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My Aunt. Chapter 22
Date: 9/25/2015, Categories: First Time, Author: Annamagique, Rating: 9, Source: LushStories
then looked up at Philomena. She smiled but said nothing. After a pause, all I could think was, what seemed to me, a rather feeble, "I know you do, Thomas." Doctor Harris now appeared at my side. "It is time," he said. Unnoticed by me, the ambulance had arrived and was outside the tall glass doors. It looked, to my untrained eye, little more than a canvas covered lorry with a large red cross on the side. Already, the driver and his mate had rolled up the canvas at the rear and lowered the tailgate ready for the stretcher. Philomena unlatched and swung open the two doors to allow the orderlies to take hold of each end of the stretcher and take it straight out. I walked the few paces beside Thomas and, before they lifted him into the back of the ambulance, kissed him once more and said, "Take care, Thomas. I know you will be all right." He smiled, his eyes still staring, sightless. "I will see your beauty again, one day," he whispered. I released his hand as the stretcher was taken up and fitted into the hooks which would support the handles until they arrived at the station. "Don't worry, Victoria, I will be travelling with him to London." Philomena put her arm around my shoulders and it was only now that I realised she was wearing the long dark blue cloak for the journey ahead. I nodded and smiled weakly then watched her climb up into the rear of the ambulance. I stood quietly, eyes moist, as one orderly lifted the tailgate and secured the canvas to it, while the other, ...