James M. Dodd
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Well, then that little beast laid his horrible deformed hands on me and began pulling me off the bed.
My wound was bleeding, but he went on.
He was as strong as a bull.
I don't know what he was going to do, but an elderly man suddenly came in and shouted an order in Dutch, and the little monster moved away.
This is fantastic.
It's only true.
Well, the elderly man spoke to me in English.
I'm a doctor, he said.
That shoulder of yours wants fixing up quickly, but man alive, do you know where you are?
A hospital, I said.
Yes, he said.
The leper hospital.
You're lying in a leper's bed.
Now you'll have the truth, Mr. Dodd.
Thanks to the British advance, I was in the general hospital at Pretoria within a week.
Apart from my shoulder, I seem to be all right.
It wasn't until they got me home when I came here that these terrible signs began to appear on my face.
I knew then that I hadn't escaped.
What was I to do, Mr. Dodd?
We had two servants we could trust completely.