24/25 Lewis thought a little and said-- "Will you let me take him aboard of us now while it's smooth, and I'll see if we can find you a man? My jaw's main sore, but I can do little things." "You see, Lennard," quietly observed Lewis, after Larmor had gone, "I'm making an experiment. If that lad had been left without such a mattress as ours, he would have died, surely. And now I'll guarantee that I send him back able to steer and do light work in ten days." "That's where the hospital would come in. Well, you'll soon teach us instead of us teaching you. |