And I guessed he would be drownded
and I would never see him agin now. And all of
a sudden something busted loose inside of me,
and I sunk down there at the edge of the water,
sick at my stomach, and weak and shivering.
CHAPTER X
I didn't exactly faint there, but things got
all mixed fur me, and when they was
straightened out agin I was in a hospital.
It seems I had been considerable stepped on in
that fight, and three ribs was broke. I knowed
I was hurting, but I was so interested in what was
happening to the doctor the hull hurt never come
to me till the balloon was way out over the lake.
But now I was in a plaster cast, and before I
got out of that I was in a fever. I was some weeks
getting out of there.
I tried to get some word of Doctor Kirby, but
couldn't. Nothing had been heard of him or the
balloon. The newspapers had had stuff about it
fur a day or two, and they guessed the body might
come to light sometime. But that was all. And
I didn't know where to hunt nor how.
The hosses and wagon and tent and things worried
me some, too. They wasn't mine, and so I couldn't
sell 'em. And they wasn't no good to me without
Doctor Kirby. So I tells the man that owns the
livery stable to use the team fur its board and keep
it till Doctor Kirby calls fur it, and if he never does
mebby I will sometime.
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