D'ye get it?
Ah, I thought so.
Heart weak, but steady as a chronometer." "It's only twenty-four hours," Captain Jamie said, "and he was never in like condition before." "Putting it on, that's what he's doing, and you can stack on that," Al Hutchins, the head trusty, interjected.
"I don't know," Captain Jamie insisted.

"When a man's pulse is that low it takes an expert to find it--" "Aw, I served my apprenticeship in the jacket," Al Hutchins sneered.

"And I've made you unlace me, Captain, when you thought I was croaking, and it was all I could do to keep from snickering in your face." "What do you think, Doc ?" Warden Atherton asked.
"I tell you the heart action is splendid," was the answer.

"Of course it is weak.

That is only to be expected.