"A youngster like me has no business wasting time in hospital. Can I get out to-day?"
"I'm afraid not," smiled the hospital corps man.
"I'm not badly hurt, am I?"
"If the rainmaker knows his business, you've had a fight for your life, and youth and a good constitution have won out."
"How long am I to be here?"
"You'll be here for three or four days yet," answered the hospital corps man.
"But——"
"That's about all the talking you'd better try to do until the rainmaker has seen you," interposed the hospital corps man, and moved away as he added:
"Either sleep, or just keep quiet."
But the next morning Hal was so much improved that the hospital corps man took a chair by the bedside.