The new enterprise. (Madison, Fla.) 1901-1908, 1902-02-20

a sun bath re window that looked
out on the. dazzling white of melting
snow. ifs visitors had just LETT him,
at his. doctors orders. He was wait
Ing for the return OF ''Nurse Blakely,"
with an Impotence which he might
have recognized as longing II his phys
ical weakness had not disguised af-
lection In him as an irritable lack OF
what he wished to have. She came In
light footed.
He crowcd feeble
"Ah-hal Did you hear what the doc
tor said?"
what did he sayT'
She arranged the pillows to ease the
strain on a weak back He was CRATE
full for that and his gratitude shone In
his smile.
-Im to be humored, the doctor said;
Tn to have my OWN way in every
thing"
"Are you?" she said, avoiding his
eyes. "You certainly had your own
way about the fruit"
He laughed now at the folly that had
kept him happy prisoner in the hos
pltal for the past nine weeks. THAT
frutg he said; "that was the most de-
,iclous-the most DO you know,
Nurse Blakely. thought those peaches
would kill me, but l was dying for
something to eat - and l just took
them" She did not reply. "A mans
fool when he has a fever, isn't heF"
be added with apologize seriousness.
"Only them" she retorted with OBJ
stnate fiippancy.
She was busying herself about the
room. He was watching her every
movement with an eye Of invalid ten
derness.
"Oh. | say" he protested, you don't
make any allowance for fellow being
mw
She affected a professional cheerful
ness In the matter,
"Oh, you're well on your way to
health" she said. "Well soon have
you back to your friends"
Nurse" he said, you're the hest
friend ever had-or want to have"
Her clustered loneliness rose on her
in surge OF bitterness.
"Wait till you've been away from
here about a month. One feels very
dependent and-and affectionate when
one is I'll. 1t soon wears off"
THAT'S the way you always talk"
he said moodly. Then, Frightening,
"In report you to the doctor, You're
not humoring me-
She did not answer. She smiled,
having warded off the danger which
his milder manner had warned her of.
She seated herself in chair and took
up a book which she had put down on
the table when his visitors had en-
tered.
whats that| he demanded peev-
ishly. "What are you reading?"
"Don'ts," she answered laconically.
"Don'ts"
"'One Hundred Don'ts for Nurses Z"
she read from the cover, Things we
are not to do"
"Well don't worry. Your sins have
been all OF omission. It's the things
you have not done"
She smiled serenely at the page.
"You might read it out, at least" he
said.
LET me see." She turned the pages.
81 think that is probably included in
the prohibitions; Don't let others know
the secrets Of the profession"
He clutched the arms Of the chair.
you're teasing me, Let me read
that book or III get mp"
She laughed and passed 1t to him.
He began to read;
Don't sit in rocking chair and rock
while resting" Don't injure the fur
niture in any way and be careful Of
all fancy decorations" He looked
about him. "The wreckage has been
appalling in this palatial apartment"
He read again. "Well, great ELY he
cried, and looked up at her. why, 1t
was your
"What was?'
"Come here, please"
She went to him. He pointed with
thin finger to an accusing Don't
kiss your patient"
She flushed under her dainty Swiss
cap.
"Not even delirious patients?" he
inquired,
She turned her back on him from the
window.
mot even those who have an flu
mination of reason5" he persisted. She
could find nothing to say. "Do you
know" he said, 1--WE been puzzling
over 1t ever since. 1t was just before
I fell alseeD and woke Up to my senses
asain. At first | thought it was my
aunt who brought me up, and then
suddenly I thought it was an old chum