Never mind! _I_ don't grumble." He poured the bones into the mortar, and began to pound them--under protest.

At the same moment a sailor appeared, entering from the inner hut.
"A message from Captain Ebsworth, sir." "Well ?" "The captain is worse than ever with his freezing pains, sir.

He wants to see you immediately." "I will go at once.

Rouse the doctor." Answering in those terms, Crayford returned to the inner hut, followed by the sailor.

John Want shook his head again, and smiled more drearily than ever.
"Rouse the doctor ?" he repeated.