The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-11-13

of plate-g1ass the wall toward the street The
 interne, as he turned to glance at the half turned face of the the table Instantly in his
 dark and breeding there gleamed ray bright and
 strange, and his set lugubrious face drew itself into
 lines of sudden astonishmen He bent and stared fix
 ed1y at the features of Courtney Hills.
 "The ctloroforrni" said the surgeon sharply; I've asked you to go for the chioroforn, Dr. Frenaontr
 Chloroform will kill him. said the interne slowly.
 His heart is very weak"
 The distinguished surgeon faced swiftly about. Sparks of anger shot from his gray eyes They grew
 hard and sharp his 1ancets. His words were
 level and rigid with delicate yet deadly contempt
 eSr I've asked you get the ch1oroform. Will you
 do so at once-and administer it ?"
 His heart is very weak, Dr. Dwinelle, said the
 interne his long, an face made almost grotesque with
 ha1f-controled emotion. "I know this man
 Courtney Hlis We went to the same college together.
 Once after accident the field he almost died from
 the effects of chloroform suggest that ether be used
 It evident that the sudden blood that came into
 the pale cheeks of the surgeon betrayed the inner rage
 which his exquisite would not suffer him to
 betray Yet almost by instinct his hand wandered to the wrist of Courtney Hs the slender fingers to the pulse The next moment he dropped the hand as if
 entirely treasured His icy and supercilious mar
 rowed and their wrath shot forth gintng between the lids; the small and sneering mouth shaped and flung these words at the hesitatng interne
 @Sir. have asked you to get the ch1oroforrn- Now order you get it-and at soncel"
 moment the interf1e stared help1essy at the hostile and contempous front of the surgeon then at the head whose look of surprise had suddenly changed into cold unfriendness He passed his hand his eyes and through his long strands of hair By the index of his features it apparent that some tu1nut ragged within him. Then he slouched from the His mind instantly attacked by horde of stormy memories He again the crunpled figure of Courtney Hiis extended the turf of football field in the sunshine heard him bowling dolefully he lifted limp and broken and s1reked for the doctor to set the bone-and to chloroform Well Fremont remembered how the pulse and respiration Of Hills had sunk beneath the anasthetic, how his heart had almost ceased beat how they had abored over him and brought back the life slipping into the shadows.
 As he hurried bind1y along the corridors toward the laboratory below stairs another face before him. It young womans serene and fair and wistfu1, but marked with trace of ingenious selfish hefplessness. It the face that still stood between him and the fitness of his life Once it had been to him, but it had grown cold dead 1noony frozen sphere that would leave the orbit of his fe but ecipsed the ambitions he had fed valiantly with hope This was the rnforgetabe that still fettered him. e1ouded his mind and travelled his lifeline very beautiful face of Mary Traske Unerring had been the diagnosis of Headnurse Cha1 rnersl Mary Traske had been the playmate of his youth town, later his betrothed in the metropolis which had drawn them both from home. And she the joyous and exquisite hancee of Courtney Hills.
 For Hills had no sooner met Mary Traske than he had been enslaved by her fresh and unusual beatty Ruthless and unscrutulous in love, like his father finance, the young, wealthy and debonair Hills, different the tie that bound the girl and his former classate, had besieged her with steady tumultuous address and the most hattering attentions She who
 had been bred simply, half in comfort half in periodical poverty who had hoped touch the larger metro potan world of wealth and fashion, whose horizon had widened beyond the ordinary expectation of what might. fall the future wife of future country physician suddenly felt herself distinguished and ated by the wild homage and royal tribute of the of the millionaire. He himself, of the most princely heirs of the city, the uch-adred the much desired the constantly pursued. Craft calculation, and ambition awoke in Mary Trasle. Under the slaught of the fascinating personality of H his open devotion and aggressive defiant disregard trot with the simple grave and studious Fremont Mary felt the bonds between her and the pracceless physician begin pail then gall and finally to loosen. When Hills finally offered her marriage, her last feeble defences fell golden, careless and queeny existence was opened to her with one whose nature was akin her than that of the struggling Fremont. Quite lightly she broke the strained nwe1come word by which she had promised be the wife of her former playmate and thenceforth wore right proudly the magnificent ring the of the millionaire had bestowed upon her. She gave up place brokers ofce request of i1liss mother went to live with them in their large and fashionable house.
 Tn few weeks they to be married. The black type of the newspaper announcement had turned red nextinguishable fire in Fre11onts brain. And he he who had endured all this, he whose nature had been cursed with the tragic inheritance of brooding pective soul he who had resolved consecrate him. self to the welfare of bghted suffering humanity whose ambition it to push death and disease still farther from their human prey-he, Robert Fremont waying under the stroke, had felt himself sitten with sickness of the spirit for which he knew there would be no cure A srou1dering, despairing rage ense and terrible began his heart. His ,ran took fire in all it's cells; his bosom ached hough crushed in iron shell. It seemed to him hat his life had been blown away in smoke, that all lis vast ambitious plans of medical research were cru- ,1ed into dust At first, in his morbid rage he had for the life of lis He had gone about