CHAPTER XI.
PATSY IS DEFIANT That evening the captain joined Dr.Gys on deck.
"That German, Lieutenant Elbl," he began.
"Oh, is that his name ?" asked Gys.
"Yes.

Will he get well ?" "Certainly.

What is a foot, to a man like him?
But his soldiering days are past." "Perhaps that's fortunate," returned the captain, ruminatively.

"When I was a boy, his father was burgomaster--mayor--in Munich.

People said he was well-to-do.