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第35章 CHAPTER XVII(1)

LEFT BEHIND

"Is he hurt much?" "Don't know. Maybe he's broken his neck." This brief dialogue ensued between two painted clowns hurrying to their stations. In the meantime the band struck up a lively air, the clowns launched into a merry medley of song and jest and in a few moments the spectators forgot the scene they had just witnessed, in the noise, the dash and the color. It would come back to them later like some long-past dream. Mr. Kennedy, with grim, set face, uttered a stern command to Emperor, who for a brief instant had stood irresolute, as if pondering as to whether he should turn and plunge for the red silk curtains behind which his little friend had disappeared in the arms of the attendants. The trainer's voice won, and Emperor trumpeting loudly, took his way to his quarters without further protest. In the dressing tent another scene was being enacted. On two drawn-up trunks, over which had been thrown a couple of horse blankets, they had laid the slender, red-clad figure of Phil Forrest. The boy's pale face appeared even more ashen than it really was under the flickering glare of the gasoline torches. His head had been propped up on a saddle, while about him stood a half circle of solemn-faced performers in various stages of undress and makeup. "Is he badly hurt?" asked one. "Can't say. Miaco has gone for the doc. We'll know pretty soon. That was a dandy tumble he took." "How did it happen?" "Wire broke. You can't put no faith on a wire with a kink in it. I nearly got my light put out, out in St. Joe, Missouri, by a trick like that. No more swinging wire for me. Guess the kid, if he pulls out of this, will want to hang on to a rope after this. He will if he's wise." "What's this? What's this?" roared Mr. Sparling, who, having heard of the accident, came rushing into the tent. "Who's hurt?" "The kid," informed someone. "What kid? Can't you fellows talk? Oh, it's Forrest, is it? How did it happen?" One of the performers who had witnessed the accident related what he had observed. "Huh!" grunted the showman, stepping up beside Phil and placing a hand on the boy's heart. "Huh!" "He's alive, isn't he, Mr.

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