The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-04-27
BY
Henry Russell Miller
Copyright 1918
The BObba- Merrill ca

deered the best surgical skill and
I care for that valuable workman.
Remind me" he directed his see
4 rotary. TO ask YOU every morning
how Truths getting along
/ The secretary made a note OF t..
Also look up his antecedents and
| get in touch with his relatives And
/ yea may send howers-With my card
! | don't quite associate flowers with
I Truitt but send them
The secretary may have been so
| indiscreet as 10 look surprised al
this interest in mere foreman.
! The surgical attendance, Henley
/ cOndescended TO explain. is because
he's a valuable man. The flowers are
! because he almost thrasned me once.
| do not he added. perhaps super
! fuously, recommend the example
generally. So few would have his
discernment TO stop al tie right
point
The doctors gathered In solemn
| conclaye and did various things TO
Marks shattered body. They dogged
his steps into the very shadow OF
! death and would not let him die.
! They did that, knowing they condemn
ed him to a life OF pain. and having
! the security OF Thomas Henley 5
word that their bills should each and
every one OF them be paid.
While Mark still fingered in the
/ vale OF mystery that leads 10 full
J knowledge, two men began their
daily-and nightly-watches. One
was thin-faced man who wore the
rusty black OF the country preacher
| The other was an awkward, gray
little man who would sit motionless
by the hour. never taking his eyes
from the still form under the white
sheet. They said little 10 each other
asked no annoying questions and kept
unobtrusively in the background;
even the important doctors could not
we'll have objected to their presence
There was a night when it was
! touch and go. Once Simon caught
the preachers knee in a yise-like
grip.
4 guess he whispered. "ye't. bet
/ ter prafNN,
II have BEEN piAyang
The grip frightened conyulsively
! Pray again
That prayer was as much for 81
mon as for the injured son.
Mark did not die. His broken body
began slowly TO mend He passed
4ont of Immediate danger he WAS exeH
! allowed to talk and TO be talked to
little. But in the manner OF the
nurses, OF his visitors from Bethel
even OF the calloused doctors, were
grave gentleness, an absence OF the
exultation TO be expected after
, triumph over death. He felt 1t.
| He put his question to his father
What are they keeping back from
me ."
Simons glance did not waver nor
did he try TO evade with a soothing
! lie Yen never walk easy again
Yen have TO use a crutch, leastways
a cane, always"
It's my hip?'
yes"
lis that all?"
! "Ye we're hurt innardly. Yell have
to be careful always No more work
In the mills"
Mark closed his eyes. uttering nj
/ complaint. But within was turmoil
4 OF protest and rebellion. A cripple
partial invalid for life. Half a
: man So had ended the dreamed cam
/ paign OF conquest He had survived
trials under which stronger than he
: had succumbed, he had doggedly beat
/ en- his way to where the going was
easy--for this, To be smashed by
the forces he was helping to tame &c
/ usefulness, perhaps to become mere
! spectator OF life along with such in,
competents as the Courtneys and the
Simons Tears OF futile rage seeped
out through his closed eyelids.
(HonfinuadN