"Well, my friend, come up here. What can I do for you?"He felt the cold, bracing air in his nostrils, and slowly, very slowly at first, he began to hear and understand the sounds around him. The shriek of a wounded comrade carried past, whose leg had been shattered, first sounded like the hum of bees, and finally translated itself into something like its true meaning, but he had no comprehension or sympathy for its misery."So I understand," Dr. Haenlingen said. "And you talked. Andwhatever his situationyou managed to increase his tension rather than understand or lessen it."Norma almost reached forward to shake some sense into the old woman. But she was Dr. Haenlingen, after allThis made the boys much worse.
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