The Boy Chums in the Florida Jungle: or, Charlie West and Walter Hazard with the Seminole IndiansEly, Wilmer M. (Wilmer Mateo)
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The Boy Chums in the Florida Jungle: or, Charlie West and Walter Hazard with the Seminole Indians
Ely, Wilmer M. (Wilmer Mateo)
Seminole Indians -- Juvenile fiction
They bore the Spaniard into their own tent and laid him on Charley's
cot. A sprinkling of cold water in his face, and a small drink of
liquor quickly brought the man to his senses. "What's the matter with
you?" Charley asked when the Spaniard had emerged from his stupor.
"I do not know, señor," replied the guard. "Everything go black all of
a sudden. I know nothing more--head hurts more now bad."
Charley examined his head. "The skin is broken a little," he said. "I
guess you must have hit it against something when you fell. How do you
feel now? Feel able to get over to your tent and get to bed?"
"I go back on guard," the man said as he staggered to his feet. "I feel
all right again pretty soon," but as he still appeared half dazed the
lad insisted on his going to his tent. Gomez was sent back on guard
and Charley took the sick man's place. Both the Captain and Walter
offered to take the guard duty, but Charley refused.
"You both have to work to-morrow," he said, "while I will have most
of the day to rest up in. I don't feel the least bit sleepy now," and
in truth he did not. This new incident had given him fresh food for
thought. It had needed only a glance at the wound on Lavinia's head
to convince him that it had been made by a bullet. If he had had the
slightest doubt, it would have been dispelled by the fact that they had
found the Spaniard lying face down. Their hidden enemies were getting
bold.
When daylight came the weary, troubled lad drank a cup of coffee Chris
had ready for him and tumbled down on his cot for a few hours' sleep.
He was up again before noon, and after a hasty lunch he drove the truck
into Jupiter after the supplies he had ordered from Jacksonville. He
found them waiting for him, and after loading them on the truck, he
wrote out a telegram to the sheriff and handed it to the agent, who
whistled as he read it over. "There's a big reward offered for those
four men," he commented as he clicked off the message with his key.
"They are all four of them desperate characters. I guess I'll wait for
the sheriff's reply;" then Charley said: "If there's a reward in it, we
might want our share. Money isn't any too plentiful with us yet. By the
way," he continued, "do you know a little man with mild blue eyes and
a spade-like beard that goes by the name of Jones?"
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