Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1909-1915, 1913-10-03
JENNY EN- | The
HOSPITAL NURSE
An Episode Of the Spanish
American War. W

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wounded were placed. There was one
young fellow. Eugene Crawford, who,
though he had not been badly hit, was
SO reduced by the heat that / began to
fear he would succumb He was a.
{ plucky little chap under fire: that
learned from several of the other pa
tients who had been in the fight with
him, but dropped under inaction. Be
sides he had been very delicateiy
brought up. asked him if should
not send word for. some of his family
to come out to him. but he said he had
run away from home to join the army
against his fathers express wish. also
knowing that it would be great blow
to his mother Now he expressly de-
sired that they should not know Of his
condition till lie was well out Of It.
But the weather grew hotter. and the
poor fellow kept losing strength. 1t
was plain that he was suffering from
nostalgia. or inconsistencies, trouble
far more common in war than cow
ardice. Could | have brought some
member of his family to him / felt
reasonably certain that it would save
his life, but didn't know whom to adj
dress. s5 S, s5isi b
s. One day we secured a lot Of women
nurses. When they began to fit about
among the patients with their neat
j8white caps and aprons and striped
dresses. many a poor fellows face that
had been gloomy enough before lighted
up with new life. The day of their ar
rival was at work with case so dis
tressing that | placed a screen about
the; patient to shut him off from the
| others. From behind this screen I
! heard voices II. ~
1T was very good of You. Jenny. to
come down here to take care Of me-
The surgeon wanted to send for some
lone from home. but wouldn't let
him. You see, mother didn't want me
Ito go to the war. and it would not be
3hthe right thing to have any one come
/ to this Tophet on my account or even
Ito let you know Eve been winged, for
they'd do a lot of worrying. especially
another. .sSs X U 5 y.
Fed over the screen and saw one of the
nurses sitting by him. :sll Il, :@e::s.s
"You must keep up a good heart"
Sshe replied, 80 that you may get well
/ and go home "A 5s-l
! That I'll do very quickly now you're
here. I've nothing but scratch, you
d know, and ought not to be here at all:
put of ME. 'sE stE ,4a gsgss
come to you often. but now that
5Il'ln here l must help the others too.
4 So III go away for awhile-not long
then well talk some more of going
dome. 'S III i. q ;}.,e n 81 .s
AS the nurse went out l. beckoned
l$her to come tome aud asked an ex-
iplanation. She told me that Clifford
was a, trif1e Eighty and had mistaken
her for some one at home Thinking
/ that the arrival Of the real Jenny-for
as soon as Clifford came to himself
3 the illusion would be gone-might save
the boys life. we concluded to send a
message to that effect to his people.
The nurse found letters in his pockets
giving the desired address. and the
message was sent. Clifford when not
delirious treated the nurse as stran-
ger, but when delirious as Jenny"
Meanwhile he was losing strength. 81
S One morning soon after the arrival
Of ship from the north was told
that Miss Clifford was on the yeranda
land wished to see me. went out
| there and saw a young woman In train
ed nurse costume a s3
sf'I have come to take care Of my
brother. she said. Though I am also
ready for the work. was sent here
as d nurse for all Nh III
There was that about Miss Clifford
which al attracted me at once. a resolute
bearing, an especially graceful, figure,
q large, dark. honest eye Beyond these
there was something which appealed
Ito me Individually. though ii is not to
Il be described, I conducted her to her
brothers bedside There had been a
change iii him for the worse during
the ight. and he was nnttering in
icoherently to the sup posed lew The
real sister took her place; but II seem.
ed TO make no diff erence. to- the patient.
happened to be near when young
Clifford squieted down and became him.
sell. heard an 2excia nation and, turn.
ing, saw the boy sgitn his arms about
his sisters neck There was nothing
spoken Eugene kept his arms where
he would NOT have had the strength to
place them without the nerve the meet.
Ing gave him. MS long as he could. then
they dropped and tears rolled down
bis cheeks His sister passed her hand
|s5ver his brow and whispered d few
words. and In a title while the boy
ffell into d d oze.
The tonic of this meeting was all
that was equired. and in i few days
Eugene had gained suf icient strength
4 for his sister to do other work M can
while had observed that Miss Clifford
possessed an admir- istrat tive Utility. q
!. cool head which She ne lost and
1 l5splendid merry She one of those
women with no necessity for self sup
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