11/27 If you can do no more, you can carry a stretcher.' The doctor was hardly gone before Morris, under the spur of the dram, awoke to the full possession of his wits. 'Uncle Joseph!' 'Yes,' said John, 'where can he be? I hope the old party isn't damaged.' 'Come and help me to look,' said Morris, with a snap of savage determination strangely foreign to his ordinary bearing; and then, for one moment, he broke forth. 'If he's dead!' he cried, and shook his fist at heaven. They must have thus examined forty people, and still there was no word of Uncle Joseph. |