He shook his head after examining the man's wound, which was fairly between the shoulders.
"'He may live a few hours, but there is no chance of his getting better.' "'Now,' I said, 'you may as well have a look at my wound, for the villain stabbed me too.' "'You have had a pretty narrow escape of it,' he said, as he examined it.

'If he had struck an inch or two nearer the shoulder the knife would have gone right into you; but you see I expect he was springing as he struck, and the blow fell nearly perpendicularly, and it glanced down over your ribs, and made a gash six inches long.

There is no danger.

I will bandage it now, and tomorrow morning I will sew the edges together, and make a proper job of it.' "In the morning one of the hospital attendants came to me and said the soldier who had been wounded wanted to speak to me.

The doctor said he would not live long.