The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1916-07-25

with the Staffords, father and son, than
ever before.
Days and nights of narrowing fear
dragged over that household. Wealth
had not dulled affection, nor could it
seem to bride death. The fever line
mounted on the nurses chart like
mountain side, and Gloria grew wes'
er, except in her deliriums, when
seemed to be inhabited by demi
ferocious strength. u
At length David felt thas w..
Wakefield had been given all the time
to experiment with Gloria's life that
could be afforded. He was for calling
in young man OF the newest school
of medical art He called for Doc
tor Royce. Royce came with no hesi-
tation over medical ethics or cour-
tesies. Gloria was more than a pa
tient to him, and old Wakefield was
less than a doctor in his eyes, after
he had questioned the Staffords as to
the manner of Doctor Wakefelds
treatment. Things we're, as he feared,
all wrong. 1t was life or death. Doc
tor Wakefield could not cope with the
disease. He must be dispossessed as
politely as possible.
Doctor Wakefield, he learned, was in
the sickroom above. Royce would not
mince matters OF wait on professional
etiquette. He felt the eagerness of
lover in coming once more to the
rescue of his idolized Gloria.
He ran up the stairs and walked into
the room. He hardly knew his Gloria
when he saw her. She Tas in the
throes of a wild delirium. \She mag
ined herself once more aA2ns the
Seninoles who had held her b
age when she ran away in Flori
years before.
In her tOrmenting fancy she
again dressed as a squaw and set -
the task of gathering firewood and
subjected to the worse task of endur-
ing the old squaw's hatred and the
young chiefs love. She begged him
to kill her rather than marry her, and
she fought with all her fury, Selling
Wakefield's white hair with one hand
and the nurses black locks with ~
other.
There was no quieting her cEtcries.
Take me home; my fatheEFis richl
He will make you rich! Oh[hey don't
believe mel Help! Helpl" Then she
smiled and cried: dick, Dick. it's
you'll You'll save me! Blessed, beloved
Dick! Oh, I'm so glad, so glad you
found mel"
Then the frenzy left her and she
sank back exhausted, but content Doc
tor Royce realized that he had two
antagonists now to fght-Death and
Richard Freneau-both of them try
ing to take from him the girl Of his
heart.
Death was the first to fight. Royce
was too desperate to treat Doctor
Wakefield with much formality. He
asked a few questions which reused
the ire of the old physician. He ex-
amined the patient, threw of the
smothering blankets and exclaimed,
Fresh air is the best and only treat
ment for pneumonia" He flung up the
window, showed Glorias bed against it,
and let the cold air from the
river sweep into the room A2d into her
tormented lungs.
Almost at once her breathing be-,
came less labored. Doctor WaNeesZ
left in as dignified rage as he Mid
manage. Royce threw away all the
Wakefield medicines and gave the
nurse new set of instructions. The
nurse, at least, whom Doctor Wake
field had prescribed, seemed a capa-
Bile one. Royce welcomed her as a
valuable aid in the gruesome fght
He arranged to stay all night, ~ H.
layed poor old Statford's fears
he could. But his own headf% 4 lear
to breaking with terror f9k Tthe safety
OF Gloria's sweet life-and-for her hap
piness If she lived.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)