“He did just save our lives.” replied Barb, although with a note of uncertainty in her voice. “Come on, Nat, give me a hand let’s do what we can for him.”
Carefully, Barb worked the splinter loose and extracted it. Tearing a wide strip of cloth from the lower portion of the nurse’s skirt she still held in one hand, she began to dab at the bloody hole in Kubo’s back.
“More cloth!,” she demanded.
Natalie began to rip a strip from the Filipina girl’s dress.
“Why bother, Lieutenant? You know he’s going to die of that, and we ought to be making our escape before this whole place comes down on our heads!” Natalie said, as the vestibule ceiling overhead emitted an ominously long groan, suggesting a threat of imminent collapse.
“Just a sec. It may not be as bad a wound as I first thought!”
“Hurry!”
Working furiously, Barb applied all her nursing skills to fashion a makeshift dressing of torn cloth to staunch the bleeding oozing from Kubo’s gaping wound.
“Okay. Give me a hand. Help me get him out of here.”