CHAPTER 6A POINT GAINED
The man who first came to Nick’s assistance was Chick.
It may as well be said at once that Nick was not badly hurt. His hat was not exactly what it seemed to be.
One would have taken it to be soft felt. In reality, it was a better helmet than those which the knights of the Middle Ages wore.
He had fallen under the blow because he believed that course to be the best policy.
Somebody had planned to kill or at least disable him, and he thought it wise to let that person suppose that he had succeeded.
Chick carried him to a drug store with the aid of a policeman.
An ambulance was summoned; Nick was put into it.
But when the ambulance reached the hospital there was nobody inside it except the surgeon, who winked to the driver and went to his room.
Nick and Chick
