They tell me, strong and well, again, to come at once and join my comrades of the Strangers, who are fighting the enemy." "You shall go in the morning," said Surgeon Delorme, putting his broad hand upon young Scott's head.

"The effects of the concussion will have vanished then." "But I want to get up now and put on my uniform; can't I ?" "I know no reason why you shouldn't.

There's a huge fellow named Picard around here who has been watching over you, and who has your uniform.
I'll call him." When John was dressed he walked with Picard into the edge of the forest.
His first steps were wavering, and his head swam a little, but in a few minutes the dizziness disappeared and his walk became steady and elastic.

He was his old self again, strong in every fiber.

He would certainly be with the Strangers the next morning.
Many more of the wounded, thousands of them, were lying or sitting on the short grass in the forest.