The Washington times., 1913-12-13

S6N I'VE will soon have you
w out of this. sir" was the
reply. Your ankle look
ed bad at first I was shocked by the
appearance Of it. But it turns out to be
a strain rather than sprain- There
is a vast difference. sir"
$50 / have heard. Well. get me fixed
up as soon as possible. I'm not forget
full of kindness I have the means, and
I will be generous in the matter OF
payment for your services. There-you
need not resent that as you seem dis
posed to do the Night Wind added,
when the man he had addressed as doc
tor raised his head quickly.
The doctor was almost as black as
Julius. and strangely like him in all
but years. He was much younger than
Katharine's faithful servitor. In fact
he was Julius brother many years
younger, a practicing physician whep
not administering the gospel, which
duty he performed every Sunday at a
nearby "colored church"
Harvard had been accepted as a guest
In his home. and as patient; and be-
cause that home was close to the edge
of the colored belt in the outlying dis
tricts OF one OF the New Jersey cities,
he felt. for the present at least, quite
safe from the activities of the police.
How did Julius tell you to address
me. doctor?" Harvard asked presently.
LAS Mr.. Binghamp.on, SIR
Il suppose you know that it is not
my right name. don't you:''
TT is the only one that has been
given to me to use, sir. 1t is quite suf-
ficient-'
Don't you know my right manner"
Harvard persisted.
"It may be that have heard 1t. But,
then, l hear many names You were in
troduced here by my brother as Mr..
Binghampton."
"Oh, well, that's all right, 1 like and
admire your pluck in taking me in, and
/ am grateful, too. But all the same
I can't stay here with you and permit
you to run the risk you are taking un-
less 1 am assured that you fully un-
derstand just what the risk is-and ex-
actly what it might mean to you If
should be caught here in your home. So,
doctor, don't you see? We had much
better be entirely frank with each
other"
what you are supposed to be. Does that
satisfy your
Not entirely. julius said that you
were doctor. and minister of the
Gospel, as WELL
II am
We'll, 1 can't permit you to tell a
lot of lies on my account, and to do
things that are going to get on your
conscience and make you unhappy. That
isn't playing fair. Do you know that in
New York and some other localities, too,
/ am called the Night Wind?''
Yes
And that there is a price on my head
-fguratively, at leaSt?'
Yes"
Dead or alive?"
You are physically so wonderful, and
your constitution is SO perfect" the doc
tor told his patient on one occasion,
that you recover from injuries like
cat"
Nevertheless. a week passed by, then
another, and then a third one, before
the doctor would consent that any Sc
we're test be applied to the injured an
kle; and in the meantime Harvard had
sentenced himself to complete silence
concerning the one subject upon which
he most desired to be informed
Not word or a sign Of any sort had
been received from Katharine, or even
from Julius, since that early morning
when Harvard was taken to the doctors
house. and the patient had schooled
himself to ask no question about either
Of them
He had hoped that the doctor would
volunteer something of the sort, but
time proved that the physician seemed
as little disposed to do that as his pa
tient was to interrogate.
There came morning when Harvard
had been under the doctors care more
than three weeks-when he could bear
the silence and the anxieties that filled
it no longer.
We'll. suppose the bell at your front
door should ring. Suppose you should
hnd, when you opened il, an officer of
the law waiting Outside-one who had
traced me to this house You would
&c compelled to lie TO him, wouldn't
you?"
81 am going to speak rather plainly
10 you, Mr.. BinShampton," was the slow
reply, with especial emphasis on the
name. Il hope you will not be Offend
ed"
Go ahead, doctor"
"AIl matters connected with this house
and the people IN il are strictly and
entirely my own affair. My relation to
you and yours - me are purely pro-
fessional. 1t is An unwritten law, but
d wise one. that patients must obey
their physicians.
My one order TO pou, sir, is this:
That you pay strict attention to the
business OF getting well, and concern
yourself with nothing else. Just now
you may amuse yourself with any of
those books that happen to interest you
l have professional calls to make, and
you will be alone until | return" D
With low bJw and a smile in his
ewes, die doctor left the room.
The business Of getting weIl'' went
slonE more exed.tiously than either the
c0lored doctor or his patient had dared
with the rapid recovery Of the Night