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Updated: June 13, 2025
He was very much exhausted when the Tortoise was at length brought alongside the slip at the end of the quay. Priscilla still seemed fresh and vigorous. "I wonder," said Frank, "if we could hire a boy." "Dozens," said Priscilla, "if you want them... What for?" "To wheel that bath-chair. I can't walk, you know. And I don't like to think of your pushing me up the hill. You must be tired."
"Better get back," thought Tom; and then he uttered a low whistle, and broke into a trot, with a new burden on his back in the shape of the bath-chair, for he had suddenly recollected Uncle James's complaint about not having been out for a ride. Sure enough when he reached the garden David met him. "Master's been a-shouting for you, sir. Yes, there he goes again."
How the matter settled itself I do not know we were much too anxious to disentangle ourselves from the affair and get out of range of the eye of the old gentleman in the bath-chair to make minute inquiries.
"I'll work that all right for you. As it just happens, luckily enough there's an old bath-chair in a corner of the hay-loft. I came across it last hols when I was looking for a bicycle pump I lost. I was rather disappointed at the time, not thinking that the old chair would be any use, whereas I wanted the pump.
"She'd give anything to be able to believe it, but she's a hard woman, and brooding along certain lines makes one groovy. I have sometimes been afraid of her reason on the religious side, don't you know. Elizabeth doesn't matter. Brain of a hen. Always had." Here Arthurs summoned me to the bath-chair, and the ravaged face, beneath its knitted Shetland wool hood, of Miss Mary Moultrie.
But the time for consideration was very short, though thoughts fly like flashes. One way or the other, and he must decide instantly, for there was just before him the point where the road divided a hundred yards away fifty yards twenty yards, and the wind rushing by his ears as the bath-chair bounded on. Which was it to be?
But first, come and listen." Mr. Fentolin shook her off. He looked around for Meekins. "Meekins, stand by my chair," he ordered sharply. "Turn round; I wish to go to the Hall. Drive this woman away." Meekins came hurrying up, but almost at the same moment half a dozen of the brown jerseyed fishermen detached themselves from the others. They formed a little bodyguard around the bath-chair.
"My dear Ralph," I said, "this is really first-class. The last time I saw you, you scarcely expected to be out of your bath-chair in six months." "I am getting on, Austen," he answered, "thanks! I am getting on. I will sit in that easy-chair for a few minutes. Thanks! Then we will have some breakfast." "I was starting for Feltham this morning," I told him, "when I got your letter."
Upon that, as if he had only waited for this catastrophe, the unlucky man, away there in Melbourne, gave up his unprofitable game, and sat down in an invalid's bath-chair at that too. "He will never walk again," wrote the wife. For the first time in his life Captain Whalley was a bit staggered. The Fair Maid had to go to work in bitter earnest now.
Engaged on these errands, and a host of intervening lesser exploits in the ward, I had to cultivate an unwonted fleetness of foot. I flew. So did the time. Almost immediately, as it seemed to me, I was bidden to serve afternoon tea to our patients. Then an involved struggle with a patient who had to be lifted from a bath-chair into bed. Mappin.
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