Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1913-12-26

Arlington nall and from the Sixth in
lungs hall, that the Warren men had
carried both districts. The colonel,
hearing the hoarse whispering be-
tween the messengers and Mosely In
the room outside, demanded informa-
ton, and Doctor Lambert had to tell
him. The colonel wished to see Nose
ly, he had some new plan for the
West Side to Offset their loss; and he
saw Mosely and the plan was put In
execution. Then the colonel seemed
once more to sleep. When he opened
his eyes he asked If he could not have
cigar-"seegar," he pronounced it
assuring the nurse that he felt much
better, but she said, as one might
say to the within of child to whom
explanations are not vouchsafed:
mot just now"
And there was silence again, and
the ticking of the nurses little watch.
BY o'clock the colonel became
restless once more, and asked If
there were any news. When the nurse
said no, he insisted that there must
be some message, some letter. some
telegram. He did not know that his
followers, indicating all history, were
now standing afar off. He worried
and grew incoherent. He seemed to
confuse Carroll with the boy who was
sleeping under the stars far away In
Arizona.
Doctor Foerder returned at 4
o'clock. He had not been expected be-
fore evening, but he was interested
in the case. He had mentioned it in
his lecture that day. He had COM
mented ON the wonderful display Of
vitality on the patients part, and
spoken of the value in such cases
of moral treatment, Of encouraging
words and a confident manner. He
read the nurses chart, counted the
colonel's pulse for fifteen seconds and
calculated the rate of multiplication,
drew down the old mans eyelids, not
ing the senile arc that was whitening
the periphery of the corpea, and he ex-
amined the fnger-nails; then the per-
cussion and the auscultation. When
he raised his black head, the colonel
said:
ANY news?"
You're doing WELL"
Jaw" said the colonel impatiently,
81 don't mean that-any news from
the conventions?"
luctant to display interest in anything
so human, but said:
Eyes"
"What?" said the colonel eagerly,
his eyes frightening with a light
that alarmed the doctor.
"They say you've carried some dis
tricts on the North Side"
(Which ones?" asked the colonel.
Don't remember"
Anything else?"
"Well, they say Warner has carried
some North Side districts, too-and
some West Side districts"
"Warner%
"Well, whatever his name is"
Then Foerder was silent, and the
colonel lay long time thinking.
did you learn how It's going in the
Ninth, or the Second, or the Seven
teenth?"
They say It's about an even break
everywhere"
"And how's the First?" The colonel
put this question in whisper, as Il
he feared the answer. The doctor did
not know. Then the silence again
and the colonels labored breathing
and the ticking of the nurses little
gold watch.
, What district do you live in, Doc
tori" the colonel asked later.
~" replied the medical man In
some surprise.
"Yes."
'I-why, don't know" he said.
The colonel family smiled. where
do you live, them"
I'm Drexel Boulevard"
t That's the Fifth" the colonel said
/ Warren carried that"
l.. did he?" The doctor looked as II
he were ashamed. I'VE mustn't tall
| any more just now"
' Foerder remained until evening
r pacing the anteroom, his hands be
: hind him, his lips twitching in his in
:. voluntary smile. Now and then hi
took turn In the long, dark, softly
carpeted hall, to smoke a cigarette
AT times some politician would com,
with scared face and inquire abou
the colonel, and the doctor always de
manded news Of the battle, before b,
answered the questions. The reports
brought by the politicians were no
encouraging, and they hurried outsid,
again. Their visits, In the Afternoon
waned, became fewer. Even Mosel.
and Garwood had been glad OF the ex
citing excuse offered by the First dis
/, trict convention in Italia hall dow
Clark street to escape from the shad
owed headquarters. At oclocl
no one had been there for an hou
save some sympathetic bellboys an,
porters from downstairs, and Carroll
of course-he came every half hou
from the convention, disheveled
bathed in persplration, his eyes burr
ing with excitement and suspense
Foerder would not allow him to Sc
. the colonel, who lay behind the whit
door, his eyes half closed, too wea
any longer to whisper.
r At Z O'Clock the reporters came, an
Doctor Foerder, as they put It, Issue
4 bulletin.
4 He's alive" the doctor said, pulls
8 100 to 124, respiration 22 to 20, ten
e perature 9S. His remarkable nerv
alone sustains him. He's making tn
S most magnificent fight / ever saw |
a all my life-have you heard anythln
from the conventlon2"
( They're all over but the one
:. the First district" one OF the repor