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Cressy

CHAPTER XIII
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Who did it, Johnny ?" But Johnny was silent.

In an interval of feverish consciousness and pain, his perception and memory had been quickened; a suspicion of the real cause of his disaster had dawned upon him--but his childish lips were heroically sealed.

The master glanced appealingly at the Doctor.
"Take him before you in the saddle to McKinstry's," said the latter promptly.

"I can attend to both." The master lifted the boy tenderly in his arms.

Johnny, stimulated by the prospect of a free ride, became feebly interested in his fellow sufferer.
"Did Theth hit him bad ?" he asked.
"Seth ?" echoed the master, wildly.
"Yeth.


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