The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1905-01-27
By
Maria
Howells
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6fdnce

uht. 1901. bv 4. S. Richardson

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hi stood In the hospital door
tepented Of her folly.
tbs before she had resigned
as under nurse in a New
Iital for that of superintend-
la nurse in a hospital in the
west virginia's mining dis
= predecessor had left the
organized, and there was no
Eork to counterfeit the home
which naturally followed her
The biggest ward in the hos
given over to typhoid pa
a. in truth. they overfiowed
and took possession Of three
early every new man at the
elded to typhoid sooner or
was part of the process Of ac-
The cases were rarely seri-
PATIENTS uniformly stolid. The
its course. the Grimm Coal
company paid the hospital
and the patients as stolidly
TO the mines to have part OF
les deducted each month and
this hospital account.
div monotony was getting on
kent's nerves. At st. Paul's
been no monotony. The OPP
,oom had been the workshop
of the most marvellous sur
America. There had been
lives in which house doctors
Ies had joined hands and fall
day or night.
rest cure for Miss Kent's pres
tal condition was work, activ-
patient who was Mt least in
She felt a wild inclination
to the convalescent ward and
he men, stolidly sleeping even
he night.
is same moment she glanced
he road which led from the
station and saw that the SUI
dents special car, attached to
Etruction train engine, was slow
BY the water tank. A cot was
out Of the car, and four bear
(ght out a limp figure swathed
nket. Another typhoid patient
probably a little worse than
or the special would not have
led into service.
is further surprised a few mo.
tier to find herself greeting
intendent Of the mining com
ht you to give this case par
ARE. He Is young Jack Stan
|hew Of Mr.. Grimm, president
company. It is the same old
typhoid, and, though I warn
Grimm that 1t would come,
sponsible for the boy. Give
best nurse you have and as
\ your own time as you car
call him a boy?' said Miss
he is only eighteen. Between
les, Grimm claims the young
as made him a lot OF trouble
dn't like school, and so Grimm
Jim down here to learn the Goa
Pike business from the beginning
find him rather a decent sort o.
i, and for heavens sake dom
|ything happen to him. Grimm
d glad enough to ship the DO!
me; but, just the same, I dom
be he will be any too gentle will
anything goes wrong"
minutes later Marion Kent wa
e private ward in which youn,
ln had been placed. He had JUS
|ed a cooling sponge bath, and b,
at her with eyes that shone witt
hing beside fever. my, but tina
pod, and it is awfully jolly, dom
know, to see a woman's fac,
]"
? Kent turned up the lamp /,
and bent over her new patient
to her that she had neye
! into such marvellous brow
eyes that could twinkle and dane
lide the deepest and tenderest Q
8. She glanced from them to tn
D features. Stanton lifted hi
weakly and felt Of his chin.
wanted 'em to give me a shave b.
hey brought me down. l knew
! give you women an awful star,
: SO like q tramp"
9 was novelty with a vengeanct
lent who cared how he looked i
resence Of the nurses.
IS Kent sat down beside him. sh
as II she ought to ad
MIN as a willfuf boy.
~ know this is sort Of a low feye
pave and you'll get very tired q
d Of u.s.
:. Of you, you bet! Say. did 70
!, steep on the hard side Of a stra,
3 Kent shook her head and col
mel little moral lecture. 81 jus
you to realize that while 70
!, ieei very sick you're liable to b
patient"
b me-"
=. MISS Kent did watch him clos,
ID Il