The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1911-03-02
CHAPTER XVIII. (conunued)

was General Fordibras on board
with the man you speak off"
mot this trip. / heard teil he'd gone
TO Europe. He's too EASY Tor this joo.
Three Fingers never could look a Shel-
field knife in the face l cues his
dar,ghter's got all The courage
We had passed another door OF steer
as he spoke and descended ? short flight
of statrs to a second corridor. above
which were cabins q S comUoner or
der. Here the surgery OF the snip a
been IocatsG-2 well-atted. thoroughly
modern apartment recently tenanted, II
seemed. by g doctor who knew what the
haspi;als c. Europe were doing. A
QUICK search discovered the antiseptics,
the wool the IMMINENT. and the lancets,
without which SO little could be done
fer the wounded men bove. There was
nothing missing for the practice OF a
modern art
It would be a wor of su~pererogation
10 tell you of the long hours which fol-
toured Immediately upon my assumption
If the role OF ships doctor. l passed
through them as one passes through a
Greenland OF restless thoughts. There
azs no less than 81 wounded men upon
shs steamer. and of these seven be-
iunEsd TO the fo'castle party, "a to the
saleonA The latter chained my inter-
szts IL spite of their condition, for there
" - u al CIklAcii1 hhiSit eNN'
faces thai the stories of recent crimes
had made familiar to me. One lad
szsire6 heavily across the forehead by
q clasp knife, had been mentioned,
| remembered in connection with the
I famous forgeries upon the bank oil
| Efngiand some five years age | recog'
| rfxed the Italian jewel thief Detuccht
the German forger Urich, h young
Belgian Monterey, supposed to be serv'
| ing a sentence of penal seryitude TO
life for his attack upon King Leopold
Happily. a few of these men had beer
wounded by rifle bullets. Those whom
tfie guns a killed fell upon the in
stana and their bodies We're already II
Tho sea. My patients were the victims
of cuts, fearful gashes in some ease
md difficult fractures in others. Eve
iiea while / tried to help them. II wa!
u woeful task and / trust that l ma,
never be called to its fellow.
The honest men, happily-for so
called the sailors of the shlp-had sui
Eereza considerably less. l found then
s~..af1,nndly grateful for such services i
Z could rende them: nor did the AM
erican hesitate to tell me frankly IN
story of the mutiny.
1--WE were for making Rio, but Mr.. Ros
Etpcd out" he said. "A relieEs e1
pleted, and I guess there are Some Law
sick folk on board her. He treated Il
liko dirt and began TO talk of RAFTING
10 you know what rafting is, doctor
no. well. it's putting living men ever
board ON a raft as big as q deal boar
and wishing 'em good luck while the
gu. Don't try it While you can So
sdsoon. Colin Ross fell sick Of 3 ftvt4
and It's down below, ravtng now W
gof fhe arms by tickling the matte
whiskers and promising htEg Eass
berth. That was the first and tta Las
nj IL. We shut 'em down lSs shAsl
and now we're going ashore TO sEen
our money-those thae live. tlnsng
they're like to be few enough
Here was truth bsyeaG all question
x stood on the deck OF 3 vsrfsaaie 9iagr
snip n wuii OF tivIrsss FVTsT EEsiEviE=tfits =
Might had come down ard 3 titteli wffli
mist enveloped the ocean MI aaaut i
Tho yacht was nowhere 10 ae sean. &
an ahe hours OF tkat greaE enliafIEa
this to me was the worst, aIf8a IN Z
menace and its suggssths1.
For I said THAI the yaei1z af;rslr lt'
MO- in the fog and cave TIE C!ns 1rti
pncr of these dss1srGhla Hzsm ANA u1a
hostage against the tIzuine wis
awaited them