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Barbet was cared for like a child. Stretched on a soft bed of nets and bagging, he had the bunk all to himself. Elise had given it up to him. Sick people must have comforts. She herself slept, sitting on a box near his bed, and, like a true shipmate, took the best care of him.
She made endless dressings and cooling drinks for him. He would turn his eye, lighted with the wild gleams of fever, toward her, then his head would drop weakly and slowly back.