uses, to bring out valued articles, such as
could be hurriedly saved.

I was in a good deal of pain, but everything was so exciting that I
could not find it in my heart to go into the great barrack-like wooden
fort in the centre of the palisaded enclosure, but stood watching the
preparations, and thinking how rapidly the settlement had increased
since we came.

One thing I heard over and over again, and that was the people bemoaning
their fate at having to leave their comfortable houses just as
everything had been made homely and nice, to be pillaged and burned by
the Indians.

"And they'll pillage and burn our place," I thought, "perhaps the
first." And I was thinking bitterly of all this, and that we had far
more right to complain than the rest, when Pomp came strutting up with
his arm in the loose sling, of which he seemed to be very proud.

He stopped short as he came quickly up, having been summoned away a few
minutes before; and now he pointed at me, and turned to a quiet,
keen-looking youngish man, who wore a sword, but had his pockets stuffed
full of bandages and bottles, for I heard them chink.

"Dat Mass' George, sah," he cried.

"Ah, that's right. Your father wished me to examine your wound."

"Are you a doctor?" I said eagerly.

"Well, yes--a surgeon."

"Come with me, then," I cried. "There's some one who was wounded in one
of our boats."

"The woman? Yes, I have seen her and attended to her. Now then, quick,
my lad. Lean on me, and let's see about you."

I limped beside him to the part of the block-house set apart for such
troubles, and after giving me no little pain, he said--

"There, you can sit somewhere and load guns. You will not hurt now."

"It's not dangerous then?" I said.

"Not at all; but if it had not been sharply attended to by your father
you would have bled to death."

"And how is our Sarah?" I said, eagerly.

"If you mean Captain Bruton's housekeeper, she is badly wounded, but I
have removed the arrow-head, and I think she will do. I suppose you are
Master George?"

"Yes."

"Then as soon as you can you must go and see the poor woman. She was
talking constantly of you, and begged me to send you if we met."

I thanked him, and left him emptying his pockets of strips of linen,
threads, a box of something that made me think about pistols in the case
at home, and then of some bottles, all of which he laid about in the
most orderly manner, and I left him with a