He gave me a warm mess, and while I ate it he rubbed me vigorously with a rough cloth, covering me afterward with a blanket for a little while.
My knee he bandaged with arnica, after bathing it a long while with warm water. Later he gave me water, a little hay and a good currying.
Toward night I became feverish, but a couple of doses of aconite corrected that. My knee has been weak ever since.
I learned from a conversation between Burr and his brother, who sometimes stayed over night with him, that Bobby left a note in her room saying that she had borrowed Dandy for a few hours; that she was going away with "poor, dear Paul." She preferred any hardship with him to life without him, and she hoped papa would forgive her.
Mrs. Wallace assured her husband that it was just what he might have expected when he opposed the match so violently.
"You ought to have remembered, too, that the girl is all Wallace, headstrong, conceited and quite above being rebuked."
"She has turned out as well as your Tommy," he answered, in a rage.
And so they relieved themselves by blaming each other, instead of kindly sharing their mutual burdens.
Dr. Fred refused to try to find the girl, and the matter was hushed up, though Burr said every tongue in town was wagging.
Had Master been home I think he might have saved Bobby. When he did come, his presence was like a benediction, and from that hour Dr. Fred has seemed to lean upon him more than ever.