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Sergeant Morris and three of the men held the poor fellow while the
operation was performed. As soon as it was over the doctor applied
splints and bandages to Captain O'Connor's leg and Lieutenant
Desmond's arm, and dressed the wounds of three of the other men, who
had suffered more or less severely.
CHAPTER XIII.
STARTLING NEWS.
"What do you think is the best thing to be done now doctor?" Ralph
asked.
"I don't know," he replied. "I don't see how on earth we are going to
get them over these rocks and up to the top. A slip or a fall would
cost either of your friends their limbs, and that poor fellow his
life. I don't see how it is to be managed. It's hard work for a man to
climb those rocks, and how a litter is to be carried I can't see. If
it were anywhere else I should say build a hut for them; but it would
be a tremendous business getting the materials down, and I don't think
it could possibly be managed by night."
"I am sure it couldn't," Ralph said, shaking his head. "I think,
though, if we got two long poles and slung a piece of canvas like a
hammock between them we may possibly get them down to the shore. You
see we have plenty of strength to get them over rough places."
"We could manage that easy enough," Lieutenant Adcock, who had some
time before joined the party, said.
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