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Doctor Christobal brought some additional details to the dinner-table

He was not the ship's doctor The Kansas, built for freight rather

than passengers, did not carry a surgeon on her roll; Dr Christobal's

presence was due to Mr Baring's solicitude in his daughter's behalf

It chanced that the courtly and gray-haired Spanish physician had

relinquished his practise in Chile, and was about to pay a

long-prohter in Barcelona Friendship,

not unaided by a good fee, induced him to travel by the Kansas

He had been called on to attend Mr Boyle and the wounded Chilean, and

he reported now that the chief officer's injury was trifling, but the

Chilean's wound e

"So far as I can gather," he said, "Mr Boyle had a narrow escape

These half-breeds have a nice anato; they also know the easiest way to reach it with a sharp

instrument Captain Courtenay fired as the knife fell, otherwise our

first "

"What was the cause of the affair?" Isobel asked

"The man is not one of the ship's crew, I understand His naed to place so He says that he was drugged, and his

clothes stolen; that he ca hi into a hold which, luckily for him, was

nearly full of cotton bales He was stunned by the fall, and were it