The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-08-17

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WV the soldiers into Tilad
pass arrived with others
to take charge Of the Red Cross hospi-
tai on the day following the battle she
found the man she had been longing to
see for many weary. heartsIck months.
She found him dying.
To the surprise Of the enthralled
command, she fell in a dead swoon
when she looked upon the pallid face
of Graydon Bansemer. She had gone
eagerly from one pallet to another,
coming upon his near the last One
glance was enough. His face had been
in her mind for months, just as she
was seeing it now. She had lived in
horror Of finding him cold in death.
1t was Teresa Velasquez who first
understood. She knew that Bansem er's
one woman had found him at last. Her
heart leaped with hatred for one brief
instant, then turned soft and contrite.
If she had learned to care for the big
American herself during the hard days
when he had been so tender, she also
had learned that her worship was
hopeless. She had felt his yearning
love for another. Now she was look
ing upon that other. While the attend
ants were bending over their uncon-
scious companion the Spanish girl
stood guard over the man who had
been her guardian, the man whose life
was going out before her miserable
exhausted eyes.
Jane Gable stirred with returning
life. Teresa was quick to see that
words, not medicine, would act as the
restorative. She went swiftly to the
American girls side and, clasping her
hands. cried sharply into her half con
scious ears:
HE is not dead! He is alive! He
needs your
The effect was magical. Life leaped
into James eyes, vigor into her body.
She recovered from the swoon as nys-
teriously as she had succumbed to it
Her sudden breakdown had puzzled
her companions. 1t is true that she
was new In the service; she had seen
but little Of death and suffering; but,
with all that, she was known to pos
sess remarkable strength OF purpose
and fortitude. That she should col
lapse almost at the outset of her op-
portunlties was the source Of wonder
and no little contempt among her fel-
low workers. The words of the strange
girl in mems clothing opened the way
to smart surmises. 1t was not long be-
fore every one in the command knew
that the beautiful Red Cross nurse
was not wearing the garb of the voca
ton for the sake of humanity alone
in fact, it was soon understood that she
did not care a straw for the rest OF
| mankind SO long as Graydon BansemeI
| needed her ministrations.
Ignoring the principles of the cause
she served, she implored the doctors to
confine their efforts to one man among
all of them who suffered; she pleaded
| and stormed In turn, finally Offering
| famulous brides in support of her de
mands. For the time being she was
| half craZed with fear and dread. woe
| fully unworthy of her station, partially
| divorced from reason.
| The more desperately wounded were
| left in the village with an adequate
| guard. the rest Of the command de.
parting with Major March A tenn
porary hospital was established In thu
convent. There were two doctors ans
four or FIVE nurses, with a dozen sol
diers under command OF Lieutenan
Bray. 1t was while the apparently
dead Bansemer was being moved Il
the improvised hospital that JAM
presented herself, distraught with fear
to the young southerner who hat
! so plainly shown his love for her. Shs
pleaded with him to start az once fo1