The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1912-04-04

'FRECKLES
BY
Gene SGHNaGG0m-
Porter
COPYRIGHT. 1904. BY DOUBLEDAY. PACE
g. 90.
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would be ready on the Pittsburg line
lie replied that IL was made up and
waiting
At o'clock Freckles lay stretched
on the operating table OF Lake View
hospital. while three OF the greatest
surgeons In Chicago bent over him.
OF their command. Mclean picked up
the unwilling angel and carried her
out to the nurses 10 be bathed. have
her bruises attended to. and be put
to bod
In place where 1t Is difficult to sur
prise people, they were astonished
women as they removed the ANGELS
dainty stained and torn clothing.
peeled of hose muck baked TO her
limbs. soaked the dried loan from her
silken hair and washed the beautiful,
scratched. bruised. dirt covered body.
The angel fell fast asleep long before
they had finished. and lay deeply I'M
conscious. while the fight for Freckles'
life was being waged.
! Three days later she was up early
and lowering near Freckles' door
| The surgeon was with him. The
angel had been told that the word
he brought that morning would be
dnal. so she curled up in a window
seat, dropped the curtains behind her.
and. I'm dire anxiety, waited the open
Ing OF that closed door.
Just as It Enclosed. Mclean came
hurrying down the hall and up 10 the
surgeon. but with one glance at his
face he stepped back in dismay, and
the angel. who had risen, sank to the
seat again, too dazed to come forward.
The men faced each other. The
angel. with parted lips and frightened
eyes, bent forward in tense anxiety.
I'll thought he was doing nicely?"
faltered Mclean.
"He bore the operation WELL" re-
piled the surgeon, land his wounds
are not necessarily fatal | told you
that yesterday, but I did not tell you
that something else would probably
kill him. and II will. He need not die
from the accident, but he will not
live the day out because he so evil
IDENTIFY prefers death to life. II he
were full OF hope and ambition to live.
my work would be easy If all of you
love him as you prove you do. and
there is unlimited means TO give him
anything he wants, why should he
desire death?"
us be dying?" demanded Mclean.
He is, said the surgeon. He will
not live this day out unless some
strong reaction sets In at once. He is
80 low that. preferrlng death to life.
nature cannot overcome his Inertia
Il be Is 10 live. he must be made to
leslre life"
Then he must die" said Mclean.
Does that mean that you know
What he desires and cannot. or will
lot, supply it?"
1T means" said Mclean desperately.
that know what he wants but It is
s far removed from my power TO give
to him as II would be TO give him
tar The thing for which he VIII die
e can never have"
Then you must prepare for the end
cry shortly" said the surgeon, turn.
lg abruptly away.
Mclean caught his arm roughly.
Look here" he cried In desperation.
You say that as II | could do some
hing II ] would. ! tell you the boy
dear TO me past expression. would
o anythlng-spend any sum. You have
otlced and repeatedly commented on
hid that he wants! He worships her
alteration. and knowing he can never
? anything 10 her. he prefers death
life, In Gods name, what can
, about IT,"
Barring that missing hand. never
lndled finer man. said the surgeon.
md she seems perfectly devoted to
m, why cannot he have herT
"Whyy' echoed Mclean. why?
ell. for a good many reasons / told
N he was my son. You probably knew
at he was not A little over a year
20 | had never seen him He joined
Re OF my lumber gangs from the road
g Is a stray. left at one of your homes
r the friendless here In Chicago.
hen he grew up the superintendent
'und him out 10 a brutal man. lie
n away and landed In one OF my
mber camps He has no name or
lOwledge Of legal birth. The angel
E have talked OF her. She has ances-
rs reaching back 20 Plymouth Rock
d across the sen for generations
ck Of that She Is an idOlized. petted
ly child. and there Is great wealth.
E sees IL more plainly than any one
g could. There l. nothing for the ..
. but death n II Is the angel that is
CURED 10 save him" =,
The angel stood between them. :.
Well, I guess nor she cried. "Ir !,
'eckies wants me 81 be has 10 DO " :,
say -. and be can nave me- y
That he @ill never gay" said NC. :,
~ - last, "snd you don't under. :
and. angel I G0nf know how yon q
ne here. wouldn't have had you :,
~ tbat for the world. bur since y0u :
.Fe. Gesr. Jon must De f0ld that II !.
~ gOgr friendship or kindness "