Part 14 (1/2)
”Yes, you'd better If you say ive you an awful dose”
”Tell me this: is the captain much cut up, and Mr Staples, too?”
”Of course they are, both of thehed, and was silent for some moments
”Tell me about Tom Fillot,” he said at last ”How is he?”
”Pretty well all right again”
There was another pause, which lasted soain
”Couldn't the doctor save them?”
”No; only the two,” replied Bob, coolly ”You see, the starving and heat were toohe could for them, but, as he said, they died off like flies”
Mark looked at him in horror
”How can you be so brutally cynical?” he said, with a shudder
”Who's brutally cynical?” cried Bob, indignantly, and forgetting all the doctor's orders ”I'm very sorry, of course We did all we could to save the poor fellows, but they died, and there's an end of them I don't feel bound to be miserable because the doctor couldn't save them”
Mark's brow contracted a little He felt that he did not like Bob Howlett half so well as of old, but that perhaps he had been too hard in calling hiently now
”Who were the two that recovered?”
”Eh? I dunno”
Mark stared
”Well, how should I knohat their na of the kind They're out and outers to eat, and don't seem a bit the worse I called 'e”
”What are you talking about?”
”I was answering your questions about the black fellows”
”I didn't ask you about the blacks”
”Yes, you did”
”I didn't, stupid,” said Mark, angrily
”Huh! Ha, ha!” cried Bob ”He's getting better Go it, old chap!
Callelse”
”I asked you about the boat's crew”