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CHAPTER XXIII. DR. MACKEY'S BOLD MOVE.
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It must be confessed that Jack1 was startled, for he had not heard the approach of the surgeon and his companions, who had come up noiselessly and on foot.
"Hullo, you here?" asked Dr. Mackey, as he gazed at Jack in some astonishment2.
"What brings you here, Dr. Mackey?" demanded our hero.
"I am looking for the dead or wounded in this neighborhood," was the answer. "Whom have you here?"
"A guerrilla we shot down."
"Ha! who shot him?"
"I did. He was trying to steal our horses."
"Dr. Mackey, don't you know me?" came from the guerrilla.
"Pete Gendron!" muttered the surgeon. "I never expected to see you here."
"Nor did I calkerlate to see you, doc. But I'm mighty4 glad yer come. Ye kin3 git me out o' this fix."
As he spoke5, the guerrilla eyed Dr. Mackey sharply. On more than one occasion he had been the doctor's tool, and now he thought it no more than fair that the medical man should stand by him.
"Evidently you know this guerrilla," said Jack slowly.
"I do," answered the doctor slowly. He hardly knew how to proceed.
"I aint no guerrilla, an' Dr. Mackey kin prove it," cried Pete Gendron. The coming of the medical man had raised his spirits wonderfully.
"You are a guerrilla."
"I aint. Dr. Mackey will prove my words. He's a friend o' mine. Aint ye, doc?"
There was a peculiar6 emphasis to the guerrilla's words which made the surgeon shift uneasily from one foot to the other.
"If I don't humor Gendron, he may expose me," thought the surgeon dismally7. "He knows too much to be made an enemy of."
"Is he your friend?" asked Jack.
"Not exactly my friend, Jack, but I know him pretty well," answered Dr. Mackey slowly, as if trying to feel his way.
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