Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1911-03-10
CHAPTER XVIII. (continued.)

Was General Fordibras on board
With the man you speak off"
No this trip. / heard tell he'd gone
10 Europe. He's too easy for this job.
Three Fingers new could look a Shelf
Held knife in the face. / guess his
daughters got all the courage
We had passed another door of steel
as he spoke and descended a short flight
or stairs TO a second corridor, above
which were cabins of a commoner or
der. Here the surgery Of the ship had
been iocated-a weil-fitted, thoroughly
modern apartment. recently tenanted, IL
seemed. by a doctor who knew what the
hospitals OF Europe were doing. A
quick search discovered the antiseptics,
the wool, the IMMINENT. and the l~ancets,
without which so little could be done
Tor the wounded men above. There was
nothing missing for the practice of a
modern art.
1t would be a work OF s-upererogation
to tell o OF the long hours which fol-
lowed Immediately upon my assumption
or role OF ships doctor. / passed
through them as one passes through a
Of restless thoughts. There
was no less than 81 wounded men upon
the steamer, and Of these seven be-
longed to the fo'caStle party, "a TO the
saloons. The latter chained my inter
ests In spite OF their condition, for there
were Englishmen among them and
faces that the stories os recent crimes
had made familiar TO me. One lad.
slashed heavily across the forehead by
q clasp knife. had been mentioned, I
remembered in connection with the
famous forgeries upon the bank of
ENGLAND some v years ago. ] recog-
nized the Italian jewel thief Detucchi,
the German forger Urich, the young
Belgian Monterey, supposed to be sery-
Ing a sentence Of penal servitude for
lfe Tor his attack upon King Leopold.
Happily. a few OF these men had been
wounded by rifle bullets. Those whom
the guns had killed fell upon the in
slant and their bodies were already in
the sea- My patients were the victims
OF cuts, fearful gashes in some cases
and difficult fractures in others. Two
died while / tried to help them. II was
a woeful task and I trust that / may
never be called TO its fellow.
The honest men, happily-for so I
called the sailors OF the ship-had suf-
Tered considerably less. / found them
profoundly grateful for such services as
I could render them; nor did tile Ann
erican hesitate to tell me frankly the
story OF the mutiny.
I'VE were for making Rio, but Mr.. Ross
stood out" he said. "A reIief's ex-
pected, and / guess there are some law
sick folk on board her. He treated us
IN UNI 1AAQ pCSdh ~ bdlk " TdIlIfiR.
Do you know What rafting r. doctor
no; well, it's putting living men over
board on a raft as big as a deal board
n wishing 'em good luck while they
go. Don't try 1t while you can sail
Saloon. Colin Ross fell sick of a fever,
and Is down below. raving now We.
got tine arms by tickling the mates
whiskers n promising him Ross's
berth. That was the first and the last
Of II. We shut 'em down like sheep,
n now we're going ashore to spend
money-those that live. though
Ike to be few enough"
Here vas truth beyond all question.
| stood ON the deck of a veritabIe plague
ship. A wall OF death rose increasingly.
Night a come down and a thick white
mist enveloped the ocean all about us.
The yacht was nowhere TO be seen. OF
all he hours OF hat great ~endeavor,
this TO me was the worst, alike in its
and it's suggestion.
For I said that the Yacht might lose
me in h fog and leave me. the pris-
oner OF these desperate men and their
hostage against the justice, which
awaited them.