`` I must get away from here . Rum ! Rum ! '' I ran to fetch it , but I was quite unsteadied by all that had fallen out , and I broke one glass and fouled the tap , and while I was still getting in my own way , I heard a loud fall in the parlour , and running in , beheld the captain lying full length upon the floor . At the same instant my mother , alarmed by the cries and fighting , came running downstairs to help me . Between us we raised his head . He was breathing very loud and hard , but his eyes were closed and his face a horrible colour . `` Dear , deary me , '' cried my mother , `` what a disgrace upon the house ! And your poor father sick ! '' In the meantime , we had no idea what to do to help the captain , nor any other thought but that he had got his death-hurt in the scuffle with the stranger . I got the rum , to be sure , and tried to put it down his throat , but his teeth were tightly shut and his jaws as strong as iron . It was a happy relief for us when the door opened and Doctor Livesey came in , on his visit to my father . `` Oh , doctor , '' we cried , `` what shall we do ? Where is he wounded ? '' `` Wounded ? A fiddle-stick 's end ! '' said the doctor . `` No more wounded than you or I . The man has had a stroke , as I warned him . Now , Mrs. Hawkins , just you run upstairs to your husband and tell him , if possible , nothing about it .
For my part , I must do my best to save this fellow 's trebly worthless life ; Jim , you XXXXX me a basin . ''
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