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them a stretcher made of sapling boughs.
Lying on it was Arthur Jane.

The young Englishman had been ill from the
day following the accident in which the pro-
fessor was lost. Arthur was heartbroken. He
said little, but long after the others had given
up hope of finding the good man’s body, Arthur
continued the search up and down the bank.
He crossed over and looked on the far side of
the river; he waded into icy pools, and even
after it was black night he would not give up
but continued to wander along the edge of the
water. j

The consequence was that he caught a severe
chill and had been sick ever since, though for
several days he kept going as before. At last
he was too ill to hold up his head; he was in a
high fever and a cruel cough racked him.

“Can the sick boy have a bed?” asked Mary

Mulligan as soon as they were inside the fort. -

“Yes, and all the medicine he needs,” she
was told.

So Mary ransacked the medicine chest and
the kitchen too, to find the ingredients she
needed for her own famous cough syrup, which
she administered hopefully.

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