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JUST IN TIME.

acting old lady was q bad patient. When
DR.. Richard WCstwood went to University
hospital, he had requested that if possible
Nurse Ethel should be sent, she being
distant relative of the patient.
When first she arrived, her duties had
been light, and she had enjoyed revisiting
friends she had not seen since she went to
London to learn her profession.
In this way she had met Philip SOmcrs,
who about month after her attendance
on the old lady, had begun to pay her
most marked attention.
But Ethel was not attracted by his dark
face and was glad that her increasing du
tics rendered their meetings few and far
between.
The daily visit of DR.. Westwood, to
which she found she looked forward with
strange delight, was over. The doctor
was Just turning to leave, when different
look of sOlicitudc came over his face
"You are worn and pale nurse. Have
you been taking care Of your own health
lately"
ooh, yes"
"Have you taken your daily exercise
regularity You know the end is not far
off now, and probably you have hard and
anxious week before you. l insist on your
going out into the fresh air. Ethel"
The calm professional air was now slip
ping from him.
The door was opened. DR.. Wcstwood
dropped her hand, and tho lovers sprang
apart.
MRS. PartOe says will you come to her
at once, nurso?" An hour passed before
nurse could leave her patient She sank
into one of tho seats in the public park
and was enjoying the soft spring air, when
Philip Somcrs, raising his hat, came and
sat down beside her.
After few commonplace remarks he
mentioned the name of Richard WcstwoOd.
"A good doctor he may be-" said he,
"but Il worthless, schcming fellow for all
that"
GLOW dare You say such a thing? What
grounds have you for your cowardly aSscr-
tion?" she exclaimed
II think it only right you should
know" he said, feeling that now was his
opportunity, THAT DIR. WrstwoOd is aware
that Mrs. PardO0 has made you her rcSidu
airy lcgatcc, which means Il very consider
able fortune to you. He was q witness to
her will, signed four months ago. | only
tell you this, Ethel because l love you so
that cannot bear to see you woocd by
man who only loves you for tho money You
will possess. Ethel, will you be my wife,"
Leave me-" she blazcd out. "HOw can
you tell me that it is for money only that
can be lovcd?"
He stammcrcd an excuse, but she ST
fenced him.
That night Mrs Pardoc's illness as.
sumcd moro serious character and she
died before morning.
On the will being read after the flu
neral it was found that Ethel Mary Wal
ton was appointed ''rcSiduary legatec."
81 wish a good round sum had been
mentioned, said Dr. Westwood 10 old Mr..
Somers Us he was tying up his papers.
1.-THE residue may turn out to be half u
crown when all is settled up"
"Sho will have about SO, 900, said the
lawyer dryly Miss Walton" he con
tinucd, "cannot be persuaded to stay in
the ncighborhpod. She dislikcs the place
and leaves for good today"
The baltic of Trl-cl-Kcbir had been
fought.
Among the first over the encmys in
trenchmcnts W.. Philip Somers of the
Forty sixth Iiig.O Indcrs, but as he scram-
blcd to the top he got his death wound and
fell heavily on the other side. Then the
tide of battle Surgcd back
No one seemed to have noticed his fall
But the young doctor vino had SO lately
come out had seen his periuus position.
Quick aS Thought he sprmng over the
embankmcnt, raised his burden and bore
the wounded man out of harms way
But Philip SomcrS was beyond his skill.
He recognized his protector, and spasm
passed over his pain drawn face.
"WcStwood, he gasped, "she loves you.
But told her you knew Of the legacy and
only wanted her money"
"WhOm:' asked Richard.
ETHEL" said the faint voice. Before
the governor found out had been going
the pace, and | enlisted
1t was some time before DIR. WrstwOOd
could be spared, and rhcn hurTying to his
tent, he found that Philip Somcrs had
gone to stand before the great Judge to
whom we must all some day render an nc
count.
A nurse was performing for him the last
sad offices. The quiet face opposite him
was in shadow, the lips moved as If in
prayer.
Suddenly the eyes were raised, and he
saw before him the girl he had sought so
long, and in that one look each read the
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