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Captain Kettle stepped out from the little knoll that sheltered him, and ran rapidly across the open. The German bullets hummed near his ears, sang by his ribs, hissed past his legs, and spat up fountains of dust from the ground below, but he went steadfastly on to where the man was writhing and squirming in the barbed wire, and with brisk, capable fingers disentangled him.
The man said, "Go away, you damned fool. I'm done for."