Holding out her left hand as if pleading for mercy, she collapsed with a groan.
Sturgess, of course, was as fully aware as his companion of the difficulties raised by the discovery of this maimed creature.
“Well, by way of a change, Alec, I guess we’re up against a mighty tough proposition,” he said, scratching his head in sheer perplexity.
“We have only one course open, I take it,” said Maseden, though he, like Sturgess, felt that they might well have been spared this additional burden.
“That’s so. But-are broken legs in your line?”
“I have a notion that the bone-setter has to straighten and adjust the fracture by main force, and then bind the limb tightly, leaving the rest to nature. We have a spare oar. Chop the blade into two lengths of about fifteen inches, and get the girls to c
