The Dermott news., 1917-02-22

I am, you know. Max" he said. "I've raised three tomato plants and a fam fly of kittens this summer helped to plan q rousseau. assisted in selecting wallpaper for the room just inside did you notice it2-and developed Il boy pitcher with ball that twists around the bat like Coles fracture around n splintl"
 Wilson rose and flung his cigarette into the grass
 "I wish l understood you!" he said irritably.
 K. rose with him, and all the sup pressed feeling of the interview was crowded into his last words.
 I'm not as ungrateful as you think. Max" he said. '1-you've helped n lot. Don't worry about me. I'm as well off as deserve to be, and better. Good night"
 Good night"
 Wilson's unexpected magnanimity put K. in Il curious poStion-left him, as it were. with divided ale
 
 the young surgeon was growing. He was quick to see 1t. And where before he might have felt justified in going to the length of warming her. now his hands were tied.
 Sidney went on night duty shortly after her acceptance. She tumblcd into her low bed at nine o'clock in the morning. those days. with her splen- did hair neatly braided down her back and her prayers said, and immediately her active young mind filled with images ChriStine's wedding. Doctor Max passing the door of the old ward and she not there. Joe-aud she pug zled over Grace and her kind.
 on her first night on duty girl had been brought in from the Avenue. She had taken poison-nobody knew just what When the internes had tried to find out, she had only said 1: "What's the uSef'
 And she had died
 sidney kept asking herself. "Whyf' those mornings when she could not get to sleep. People were kind-men were kind. really yet, for some reason or other, those things had to be. Why?
 Carlotta Harrison went on night duty at the s;tne time-her last night service. as 1t was Sidncy'S first She accepted il steieally. She had charge of the three wards on the floor just below sidney and of the ward into which all emergency cases Were taken. It was Il difficult service, perhaps the most difficult in the house. Carlotta merely shrugged her shoulders.
 Eve always had things pretty hard here" she commented briefly. "When 1 Eo out, III either be competent enough to run I whole hospital single handed, or I'll he carried cut feet first"
 Sidney WAS slad to have her so near. She knew her better than she knew the other nurses Small emergencies were constantly arising and tindius her at loss. Once at least every night Mis- Harrison would hear soft hiss from the haek staircase that connect ed the two floors, and. going out. would see SidueYs flushed face and slightly erooEed cap bending oyer the stair rail
 I'm dreadfully sorry to bother you. '' she would say. but So-and-So won't have fever bath" or. I've woman here who refuses her medieine.' Then would folio" rapid questions and equally rapid answers. Much as Car lotta dislil,ed and feared the girl over head, 1t 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. II Was the most terrible experience ef 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 rlnsea her thermometer in hot water one night, and startled an interne by sending him word that Mary McGuire'S temperature Was llo de- gree~. She let a delriouS patient escape from the ward another night and go airily down the fire escape before she discovered what had huppeuctlt Then she distinguished herself by dying down the Iron staircase and bringing the runaway back ~iuSle.handed.
 
 For Chrtstiuv's wedding the Street threw ofT itS drab attire and assumed T wedding garment. In the beginning It was iucre,AllaQS- -ahout ~8mt. af thr