New Britain herald., 1917-04-21

How Madge Felt When Dicky Cried
 ''Is There Any Danger of Her
 Faco Being scarred."
 After all my shuddering objections to LfliAn's plan knew nothing of my Journey in Harry Underwood's arms from the living room where my dress had caught fire to my own room on the second floor. 1t had seemed to me that could not possibly allow the arms of Harry Underwood to he clasped around me.
 When the physician had said that the pain of my transfer from the lower floor to the upper would be minimized if one strong man could carry me up, Lillian had insisted that Harry should do it. silencing my weak pleading for Dicky.
 But when Harry Underwood bent over me. his face and eyes full only of shocked pity. with no trace of the hateful fiirtatious admiration with which he had so long annoyed me, my fear of him slipped away. The shock of my experience had been too much for me, however. As he raised me skilfully and with infinite tender ness in his arms. under Lillian's di- rections. the movement of my body caused me such exquisite pain that tainted again. and knew nothing more until I awoke to find Lillian and the physician working over me.
 There is nothing to be alarmed over," the physician was saying to a shadowy some one at the head of my bed, a some one who was breathing heavily. and the trembling of whose body I could feel against the bed. "Of course, the shock has been severe, and the pain of. moving her was too much for her. But she is coming round nicely. You may speak to her now.'
 The shadowy some one moved for ward little, resolved itself to my clearing sight as my husband. He knealt beside the bed and put his lips to my uninjured hand.
 Sweetheart! Sweetheart" he mur- 1 mured, my own girl! Is the pain very bad "
 "Not now," answered faintly, try 1 ing to smile, but only succeeding in
 twisting my mouth into a grimance of pain. The flames had mercifully l spared my hair and most of my face 1 but there was one burn upon one side of my throat, extending up into my 1 cheek. which made it uncomfortable l for me to move the muscles of my face. l Don't try to talk" Dicky replied
 "Just lie still and let us take care ol
 you Lil will stay. I know. until w l can get a nurse here, won't you. Lil 2 l As a frightened child might do,
 turned my eyes to Lillian, beseech-
 insly. eYe.ss e-just-Lillian, fal tered. Lillian stopped over me re. 1 assuringly.
 l '.No one shall touch you but me, she said decisively, and then turning l to the physician, said demurely: | "Do you think I can betrusted with l the case, doctor?" 1 Most assuredly," the physician re. 1 turned heartily. Indeed. if you can
 stay it is most Nfortunate for Mrs l Graham. Good trained nurses are al
 a premium just now. and great care : will be necessary in this case to pre- vent disagreement?
 A Sick Terror. | A quick, stif1ed exclamation of dis
 may came from Dicky.
 | ''Is there danger of her face being scarred?" he asked worriedly. l Not while I'm on the job," Lillian ] returned decisively, and there was no idle boasting in her statement. simply quiet certainty.
 But there was another note in her l voice, or so it seemed to my feverish 1 imagination, a note of scorn for 1 Dicky, that he should be thinking of 1 my possible disfgurement when my very life had been in question but a l moment before.