Will one of you go and ask one of them to come up here, telling him how urgent is the need ?" After a consultation among themselves, one of the soldiers retired, and in a minute or two returned with a surgeon, in whom, to his great delight, Jack recognized Doctor Bertmann, who upon seeing Dick's state at once proceeded to attend to him.

Cutting off his coat and shirt-sleeve, he examined his arm, from which the blood was flowing in a stream.
"One of the small arteries is cut," he said.

"It is lucky that aid was at hand, or he would have assuredly bled to death." The severed artery was speedily found and tied up, and then the wound on the face was plastered and bandaged, and Dick, as he lay on the couch, for he was far too weak to stand, felt comparatively comfortable..