“He sure has got what was coming to him.”
“But he’s a human being. Think of leaving any human creature to die here in such a manner!”
“Think of Professor Gunn!”
“If we find out without delay what has happened to the professor and where he has been taken, we must learn it through this man. In case he knows—which is pretty certain—he may tell everything if he finds he is going to die.”
“That’s correct, Dick. You’re always the long-headed one. But if he can’t talk, how are we going to learn anything from him?”
“If we had a stimulant or restorative of some sort——”
“Liquor?”
“Yes; as a medicine liquor is all right when properly used. As a beverage it is poisonous.”
Although Dick fully believed in temperance, he was not a crank, and he knew that liquor had its good uses, although almost invariably it was put to a bad use.
“But we haven’t a drop of the stuff. What can we do?”