Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1916-11-22
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--By-
Mary Roberts Rinehart
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
(Copyright, by Mcclure Publications.. Inc

sidney ndu Deen tuihiES Iuthei hoho
frankly than usual. Lately there had
been q reserve about her. X, listen
Ing intently that night, read between
words story Of small prosecutions
and jealousies. But the girl minimized
them, after her way.
"It's always hard for probatloners,"
she said. 81 often think Miss Harri'
son is trying my mettle."
Harrison
"Carlotta Harrison. And now that
Miss Gregg has said she will accept
me, it's really all over. The other
nurses are wonderful-so kind and SO
helpful. I hope shall look well In
my cap"
Carlotta Harrison was in Sidney's
hospital! A thousand contingencies
flashed through his mind. Sidney might
grow to like her and bring her to the
house. Sidney might insist on the
thing she always spoke of-that he
visit the hospital; and he would meet
her, face to face. He could have de-
pended on man to keep his secret
This girl with her somber eyes and
her threat to pay him out for what
had happened to her-she meant dan
ger of sort that TO man could fight.
"Soon," said Sidney, through the
warm darkness, 81 shall have cap,
and be always forgetting it and put
fling my hat on over 1.-THE new ones
always do"
1t was then that the door across the
street closed. Sidney did not hear
II. but X. bent forward. There was a
part of his brain always automatically
on watch.
81 shall get my operating-room
training, too" she went on. THAT Is
the real romance Of the hospital. There
was a lot of excitement today. DR..
Max Wilson did the Edwardes opera
ton"
The figure across the Street was
! lighting a cigarette. Perhaps, after
! nll-
Something tremendously difficult
don't know what. It's going into
the medical journals. A Doctor Ed
! wardes invented 1t, or whatever they
call II. 1t was the rlost thrilling thing.
I they say"
! Her voice died away as her eyes
I followed KS. Max. cigarette In hand,
was coming across, under the allan.
thus tree. He hesitated on the pave
! ment, his eyes searching the shadowy
{ balcony.
! "Sldneyf"
( "Herel Right back here"
{ There was vibrant gladness in hei
{ tone. He came slowly toward them.
! my brother Is not at home, so
cane over. How select you are, will
=, your balcony"
"Can you see the stepT
"Coming, with bells on"
l X. had risen ard pushed back hi!
4 chair. His mind was working quickly
Here In the darkness he could holt
the situation for moment. II h
could. get Sidney into the house, tn
rest would not matter. Luckily, III
balcony was very lark.
as anyone III"
mother Il not well. This is Mr.. l.
Moyne, and he knows who you ar
very well, indeed"
The two men shook hands.
1--WE heard lot OF Mr.. lie Moyn
You're the most popular man on u
Street"
"rve always heard that about 20
Sidney, II Doctor Wilson Is here TO 81
y your mother"
"Golng," said sidney. "And ID
- Wilson is n very great person, H.
be polite to him."
Max had aroused ut the sound
lie Moyne's voice, not TO suspicion,
course, but TO memory. Without NJ
apparent reason, he was back In DC
lin, tramping the country roads, III
beside him
"wondcrful night VIII you have
clgaretteT
Thanks; l have my pipe here"
X. struck n match with his stea'
hands. Now that the thing had con
he was glad TO face II. In the flu
his quiet profile glowed against q
night. Then he flung the match ov
the rail. Max stared; then he ro'
Blackness had descended on the
again. except for the dull glow OF h
old pipe.
"FJr Gods sakel"
II SSH The nclghbcrs next door In
n bad habit Of sitting Just inside
= curtains"
"But-youw
"Slt down. Sidney will be back
= n moment. Ill tnlk to you. II you'll
still. Can you hear re plainlyr
After momcrt-"Ycs."
eve been herein the city. me
for year. Names lie Moy
Don't forget it-Lc Moync. I've
position In the gas office, cloric'
Wilson stirred. but he found no q
ountc words. only part Of what
said got to him. For n moment
was back In n famous cllnlc. aud
man across from hint was not
lleyablei
tits not hard work. and It's g
HIM make a mistake there's no
hanging ON It."