“I am not injured, and he did not harm me. I must be taken to the office, that I may declare this man innocent of that crime.”
“I shall have to have orders from your physician before I could consider taking you out of the hospital. I fear that you are not yourself, when you say that the prisoner did not harm you.”
“I can swear before all, and by God in Heaven, that he did not. I must be taken to him and tell him that I will say that he did me no harm.”
“You will have plenty of time to prove his innocence, and tell why you are here and how you did get hurt if he did not do it.”
“I am not hurt. I am as well as I ever was in my life, and I must see the doctor and say to him that I must be out of here.”
“Very well; I will go to the doctor and send him to you.”
CHAPTER VI.
Discharged from the Hospital.
“Good morning, sir,” said the doctor when he entered. “I was told that you wished to see me.”