Chapter 28 COMRADES ALL.

Charley was sitting on a big chair, his bandaged ankle resting on cushions piled in another chair, when Ned Osgood came to see him at noon the following day. Ned had visited him early that morning, but now he returned with his face aglow and his tongue eager with a message.

"How's the ankle, Shultzie?" he cried.

"Oh, it's pretty well," was th