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Show 131. from his mocassin laces. Bill, I've looked him over though, and do you knoxr he hasn't a sign of the scurvy he had a couple of months ago. When you shoxred me xrhat he had, I p r a c t i c a l l y gave him up; you took no notice, just xrent ahead getting a l l the things doxm him that seemed to keep the rest of us from getting i t . I'd seen too many men die from i t xrhen they got i t early in the xrinter in this country. I xrouldn't even have t r i e d ." "All right Olaf, but save the milk for him. I haven't the stomach for i t . Will you bring me some more quinine?" Bill slowly drank the xrater Olaf brought, xrincing xrhen he took the f i r s t sxralloxr and then again xrhen he sxralloxred the quinine. When he axrakened i t xras as light as i t ever got in the cabin when i t xras stormy. Sunny came over. "Hoxr a re you?" "Maybe a l i t t l e b e t t e r , " Bill said. "Sure am glad. Olaf," Sunny shouted, "Olaf, he's b e t t e r !" Sunny xrent back over to Olaf and xrent on talking, "Things just a r e n ' t the same xrithout Old Bill running them around here, a r c they?" Olaf and Sunny kept talking, and t h e i r voices were just a tinkling in his head-unreal and annoying and he wished they'd stop. Bill..knoxr they xrere trying to cheer |