Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1917-04-12

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mans vitality was standing him In
good stead. He had asked for Sidney
and she was ut his bedside. Doctor Ed
had gone.
X. found Sidney In the room, not sit
ting, but standing by the window. The
sick man was doing. One shaded light
burned in u far corner. She turned
slowly and met his eyes. II seemed to
K. that she looked at hlnrUs II she had
never really seen him before, and he
was right. Readjustments IRE always
difficult.
Sidney was trying to reconcile the X.
she had known so well with this new
X, no longer obscure, although still
shabby. whose height had suddenly be-
come presence, whose quiet was the
quiet OF infinite power.
She was suddenly shy of him, as he
stood looking down at her. He saw
the CLEAN OF her engagement ring on
her finger. 1t seemed almost defiant.
As though she had meant by wearing
II to emphasize her belief in her lover.
They did not speak beyond their
greeting, until he had gone over the
record. Then: ave can't talk here.
want to talk to you, K"
He led the way into the corridor. 1t
was very dim. Far AWAY was the night
nurses desk, with Its lamp, its annuncl-
ator, its pile of records. The passage
floor reflected the light on glistening
boards.
~ have been thinking until am al
most crazy. X. And now ! know how
Il -hapneued- IT was Joe. ------
1.-THE principal thing is, not how 1t
happened, but that he is going TO get
well, Sidney"
She stood looking down, twisting her
ring around her finger.
as Joe in any dangerT
I'VE are going to get him away to-
night. he wants to 90 to Cuba. He'll
get of safely, think"
ave are going to get him away
You are, you mean. You shoulder all
our troubles, K, as If they were your
own"
"IT He was genuinely surprised.
"Oh, 1 see. You menn-but my part IN
getting Joe off is practically nothing,
As q matter of fact, Schwitter has put
up the money My total capital IN the
world, after paying for the machine
today, is seven dollars"
"You, of course" said she You
find Max and save hlm-don't look ike
that! Yea did, didn't your And you
get Joe away, borrowing money to SEND
him."
He looked uncomfortable, almost
guilty.
"When look back and remember
how all these months I've been Talk
ing about service, and you said moth
ing at all, and all the time you were
living what preachea-Tm 30
ashamed, K"
He would not allow that. 1t dis
tressed him. She saw that, and tried
to smile.
"When does Joe got"
"Tonight. I'm to take him across the
country to the railroad. was Won
dering-"
"Yes7"
I'D better explain first. Then If you
are willing to send him line, l think
it would help. He saw a girl In white
In the car and thought 1t was you, OF
course. Carlotta was taken Ill. And
Schwltter and-ands Wilson took her
upstairs to q ROOM"
do you believe that, K.T
II do. He saw Max coming out ana
misunderstood. he fred at him then"
He did 1t for me. ! feel very guilty,
K, as II II all comes back to me. Ill
write to him, Of course. Poor JoeP
He watched her 60 down the hall to-
ward the night nurses desk. Then he
went back into the quiet room'
He stood by the bedside. looking
down. Wilson was breathing quietly;
his color was coming up, as he rallied
from the shock. In KS mind now was
Just one thoughtNto bring him through
for Sidney, and then to 60 away. De
might follow Joe to Cuba. There were
chances there. He could do sanitation
work. or he might Try the canal
The Street would 90 on working out
its own salvation. He would have TO
think Of something for the Rosenfelds.
And he was worried about Christine.
But there again, perhaps, II would be
better IL he went away. Chrisunes
story would have to work itself out.
his hands were tied. 'Td better get
away from here" he told himself saw
agely.
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