"We found you alone." "Gone to Fort Pelican," Lem murmured after a moment's thought.

He stared at Doctor Joe for several minutes, now with the look of one trying to recall something, and at length asked: "What's--been--happenin' to me ?" "You've been shot," said Doctor Joe.

"We found you on the floor.

Some one has shot you." "The silver! The silver fox skin!" Lem displayed excitement.

"Be it on the table?
I had un there!" "There was no fur on the table when we came," said Doctor Joe.
Lem made a feeble attempt to rise, but Doctor Joe pressed him gently back upon the pillow, saying as he did so: "You must lie quiet, Lem.