"Ruskin is with him.

He was fast becoming unconscious when we left him, and Ruskin said that the end was at hand." A quarter of an hour later the surgeon came in, with the news that all was over.
"Now, Captain Whitney, you must come into your room, and let me bandage up your shoulder properly.

I hadn't half time to do it, before." "But you won't want me to lie in bed, or any nonsense of that sort ?" Reuben asked.
"I would, if I thought you would obey my orders; but as I see no chance of that, I shall not trouble to give them.

Seriously, I do not think there is any necessity for it, providing always that you will keep yourself very quiet.

I shall bandage your arm across your chest, so there can be no movement of the shoulder; and when that is done, I think you will be all right." There was only one more question which Reuben had to ask, with regard to the event of the preceding day--why it was that Smithson did not go to his comrade's assistance.