and he seemed satisfied...As if I would have given him away! After twenty years!...\"
He straightened up and went on in his ordinary voice: \"There was no need for me to go for the atropine, but I got the idea the Commodore had something private to tell the doctor, so I left the room. I have seen men die before, and I knew that neither atropine nor nothing else could save my master then. I wasn't gone but ten minutes. When I got back he was dead.\"
and he seemed satisfied...As if I would have given him away! After twenty years!...\"
He straightened up and went on in his ordinary voice: \"There was no need for me to go for the atropine, but I got the idea the Commodore had something private to tell the doctor, so I left the room. I have seen men die before, and I knew that neither atropine nor nothing else could save my master then. I wasn't gone but ten minutes. When I got back he was dead.\"