The Prescott daily news., 1908-03-11
A Tale Of Germs
 and Love
By l. L. Hill
Copyright by Joseph D. BowlssA)


 inder the other microscope how ac- lively the bacilli were moving. Now, Iou will see, when 1 add this drop >f blood from the typhoid patient, low the bacilli will cluster and clump md lose their motion"
 Dr. Young deftly adjusted the slide md with delicate manipulation com )leted the test The reaction was .ypical
 How interesting," said the charm .ng girl who was being initiated into some of the more striking phenomena of the laboratory. If indeed she was lot sincere in her profession of inter- est for these somewhat unaesthetic .echnicalities. she certainly did not sail to find attraction in the handsome ing them. Her eyes followed him in every movement and beamed with ad- niration and sympathy.
 And are these real live germs, the kind that cause all the mischief" she inquired.
 There are enough bacilli in that tube of bouillon to give typhoid to an entire city"
 She gave playful little scream and stepped back. "Oh, how dreadful. And how dangerous you are who work with those things every day! 1 believe shall have to be carfeul how close let you come"
 You needn't fear. See, now they are safely slowed away in the incubator, and here go my hands in the anti again"
 From the by-play that followed 1t was evident that she took his word for it.
 After tomorrow you will hear the scientists talking of the Young test just as they now do of the Vidal test It's reaction 1 have discovered to establish the identity of the cholera germ, and there is a test-tube culture of cholera in that incubator that may make my name famous. I've grown them under certain new conditions. At the medical meeting tomorrow night they will be the illustration of my maiden paper. l cant explain to you just what manipulations l shall make to cause the reaction that will show that it is cholera and nothing else, for you wouldn't understand 1t. But, pshaw. this isn't interesting to you. I'm a bore when l get on my hobby. You'll excuse me"
 Why, Jack, you know I'm terribly interested in science. and especially in what you accomplish Oh, l know we're all going to be proud of you
 They walked out of the laboratory together-perhaps closer than the necessities of the space demanded But hospital laboratory is an un- canny place. and one would naturally lean toward the confident guide who possessed such a mastery over Its sinister clements.
 There were two other occupants of the laboratory The doctor and his fair visitor had not been unconscious of their presence-merely oblivious to it. Perhaps they might have been less self-sufiiciently comfortable had they observed the attention with which their dialogue had been noted.
 Penton, junior house physician, was the first to speak. Connected fool. that man Young. It's more luck than sense that has given him his advancement He never did anything wonderful at college when l was in his class. Humph! I never had to give way to him then But he had the cash and could go right on and l had to drop out a year and work. Now, I'm taking orders from him! Making discoveries, Just his luck to fall into something new. They'll all pat him on the back whether it amounts to anything or not Then there'll be no living with him"
 Penton looked bitterly envious, but Heller the pharmacist, evidently har- bored a deeper feeling His face bore the picture of jealousy and hatred. Yet, he spoke lightly
 She's a mighty pretty girl, that Miss Alden He seems to stand very we'll with her. But there's many slip-ha!" His chuckle sounded harsh and unnatural.
 Well l must be going said Pen ton. He glanced back furtively at the incubator as he left the laboratory.
 Heller paced nervously up and down the room Ten years ago Young whipped me for something l said to that same little Alden girl, he nut tered. He has crossed me dozen times since that She and 1 got along