The Dermott news., 1917-03-01
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her aside. By the end of her short va cation Carlotta Harrison was wildly in love with the younger Wilson.
 They continued to meet. not as often as before. but once week, per haps. The meetings were full of dan ger now: and If for the girl they lost by this quality. they gained attraction for the man. She was shrewd enough to realize her own situation. The thing had gone wrong. She cared, and he did not. IL was his game now, not hers.
 All women are intuitlve; women in love are dangerously so. As well as she knew that his passion for her was not the real thing. so also she realized that there was growing up in his heart something akin to the real thing for Sidney Page. Suspicion became eer- tainty after q talk they had over the supper table at country roadhouse the day after Christine's wedding.
 How was the wedding-tiresome?"
 "Thrllng There's always some thing thrilling to me In man tying himself ilp for life to one woman. It's-it's so reckless
 Her eyes narrowed. That's not ex- actly the Law and the Prophets, is it?"
 Its the truth. To think of select ing out of all the world one woman. and electing to spend the rest of ones $ days with her. Although
 His eyes looked past Carlotta into distance
 sidney Page was one of the brides maids" he said irrelevantly. "She was lovelier than the bride"
 "Pretty. but stupid" said Carotta T like her. I've really tried to teach her things. but-you know" She shrugged her shoulders.
 Doctor Max was learning wisdom If there was twinkle in his eye. he yelled 1t discreetly. But. once again in the machine, he bent over and put his cheek against hers.
 You little cat, You're jealous" he said exultantly.
 Nevertheless, although he might smile. the image of Sidney lay very 'tbSt to iiiS iitttt liitNt uutuiiiu And Carlotta knew It.
 
 Sidney came off night duty the mid dle of November. The night duty had been time of comparative peace to Carlotta. There were no evenings when Doctor Max could bring Sidney back to the hospital in his car.
 
 Sidneys half-days at home were oc- casions for agones of jealousy on Car lotta's part. On such an occasion, a month after the wedding. she could not contain herself. She pleaded her old excuse of headache. and took the trol- ley to n point near the end of the Street. After twilight fell, she slowly walked the length of the Street Chris tine and Palmer had not returned from their wedding journey. The No vember evening was not cold. Sidney was not in sight, or Wilson. But standing on the wooden doorstep of the house was Le Moyne. The allan thus trees were bare at that time. throwing gaunt arms upward te the November sky. The street lamp. which in the summer left the doorstep in the shadow. now shone through the branches and threw into strong relief Le Moyne's tall figure and set face. Carlotta saw him too late to retreat But he did not see her She went on, startled, her busy brain seheming anew. Another element had entered into her plotting. It was the first time she had known that K lived in the Page house. IL gave her sense of uncertainty and deadly fear.
 She made her first friendly over ture of many days to sidney the fol- lowing day. They met in the locker room in the basement where the street clothing for the ward patients was kept. Here. rolled in bundles and ticketed, side by side lay the hetero- geneous garments in which the pa tients had met accident or Illness. Rags and tidiness, filth and cleanll- ness, lay almost touching.
 Far away on the other side of the whitewaShed basement, men were un- loading gleaming cans of milk. Floods of sunlight came down the cellarway. touching their white coats and turn ing the cans 10 silver. Everywhere was the religion of the hospital, which | Is order.
 Sidney, marking back from recent | sights to the staircase conversations | of her night duty. smiled at Carlotta | cheerfully.
 "A miracle is happening" she said. Grace Irving Is going out today. When one remembers how i'll she was and how We thought she could not live. It's rather triumph. isn't itf"
 Are those her clothes?"
 Sidney examined with some dismay he elaborate negllgee garments in her land
 "She can't go out In those: I shall lave to lend her something" A little If the light died out of her face. "She's lad hard fight. and she has won.p he said, But when I think of whsA