"The
mother's nearly out of her mind--she thinks he's killed, and I told her
I'd go and look for him."

"Is this the child? . . . All right, then, I'll carry him along for you.
Where did you leave his mother?"

Diana led the way to where the woman was sitting, still rocking herself
to and fro in dumb misery. At the sight of the child she leapt up and
clutched him in her arms, half crazy with joy and gratitude, and a few
sympathetic tears stole down Diana's cheeks as she and her fellow-helper
moved away, leaving the mother and child together.

The man beside her drew her arm brusquely within his.

"You're not going near that--that hell again. Do you hear?" he said
harshly.

His face looked white and drawn; it was smeared with dirt, and his
clothes were torn and dishevelled. Here and there his coat was stained
with dark, wet patches. Diana shuddered a little, guessing what those
patches were.

"_You've_ been helping!" she burst out passionately. "Did you want me to
sit still and do nothing while--while that is going on just below?" And
she pointed to where the injured were being borne along on roughly
improvised stretchers. A sob climbed to her throat and her voice shook
as she continued: "I was safe, you see, thanks to you. And--and I felt
I must go and help a little, if I could."

"Yes--I suppose you would feel that," he acknowledged, a sort of grudging
approval in his tones. "But there's nothing more one can do now. An
emergency train is coming soon and then we shall get away--those that are
left of us. But what's this?"--he felt her sleeve--"Your arm is all
wet." He pushed up the loose coat-sleeve and swung the light of his
lantern upon the thin silk of her blouse beneath it. It was caked with
blood, while a trickle of red still oozed slowly from under the wristband
and ran down over her hand.

"You're hurt! Why didn't you tell me?"

"It's nothing," she answered. "I cut it against the glass of the
carriage window. It doesn't hurt much."

"Let me look at it. Here, take the lantern."

Diana obeyed, laughing a little nervously, and he turned back her sleeve,
exposing a nasty red gash on the slender arm. It was only a surface
wound however, and hastily procuring some water he bathed it and tied it
up with his handkerchief.

"There, I think that'll be all right now," he said, pulling down her
sleeve once more and fastening the wristband with deft fingers. "The
emergency train will be he