hang around until the last minute
before closing time came.

He found himself yawning several times, and admitted that he would be
foolish to spend any more time in trying to keep awake, when even a
half-way decent bunk awaited his occupancy.

He had reached the door in the act of departing when he became aware of
the fact that there was an unusual bustle without. On looking to see
what it meant Jack found that a Red Cross ambulance had drawn up
alongside the dugout entrance. Some persons were issuing forth from the
interior of the motor vehicle.

Jack knew that these long distance ambulances, after taking a load of
badly injured fighting men all the way it might be to Paris, on the
return journey would often be loaded down with fresh surgical supplies.
Yes, and on several occasions he had even known them to bring new
nurses to the fighting front, to take the place of those who had been
injured or fallen sick.

As everything of that sort had a special interest for Jack, he watched
several trim figures emerge from the motor transport vehicle. All of a
sudden he gave a start, straightened himself up, looked eagerly again,
rubbing his eyes at the same time, and then with an exclamation hurried
forward.

A girl in khaki garments that told of the Y. M. C. A. worker had just
alighted. She was followed by an older woman, who seemed to be the last
of the quartette and who was evidently in charge of the detachment, for
Jack saw that the others deferred to her judgment.

In half a dozen strides he was over at the spot.

"Bessie!"

The girl with the rosy cheeks and bright eyes turned quickly on hearing
him call this name softly. A smile flashed over her face, and
instinctively her hand was extended cordially:

"Oh, Jack, how glad I am to see you!" she exclaimed.

Jack then greeted the older woman. After a few words Mrs. Gleason said:

"I hardly know what to do, as we ought to be at the field hospital, and
here the driver has dropped us, naturally from our costumes, before the
Y. M. C. A. hut. But of course you can advise me."

"Certainly I can," Jack hastened to say. "I'll see that he takes you on
as soon as he unloads some things I notice he has for the people here.
Yes, and for fear that you get lost I'll try to go along with you, for
there's the officer who can give me permission to leave quarters."

"Where are Tom and Harry?" asked Bessie, for she noticed that the nurses
who had also come in the ambulance were