The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-08-09

and say THANK you" her mouth should
shut tight and her left foot wigSle in
stead.
When the Young Doctor had finished
| jingling bottles he came and sat down
beside her and fed her someth ng WEI
| out of a cool spoon, which she swa lowed
and swallowed and swallowed, feeling all
| the while like a very sick brown eyed
dog that couldn't wag anything but rhc
| far away tip of It's tail When she got
| through the swallowing she wanted very
much to stand up and make a .ow bow.
| but instead she touched the warm little
end of her tongue to the Young Doctors
! hand. After that. though. for quite "A
| few minutes her bran felt clean and
tidy and she talked quite pleasantly
to the Young Doctor.
| "Have you got any bones in your
arms?" she asked wistfully.
why. yes. indeed" said the Young
| Doctor, rather more than the usual
number OF bones. Why"
ia give my life" said the Sick-a- Bed
| Lady, If there were bones in my silky
! pillow" She faltered "A moment and
then continued bravely; Would you
| mind holding me up stiff and strong
! for a second? There's no bottom to my
| bed, there's no top to my brain, and If
/ can't find hard edge Ia something |
! snail topple right off the earth. So
would you mind holding m" Ike an edge
FOR a moment-that ls--!f there's no
.ady to care? I'm not "A little girl" she
added OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES 20 years
old"
So he Young Doctor slipped over gently
| behind her and lifted her lmp form ~
! INTO the lean. solid curve of his arm and
| shoulder. 1t wasn't exactly a Sdmp-
tuous corner like silken pillows. but it
felt as glad as the first rock you strike
On life swim for shore, and the Sick
! a-Bed Lady dropped right off to sleep sit
ting bolt upright, wondering vaguely
how she happened to have two hearts
one that fiuttered in the usual place
and one that pounded rather nolsily in
! her back somewhere between her Shout
der blades.
on his way home that day the Young
Doctor stopped for long while at his
Best Friends house to discuss some
curious features Of the Case.
Anything new turned up?" asked
the Best Friend
Nothing" said the Young Doctor
pulling modify at his cigar.
well, It certainly beats me-" eX-
claimed the Best Friend, "howsany long
headed shrevd old fellow Ike the OK
Doctor could have brought a ravinl
fever patient here and Installed her il
his own house under Ii 't clumsy bl'
Housekeeper without one men .oning I,
any one who the girl was or where t.
communicate with her people. Grea
heavens. the Old Doctor knew what ;
poor Risk he was. He knew absolutel,
that that heart of his would burst som,
day like a firecracker.
"The Old Doctor never was very com
municativc," unused the, Young Doctor
with "A slight primacc that might have
suggested professional memories no
strictly pleasant. But I'll surel.
never forget him as long as ether
exists" he added whmsically. "Why
you'd have thought the old chap in
vented cther--yon'd have thought he at,
it, drank it, bathed in it. ] hope III,
smell of my profession will never he
the only par of it I'm willing to share,
4. "Thas's all wight" said the Best Friend
that's all right If he wanted to go of
every winter to the States and work il
the Hospitals and come back ever,
spring smelling like a Surgical Ware
{ with a lot of wonderful information
which he kept to himself, why, tina
was his own business. He was a pluckS
, old fellow anyway to go at all.
but what I'm kicking at is hi
wicked carelessness in bringing thl
young girl here In a critical Illness with
out taking a single soul into his conf
dence. Here he's dead and buried 70
] weeks and the Girls people are probabl