He was faint with loss of blood, and I think, with pain; and when I spoke to him, he turned a white face to me and said nothing.
Therefore, in no little panic, I lifted him gently to his bunk, and went in search of help.
By good fortune I met Captain Desmond, to whom I told his fellow- Irishman's plight; and presently he came forward with a leech.

This learned grandee seeing the wound not to be desperate, and having plenty of business, I suppose, elsewhere, among his sea-sick lordlings, bade us bandage up the wound as best we could, and find a better place to lay the sufferer in than that foul hole.

Saying which, he dawdled away.
Then Captain Desmond questioned me as to how it all happened, and when I told him, he shrugged his shoulders and said: "Help me carry him abaft.

Heaven knows there are plenty of empty cabins on our ship to-night! The Don has enough to think of without this coming to his ears.

Therefore, when we have him safely bestowed, do you attend to your duties here, as before, and I will see to him.