The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1914-04-14

on the stretcher, the amphitheater
rang with applause.
May l ask your name, sir?" In
CURED the head surgeon.
Jean Klein" answered the other.
removing his rubber gloves.
You are connected with some hos
pital here?"
mot at present" answered Klein.
You have studied under a master,
sir. Would you be willing to be a
candidate for post here?"
The head surgeon suddenly per
ceived that Doctor Klein's collar was
frayed and his suit shabby. There
was hush of sympathy as Klein
nodded and went out
A week later he was installed at the
hospital. 1t was soon realized that one
of the most accomplished surgeons in
America had been obtained His fame
spread and doctors and students al
ways crowded his clinics. And by and
by a whisper began to be passed
around.
DO you know who that isl" the
whisper ran well, he is Jacques
Drouin. | saw him in Paris"
jacques Drouin! Everybody knew Il
within a month after Doctor Klein's
appointment. The story of Drouin
was one of the saddest in medical an
nails. A brilliant surgeon, and, even
at thirty, known throughout France, he
had acquired the drug habit, and
while irresponsible, committed crime
which ended his career. There had
been no prosecution. The scandal was
suppressed. So, three years earlier.
Droufn had disappeared
He had been overwhelmed with hor-
ror and remorse. He remembered lit
tie of the episode; he only knew that
in what he imagined to be the inter
ests of science he had sacrificed life
that had been entrusted to him. And
the scientific experiment had been but
the phantasy of brain crazed by NOR
phta.
Soon everybody knew the story.
Everybody pitied Klein. 1t was well
known that he never touched alcohol
or drugs His hand was always steady,
his eye clear. What a momentum Of
energetic WI he must have put IN
force to conquer the habit.
Perhaps it was Nurse Lincoln who
pitied Klein more than most She
was the head nurse and had been nine
years In the hospital During that
time she had come to understand
many things that the sight of human
suffering teaches. She knew that Klein
lived alone In barely furnished apart
ment in squalid district, that all his
spare time was given to the gratuitous
relief of the poor. He seemed to wish
to dedicate his life to repairing his
hideous error.
Klein could not be insensible to her
interest In him. In rare moments
they would talk together. and he I'M
bent toward her as he did to none else.
Before six months had passed they
had come to realize the depth of their
common interest in life. Each had
seen too much of the world to fall
easily In love, but when passion is
slow in approach 1t Is apt to be
stronger
| Above all else Nurse Lincoln wanted
Doctor Klein to know that she had
heard his story and regarded it as a
dead element in his life. But she had
not the power to tell him SO. Klein
had the faculty of Withdrawing into
himself She could not but realize
that the attraction between them was
a mutual one. But the unhappy past
lay like a barrier between her and
love. If only he would give her the
chance to let her tell him! But he
gave her none.
So the weeks rolled by, and the
months, until the International con
gress met in the city, the famous sur
geons from all parts OF America and
Europe gathered to witness, among
other things. the Klein operation.
Since Drouin had disappeared the
operation had hardly ever been per
formed with success. Klein. however