John was impressed anew by his youth.

"Why do they let such babies come to the war ?" he asked himself, but he added, "They're brave babies, though." "Well, he's pulling along all right," said Carstairs.

"I was up before you and I learned that Captain Colton sent a surgeon in the night to examine him.

Wharton had done a good job with his bandages, he admitted, but he cleaned and dressed the wound and said the patient was in such a healthy condition that he would be entirely well again in a short time.
He's only a young boy, isn't he, Scott ?" "Yes, I suppose that's why I have such a fatherly feeling for him." "That, or because you brought him in from sure death.

We're always attached to anyone we save." "I mean to have him exchanged and sent back to his mother in Austria.
He's bound to have a mother there and she'll thank me though she may never see me.