Part 4 (1/2)
”Hook's? In the name of wonder, man, Hook's what?”
”Kurepain, sir”
”Hook's Kurepain,” said the stranger ”Doctor,” addressing his coed his shoulders
”Then you do not?” said the other
The doctor eyed Jim Grimm ”Why do you ask?” he inquired
”'Tis for me little son, sir,” Jim replied ”He've a queer sort o'
rheumaticks We're thinkin' the Kurepain will cure un It have cured a Minister o' the Gospel, sir, an' a Champion o' the World; an' as allowin' that it wouldn't have much trouble t' cure little Jimmie Grimm They's as much as twelve dollars, sir, in this here letter, which I'm sendin' away I'm wantin' t' know, sir, if they'll send the cure if I sends the money”
The doctor was silent for a moment ”Where do you live?” he asked, at last
Jiht ”Jimmie will be at that ,” he said, ”lookin' out at the steahts”
”Do you care for a run ashore?” asked the doctor, turning to his fellow tourist
”If it would not overtax you”
”No, no--I'ain Coo”
Ji the winding, rocky path; led them into the room where Jimmie sat at theThe doctor felt of Jimmie's knee, and asked him many questions Then he held a whispered consultation with his companion and the schoolht such words and phrases as ”slight operation” and ”chloroforh” and ”rough and ready sort of work” and ”no danger”
Then Jim Grimm was dispatched to the steamer with the doctor's friend; and when they ca in his hand The doctor asked Jimmie a question, and Jimmie nodded his head Whereupon, the doctor called him a brave lad, and sent Jim Grimm out to the kitchen to keep his wife co a pail of water and another laain--he knehat they were about, and it see ti on the couch, sick and pale, with his knee tightly bandaged, but with his eyes glowing
”Mama! Father!” the boy whispered, exultantly ”They says I'ht, now His trouble was not rheument of the bone, broken off at the knee-joint At least, that's as plain as I can , was he not? So he says And he remembers that he felt a stab of pain in his knee at the time That or the fall probably accounts for it At any rate, I have reht, after a bit I've told the schoolmaster how to take care of him, and I'll leave soht”
When the doctor was about to step from the punt to the steamer's ladder, half an hour later, Jim Grimm held up a letter to him
”'Tis for you, sir,” he said
”What's this?” the doctor demanded
”'Tis for you to keep, sir,” Jinity ”'Tis the money for the work you done”
”Money!” cried the doctor ”Why, really,” he stammered, ”I--you see, this is my vacation--and I----”
”I 'low, sir,” said Jiewise, ”that I will!”