“Now the other,” he said; and he turned to the second patient, who was lying, talking quickly, a few yards away.
Just then the governor hailed the men below.
“You must find him, my lads,” he cried. “Who heard him plunge in?”
“I did, sir,” came back.
“Well, then, he is ashore again somewhere, holding on by the rocks; no man would swim out to sea with such a tide on. He would be carried right away. Keep a good lookout, and if he’s wise he will surrender. Well, doctor, this one much hurt?”
“Yes, horribly. Head crushed.”
“Not by a bullet?”
“No: fall. How long are those stretchers going to be?”
“Some distance for the men to go, doctor,” said the governor quickly. “You forget they were being used for the sergeant and the man.”
“Poor fellows! yes,” said the doctor, rapidly continuing his manipulations; “there, that is all I can do.”