New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-01-19

Max passing the door of the old war
and she not there, JOe-and she pu,
zled owe Grace and her kind.
On her first night on duty a gil
had been brought in from the Avenue
She had taken poisOn-nobody knee
just what. When the in%ternes ha
tried to find out, she had only said
"What's the useY"
And she had died.
Sidney kept asking herself, "Why?
those mornings when she could not &C
to sleep. People were kind-men wer
kind, really-and yet, for som reaso
or other, those things had to be
Why?
Carlotta Harrison went on nigh
duty at the Shme time-her last nigh
service, as it was Sidney's first. Sh'
accepted it stoicnlly. She had charg,
Of the three wards on the floor jus
below Sidney, and Of the ward int
which all emergency cases were taken
It was a difficult service, perhaps thu
most difficult in the house. Carlott,
merely shrugged her shoulders.
1--WE always had things pretty hare
here" she commented briefly. "Wher
l go out, I'll either be competent
enough to run a whole hospital single
handed, or I'll be carried out feeI
first"
Sidney was glad to have her so near
Shn Ennuy hnr haitian thnn chn knn,y
the other nurses. Small emergencies
we're constantly arising and finding hel
at a loss. Once at least every night
Miss Harrison would hear a soft hiss
from the back staircase that connect
ed the two floors, and, going out, would
sec Sidney's flushed face and slightly
crooked cap bending over the stair
rail.
I'm ~drcadfully sorry to bother YOU
she would say, but So-and-So won't
have II fever bath" or, 1--WE a woman
here who refuses her medicine" Then
would follow rapid questions and
equally rapid W Much as Car
lotta disliked and feared the girl over
head, it never occurred to her to re-
fuse her assistance. Perhaps the an
gels who keep the great record will
put that to her credit.
Sidney saw her first death shortly
after she went on night duty. 1t was
the most terrible experience of all her
life-it seemed to her that she could
not stand it. Added to all her other
new problems of living was this one
of dying.
She made mistakes. of course, which
the kindly nurses forgot to report
basins left about, errors on her rec
ords. She rinsed her thermometer in
hot water II night, and startled an
inferno by sending him word that Mary
McGuire's temperature was 10 de-
grees. She let Il delirious patient escape
the ward another night and go
airily down the fire escape before she
discovered what had happened! Then
she distinguished herself by flying
down the iron staircase and bringing
the runaway back single-handed.
For Christine's wedding the Street
threw off its drab attire and assumed
n wedding garment. In the beginning
it was %incredulous about some of the
The wedding was to be at
live o'clock. This, in itself, defied all
traditions of the Street, which was
Either married in the very early morn
ng at the Catholic church or at eight
in the evening at the P~resbyte-
ian. There was something reckless
lbout five o'clock. The Street felt the
of it. 1t had a queer feeling that |
perhaps such Il marriage was not quite |
egal.
The younger Wilson was to be one
If the ushers. When the newspapers
oLt with the published list and
his was discovered, as well as that
was the maid of honor, there
vas a distinct culver through the hos
Dital training school. A probatiOner
authorized to find out particulars.
t was the day of the wedding then,
nd Sidney, who had not been to bed
It all, was sitting in a sunny window
n the dormitOry annex, drying her
air.
The probationer was distinctly I'M
asy.
II just WONDER" she said, eff you
'ould let some of the girls come in
0 see you when you're dressed?"
"Why, of course | will"
Its awfully thrilling, isn't it? And
'n't Doctor Wilson going to be an
sher?"
Sidney colored. 81 believe So"
The probationer had been instructed
find out other things so she set to
'ork with a fan at Sidney's hair.
you've known Doctor Wilson a long
me, haven't your"
ages"
Hes awfully good-looking, isn't
e?"
Sidney considered. She was not ig-
GRANT of the methods Of the school.
this girl was pumping her
"Ill have to think that over" she
lid. with a CLINT of mischief in her
res. "When you know a person ter
bly, well, you hardly know whether
IS g~ood-looking or not"
II suppose" said the probationer,
the long strands of Sidney's
lir through her fingers, that when
~ are at home you see him often"
Sidney got off the window sill, and, .
king the probationer smilingly by the
Ioulders, faced her toward the door. i
you go back to the girls" she said.
nd tell them to come in and see me |
hen | am dressed, and tell them this: .