Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1898-03-17
CHAPTER xxx.


/ was wakcned-indeed, we were all
mel shake himself together from where
he had fallen against the doorpost by
q clear, hearty voice hailing US from the
margin of the wood:
"Block-house, ahoy!" 1t cried Here's
the DOCTOR"
And the doctor 1t was. Although I
was glad to hear the sound, yet my
gladness was not without admixture.
l remembered with confusion my in
subordinate and stealthy conduct; and
when I saw where 1t had brought me
among what companions and surround
ed by what dangers-I felt ashamed to
look him in the face.
He must have risen In the dark, for
the day had hardly come; and when
ran to loop-hole and looked out saw
him standing, like Silver once before,
up to the mid-leg in creeping vapor.
"You, doctorl Top o the morning to
You. siri" cried Silver, broad awake and
bright and early, to be sure, and It's
the early bird, as the saying goes, that
gets the rations. George, shake up your
timbers, son, and help DR.. Liyesey over
the ships side. All a-dooin' well, your
patients was-all well and merry"
So he pattered on, standing on the
hill top, with his crutch under his ell
bow and one hand upon the side of the
log house-quite the old John in voice,
manner and expression.
"We've quite surprise for you, too,
sir" he continued. "We've q little
stranger here-he! hei A moo boarder
and lodger, sir, and looking fit and taut
as a fiddle; slep' like a supercargo, he
did, right alongside of John-stem to
stem we was, all night"
Dr.. Livesey was by this time across
the stockade and pretty near the cook,
and I could hear the alteration In his
voice as he said:
Not Jim?"
THE very same Jim as ever was, says
Silver.
The doctor stopped outright, although
be did not speak, and 1t was some sec
Dnds before he seemed able to move on.
"Well, WELL" he said Mt last, duty
frst and pleasure afterward, as you
might have said yourself, Silver. Let
us overhaul these patients of yours"
A moment afterward he had entered
The block-house, and, with one grim
nod to me, proceeded with his work
among the sick. He seemed to me un-
der no apprehension, though he must
have known that his life among these
treacherous demons depended on hair,
he 20 hsu 4
he were paying an ordinary profess
sional visit in u quiet English family.
bis manner. / suppose, reacted on the
men, for they behaved to him US II
nothing occurred-as IL he were still
ships doctor and they still faithful
hands before the mast
you're doing well, my friend" he
said to the fellow with the bandaged
bead, "and II ever any person had q
close shave, it was you; your head must
be as hard as iro<. Well, George, how
goes It? You're a pretty color, certain
ly; why, your liver, man, is upside
down. Did you take that medicine?
Did he take that medicine, men"
"Ay, ay, sir, he took It, sure enough"
Morgan.
because, you see, since am mutt
neers' doctor, or prison doctor, as I pre-
fer to call It," said DR.. Lvesey, in his
pleasantest way, "I make 1t q point OF
honor not to lose n man for King
George God bless himD and the gal
lows"
The rogues looked at each other, but
swallowed the home-thrust IN silence.
"Dick don't feel well, sir" said one.
Don't hep" replied the doctor. "Well,
step up here, Dick, and let me see your
tongue. No, ! should be surprised IL
he did; the mans tongue Is fit TO
frightcn the French. Another fever"
"Ah, there" said Morgan, "thatcomec
of sp'iling Bibles"
"That comed-as you cGll it-of be
ing arrant asses" rctorted the doctor,
"and not having sense enough to know
honest air from poison, and the dry
land from q vile, pestiferous slough. j
think 1t most probable-though, OF
course, It's only an opinion-that you'll
all have the deuce 10 pay before you
get that malaria out of your systems.
Camp in n bog, would you? Silver, I'm
surprised ut you. You're less of q fool
than many, take you all ronnd; but you
don't appear to me to haNe the rudi-
ments of Il notion of the rules of health.
WE'LL" he added, after he had dosed
them round, and they had taken his
prescriptions, with really taughable hu'
mility, more like charity school chill
drcn than blood-guilty mutineers and
pirates-"wdl, that's done for to-day.
And now should wish to have q talk
with that boy, please"
And he nodded his head In my direc-
ton carelessly.