Still panting with agitation, her voice more high-pitched than ever, she explained that the accident had occurred because someone had left the safety guard off the saw.Fortunately her husband had been near the sawing shed, and deciding there was no time to fetch Stephen, had quickly applied a tourniquet and rushed the child off in the launch.“It’s de good Lawd’s blessing dat yo’ came to Flamingo today, Missy Sara,” the old woman said distressfully. “If’n it hadn’t been for dat boat bein’ lyin’ handy, I don’ reckon li’l Joe would be alive now. He was bleedin’ jus’ terrible.”“Oh, Aurora, how dreadful. I’m so sorry,” Sara said compassionately. “Where will they take him? To Nassau?”The negress wiped her eyes on the corner of her apron and explained that, in a case of such emergency, the Rock Sound Cottage Hospital on Eleuthera provided the nearest medical attention.“Dere ain’t nuffin we can do ’cept pray,” she added, with a gusty sigh. “But if’n dat boy get took by de Lawd, poor Massa Steve’ll go crazy.
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