Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1917-03-08

; knOtted tOWeiS dipleu IN Ice Watet
, But the wrecked body IN the bed could
, stand no such heroic treatment.
II was lie Moyne. after all. who saved
. Johnny Rosenfcld's life. For. wher
staff and nurses had exhausted all
: their resources. he stepped forward
. with a quiet word that brought the In
ternes to their feet astonIshed.
There was a new treatment for such
cases-it had been tried abroad. lie
looked ut Max.
Max had heard Of n. He
threw out his hands.
TRY 1t, for heavens sake" he said.
'Tm all In"
The apparatus was not in the house
must be extemporized. indeed, at
last, Of odds and ends from the operat-
ing room. X. did the work. his long
fingers ,deft and skiilful-while Mrs.
ltosenfeii knelt by the bed with her
face buried; while Sidney sat, dazed
and b%ewildered, on her little chair in
side the door; while night nurses tip
tocd along the corridor, and the night
Waterman stared incredulous from out
side the door.
When the two great rectangles that
were the emergency ward windows had
turned from mirrors rejecting the
! room to gray rectangles In the morn
ing light. Johnny Resented opened his
eyes and spoke the first words that
marked his return from the dark val
ley.
Gee, this is the life" he said, and
smiled into KS watchful face.
When it vas clear that the boy
would live, X. rose stitl!y from the bed
side and went over to Sldney's chair.
Hes all right now" he said--:'as
all right as he can be, poor lad!"
"iou did it--you! How strange that
yon should know such a thing. How
am to thank you?"
The i%nternes, talking among them
selves, had wandered down to the din
Ing for early coffee. Wilson was
giving q few last instructions as to the
boys care. Quite unexpectedly, Sid
liey caught KS hand and held it TO
her lips. The iron repression of the
night, of months indeed, fell away be-
fore her simple caress.
My dear, my dear" he said huskily.
anything can do--for you--at any
time"
1t was after Sidney had crept like a
broken thing to her room that Carlotta
Harrison and X. came face 10 face.
johnny was quite conscious by that
time, Il little blue around the lips, but
%vallantly cheerful.
More things can happen to n fellow
than | ever knew there vast" he said
to his mother, and submitted rather
Slleepishly to her tears and caresses.
"lou were always a good boy, John
ny she said. '',Just you get we'll
enough TO come home. Ill take care
of you the rest of MY life. We will get
YOU a Wheel-chair when you car be
about, and l IL take you out In the
park when / onl from work"
an be passenger and you'll be
chauffeur, ma"
"Mr. lie Moyne is going to get your
father sent up again. With sixty-tive
cents a day and what ! make, we'll get
along"
You bet we VIII! !"
ooh, Johnny, If l could see you com
ing in the door again and yelling
mother and supper in one breath "
The meeting between Carlotta and
lie Moyne was very quiet. She had
beeu making n sort of subconscious i'm.
preston on the retina Of his mind dur
ing all the night. 1t would be difficult
to tell whcf, he actually knew her.
When the preparations for moving
Johnny back to the big ward had been
made, the other nurses left the room
and Carlotta and the boy were to,
gcther. X. stopped her on her way
TO the door.
Miss Harrison! !"
Eyes, Doctor E%dwardes."
II am not Doctor Edwardes here
my name is lie Moyne."
"Ah"
II have not seer you since you left
st. Johns"
mo; IL rested for a few months"
Il suppose they do not know that
you were--that you have had any pre-.
vious hospital experience"
mo. Are you going to tell them?'
Il shall not tell them, Of course"
And thus, by simple mutual consent,
1t was arranged that each should re.
spect the others confidence.
Carlotta staggered to her room,
There had been q time. just before
dawn, when she had had one Of those
swift revelations that sometimes come
at the end Of q long night. She had
seen herself as she was. The boy was
very low, hardly breathing. Her past
stretched before her, n series of small
revenges and passionate outbursts
swift Weddings, slow remorsc. She
dared not look ahead. She would have
given every hope she had In the world
just then, for Sidney's stainless past.
She hated herself with that dcadli
est loathlng that comes with complete
s~clf.revelation.
And she carried to her room tn,
knowledge that tho nights struggl,
had been In vain-that. although John
ny Resented would live, she hat
gained nothing by what he Ind suf
fered. The whole night had show,
her the ho~relcssness Of any stratngen
TO win Wilson from his new allegiance
She had surprised him In the hallway
watching Sldney's slender figure as sh,