Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-05-24

which adioined his having left for
San Francisco within day or two of
his coming.
II feel too forlorn to see anybody"
was his explanation to the doctor.
$50 don't let anybody in" But sew
eral officers from the transport got
leave to come ashore and take quar-
tiers at the Hawaiian. The rooms
above had to be given to them, and
their resounding footsteps made him
vince.
There's two ladies' to take this
next-door room," said his garrulous
attendant that afternoon, and Stuy-
vesant thought opprobrious things.
They'll be giggling and talking all
night. suppose" said he, disgusted-
~, when the "medico' came in late
that afternoon. II wish you'd move
me, If you can't them"
The doctor went and consulted the
head of the house. Certainly" said
that amiable Boniface. 'If Mr.. Stuy-
vesant is well enough to be carried
up one fight can give him q larger.
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where he'll be entirely isolated. It
was too expensive for our visitors
from the transports, butt believe
you said Mr.. Stuyvesant-wouldn't
mind"-a tentative at which the doc
tor looked wise and sagely winked.
When that able practitioner re-
turned to the cottage two young
women with Red Cross badges were
seated on the veranda, just in from
drive, apparently, and little dark
eyed chap in the uniform of a SUBJ
altern of the cavalry was with them.
They had drawn their chairs into the
shade and close to the Venetian
blinds, behind which in his darkened
room reclined the languid patient.
"That will drive him simply rabid,"
said the doctor to himself, and pre-
pared professional smile with which
to tell the glad tidings that he should
b. borne forthwith to higher regions.
He had left Stuyyesant peevish,
sretful. but otherwise inert, asking
only to be spared from intrusion. He
found him alert, intent, eager-his
eyes kindling, his cheeks almost
flushing. The instant the doctor be-
gan to speak the patient checked him
and bent his ear to the sound of soft
voices and laughter from without.
eve fixed it ALL" whispered the
medical man, reassuringly. We'll
move you in minute-just as soon
as can call in another man or two,"
and he started for the door, whereat
his erratic patient again uplifted q
hand and beckoned, and the doctor
tip-toed to his side and bent his ear
and looked puzzled, perturbed, but
finally pleased. Stuyvesant said that,
thinking it all over, he guessed" he
would rather stay where he was.
And then, when the doctor was
gone, what did he do but take brace
in his chair and bid the attendant go
out and say to the officer on the
| veranda. Lieut.. Ray, that Mr.. Stuy-
vesant would be very glad to speak
with him if he'd be so kind as to come
| in, whereat the soft laughter sudden
ly ceased.
There was sound of light foot
steps going in one direction and a
| springy, soldierly step coming in the
| other. Then entered Mr.. Sanford
| Ray, with outstretched hand, and the
| attendant. following and peering over
his shoulder, marveled at the sudden
| change that had come over his mas
| ter.
Three days later, when the City of
Sacramento was pronounced ready to
proceed and the officers aud Red
| Cross nurses en- route to Manila were
warned to rejoin the ship. Lieut..
Stuyvesant Shook" so to speak, his
| civil physician, persuaded the army
surgeons with the fleet that sea
voyage was all he needed to make a
new man of him and was carried
aboard the Sacramento and given an
airy stateroom on the upper deck,
| vacated in his favor by one of the
ships officers - consideration not
made public, but Claus Spreckles &
| Co., bankers, had never before re-
ceived such a deposit from this very
able seaman in all the years he had
been sailing or steaming in and out
| of Honolulu harbor.
And now retribution overlook the
invalid. The Red Cross had made a
maryelous name for itself in San
Francisco and was already organized
and doing wonders at Honolulu. It's
ministrations had been gladly accept
ed by the scores of officers and men
among the volunteers, to whom the
somewhat bare and crude conditions
OF camp hospitals were doubtless
very trying. Women of gentlest birth
and most refined associations donned
its badge and dress and wrought in
ward, kitchen or refectory. 1t was a
noble and patriotic purpose that in
sPired such sacrifice.
1t was a Joy to the embryo soldiery
| to be fed and comforted day by day
with the delicacies of the Red Cross
tables; but there We're military mag
mates and martinets who dared to
question the wisdom of such prepa-
| ration for the stern scenes of cam
paigning ahead of the volunteers, and
who presumed to point out to the of
ficers of this great and far-reaching
charity that, while they We're most
| grateful for such dainties for the in
| valids of their command, the daily
spectacle of scores of lusty, hearty
| young heroes feasting at the tables
of the Red Cross, to the neglect of
their own simple but sufficient RAJ
tions, prompted the query as to what
the boys would do without the Red
4 Cross when they got into the field
and couldn't have cake and pie and
| ovaoy, with {1,a;,