CHAPTER XVIII

HOW THREE WENT HOME IT is to be feared that the next few days were anything but agreeable to Mr. Davison. The setting of a leg by amateur Red Cross workers, however gentle, is never a pleasing matter for the patient; nor is it enlivening to be carried for six miles on a roughly made stretcher over ground so strewn with boulders that the bearers cannot avoid frequent stumbles. Jim and Wally, who were the bearers, did their best; and to them the journey was by no means a pleasure-trip. But any inconvenience it caused…