The Press., 1912-06-19

~~ your taking rest. Now, I believe there is some medicine due you"
 After he had taken it David turnet thoughtful eyes upon her. "Wher' have I seen you before?" he asket bluntly.
 Have you ever seen me beforeT" sh' asked demurely, and then the docto came in and there was not another Op portunity to repeat the question.
 As the days passed in a convalescenc, that was an entirely new and delight full experience for David Wright ht did not ask his nurse where he haG seen her before. He was quite sure that he knew-that really she was hi! dream woman. for now whenever ht thought of the long vacation he was t( take travelling through all of the coun tries he longed to visit the face of thG woman who went with him as his wife was none other than the beautiful hos ' pital nurse whose name he did not ever ! know.
 "It is fate" he murmured to himself one day.
 The very next day there was a new nurse in attendance, and he was i'm mediately alarmed.
 1 Where is my nurse?" he asked anx | iously of the older, plainer woman who had taken her place. e.....s Miss Beeman? She has gone," said the woman, with pursed lips. "Gone? Not for good. She hasn't left the institution, has she? demanded David from his chair by the window. | "Yes; she was dismissed" said the woman, with unprofessional garrulity. David drowned. Dismissed? What has she done?''
 "Oh, she made a mistake. She is too nervous and high strung for a nurse anyway. It is a rule of the hospital in such cases when the mistake is a seri- Ous one to dismiss the offender"
 And it was a fatal mistake-it cost a life?" asked David pityingly.
 "Oh, no, indeed! But it might have proved fatal if the patient had been in a precarious condition. But 1t is best to avoid any such possibility" said the new nurse coldly, and then she changed the subject.
 It was astonishing how rapidly Da- ytd Wright recovered Tfter the depaP- ture of Miss Beeman. In three days he was out of the hospital, and as Dr.. Lawton had not visited him for several days, the house doctor having looked in on him the last week of his stay, David sought the physician's office as soon as he left the institution.
 Bidding his taxicab wait he fairly ran up the steps to the doctors office and fumed impatiently while he wait ed his turn for a consultation. "Out again?' laughed the doctor, gripping his hand warmly. "I always say Miss Beeman is the best nurse there is. Feeling pretty fit now?"
 Great" returned David, and then without realizing how strangely his at- titude looked to the doctor who had known him only as a quiet, self con- tained bachelor of thirty odd years he burst out, "Of course you know she was dismissed, doc!"
 ''Who? Not Miss Beeman?"
 David nodded and then went on to relate what the new nurse had told him.
 Dr. Lawton shook his head regret fully. ''I'm downright sorry" he said soberly. "Poor little Elsie! I told her she was not strong enough to tackle nursing. Proud little witch has not been near me since. l must go up there and see what I can do." He made a memorandum on his desk cal opdor and nouid xuakahoA hRr,o hY,D grily.
 "You might tell a fellow something about her," he blurted forth at last.
 About Elsie Beeman" asked the doctor, his eyes twinkling. "Is fel- low interestedT'
 "Of course. Who wouldn't be? Who is she? Where does she liveY
 'Elsie Beeman is the daughter of an old friend of mine. When she finished at boarding school she found herself an orphan without much money and no ability to earn money for her self. First she learned stenOgraphy and went into an architects office. Come to think of 1t, believe it was your office, ehY'
 ''I knew I'd seen that golden hair and those hands somewhere" cried David triumphantly. T dare say she sat down in my office and I looked at her lovely hair and hands while dic- tated to her."
 ''It looks very much as if you yearned to give her the opportunity to dictate to you the rest of your hfe," said the doctor.
 David Wright blushed. 'T do-go on, doctor, and tell me the rest"
 "She found she wasn't fitted for of flee work. and she wanted to try nurs- ing, so she served her apprenticeship and has been at 1t for several months. There's just one profession Elsie Bee man is fitted to dll-she's one of the women who are born to be wives and mothers. Her place is in the home. DaVid.'
 five never had a home, and, please God, we'll make one together" sait David solemnly. Then to himself as he went to his rooms he said convinc- fngly: "It must come out this way aft CT all, for I remember I first fancied my dream woman about four years ago, and that must have been the time that she was working for me and l didn't know it. She made her impres- sion upon me just the same. What a stupid dolt was!''
 Then David Wright hastened his homeward way. for Dr. Lawton had promised to take him to see Elsie Bee man that evening. and there was a fair chance that his dream woman might become wife in reality after all
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