[My Friend Smith by Talbot Baines Reed]@TWC D-Link bookMy Friend Smith CHAPTER TWENTY SIX 6/15
I knew the voice now, and the face with its two great eyes which bent over me. I had found my friend at last! "Hush, don't talk now," he said, as I tried to speak; "lie quiet now, there's a dear fellow." "Jack!" I said.
I could not resist uttering his name, his old familiar long-lost name. "Yes, it's Jack," he whispered, "but don't talk now." "You forgive me, Jack ?" I murmured, heedless of his injunction. "Yes, a hundred times!" he said, brushing back the hair from my forehead, and putting his finger to my lips. Then I obeyed him, and lay silent and happy all day.
Happier with all my pain than I had been for months. The doctor came later on and looked at my arm. "He'll do now, I think," said he, "but he will very likely be feverish after it.
You should have him taken to the hospital." "Oh no," cried Jack.
"He must stay here, please.
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