It was a fit all right. I bet he died, too, because he went limp
all at once. He acted like he'd seen a ghost. He yelled, 'What
did you give him?' to the other fellow. What did he call him?"
he asked Beany. "I heard him call some name."

Porky's elbow went sharply into Beany's ribs.

"Didn't catch it," said he, obeying the warning for silence.





CHAPTER VI

ORDERS FROM THE COLONEL


Over in the Hospital, the dimply nurse laid compresses on the
swollen ankle of Captain DuChassis. She found her patient
wakeful, and worn with pain. The leg was badly wrenched, it
seemed. The dimply nurse talked pleasantly with her
distinguished guest, and to amuse him told him a small joke. It
was an amusing little joke to her. A boy had dropped in during
the afternoon, and had asked for the Captain. He seemed most
anxious to know just how he was getting, along; and when she had
told him that he could not leave the Hospital for another day,
the boy had said, "I wish I could help take care of the Captain.
Say, nurse, what have you done with his boots?"