It was highly improbable that any one else should have been in the vicinity without Lem's knowledge.

It was quite possible that Lem's statement of the hour when he was shot was incorrect, for his mind could hardly yet be clear enough to be certain, without doubt, of details.
Lem quickly dropped into a refreshing sleep, and Doctor Joe left him for a little while to join the boys out-of-doors.

He found them behind the house picking the goose Indian Jake had left in the tree at the Flat Point camp.
"How's Lem, sir?
Is he hurt bad ?" David asked as Doctor Joe seated himself upon a stump.
"He's sleeping now.

After he rests a little we'll see how badly he's hurt," said Doctor Joe.

"I fancy you chaps are thinking about dinner.
Hungry already, I'll be bound!" "Aye," grinned David, "wonderful hungry.