CHAPTER XX.
THE CADET HOSPITAL Cadet Prescott lay on one of the operating tables at cadet hospital.
Without a murmur he submitted to the examination.

At times the work of the medical officer's hurt a good deal, but this was evidenced only by a firmer pressing together of the young soldiers lips.
At last they paused.
"Are you through, gentlemen ?" Dick asked, looking steadily at the two medical officers.
"Yes," answered Captain Goodwin, the senior surgeon.
"May I properly ask what you find ?" "We are not yet quite sure," replied the senior surgeon.

"None of the bones of the spine are broken.

There has, of course, been a severe wrenching there.

Whether your injury is going to continue into a serious or permanent injury we cannot yet say.