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Mammy Riah caught up with her , but she broke away . `` Go home if you want to -- oh , go back , '' she cried irritably . `` I am looking for Jack , you know . '' Into the rude hospitals , one after one , she went without shuddering , passing up and down between the ghastly rows lying half clothed upon the bare plank floors . Her eyes were strained and eager , and more than one dying man turned to look after her as she went by , and carried the memory of her face with him to death . Once she stopped and folded a blanket under the head of a boy who moaned aloud , and then gave him water from a pitcher close at hand . `` You 're so cool -- so cool , '' he sobbed , clutching at her dress , but she smiled like one asleep and passed on rapidly .