Then they put him in a warm bed, and applied
stimulants; and by slow degrees the eyelids began to wink, the eyes to
look more mellow, the respiration to strengthen, the heart to beat:
"Patience, now," said the surgeon, "patience, and lots of air."
Patience was rewarded. Just four hours after the first treatment, a
voice, faint but calm and genial, issued from the bed on their astonished
ears, "Good morning to you all."
They kept very quiet. In about five minutes more the voice broke out
again, calm and sonorous--
"Where is my money--my fourteen thousand pounds?"
These words set them all looking at one another: and very much puzzled
the surgeon: they were delivered with such sobriety and conviction.
"Captain," he whispered, "ask him. if he knows you."
"David," said the captain kindly, "do you know me?" David looked at him
earnestly, and his old kindly smile broke out, "Know ye, ye clog," said
he, "why, you are my cousin Reginald. And how came you into this
thundering bank? I hope you have got no money here. 'Ware land sharks!"
"We are not in a bank, David; we are on board my ship.
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