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Inside he laid him on the rude bed which Sorenson himself had spread with sheets and blankets. "He's alive?" Janet asked, awed. "Alive, but badly hurt." "You'll leave him here?" "Yes, while I take you away. We could do nothing for him in any case; his injuries are grave and need a doctor's help.
The blankets were all cut up, bunches of dry grass were laced under the horses' feet to form a pad, and the strips of blankets wound round and round and securely fastened. "Now, on we go again, lads," Dave said, setting the example, and they rode straight down the ravine ahead of them.
"I have come to nurse you. The blankets and hot-water bottle have made you warmer, haven't they? Nod; you mustn't talk." "Yes," he whispered huskily. She felt his forehead, and it was burning. She took his hand and saying, "Sh! You ought not to talk," held it in her own. Then there was silence save for Wilbur's uneasy turning. It was plain that he was very uncomfortable.
Warm blankets and the brandy revived us, and by supper-time we got into some dry clothes. Just then the squad of cavalry returned; they were only a dozen, but they made much uproar, being in great excitement. Some of them were known to Max and H., who learned from them that a gunboat was coming to shell them out of this house.
Hal was just above the smoke belt, and his own head was reeling, now. Tongues of flame leaped out at them all. Speed alone could save them from one of the most painful of deaths. Down through the belt they moved. As they neared the ground willing hands reached out to catch them. "Pull those blankets off the girl! They're afire," shouted one man, and was obeyed. Mlle.
The entire Wireless Patrol accompanied them to the station, each boy carrying some part of the luggage. Thus divided, the equipment did not seem large; but when it was all assembled, it appeared entirely adequate. There was a good waterproof tent, a strong tick to be stuffed with leaves, blankets, a coil of rope, additional cooking utensils, and generous supplies of food.
The bernouses which when on the march were rolled up and worn over one shoulder like a scarf, as the German and Italian soldiers carry their blankets in modern times were also cut up and twisted, and in three hours Nessus had a rope which he assured Malchus was long enough to reach to the bottom of the precipice and sufficiently strong to bear their weight.
But the other could not see them. The Padre jumped eagerly at his words. "Just so. I've known them so long now that there doesn't seem to be any other world for me. Even Leeson Butte makes me feel er strange." Buck nodded. Then he changed the subject. "Say, we don't sleep at the farm to-night," he said. "The blankets are up at the old fort. That's why I got around here. When's she comin' along?"
Stoical as he was, the Professor, thus rudely awakened, uttered a yell and leaped from his cot, while the boys of the party came tumbling from their blankets, rubbing their eyes and demanding in confused shouts to know what the row was about.
He was silent during the meal, giving no heed to Diana's small attempts at conversation, and wandered early to his blankets. In the morning, however, he was all boy again, even attempting once or twice to tease Diana, in a boy's offhand manner.
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