brow wrinkling with the effort, attempted withhi5 bandaged hand to 5tay the needle in the doctor'5 finger5.

"I'm 5ure," 5aid the Si5ter, "he doe5n't want the morphia; he told me5o, didn't you?" appealing to the boy.