Help, missing page!

[gaborember]

Hi, I am a hungarian fan of Dennis Wheatley, and I would like to ask some help. Currently I reading from him „They Used Dark Forces”, and in my book there is a missing page. The book ISBN is: 0 7493 0677 7. The missing page is p. 312. (there are two p. 314 instead). I would like to ask you to send me the missing text. I just want to print the text and put it in my book. If you have another version of the book, that’s fine too. The missing text is in the chapter titled „No Escape”. It’s somewhere in the middle of the chapter. My p. 311 last paragraph is:

„He found, as he had expected, that manpower now being so short in Germany, the hospital was greatly understaffed and that conditions in it were appalling. There were no female nurses.The scant care given to the patients was by medical orderlies, all of whom were too badly crippled by old wounds to be sent back to the Front, and of these there was only one to each wards of forty beds. To assist him each had two „trusties” who, helped by the inmates of the ward who were not bedridden, took round the food and kept the ward free of its worst filth.”

And comes the missing p. 312. My p. 313 begins as follows (the beggining of the sentence is on the missing page):

„but Gregory felt sure that the doctors and other staff would still be about in their quarters for some time to come; so he controlled his impatience as best as he could and lay listening to the grim symphony of groans, coughs, incoherent ramblings and occasional cries of pain that came from the other beds.”

So I ask from you the missing text in any form. I bought the book from the Book Depository, but it was months ago, and now they don’t have it.

[dem bones]

apologies for the delay, but i only just spotted this. The missing p. 312 runs as follows (have enclosed a scan, but you'll need to log-in to download it).

....To assist him each had two "trusties” who, helped by the inmates of the ward who were not bedridden, took round the food and kept the ward free of its worst filth.

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The lack of supervision in this death house—for it was little else—was most favourable to Gregory's project and he set about it without delay, for his best chance of carrying it out successfully lay in doing so before the hospital staff became familiar with his features.

Being allowed to move freely about the ward he tried to put the awful stench of the place out of his mind and spent the afternoon going from bed to bed, finding out the circumstances of the other occupants. Several of them were obviously dying and it looked as if two or three of them would not last out the night. One of these, wheezing terribly, said that his name was ­Franz Protze and that he was a Lubeck lawyer who had been sentenced to three years for having forged the will of one of his clients. Having sympathized with him on his harsh fate, Gregory moved on among the other beds until he had completed the round of the ward. He then decided his purpose would best be served by making use of the dying lawyer.

About six o'clock a doctor, who was himself a prisoner, made the round of the ward; but he was evidently so inured to being unable to cope with its perpetual horrors that spoke only briefly to a few of the patients, here and there handed out a couple of aspirins and giving the others no more than a glance. One man was found to be dead and the doctor told the two trusties to remove his body. No night garments were issued to the patients, so those in bed were all lying in their soiled underclothes. The trusties unceremoniously stripped the dead man and carried away his naked corpse.

When the doctor had gone bowls of bluish, heavily watered milk and slices of bread with a smear of margarine were passed round. Then, when darkness fell, to economize electricity, only one low-power electric light was switched on, and those patients who had been capable of moving about began to undress. The crippled medical orderly also started to undress and it became evident that he did night as well as day duty, occupying a bed near the door. That gave Gregory some uneasiness, but he felt that the chances were that, after their long day's work, the orderly and the two trusties would all sleep soundly, so prove no impediment to his plans.

By nine o'clock the ward had settled down for the night,

.... but Gregory felt sure that the doctors and other staff would still be about in their quarters for some time to come; so he controlled his impatience as best as he could and lay listening to the grim symphony of groans, coughs, incoherent ramblings and occasional cries of pain that came from the other beds.

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