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182 THE ILLEGAL MARRIAGE, immense amount of good to have a talk with you— it would hurry me out of this.” “My dear fellow, never hurry; I give you Stan- nard’s rule, and a very good one, too. Take hfe easy, Trippe, in whatever form it comes to you.” “Wait until you are in my fix, Peyton, before giving advice; wait until you have a doctor tyran- nizing over you.” “Now, Trippe,” said Pierce, laughing, “don’t put itonme. Did I say anything to you about it.” “You conspired with my wife, though—all the same.” “You are a doctor yourself, Trippe. and know what tyrants doctors are, as well as the necessity for their being so.” “Yes, I’m aware of all that,” answered Trippe, with a smile; “but here I have been sitting up in bed off and on for some days; and Ham, who only sees me once a day, still forbids me to talk. The greatest worry of my life is that I can’t put one of yan on the witness stand and question you for an Our.” . “Well, Trippe, we’ll see about that to-morrow,” interposed Pierce, laying his hand upon the in- valid’s pulse. “If you keep on as you are to-day, we'll hold a general court-martial on you, and sentence you to be shot, or to convalescence.” “T’ll be shot if I shouldn’t like it, doctor.” “That depends; don’t speculate on the finding of the court, sir. We may sentence you to be hanged,” still holding the wrist. Pierce took out his watch and counted for a moment. “To be hanged in a hammock, out there on the porch,” he concluded, closing the watch. “T’ll be hanged if I shouldn’t like that, too; but I say, Ham, couldn’t you manage to put your words a little closer together? You want to frighten me into submission.” : The three men looked at each other with smiles, each happy to see that Trippe’s intellect had re- turned. Pierce would not continue the badinage. “There, Trippe, that will do for to-day. Save your strength—you are tired already.” comicbooks.¢co