tted his pale cheek. "You're not even half killed, and that awful
black thing is killed completely. But you've had a very narrow escape,
and you've got some nasty wounds, and you must keep very quiet here
until we can get you back to St. Andrews."

Mr. Sutherland was a man of thought as well as of action, and it did
not take him long to arrange matters. The Indian was dispatched to the
settlement with a note telling what had happened, and asking that a
litter be sent back for the sufferer. In the meantime he himself would
stay by the wounded boy until the litter arrived.

Happily they were not at the time a very great distance from St.
Andrews. Another Indian, having been promised liberal payment if he
was very quick, ran the whole way thither, and the litter party lost
not a moment in making the return trip. It was indeed well for
Donalblane that they were so prompt, for he presently began to be
feverish, and to require the utmost skill of the physicians who had
accompanied the expedition to combat the effect of the serious wounds
he bore. There was great sympathy felt for him, as he was a general
favourite, owing to his bright, frank, manly ways; and both Mr.
Paterson and Mr. Sutherland were as concerned about him as if he had
been their own child.

Even with the best of care some weeks must elapse before he would
regain his former vigour, and while he lay in his hammock, a not too
docile and submissive patient, affairs went on not at all prosperously
at St. Andrews.

Although absent only a week, Mr. Paterson found on his return that a
spirit of discontent and dissension had already broken out in the
colony. All the men were not workers. Some were useless drones, and
those who had toiled hard laying the foundation of the new city began
to grumble and protest. There was no settled or acknowledged
authority. Once the novelty of the situation had passed away, Mr.
Paterson ceased to be looked up to and obeyed, and it seemed impossible
for any one to be agreed upon as supreme governor.

The settlement certainly presented a curious appearance at this time.
Over a thousand persons, all foreign to the soil, were lodged in rude
wooden huts roofed with palmetto leaves, the inside furnishing of which
were of the simplest description. Chests and lockers did duty for
seats and tables; tartan shawls of brilliant hues, hung up as curtains,
formed the only partitions; spades, mattocks, axes, and hatchets
littered th