We wondered if it was the husband of the
frantic woman at Kralievo, but did not ask.
One went early to bed these nights. The men spread out into two
card-houses while Jo was hospitably given a real camp-bedstead in a
corner of the Stobarts' kitchen, on the floor of which slept their men
and also West, whose arm was getting worse.
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CHAPTER XIX
NOVI BAZAR
We awoke to find where we were. The little encampment which we had seen
to our left on entering the town, was now far on our right. The flat
plain--where was the large tent with the red cross painted over it--had
been our bed, the tent behind us; to our right was the brown hill topped
by the old Turkish blockhouse; and in front a cut maize field with its
solid red stubble sloped directly to the river, beyond which lay the
village massed on the opposite slope up to a white church. Immediately
below us on the river edge were the roofs of the "Stobarts'" refuge and
of the Scottish women's hospital. Poplar trees in all the panoply of
autumn sprang up from the valley with their tops full of the blackest
crows, who cawed discordantly at the dawn.
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