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He found his sister working over George Walden, trying to restore the hurt soldier to his senses. "He is pretty badly off," said Marion. "I wish we had a doctor." "Where is that surgeon who was here?" "Gone to the battlefield." "I don't know of any doctor to get just now, Marion." "Then we must do the best we can ourselves. And by the way, Jack, this soldier knows Dr. Mackey." "What?"
I have given the soldiers orders to shoot you down, if you attempt it." "In that case they must be outlaws, not soldiers, Dr. Mackey." "They know how to obey orders." "Again I demand to know what you are going to do with me." "If you wish to know so much, I will tell you. I am going to take you out of the country." "To where?" "That you will learn after we are on shipboard."
I have annexed to this report numerous letters addressed to me by gentlemen whose views on the loyalty of the southern people and kindred topics, formed as they are upon an extended observation and long experience, are entitled to consideration. Mackey, No. 2; letter of Mr. Sawyer, No. 3; letter of General Hatch, No. 4; letter of Mr. I offer them to you, without exception, as they came to me.
The young surgeon mused for a moment. "It runs in my mind that I have heard of this Dr. Mackey before." "Where?" "I cannot remember now. But I believe it was while I was practicing in Philadelphia." "Was he a doctor there?" "It runs in my mind that he was connected with some bogus medical institute which defrauded people through the mails. But I am not certain."
The blow made Jack's blood boil, but he was helpless to resent it. "You are a coward, to hit me when I am tied like this," he said. "But some day, Dr. Mackey, I may be able to square accounts, and then you had better beware." One of the guerrillas now came forward to consult with the surgeon, and Jack was left with the other prisoners, to meditate over what had been said and done.
"And I shall want to see Jack," replied the medical man. "Jack's a fine lad, sah." "I am glad to hear it." But, as he spoke, the face of Dr. Mackey became a study. "Yes, sah; aint no bettah boy in all dese parts, sah." While talking Ben was rowing steadily, and it was not long before the pair reached shore.
"Until you come to your senses and agree to do as I wish." A few words more passed, and then Dr. Mackey made our hero a prisoner again, and took up the canteen and the knapsack. "You may have to remain alone for a long time," he said, on departing. "But if you get lonely and hungry, remember it is your own fault." "I think you are a brute!" cried Jack after him.
"I hardly think one should telephone a message of that sort," says Bruce. "Someone ought to see him, explain the situation, and get his reply directly." "Then you go, Bruce, dear," suggests Mrs. Mackey. No, he shies at that. "Dick would resent my coming on such an errand," says Bruce.
Mackey writes: "It was during the severe winter of the Crimean War, when indulging in my favourite sport of wild-fowl shooting, that I witnessed the following strange scene.
If he is allowed to remain at the plantation she may take it into her head to leave him half of her property." "I know that, too." "The property ought to go to that girl and to you. With Jack out of the way you will be pretty certain of your share." "But I don't understand your game, Dr. Mackey. Why do you want Jack, if he doesn't care for you?" "I love the boy, in spite of his actions.
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