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cene might have led it is impossible to say, but just at that instant Anstey and two other second classmen came into the room, and the turnback seized the opportunity to get away. Though Cadet Prescott was so cheerful over his injury he was in a good deal of pain as the evening wore on. Every hour or so Goodwin or the other surgeon came in to see him. Though Prescott could hardly be expected to understand it, the surgeons were pleased, on the whole, with the pain. Had there been numbness, instead, the surgeons would have looked for paralysis. Later in the night Dick asked Captain Goodwin if he could not administer some light opiate. "You are willing to be a soldier, I know, Mr. Prescott," replied the surgeon. "Be sure of that, sir," replied the young man, Wincing. "Then try to bear the pain. It is the best indication with which we have to deal. It is one of the most hopeful symptoms for which we could look. Besides, your descriptions of the pain, and of its locality, if you are accurate, will give us our best indication of what to do for you." "Then I don't want any opiate, sir," replied Dick bluntly. "I don't care whether I'm kept here a day or a year, or what I have to suffer, only as long as I don't have to lose an active career in the service!" "Good for you, my young soldier," beamed the surgeon, patting the cadet's hand. "The superintendent telephoned over, a little while ago, to ask how you were. I told him that your grit was the best we had seen here in a long time." "Thank you, sir." "And the superintendent replied, dryly enough, that he expected that from your general record. The superintendent sent you his personal regards." "Thank you, sir, and the superintendent, too." "Oh, and a lot of others have been inquiring about you, too---the K.C. and all of the professors and most of the instructors. And at least a small regiment of cadets have tramped down as far as the office door also. I've been saving the names of inquirers, and will tell you the names in the morning. All except the names of the cadets, that is. There was too big a mob of cadets for us to attempt to keep the names." It was a painful, restless, feverish night for Prescott. He slept a part of the time, though when he did his sleep was filled with nightmares. The surgeons won his gratitude by their devotion to his interests. The first half of the night Captain Goodwin was in at least every hour. T
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