`` We must get him up to the house as soon as possible . How shall we manage it ? '' `` Lynde and I can go and bring the Captain 's mattress down , '' said Emily . Now that Alan was safe she was eager to do all she could . `` Then you and I can carry him up to the house . '' `` That will be best , '' said Alan . `` Go quickly . '' He did not look at Lynde or he would have been shocked by the agony on her face . She cast one glance at the prostrate man and followed Emily . In a short time they returned with the mattress , and Alan and Emily carried the sailor on it to Four Winds . Lynde walked behind them , seemingly unconscious of both . She watched the stranger 's face as one fascinated . At Four Winds they carried the man to a room where Emily and Alan worked over him , while Lynde heated water and hunted out stimulants in a mechanical fashion . When Alan came down she asked no questions but looked at him with the same strained horror on her face which it had borne ever since Alan had dropped his burden at her feet . `` Is he -- conscious ? '' asked Lynde , as if she forced herself to ask the question . `` Yes , he has come back to life . But he is delirious and does n't realize his surroundings at all . He thinks he is still on board the vessel . He 'll probably come round all right .
Emily is going to watch him and I 'll go up XXXXX Rexton and send Dr. Ames down . ''
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