Flower at the post office, where, a little later,
the constable landed his prisoners. Her companion Serlizer sought the
kitchen with Ben, while Mr. Errol joined his brother divine; but
Messrs. Hislop and Lajeunesse, with Mr. Hill, waited only for Sylvanus'
appearance to take their homeward journey. At last the ambulance waggon
drove slowly up, and tender hands lifted out the disabled and the
wounded. Miss Halbert and Miss Carmichael relieved the Captain of his
patient, who managed to hop cheerfully into the house, with an arm on
each of their shoulders. The Squire and the colonel helped the dominie
along, and up to a special single room which was to be his hospital, and
which Mrs. and Miss Du Plessis and Mrs. Carruthers were prepared to
enter as nurses, so soon as his bearers had put him to bed. Then the
doctor came up with his instruments, cut off the colonel's improvised
bandage and the shirt sleeve, bathed the wound, found and extracted the
bullet, and tied all up tight. The meek dominie bore it all with
patience, and apologized to his surgeon for giving him so much trouble
while he himself was suffering.
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