You'll find me here when you come back
with the doctor. Go! Skedaddle quick!"
She did not have to repeat the command. In another instant James
North was in Miss Bessy's seat--a man's dragoon saddle,--and
pounding away through the sand. Two facts were in his mind: one
was that he, the "looney," was about to open communication with the
wisdom and contemporary criticism of the settlement, by going for a
doctor to administer to a sick and anonymous infant in his
possession; the other was that his solitary house was in the hands
of a self-invited, large-limbed, illiterate, but rather comely
young woman. These facts he could not gallop away from, but to his
credit be it recorded that he fulfilled his mission zealously, if
not coherently, to the doctor, who during the rapid ride gathered
the idea that North had rescued a young married woman from
drowning, who had since given birth to a child.
The few words that set the doctor right when he arrived at the
cabin might in any other community have required further
explanation, but Dr.
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