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I have something here which will keep you comfortable;" and he proceeded to place the left arm in a sling, which he adjusted with great care, passing a band from it around his body so as to prevent the member from swinging, or otherwise getting out of position. "Is it necessary that I should take to my berth, Dr. Linscott?" asked the patient.
Linscott." "But you are wounded, my son," persisted his mother. "You have been shot in the arm, Christy," added Florry.
The responsibility weighs heavy on me, and I should prefer to be in a subordinate position," replied Christy very seriously. "I can't sleep as I used to." "I am confident there will be a vacancy in the Bellevite, for Mr. Ballard will not come back: Dr. Linscott said as much as that to me," added the engineer. "You can have his place if you want it."
Linscott was at his side almost as soon as Christy, and the sufferer was borne to the cabin, where he was placed in one of the vacant state-rooms. "Who is that man, Christy?" asked Captain Passford, as soon as the invalid had been cared for. "That is Captain Pecklar; and he is a Union man, though he has been in charge of that tug in the service of the forts.
The quartermaster reported the answer of the captain to the ship's company, whereupon they gave three more cheers, as Christy and his supporter descended to the deck; and the hero acknowledged the salute. At the companion they encountered Dr. Linscott, who had just come on deck from the cockpit. Graines was standing near, waiting for an opportunity to speak to his late associate in the expedition.
Linscott considerable uneasiness. Mr. Blowitt was sent home by a store-ship; but he died soon after his arrival; and his loving companions-in-arms could not follow his remains to an honored grave.
"Excuse me, sir, but the captain of that schooner is badly wounded, and needs Dr. Linscott as soon as possible." The surgeon was sent on board of the Judith. As Paul Vapoor caught a sight of the returned third lieutenant, he hugged him as though he had been separated from him for years instead of a few days.
Almost at the same instant the enemy stopped her screw, swung round and fired her long gun. The projectile crashed through the bulwarks between the foremast and top-gallant forecastle, wounding two men with the splinters which flew in every direction. Dr. Linscott and his mates had established themselves in the cockpit, to which the wounded are conveyed, in action, for treatment.
Linscott soon relieved Corny of his pain, but it was many weeks before he was fit to leave the house, and then he was paroled. Captain Passford could never ascertain what had become of the crew intended for the Bellevite, though it was supposed, as they separated, that they found their way to some port where they could ship for their chosen service.
Davidson, my son?" asked his mother. "He was the surgeon of the Tallahatchie. Both of your visitors are rebels to the very core," added the lieutenant playfully. "I was hit in the arm by a bullet when I was in the mizzen rigging; but I did not report to the surgeon" "As you ought to have done," interrupted the engineer. "Dr. Linscott had his hands full, and I did not want to bother him then.
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