dr strange in ite gown and head bending over the steel table with its and then nurses holding and cotton and a thing just a chin and a of in the midst of which was a square of sallow flesh with a a little bloody at the edges from the a cluster of like clinging he ut the door with it may be that his repentance of the night and had not eaten in but this of ber who had been so shook him utterly and as he crouched again on the stool in the he swore faith to his wife i to to business to the to faith of the of good fellows thai a nurse was soothing au perfect she ll come out fine shell be out from the soon and you can see her he found h on a curious bed her face an yellow but her purple lips moving slightly then only did he really believe that she was alive she was muttering he bent and heard her sighing hard get real foe he laughed he beamed on the nurse and proudly confided think of her talking about by i m going to go order a hundred of it ri t from was out of the bo in seventeen days he went to see her each afternoon and in l they drifted b to i nt once he hinted something of his and the and she was by the view that a wicked woman had her poor george if once he had doubted his neighbors and the supreme charm of the good he was convinced now you didn t he noted see coming around with any oc dropping in to chat with the but mrs brought to tbe hospital her wine with real wine jones spent hours in picking out the kind of novels mrs liked � nice love stories about new york and a pink bed jacket and bis merry brown eyed of a wife the prettiest in all the stock of and all his friends ceased about him suspecting him at the they asked after her daily club members whose names be did not know stopped him to inquire how s your good lady getting on felt that ha was swinging from bleak down into the rich warm of a pleasant with cottages one noon suggested you planning to be at the hospital about six the wife and i ht we d drop in they did drop in was so humorous that mrs said he must stop making her laugh because honestly it was her as they passed down the hall demanded george old you were about something here a back i don t know why and it s none of my business but you seem to be feeling all again and why don t you come join us in tlie good citizens league old man we have some times together and we need your advice then did almost tearful with joy at being instead of at being permitted to stop fighting at being able to desert without his of himself cease utterly to be a domestic he patted s shoulder and n� ct day be became a of the good two weeks no one in the league was more violent regarding the wickedness of the crimes of labor the perils of and the delights of morality and bank accounts than was george f � i� chapter i xxiv i the good citizens league had spread through the country but nowhere was it so effective ana well esteemed as in cities of the type of commercial cities of a few hundred thousand inhabitants most of which � not all � lay inland against a background of and mines and of small towns which ended upon them for ge art social philosophy and to the league belonged most of the prosperous citizens of they were not all of the kind who called themselves regular besides these hearty fellows these r of prosperity there were the that is the who were richer or had been rich for more generations the of banks and of the land owners the lawyers the fashionable doctors and the few young old men who worked not at all but reluctantly remaining in collected ware and first as though they were back in paris all of them agreed that the must be kept in their place and all of them perceived that american did not imply any equality of wealth but did demand a wholesome of thought dress painting morals and in this they were like the ruling class of any other country particularly of great britain but they differed in being more vigorous and in actually trying to produce the accepted standards which all classes everywhere desire but usually despair of the longest struggle of the good citizens league was � b against the open sh � was secretly a struggle against all union labor it was an movement with evening c in and history and and daily article i in the newspapers so that newly arrived foreigners learn that the true blue and one hundred per cent w y of settling labor was for workmen to trust and love their en q the league was more than generous in which agreed its aims it be ed the y i ca to raise s two thousand fund for a new building and charles the at how great an foe manly the good old y had been in their own and the and mi ty r mb � ford snow of the advocate times was clasping the band of of the y m c a it is true that a when li ed you must come to one of oi t meeting the ferocious the hell would i do that for i ve got a bar of my bat this did not appear in the public prints league was of to tbe american at a time when certain of tbe lesser and 