The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1899-02-20

O'Clock Fogarty felt my cheeks.
}. "I'll tell the iap-sergeant 10 let you
pound the bunk awhile longer" he
said.
| The next day was in the hospital,
feeling hot and thirsty and hungry all
at once. The air in the hospital tent
was full of groans and the odor of
drugs. 1t was also sitting. The boys
about me had felt the weight of n loco
motive concentrated into Mauser ball.
To me Fogarty sad
kid, you've got the fever"
After that did not see him for six
weeks. because | was sent back to the
States on a hospital transport. ! had
reached the furlough stage, which
means that delirium was over, and that
my fever had flickered out, leaving only
half of me and dsreputable appetite
when Fogarty came. had no clothes
TO go on furlough withholding but a
tattered shirt and debilitated pair of
cavalry trousers; and the worst of it
was could not get any.
1t is not hard for me to recall the
events of that night when Fogarty
game. was watching the Red Cross
men unload hospital train. A process
sion of stretchers was passing from the
cars to the fever tents. Some of the
sick men had been forced to walk. Had
not seen others staggering through
the twilight, would have said that
Fogarty was drunk again. He dragged
a huge blanket roll.
We'll, Kid, where's your other part?"
he questioned, weakly.
really embraced him that night
Fogarty, the profane, the red-faced.
And when he told me that he had
brought along bundle of my clothes
from camp, | could not speak for my
voice cords were numb. | only whin-
pered. Fever leaves one childish weak,
you know.
Fogarty had lugged along my things
with his own-and be sick man. He
had remembered me after six weeks
remembered me who was only a recruit
| tell you, gentlemen, there are men in
Uncle Sans cavalry.
That night Fogarty stretched his
one-for the first time in two months
His feet protruded through the iron
rods at the lower end of the bedstead.
Are those women going to be here?'
He' pointed To- a. couple of nurses. |
nodded.
why, it's a cinch to have the fevers
here. amt it, Kid?"
His tongue was dry like it was on the
Cuban hills that day. a beam of the |
low white moon looked in through the |
flap of the tent and rested on Fogarty's |
hands. 1t made them seem pallid but
his face was very hot and red
An ugly fever is typhoid 1t chars
ones brain and body with slow flame.
1t stretches the eyelids wide apart. In
the middle OF the day it glows to a
white heat. 1t turns one into helpless
animal that feels only an incura BILE |
thirst and craving stomach-an ami |
mai that means for ice water when the |
nurse is busy wrapping up dead man
in the next cot-a staring-eyed animal
that knows there are such things as
home and friends and death, but cares
not. Listlessly he watches companion
fall into that chilled sleep.
Typhoid plays with four men and
gets earnest with the ffth-fatally
earnest. The moon was high when |
left Fogarty that night.
A couple OF weeks later he looked at
me hard one morning. 1t was goirG
badly with him.
why don't you go home?" he asked,
tenderly. 1t wasn't like the old Fog
lrty's voice.
Haven't got furlough yet" said,
ying. The papers were eight days old
already. Haven't got hat, either"
continued. l had been wearing Fogar-
TVS. Mine was lost.
Take care of this dough for me. will
you, Kid. didn't have time TO blow
. red. 1t gets my nerve with this
hirst."
He gave me his last months pay.
fogarty was getting hot, and the nurse
pushed me away.
Keep the hat you got on, Kid"
could barely hear his voice. His
ace was not very red now. How
Wished he could see the pain inside of
ne for him. Keep the hat you got on,
Kid. I'll get another if don't croak."
The doctor hung around Fogarty's
Ot the next night The nurse had
lrawn a chair close to him. l held a
antern near. The rain clouds were
renting themselves outside.
watch out for Mint Julep, Kid"
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