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Ailsa Paige

CHAPTER XX
20/20

I understand that her furlough has arrived.

You'd better get her North on the next transport.

I guess that our angels are more popular in our hospitals just now than they would be tuning little gilt harps aloft.

We can't spare 'em, Mrs.Craig, and I guess the Most High can wait a little longer." Doctor, ward-master, apothecary, and nurses stood looking down at the slim, fever-flushed shape moving restlessly on the cot--babbling soft inconsequences, staring out of brilliant eyes at nothing.
The doctor whispered to the apothecary, and his gesture dismissed those who stood around her waiting in silence..


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