The Dermott news., 1917-02-15

painted for Christine's wedding. John
ny Rosenfeld, not perhaps of the
Street itself, but certainly pertaining
to 1t, was learning to drive Palmer
Howe's new car. in mingled agony and
bliss. He walked along the Street. not
right foot, left foot" but brake foot,
clutch foot" and took to calling off
the vintage of passing ears. "So-and-
So 1910" he would say, with contempt
in his voice.
*. had yielded to Annals insistence.
and was boarding ms well rs rooming
at the Page house. The Street, rather
snohbish tn its occasional floating pop
u%lation. was accepting and liking him.
1t found him tender, infinitely human.
And in return he found that this
seemingly empty eddy into which he
had drifted was tecming with life. He
busted himself with small things, and
found his outlook gradually less
tinged with despair. When he found
himself inclined to rail. he organized
II baseball club, and sent down To
everlasting defeat the Linburg's. on
sisting OF %cashhoys from Linden x
llefhurg'S department store.
He made no further attempt To
avoid Max Wilson. Some day they
would meet face 10 face. He hoped.
when Ii happened. they 1--WE might be
alone; that was all. Even had he not
been bound by his promise To Sidney.
flight would have been foolish. The
world was n small place. and. II Way
and another, he had known many
people. Wherever he went. there
would be the same chance. The meet
ing took place early in September,
and under better circumstances than
he could have hoped for.
Sidney had come home for her week
ly visit. and sent Katie To ask Doctor
Ed to come "a after dinner. With
the sunset Anna seemed better. She
insisted ON coming downstairs, and
even sat with them on the balcony I'M
I'll the stars came out. talking of
Christine's rousseau, and, rather fret
fully. of what she would do without
the parlors.
you shall have your own boudoir
upstairs" said Sidney valiantly. "ka-
tie can carry your tray up there. We
are going to make the sewing room
into your private sitting room. and /
shall nail the machine top down"
This pleased her. When X. insisted
OF carrying her upstairs, she went in
a fiutter.
"He is SO strong, Sidney" she said.
when he had placed her on her bed.
How can n clerk, bending over Il led
ger, be so muscular? When l have
callers. will il be all right for Katie
to show them upstalrs?"
She dropped asleep before the doc
tor came; and when. nj something
after eight. the door of the Wilson
house slammed and n figure crossed
the street. IL was not Ed at all but
the surgeon.
Sidney had been talking rather more
frankly than usual. Lately there had
been n reserve about her. X, listen
ing intently that night. read between
words n story of small prosecutions
and jealousies. But the girl minimized
them. after her way.
ITS always hard for probationers,"
she said. Il often think Miss Harri-
20 is trying my mettle."
Harrison :"
"Carlotta Harrison. md now that
Miss Gregg has said she will accept
me, it's really all over. The other
nurses are wonderful-so kind and So
helpful. l hope / shall look well In
my cap"
Carlotta Harrison was in Sidney's
hospital. A thousand contingencies
flashed through his mind. Sidney might
grow 10 like her and bring her TO the
house. Sidney might insist on the
thing she always spoke of-that he
visit the hospital; and he would meet
her. face to face. He could have de-
pended on n man To keep his secret.
This girl with her somber eyes and
her threat to pay him out for what
had happened to her-she meant dam
ger of n sort that no man could fight.
"Soon," said Sidney. through the
WuTWl 1 snail nave II cap.
and be always forgetting 1t and put
ting my hat on over 1.-THE new ones
always do"
II was her that the door across the
street closed. Sidney did not hear
II, but n. bent forward. There was a
part of his brain always automatically
on watch.
Il shall get my operating-room
training. too" she ven on. THAT is
the real romance of the hospital. There
was Il lot of excitement today. DR..
Max Wilson did the Edwardes opera
ton"
The figure across the Street was
IA cigarette. Perhaps, after
all
Something tremendously difficult
l don't know what. It's going into
the medical journals. A Doctor Ed
wardes invented II, or whatever they
call ii. IL was the most thrilling thing,
they say"