Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1902-05-31

gladness was not without admixture.
/ remembered with confusion my In
subordinate and stealthy conduct; n
when / saw where II had brought me
among what companions and sur
rounded by what dangers-I felt
ashamed to look him in the face.
He must have risen In h dark. for
the day had hardly come: and when l
ran to a loophole and o III i
saw him standing, like Silver once be-
fore, up to the mid-leg In creeping
vapor.
you, doctor! Top o. the morning 10
you, sir!" cried Silver, broad awake
and beaming over with good nature IN
a moment. 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.. Livesey over the ships
side. All a dom we'll. your patients
was-all well and merry"
So he battered on, standing on the
hill top, with his crutch under his ell
bow and one hand upon the side OF tne
log house--quite the old John In voice,
manne and expression.
We've quite a surprise for you, TOO,
sir" he continued. We've a little
stranger here-he! he! A moo boarder
and lodger, sir, and looking mt n
taut as a fiddle; slep' Ike a super
cargo, he did, right alongside or John
stem to stem he was, all night.
DIR. Livesey was by this time across
the stockade and pretty near the COOK,
and / could hear the alteration In ms
voice as he said:
mot Jim?" :.
",The very same Jim as ever was
SO ys Silver.
The doctor stopped outright, although
he did not speak, and II was some Sec
onds before he seemed to move on.
well, well,' he said at last, duty
first and pleasure afterward, as you
might have said yourself, Silver. Let
uB overhaul these patients or yours
A afterward he had entered
the block house, and, with one grim
nod to me, proceeded with his work
among the sick. He seemed TO De
under no apprehension, though ne
must have known that his life amc1g
these ~treacherous demons depended Oh
a hair, and he ratified on TO MS pa
tlents as II he were paying an orolnary
professional visit In a quiet Ehgnsh
family. His manner. i SUPPOSE re-
acted on the men. for they behaved to
him as IL nothing occurred-as IL ne
were still ships doctor and they stlil
faithful hands before the mast.
You're doing well, my friend, ne
said TO the fellow with the bandagcd
head, land If ever any person had q
close shave, It was you; your heao
must be as hard as iron. Wen, George
how goes It? You're a pretty Color,
certainly; why, your liver, man. IS
upside down. Did you take that ineal-
cine? Did you taxi that medicine
men2"
LAY, ay, sir, he took It, sure enough,
returned Morgan.
Because. you see, since l am mutt
neers' doctor, or prison doctor, as l
prefer to call It," said DR.. Livesey, In
his pleasantest way, II make II a point
OF honor not TO lose a man Tor hlns
George God bless himD and the gal
lows"
The rogues looked at each other, but
swallowed their home-thrust IN ST.
lenCe.
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 sur"
prised If he did; the mans tongue is
fit to brighten the French Another
fever"
"Ah, there" said Morgan. that
coined OF sp'ling bibles"
"That comed-as you call it--of be-
ing arrant asses" retorted the docto",
not having sense enoughTo know
honest air from poison, n the dry
land from a vile, pestiferous slough. l
think 1t most probable-though' Oh
course, it's only an opinion-that you
all have the deuce to pay before you
get hat malaria out OF your systems.
Camp in a bog, would you? Silver,
I'm surprised at you. You're less or a
fool than many, take you all round;
but you don't appear to me TO nave
the rudiments of a notion of the Jules
of health. Well" he added, after he
had dosed them round, and they had
taken his prescriptions, with really
laughable humility, more like charity
school children than ~blood-guilty mutt
neers and pirates-'well, that's done
Tar today. And now l should wish to
a talk with that boy, please"
Aad he nodded his head in my direc-
ton carelessly.
GtIMtge Merry was at the door, spit
ting end spluttering over some bad
tasting medicine; but at the first words
Of the Doctors proposal he swung
round with a deep flush and cried:
mol" and swore.
Silver struck the barrel with his
open hand.
"~Si-lence!' he roared, ana looked
about him positively like a lion. Doc
he went on, IN his usual tones,
Il was ~a-thinking Of that, knowing
how you q n fancy for the boy.
We're all humbly grateful for your
kindness. and, as you see puts faith In
and takes the drugs down like
hat much grog. And l take 1t I've
found a way ash suit all. Hawkins.
will you give me your word Of honor
as a young gentleman, for a young
gentleman you are, although poor born
your word Of honor not to slip your
/ readily gave the pledge required.
Then, DOCTOR" said Silver, you
step outside O. hat stockade, and
once you're there, I'll bring the boy
down on the inside, n l reckon o
,an yarn through the spars. Good
lay to you, sir, and all our dooties 70
souira and Cam Smollett"