Out of Time: A story of archaeology... sort of by David LaVigne

Author:David LaVigne [LaVigne, David]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Adventure, FICTION / Action &#038
ISBN: 9781432785093
Publisher: Outskirts Press, Inc.
Published: 2012-01-18T05:00:00+00:00

Campbell finished patching up the arm and moved on to the chest, clearing away blood before removing broken bits of wood and using the alcohol soaked dish cloths to clean out the deep gashes.

“I need to find something to splint this arm with,” he said but there was no reply. He turned around to see if Mary was still there, but she was nowhere to be seen. “Damnit.”

He ripped the man’s shirt into long strips a few inches wide. He was using the strips to wrap around the man’s chest, after he cleaned out all the wounds with the rum, when the man woke up. It started with just a little stir and a sound here and there but then the guy opened his eyes and looked at Campbell. Then he looked at his body and all the blood soaked cloth lying around him and he screamed.

Campbell had to hold the man down by pinning his shoulders to the table, which was causing some of the cuts on his chest to start bleeding again, and some of it started to come through the bandages. Mary came running in when she heard the scream and she helped Campbell hold the man down.

The militiaman stopped screaming when he saw his wife running up to the table and he took a second to let his mind clear. The wife hugged her husband and cried and Campbell and Mary took a step back to give them some room.

“I understand your concern, ma’am, but he has lost a lot of blood and I need to finish fixing him up,” Campbell said as calmly as he could, placing his hands on the crying woman’s shoulders and gently trying to move her out of the way.

“What happened?” the woman said, allowing herself to be moved away.

“A cannon ball took out your door as he was leaving the house,” Mary chimed in.

“Oh dear,” the woman said, covering her mouth with her hands. Then she looked around the house and saw the devastation. She tried to stop herself from screaming.

Campbell handed the bottle of rum to the man on the table and advised him to take a few big swigs to try and dull the pain. The man took the bottle and drank until it was empty, and then lay back down to let Campbell finish.

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