The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-03-29

Iut OF Jones SIN rmlDg Tvs sovereign ef1cacy.
should she go in and promise the coveted
nusbsndf The man had offered a fee of s.
bat the doctor bad treated the matter with
and indignant leDce. Azure
las foot vas on the doorstep. but her pride
got the be ter Of her; in another moment she
turned away. She knew her husband was
right; che knew he trusted her Implicitly
out not to tamper with her hoRor. The bank
close by she had only to go In and speak
TO the manager, IN old friend Of her fatser's.
Her father was a Mscbone of Bonely Hail
he had been rich, bat the farms brought In
nothing now, and Macbone's oEn account at
the bank was small For his sake,
however. the manager, who he'd
often danced Au1elia on his knee
when a child, would have been ascommo
dating. and even handed her over the much
coveted ready money indeed be had done
1t before 1t was q temptation-not so sordid
as the last-out Aurelia put 1t aside. She
knee that all this bland trading Upon the
courtesy Of bank managers was only q sow
ing of the wind. What was she to do next?
She had q truly feminine horror o. applying
to her family solicitor for money, yet that
seemed the only other royal rosd open. She
had bounced out Of her house with an air OF
superiority. almost defiance, she could not
bear to 60 back crestfsllen. 1t was lunch
time. She Was very hungry; but she wasn't
going home to sit opposite Ed ward and
parry his ~satirical questions as to where she
had contrived TO get all the ready money
from. Had she not said, Leave IL to me?"
Her spirit was rapidly going down. At one
moment the felt regularly inclined to cry,
but she vas a girl of spirit and gulped down
her a~nnoyance. Finding herself cloee to o
pastry cooks shop, she went In, sat down,
and ordered herself o cup OF coffee and q
bun. Her mind seemed q complete blank.
There were some chocolate creams In q box
close by. Aurelia never could resist cnoco-
ate creams. After paying for coffee and a
bun she would Just have q sixpeDce left;
she spent it on the box and began eating
the chocolates. She was 90 missr-
able that she seemed to court even that
trifipg sensation of pleasures to distract her
from her own thoughts. As she finished her
herself coloriDg up. and, with a cnildlike re-
vulsion OF feeling, she thrust the half empty
box into her pocket aud again went out into
|Oxford-street. The coffee seemed 10 have got
into her head. She began to tear along to
ward the Circus, not knowing we'll where
she was going; she was not sanguine so much
as desperate. In another moment several
people came rushing up against her; they
seemed all going one way. She was almost
thrown into the road.
She turr ed mechanically, and to save her
self from being actually knocked down began
running with the crowd. In another mo
ment she was aware of q surging mass Of
people. 5werviDg OIL to the pavement, and
with q smash, came q hanson into the very
midst of them. She had got on to q raised
doorstep. The Gro wd parted and a fashion.
ably dressed young girl OF about seventeen
was flung upon the pavement. On these &C.
~casions people always cluster round the
horse. Oddly enough, there is the great in
disposition to touch the uplucky human be
ing, whe so netimes is in much more urgent
need of attention. OF course there was no
policeman. A gaping crowd stood round the
moaning girl, every one thinking it some
bodyelss's business to attend to her. Aurelia
was IN the greatest state of excitement. She
could see from her doorstep over the heads
of the crowd. The young lady Was lying all
of q heap just as she fell, apparently unable
TO rise. ard meaning piteoUsly. Aurelia
who had lately gone through the st. Johns
Ambulance classes, was Just about to spring
across the Gro wd when the words,
"Good gracious, Miss Aurelia-Mrs. Jones,
l meant"
"Mr. De Batledawl" gasped Aurelia. and
an avalanche of words, but clear and ire
sistabIy distinct aud peremptory, poured
upon him. She seized his arm and almost
Missed in his, ear "Nota moment-do as l tell
you-act as my husbands assistant-mind.
you're q doctOr-we take the girl into this
shop-we two-I fetch Edward-keep her
let no one touch her till / get back-now
through the crOwd2"
She almost leaped upon his arm. De Battle
daw was game. In another moment cries of
The doctorl the doctorf' we're heard on al
sides. De BatledaW was waving the people
aside msiestically. Aurelis knelt down by
the poor girl, and with the inspiration of
Igenlus De Batledaw calmly took out his
watch and felt her pulse, while he nodded
confidently to Aurelia. In that critical NC
ment Aurelia seemed to remember all the
practical instructions she had lately received
at the st. Johns Ambulance classes.
my leg, nay legl' murmured the in dred
girl. AuIelis had touched her boot. and she
screamed out; IN another moment she clev
erly slid her hand up the wounded limb. A
thrill of triumph shot through her, as Just
above the knee she felt q rising and the girl
screamed again. Instruction 5 of page Al of
the handbook flashed upon her memory.
Symptom of Fracture.-Some inequality
felt ON Iunning the fingers along the surface
of the injured bone"
sFracturel" she muttered low but dis
tinctly to De Batledaw. who had now done
feeling the pulse. In another moment they
bad lifted the girl into the shop, laid her on
the floor, and Aurelia had managed to con
vey her very definite instructions to Battle
daw, who had the tact while taking them 10
appear to give them. II was q real triumph.
The shop door was closed, and Aurelia and
De Batiedsw were in sole charge.
Treatment of Fractures. page A. Aurelia
remembered, ran thus: There is no urgency
about treating q broken limb, provided no
attem pt is made to move the person." As
far as possible this instruction had been
obeyed; the girl had been simply
lifted off the pavement into the shop,
and there Batledaw declared sol.
EMMY she must remain untouched till his
principel arrived
Jones still sat in his empty consulting
room. He was sick of the bills. Two hours
had elapsed since Auralis's departure He
felt 90 bothered he could eat no lunch, and
where in the world was his wife, and why
did she not return? 1t would be absurd to go
out and hunt for her, besides. Aurelis had a
very good faculty of taking care of herself
Jones drew his chair to the fire and lit a CT
gar. 1t was $3.50, no patients would come
now. He had just taken up the last number
of Truth when q violent ring at the bell, then
q latch key thrust hastily into the door, q
rush through the passage, the door of his
own room burst open, his wife, covered with
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