Troop One of the Labrador

a brief examination. "David, put a fire in the stove and heat some water!

or Joe made a more careful examination and discovered a

e in the head only scraped the skull, and couldn't have more than stunned him fo

carried Lem to his bunk and

's purpose. He poured some of it into a dish, and after dissolving in i

at length he opened his eyes and stared at Doctor Joe. There was no recognition in the stare

ane?" he a

and the boys, too," said Doc

t. He stared at Doctor Joe for several minutes, now with the

en-happeni

or Joe. "We found you on the

!" Lem displayed excitement. "Be

the table when we c

t Doctor Joe pressed him gently back

m. Don't try to move. Y

nce. Several minutes elapsed before he opened them

who I am?" Do

ice; "you're Doctor Joe. I knows y

, but you've lost some blood, and that's left you weak for a little

n had been taken, robbery was undoubtedly the motive for the shooting. But who could have known of the existence of th

Flat Point camp the previous evening, his hurried departure in the morning, and his evident desire to hurry into the interior wilderness where he would be swallowed u

e that thief Injun

u think so?" a

e worth five hundred dollars whatever, and they only offers three hundred. I were busy mendin' my fishin' gear before I stows un away when Injun Jake comes. We talks about f

dian Jake come?"

ock 'twere, for I were just boilin'

he stay? What

en after and 'twere handy to half-past when we clears the table. Then Injun Jake has a smoke, and I shows he the silver, and I'm thinki

r two o'clock

', and he were sayin' 'twould be slow travellin', and 'two

n what h

kettle on for supper. That's all I remembers, exceptin' I wakes up two or three times and tries to move, but when I tries there's a wonderful

r shoulder. After you rest a while we'll probe for it and see if we can

m's suspicions were not well founded; nevertheless Doctor Joe was forced to admit to himself that circumstances pointed to Indian Jake as the culprit. It was highly improbable that any one else should have been in

little while to join the boys out-of-doors. He found them behind the hous

ad?" David asked as Doctor Jo

w badly he's hurt," said Doctor Joe. "I fancy you chaps

, "wonderful hungry.

consulted

early eleven o'clock when we reached

id Andy. "I were lookin' to see how lon

leave Flat Point?"

ew his new watch proudly from his pocket to refer

before eleven when we leaves Flat P'int, and fifteen m

set alike," suggested Doctor

ive minutes. Then each must needs set his watch with Doctor Joe's, w

They had consumed four hours, but their progress had been exceedingly slow. Indian Jake had doubtless travelled much faster in his light canoe, but, at best, with the wind against him, he could hardly

er in the afternoon than he supposed. When Lem grew stronger it would be necessary to question him closely that the hour might be fixed with certainty. Whoever had shot and robbed Lem must have known of the

gested. "You chaps are pretty noisy, and if you come into the house to coo

out here, sir

to cook here,"

goose so that there'll be broth, and we'll give some of it to Lem to drink. You'll have to go to Fort Pelican without me. I'll have to stay here and take

condition, and the shavings he cut were long and thin. He did not cut each shaving separately, but stopped his knife just short of the end of the stick, and when several shavings were cut, with a twist of the blade

n end of the shavings. When they were blazing freely he carefully placed the thick end upon the two sticks where they came together, on the inside of the angle, with the burning end resting upon the ground. Thus the thick end of the shavings was elevated. Fire always climbs upward, and in an instant the whole bunch of shavings was a

the surface of the skin clear. Then he proceeded to draw and cut the goose into pieces of suit

nd like a crowbar, he drove it firmly into the ground with the small end directly above the fire. Placing a stone between the ground and sloping pole, that the pole migh

in like manner, Andy filled the tea-kettl

r five thick slices of pork into the kettle of goose

Make un!" ex

"hot bread would go

er stirring the baking-powder and salt well into the flour, he added to it a heaping cooking-spoonful of lard-a quantity equal to two heaping tablespoonfuls. This he rubbed into the flour with the

sprinkled liberally with flour that the dough might not stick to it. Then cutting a piece of dough from the mass he pulled it int

d to the direct heat, he placed it at an angle of forty-five degrees, supporting it in that position with a sharpened stick, one end forced into the

ine!" Jamie pre

David declared confidently.

s reflected toward the ground. David removed the pan from its support, and without lifting the loaf from the pan, moved it round until the brown side was opposite the handle. Then he returned the pa

e fire than the pan. When the loaf had browned on top to his satisfaction he removed it from the pan an

dough that's le

id consented. "There'll be too l

ean of bark, and pulling the dough into a rope as thick as his finger wound it in a spiral upon the ce

ether for an end of the stick to rest on each. Here he placed it with the dough in the centre exposed to the heat. As the dough on th

We'll eat un to stave off the hunge

to accept, and Jamie's crisp

ious appetizing odour. David lifted the lid to season it,

!" fro

lls fine!" A

n't wait for un!

David at len

he tea,

oose from the fire, while Andy put tea in the other ket

u the tea, Andy," David directed, turning

st refreshing sleep, and when h

grier'n

ll appetite, an appetite, indeed, qu

y as seven whales! Seven, now! Big whales

aughed heartily,

ere won't be a bite o' goose left for a

David's loaves, which proved, when broken, to be light and short and delicious. Then he poured Lem a cup of

octor Joe when everyone had finishe

s un," said Lem. "If 'tweren't for my head and the weakness and the pain I'd feel as well as ever I did,

at shoulder a little while?" Doctor Joe asked

all you wants to, Doctor Joe. You knows how to

of warm water, in which, as previously, he dissolved antis

o a wound will assist in the healing. All that is necessary is to keep

t'baccer draw the soren

acco or anything else on a wound. If you do you will run the risk of i

sometimes and she alway

hen, and your good clean blood, that it

g instruments, and turned his attention to the shoulder. Lem gritted his teeth a

skin directly forward of the arm pit. Though it was necessarily a painful wound, he was relieved to find that no vi

refully in his pocket. It proved to be a thirty-eight calibre, black powder rifle bullet. D

Pelican," Doctor Joe suggested. "I'll give you a note to the factor instructing him to deliver all th

re soon running before a good breeze. Doctor Joe watched them d

at kind of a rifle I

y else has been comin' about here the whole summer. I'm not doubtin' he's got my silver fox, and I'm goin' to get un

Mrs. Horn and the boys

Lem. "They've been away these five days g

the Bay, for all the local traders had already seen and appraised it, and they would undoubtedly recognize it if it were offered them. Indian Jake woul

urred. All the evidence pointed to Indian Jake's guilt, and there could be little doubt of it if it should prove that the half-breed carried a thirty-eight fifty-five rifle. Thomas would know, and

received from them a detailed account of what had happened, and Mrs. Horn was greatly excited. Her first thought was for Lem, and she was vastly

he proceeds of its sale was to have been their bulwark against need. It was to have given them a degree of independence, and above al

ian Jake's visit to the cabin, he sat in sullen silence by the stove. Suddenly he arose, lifted his rifle from the pegs upon which

, Eli?" asked Le

as he closed the door behind h