Roy Blakeley by Percy Keese Fitzhugh
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I couldn't see the door, dragging him after me. Then I did something I
never thought I could do, but maybe you've noticed you can do most anything when you have to. I just stood up, then fell down again, coughing and choking, and my ears were buzzing all the time. But I didn't care, I just stood up again with him hanging to me, and I grabbed the window sill and dragged him half way across it and with his head outside, and then I staggered and tried to grab something and my eyes were stinging and, oh, I don't know, all of a sudden my head knocked and I didn't know any more. Mr. Ellsworth says that Doc ought to write the rest of this chapter, but he wouldn't, and it's just like him. The next thing I knew I was sitting on the lowest step and Connie Bennet was holding my head. "You're all right," he said, "but you got a good bump. You were only there a few seconds." "Did you pull me out?" I said. "Where's, Wig?" "Doc brought him around," he said, "he got him breathing, then it was easy. We couldn't find Artie." Maybe it was funny, but just then I didn't seem to be thinking about Artie. I felt my head and found I had a big bump on it. "I should worry about that," I said. "Where's Wig?" Then I got up and went around the cabin to the forward deck and there were all the fellows and Wig sitting up and Doc Carson holding him and moving: him, so as to keep him breathing--scout fashion. |
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