"
"Is he bleeding seriously?" she asked.
"No; the bullet seems to have missed the important arteries. But that
would have been a pickle."
"Then there's no need to bother about reading up," Joan said. "And I'm
just dying to hear what it was all about. The _Apostle_ is lying
becalmed inside the point, and her boats are out to wing. She'll be at
anchor in five minutes, and Doctor Welshmere is sure to be on board. So
all we've got to do is to make Tudor comfortable. We'd better put him in
your room under the mosquito-netting, and send a boat off to tell Dr.
Welshmere to bring his instruments."
An hour afterward, Dr. Welshmere left the patient comfortable and
attended to, and went down to the beach to go on board, promising to come
back to dinner. Joan and Sheldon, standing on the veranda, watched him
depart.
"I'll never have it in for the missionaries again since seeing them here
in the Solomons," she said, seating herself in a steamer-chair.
She looked at Sheldon and began to laugh.
"That's right," he said. "It's the way I feel, playing the fool and
trying to murder a guest."
"But you haven't told me what it was all about."
"You," he answered shortly.
"Me? But you just said it wasn't."
"Oh, it wasn't the kiss.
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