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 quarters. But funds don't always run to taking a passenger's ticket, and a spell of sailoring keeps one in good trim, besides providing the necessary cash for such things as tobacco and having one's trousers pressed. By the way, we ought to do something for your knee. Let's have a squint at it." Tempest made a careful examination of the damaged limb. The skin was scarcely broken, but the joint was puffed up and beginning to turn blue.

"I'm no doctor," said Tempest, "but I reckon you 'll be fairly all right in a day or two if you rest it as much as possible. If not, there's a doctor lives about ten miles away."

"Doctor!" cried Dave. "If he's ten miles away, that 'll be twenty for the round trip, and I have n't got a red cent."

"That's all right. He is a particular friend of mine," replied Tempest, "and he just loves to admire the scenery in this neighborhood."

He caught a questioning look in the boy's eyes.