Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1913-09-12

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dous leather valise, big with the mys-
FERROUS contrivances of modern sur
i gerry, pulled off his gloves, and with
his quick, professional tread, stepped
to the bedside. He exposed the col
onels big chest, and began a delicate
percussion with his white fingers.
| When he had done tapping, he laid
his ear over the colonel's heart, and
listened silently long time to the
cardiac murmurs, he rolled under his
| fingers the superficial vessels of the
temples, the forearms, the wrists, the
knees, he counted the pulse; and he
looked long at the old mans finger
nails.
Foerder briefly consulted with
Lambert, that is, repeated the direc-
lions he had already written out, and
began to buckle his big valise.
"And as to a nurse?" asked Doctor
Lambert.
/ "I'l send one of my own" said
| Foerder, hastily lighting Russian
cigarette He could not remain long
| in one place. He had patients to see
and lecture to deliver over at Rush
Medical college and his man was
| waiting with his high-hooded phaeton
down in Jackson boulevard
The nurse, diffusing faint odor of
lsantiseptics; came from. Doctor Foer-
/ der's private hospital, laid aside her
bonnet and veil and pausing an in
slant to give woman's touch to her
hair, quietly and deity set the room
In order
All that afternoon the colonel lay
in his darkened bedroom, fighting the
battle Of his life He lay so still the
nurse almost fancied him asleep, so
regular was MS breathing Once he
broke the silence by asking the time.
Twenty minutes after three" the
nurse responded, glancing at her lit
tie watch.
Some of the conventions, then, .
the colonel said, ''are over. won
der why they don't send me word
The nurse did not notice his speech,
and he added
Pardon me, you doubtless are not
interested in politics"
/ About this time news was brought
/ from the Fifth district convention in
Arlington hall 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
4 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
| 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
a cigar eegar," he pronounced it
assuring the nurse that he felt much
| better, but she said, as one might
Say to the whim of a child to whom
explanations are not vouchsafed:
mot just now"
And there was silence again, and
the ticking OF the nurses little watch.
| By 4 o'clock the colonel became
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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, vindicating 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
o'clock. He had not been expected be-
fore evening, but he was interested
| in the case. He had mentioned it in
1 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 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 cornea, and he ex-
| amlned the fnger-nallS; then the per-
cussion and the auscultation. When
he raised his black head, the colonel
| said:
ANY news?"
You're doing we'll"
"Aw!" said the colonel impatiently,
Il don't mean that-any news from
the conventions"
Foerder hesitated. as if half re-
luctant to display interest in anything
so human, but said:
Eyes"
"What?' said the colonel eagerly,
his eyes frightening with 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?"
swell, they say Warner has carried
some North Side districts, too-and
some West Side districts"
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