"If you think we can leave the fellow on the ground with safety, I want
to reach the yacht," he said.
"Are you wounded?" inquired Dick.
"Slightly. Those scoundrels did not dare to strike home. They knew my
papers would identify them."
"But they robbed you?"
"No, not of anything valuable. Why do you ask?"
"Because you sang out to one of them, an Italian, I should judge--"
"Ah, you heard that? You are, indeed, quick in an emergency. Can we go
on, yes?"
"Certainly. I will just lift our dazed friend into the victoria, and
tell the _cocher_ to give him a glass of cognac at the first cafe he
comes to."
This was done. Five minutes later, the first and second officers of the
_Aphrodite_ assisted their employer up the yacht's gangway. Leaving
Tagg to explain to Stump what had happened, Royson took von Kerber to
his cabin, and helped to remove his outer clothing. A superficial wound
on the neck, and a somewhat deeper cut on the right forearm, were the
only injuries; the contents of a medicine chest, applied under von
Kerber's directions, soon staunched the flow of blood.
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