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The wounded Avdéev was taken to the hospital -- a small wooden building roofed with boards, at the entrance of the fort -- and was placed on one of the empty beds in the common ward. There were four patients in the ward: one, ill with typhus and in high fever, and another, pale, with dark shadows under his eyes, who had ague and was just expecting another attack, and yawned continually; and two more who had been wounded in a raid three weeks before: one in the hand -- he was up -- and the other in the shoulder; the latter was sitting on a bed. All of them, except the typhus patient, surrounded and questioned the newcomer, and those who had brought him.
"Sometimes they fire as if it were peas they were spilling over you, and nothing happens. and this time only about five shots were fired," related one of the bearers.