41 Lure O Gold 1904

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Lame
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The Lure o
Gold
visit to the camp, and limped back to Nome, a distance
of over ten miles.
My heel and the back of my ankle
gave me such pain by the time I reached the Golden
North that I was glad to see the round, smiling face of
Doctor Quaritch above the supper-board.
?
he asked, as I limped upstairs
with him
after supper.
"Let s see."
I took off
my boot and stocking
when we reached
our room, and he felt of the heel and ankle with gentle
fingers.
"Tendon Achilles strained, my boy. No wonder
you limped.
You come aboard ship with me and I ll
fix you up. We sail to-night, you know. Wish you
were going with us."
We went off to the Modesto in the moonlight
in the
steamer s boat, Doctor Quaritch, Yohara and I. I
was glad of an excuse to be with the Doctor as long as I
could, and to say
"
"
good-bye
to him at the last possible
moment, for I knew I should be very lonely when he
should be gone. Soon the hull of the big vessel lay
before us.
"
She s pretty high out of "
water, isn t she ? remarked
the Doctor. We brought up a big cargo of machinery
and supplies for the miners, but there isn t anything
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