The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-08-21
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY. AUGUST 81. 1898

old, and the Red Cross nurse who was
known as Sister Rose. read il and realized
that by this time the wounded should be
expected to arrive. One name in the long
list caught her eyes and the ominous
words, shot through the right arm and
lung" dazzled before her eyes as she
read,
"They win surely bring him here" she
said to hersSf, reading the name over
again.
And bring him there they did! For that
very afternoon the wagons arrived with
the loads of wounded men; and that night
at twilight Sister Rose found herself be-
side white cot. which somehow or other
possessed more attraction to her than any
other hospital cot she had ever seen.
American iron bedsteads had been OBJ
tanned for this improvsed hospital; and,
on the whitest pillows of all, lay a pale
figure, dirty and wounded. but inexpressi-
bly, interesting to Sister Rose, who hover
Ell about strengthening the clothes and
touching the hot brow of the fever stricl-
en-, wounded patient who lay tossing on il
IN delrium. Every night at twilight Sis
ter Rose took her place in the ward, re-
heving the day nurse. She made her APP
pearance with a bowl of broth in hand,
and from one cot to another she went
giving the evening meal but stopping
longest, it seemed to her, at the one cot
which so attracted her
one evening as she came with bowl and
tray to relieve the day nurse, the pa
tent who was beginning to recover con-
seriousness, said TO the day nurse: Il am
sorry to have you go, Sister. We're it not
that the other good sister comes" The
day nurse smiled but the other good sis
ter blushed furiously, and the day nurse
departed, wondering why il was that the
Sister Rose blushed so often and so easily
But the patient on the cot was begin
ming to convalesce, and the yellow fever
after running its course, was less severe
Sister Rose, who had asked to attend
the sickest of the patients knew that in
short time she would be transferred and
one evening as she sat by the cot she
told her. patient that she must leave him.
1t was the hour when the fever was cool
est and lucid moment prevailed.
Il am sorry to have you leave me-
sorrier than l can tell In fact you re-
mind me very much of some one I know
in the states. If only my eyes were clear
so that | could see l cannot tell why
1t is, maybe it is the fever, but you Ger
tainly remind me a great deal of her"
rs she very dear friend of yours?"
she asked, her voice trembling slightly.
Yes, very; but we had a little differ
ence before I left home. She doubted me-
and well perhaps ! doubted her, for in
the last few weeks she did not seem to
me the woman who had promised to be
my wife. Sister Rose he said Il will
remember you, and when I am away I
shall think of you often-oftener perhaps
than I ought
red. She went to Siboney, and from there
few weeks later, she went home
It was two months before Allyn Spencer
recovered sufficiently to be brought home
on the ambulance ship-a mere wreck Of
his former self He was carried from the
boat to his house. His first question on
reaching home was for his fiancee. He
had heard from her only few times and
then her letters seemed 10 have something
less than natural feeling i'm them. They
were strained and strangely insincere.
One evening she came to call on him
with her mother and at sight of her all
of his old love returned. Il have longed
so to see you" he said. Sometimes in
the hospital I could almost picture your
face"
"How peculiar" said Miss Drew search
ing him closely.
Yes" turning away his eyes, guiltily,
Miss Drew thought, "and in the evenings
when l was delirious with that horrible
fever, I was sure you passed my cot"
Every Interestingly
1t was only two weeks after that be-
fore the marriage of Allyn Spencer and
Grace Drew was announced. They were
TO be married in the early fall.
One evening as the two sat talking in
Mrs. Drew's parlor planning the future,
Allyn said:
"There is one thing feel that I ought
to confess to you-before we are mar
ried" Allyn had frequently alluded to
something on his conscience but on all
such occasions Grace had adroitly turned
the conversation; but now she smiled in
nooently and said, "Why, what can 1t be
Allyn?"
THAT Red Cross nurse who took care
of me during the fever al Santiago"
"You have mentioned her very often"
Yes, and once I almost thought that I
was in love with her"
Strange" said Miss Drew and then
she added: Never mind now, Allyn, but
if you are very good, perhaps, some time
l will tell you a secret"