Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1909-02-04
A Soldiers Wooino

1SNASA lN.Cl 1T NlOllI11lE
tolnt IN the hospital. l was pretty
SICK, but not sick enough to prevent
my noticing things, and there was one
thlng l noticed mighty quick. 1t was
ny nurse. She was Il beauty sure
enough, with a superb figure II a
graceful carriage. She Wore immense
COILS of chestnut hair piled up on her
mead cannon-ball-like and flared great.
lustrous eyes. Fancy a fellow who
had been for months in a %benighted
country, a woma i'm sight, sud.
denly cared for by such a creature.
When l saw her coming toward my
cot she seemed like Venus rising from
the sea with all her clothes on and not
a limp rutfle in her cap or apron. She
came straight up to me, looked down
on me With her fawn orbs and took
hold of my wrist. The first contact of
her soft fingers sent my pulse up to
ITO. She seemed disturbed at that and.
turning away. looked about as though
for assistance. | didn't propose to
have her call any one, so l said:
Don't worry about my pulse. It's
nofmal-that is, it frequently sky.
rockets about this time Of day, and
when a lovely creature takes my wrist
between her s%eraphic'-
But before I could get any further
she rammed Il thermometer into my
mouth and l had to lie quiet, though
l never once took my eyes off her,
and if that Thermometer had registered
my admiration it would have stood at
1000 degrees. I'd been sick before
and knew that Il few minutes was
quite sufficient for the test. but she
kept the thing there Il quarter of an
hour. Then shc took it out. swung her
long lashes down toward it and was
making Tho record when I opened fire
again.
"you're the FIST woman I've seen
since l got on that Internal troop ship
to go to Cuba. and n more heavenly
| SIGHT
What did she DO but iaa the Their
monlcter into MY mouth again, turn
her pencil upside Gown and rub out
the record she had made. This time
she loft mo with the little glass tube
sticking cut Of my mouth like Il pipe
stem and went away. She didn't como
back fer nearly half an hour, and
when she examined the thing again [
saw by her locks that she was MP to
something.
OTIS only a sight of so much beauty"
/ started in, but she pald no attention
to me, and | saw her write down 9S1A
degrees. She went away again and
came back With a lump of ice, which
she clapped on the top oe my head.
She knew as we'll as | did | hadn't any
fever and didn't need any ice. If l
had she would have simply reported
my case to a surgeon. She did it to
cool my admiration. But it would
have taken frozen quicksilver to do
that, and as she walked coolly away
l followed her With longing eyes.
AS soon as she was gone l removed
the ice, chucked it under the cot and
lay thinking that l wasn't in it for
impressing her and I'd better keep
quiet. When she appeared again l con-
tented myself for awhile looking my
admiration, but she had to go and take
hold of my wrist, and that threw me
into another fever, with a consequent
delirium, which burst out into speech.
"I'm worse this morning." l broke
out, land the reason I'm worse is be-
cause you've been away so long. If
you think I can stand 1t to-
| GDnf ont ro,,r fono,1oiD cbo orioS
1 put it out just far enough so l
could humble what l had to say, but
she ordered me to put it out farther
and farther till l couldn't say a word.
keep it there" she said quietly and
began scribbling something On her rec
ord paper, while 1 lay with three inches
Of red, furry tongue curled out. l
threw a lot of feeling into my eyes, but
somehow I didn't feel that there was
anything effective about this sort of
pleading, for no man can make love in
such a way, and after awhile I pulled
in the member and commenced to wag
it again.
II will proclaim my admiration" l
was beginning, "at the lannon's
mouth" when she damned her Their
mometer between my teeth. l tried to
hold it SO that l could go on, but she
forced it under my tongue, and l was
obliged to keep quiet. Either way l
was bafled. l couldn't propose to her
with my tongue sticking out or With
the cussed thermometer under it. /
made a virtue of necessity and re-
manned temporarily shut off.
The next time she came she brought
a surgeon with her and said to him:
doctor, here's q mar who has been
made luny by exposure. He sees alb
surd visions and talks idlotically.
What shall l do with himf"
We've got permission" replied the
surgeon, ITO send such cases to the
- Insane asylum. I'll make out the
papers and send them ill.," And he hur-
ried on to some other Of his multi
farious duties.
She looked at me as if to say, "Now
Won cton voIr tuod1la or Uo info on