The Turtles of Tasman

e frightful mangling and breakage, and because of the long delay, had he encountered so terrible a case. But he had never had a healthier specimen of human

s weary and drawn, the sweat of pain on his face. Linday was indefatigable, cruelly efficient, audacious and fortunate, daring hazard after hazard

a cripple?"

nd leap, swim riffles, ride bears, fight panthers, and do all things to the top of his fool desire. And, I warn you

athed. "Make him whole.

isrupted organism. Later, developed a hitch in the left arm. Strang could lift it so far, and no farther. Linday applied himself to the problem. It was a case of more wire

t him be. For God's sake let him be. A live and

l with me with all your soul. Your brother's travelling a hairline razor-edge. Do you understand? A thought can topple him off. Now get out, and come bac

hands and threatening eyes,

begged. "He is right

s condition seemed more pr

nd all this time I've fo

business. Don't b

from its healing, burst ope

s," said

tle it," groan

w with you. Take Bill, too. Get rabbits-aliv

" the brot

ou'll help me, Mrs. Strang. I'm going to dig into that arm and

raping away disintegrating bone, ascer

ty first. Even he didn't have vitality enough to go around. I was watching it, but I had to wait and

s final choice. He used the last of his chloroform and achieved the bone-graft-living bone to living bone, living man and livin

Strang mended, occurred passages of talk between Li

law, and you'll need a divorce before we can marry

will," s

re managing to get along with some sort of comfort. My practice was averaging around forty thousand a

ered. "Perhaps you were too interested

not your Rex be too interested

plain what he chose to call her

ron of the Hudson Bay Company who chided the resident Church of England parson. The dominie had written home to England complaining that the Company folk, from the head factor down, were addicted to Indian wives. '

ried Linday, his eyes

ll places, into the Klo

s. I went on to Seattle. Same thing. Ransom ran his wife out to me in a special train. There was no escaping it. Operation successful. Local newspapers g

bed was carried out of do

im now," she s

t," he a

edge of the bed, able to walk his firs

ll him now

ng to remake him as God made him. Tomorrow I've planned to get into that arm and take out the kink. It will mean a couple of days on his back

n and for the thousandth time made him flex all his muscles. Massage was given him without end, until Linday declared that Tom Daw, Bill, and the brother were properly qualified for Turkish bath and osteopathic hospital attendants. But Linday was not yet satisfied. He put Strang through his whole repertoire of ph

ll him," M

wer. "You will tell hi

k, effortlessly, with all his body, seeming to lift the legs with supple muscles clear to the shoulders. But it was without heaviness, so easy that it invested him with a peculiar grace, so easy that to the eye the speed was deceptive. It was

ied. "I can't k

a spruce log, smiling at the doctor, and, with the

or aches, or hints of

stretched his lithe body, living

to feel the cold and damp in the old wounds. But that

cles with me. I don't know how to tha

ve pulled you through, an

the world," Strang persisted. "I'll

a tributary of the Big Windy. Daw tells me that last year you went over, down to the middle fork, and back again, in three days. He said you nearly killed him, too.