The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1909-02-20

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Hattie nerve never failed. Later, as
The visions faded, moady reserve
wrapped the sick man. He lay motion.
less, evidently absorbed by thought.
In one way he was what doctors call q
Very good patient. He obeyed all di.
rections; he was not restless. But
neither was he ever cheerful. Every
DAY he asked for his pulse record and
his temperature and his respiration.
After a consultation with the doc.
tor, Miss Smith gave them to him.
1T is against the rules" grumbled
the doctor, "but I suppose each pa
tient has to make his own rules" On
the same theory he permitted the colo
nel's visits. -.
Therefore, with NO surprise, Winter
received and obeyed the summons.
Keatcham greeted him with his usual
stiff courtesy.
:. The doctor says can have tho
papers-will You pick out-the-one-
day after I was stabbed"
Z, Miss Smith indicated pile on q j.
49, tatable, placed ready at hand. .'I
ke them for him." she said.
Read about-the Midland" com.
manded the faint. indomitable voice.
Want the election and the newspa.
per sentiments?" asked the colonel:
he gave it all. conscious the while Of
Janet Smiths compassionate, per-
picked, sorrowful eyes.
Don't skip!" Keatcham managed to
articulate after pause.
The colonel gave him keen glance.
want it. straight, without a chaser?"
Keatcham closed his eyes and
nodded. I'D"
The colonel read about tho virtually
unanimous election Of Tracy; tho as
constituent of the outsiders among the
supposed anti-Tracy element: the com.
posed and impenetrable front Of tho
men closest to Keatcham: tho reticence
and amiability of Tracy himself. in
whose mien there could be detected no
hint either OF hostility or of added =
cordially toward tho men who had
been expected ito drag his bleeding
pride in the DUST" finally Of the re-.
sponse of the stock-market in a pho.
nomenal rise Of Midland.
Keatcham listened with his unde.
cipherable mask Of attention, there
was not so much as the flicker of an =
eyeid or the twitch of a muscle. All
he said was: Nov, read IL there IL
anything about the endowment Of the
new fellowships in some medical
schools for experimental research"
who gives the endowment"
Anonymous. In memory Of Maria
Warren Keatcham and Helen Bradford :
Keatcham Find anything?"
The colonel found a. great deal
about It. The paper was full Of this
millions of dollars and filing with
most carefully and wisely.planned de.
tails) an almost absolute vacuum in
the American scheme of education.
The dignity and fame of the chairs
and fellowships endowed were ample
to tempt the best ability of the profes.
sion. The reader grew enthusiastic
as he read.
why, it's immense! And We have
always needed it," he exclaimed.
There are some letters about 1t.
there feebly motioned to
number OF neatly-opened, neatly.
assorted letters on desk. THE doc
tor said ] might have the letters read
to me. Miss Smith got him to. For
fear Of exciting you. the doctors usual
1v LOT had ~
cause You don't know about things.
I've got to carry a few things through
If IT kills me. Don't you see?"
81 see" said the colonel. you shall"
The next time he saw the financier,
although only few days had elapsed.
he was much stronger; he was able
to breathe comfortably, he spoke with
ease, in his ordinary voice; in fine, he
looked his old self again, merely thin.
ner and paIer. Hardly was the colonel
seated before he said without preface
-keatcham never made approaches to
his subject, regarding conversational
road-making as waste Of brains for a
busy man:
Colonel. Miss Smith hasn't time to
be my nurse and secretary both. !
won't have one sent from New York:
will you help her out?"
Tho colonel's lips twitched; he was
thinking that were Miss Smith work.
ing for Atkins. she couldn't have q
better chance to mako killing. "But
I'll bet my life she isn't" he added,
"she may be trying to save his life,
but she isn't playing his camel"
He said aloud II will, Mr.. Keatchs
am, II you will let me do It as part Of