We'll get him with the branding-iron hot."
"That will not put things right if--" she paused, then with a great
effort she added: "Does the doctor think he will get it back and that--"
She stopped suddenly in an agitation he did not care to see and he turned
away his head.
"Doctor doesn't know," he answered. "There's got to be an expert. It'll
take time before he gets here, but--" he could not help but say it,
seeing how great her distress was--"but it's going to come back. I've
seen cases--I saw one down on the Border"--how easily he lied!--"just
like his. It was blasting that done it--the shock. But the sight come
back all right, and quick too--like as I've seen a paralizite get up all
at once and walk as though he'd never been locoed. Why, God Almighty
don't let men like Ingolby be done like that by reptiles same's
Marchand."
"You believe in God Almighty?" she said half-wonderingly, yet with
gratitude in her tone. "You understand about God?"
"I've seen too many things not to try and deal fair with Him and not try
to cheat Him," he answered. "I see things lots of times that wasn't ever
born on the prairie or in any house.
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