It is a first lieutenant's;
but I fear I shall never wear my straps."
"Yes, you will. You are getting better slowly, but surely; and, my
friend, you must cheer up--believe 'He doeth all things well'--have
faith--live for your country. I feel that all will be well with you
yet. 'Hope on, hope ever.'"
I went and saw Dr. B.; told him it was as I had thought.
I gave him an idea of the trouble and left.
I had become so much interested in Ashton that I had almost ceased my
visits to the other hospitals, except an occasional one to the "Armory
Square," where I had a few friends. I thought I would go over and make
a visit there this afternoon.
I went into ward C, and, after seeing how well my boys were getting
on, I inquired after the lady nurse, Mrs. A., a widow lady, to whom I
had become much attached for her devotion to the soldiers.
"She has gone home to recruit her health; has been away ten days; she
left the day after you were here last," replied one of the boys. "But
we have, just think, in her place a lady from the South--Miss or Mrs.,
indeed I do not know which, for I have never heard her spoken of other
than Emma Mason. But here she comes."
I had time to look at her for several moments before she came to the
patient I was sitting by.
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