“No,” replied Bob in a faint voice. “Oh, Jerry, I’m awful sick! I guess it was those mangoes. I can hardly stand! Can’t you do something for me?”
[CHAPTER XXI]
JERRY SEEKS AID
Jerry was up in an instant and soon lit a lantern. By the glimmer of it he saw that Bob was indeed a very sick youth. The lad’s face was flushed, his hands were cold and clammy and his face and head were hot with a burning fever. His eyes had an unnaturally bright look, his breath came fast, and in short gasps.
“Why Bob!” exclaimed Ned. “What is the matter?”
“It came on me suddenly,” said the unfortunate lad, sitting down on the ground in the tent. “I was going to eat some more of the mangoes when, all at once, I was seized with a fit of trembling.”
As he spoke a series of tremors shook his body, and he seemed about to fall over. Jerry caught him.
“Quick, Ned!” he exclaimed. “Help me get Bob to bed. Then we’ll see what we can do.”
They undressed Bob, who continued to shake and shiver for he had a chill alternating with his fever. Then, while Jerry and Ned were worrying over the matter and pondering what to do, the poor lad’s temperature suddenly went up and he was in a higher fever.