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With the Serbs in Macedonia

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i68 WITH THE SERBS IN MACEDONIA<br />

seated <strong>in</strong> front, could only be placed on a<br />

stretcher to die.<br />

\^Tiile we were all sadly wait<strong>in</strong>g for our friend<br />

to go West, <strong>the</strong> Crown Pr<strong>in</strong>ce of Serbia drove up.<br />

He alighted and gazed <strong>in</strong> shocked sympathy at<br />

<strong>the</strong> dy<strong>in</strong>g man. Then he fumbled beneath his<br />

overcoat and took off his own order of Kara-<br />

georgevitch.<br />

''<br />

Pour la service,'' he said quietly, as he<br />

p<strong>in</strong>ned<br />

Noth<strong>in</strong>g could have been done more touch-<br />

it on <strong>the</strong> victim's breast.<br />

<strong>in</strong>gly and delicately, and <strong>the</strong> pity of it was that<br />

<strong>the</strong> dy<strong>in</strong>g man was too far gone to realize <strong>the</strong><br />

honour that had been bestowed upon him.<br />

That accident was <strong>the</strong> last straw so far as<br />

that particular aviation squadron was concerned.<br />

They had lost so many comrades <strong>in</strong><br />

this way that for a long time <strong>the</strong>y refused to<br />

fly Farmans <strong>in</strong> that district any more.

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