"
Jim introduced Dr. Scott, who said:
"I must see my patient and be away in an hour. I don't want to
get stalled here by a thaw."
So Tom led the way to the shack, and did not see the departure of
the law's five officers.
Outside Reade carefully dropped the ore he had brought along and
made a sign to his workmen to do the same. Then the partners
and the physician went inside.
Tom watched closely while the physician placed a thermometer in
Harry's mouth and felt his pulse. Respiration was also counted,
after which Dr. Scott produced a stethoscope and listened at Harry's
chest and back. A little more, and the examination was completed.
"Gentlemen," announced Dr. Scott, "you've brought me all this
distance over the snow-crust to see a patient who is just about
convalescent. This young man may have some nourishment today,
and by day after tomorrow he will be calling loudly for the cook."
"What has been the trouble, doc?" Hazelton asked.
"Congestion of the right lung, my son, but the congestion has
almost wholly disappeared.
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