The boy bore this patiently and without a murmur, though one or two gasps of pain escaped him.

When the captain said that, though he could not feel any fractured bones, the ankle-joint was dislocated, and must be pulled back into place at once, he clinched his teeth, drew in a long breath, and nodded his head.

Taking a firm hold above and below the dislocated joint, the captain gave a quick twist with his powerful hands that drew from the boy a sharp cry of pain.
"There," said the captain, soothingly, "it's all over; now we will bathe it and bandage it, and in a few days you will be as good as you were before you met Mr.'Gator.

If not better," he added, as he took note of the boy's wretched clothes and general appearance.
After seeing the patient made as comfortable as possible, Mark and the two men went out, leaving him to the gentle care of Mrs.Elmer and Ruth.
"Mark," said Captain Johnson, "let's take the skiff and go and get that alligator.

I guess Miss Ruth would like to see him.