The Yale expositor., 1917-07-12

Copyright, 1917 by Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate)

a strongly assertive air. CHANGING down
at Helen with a patronlzing smile, she
gave her entire attention TO the doctor
They had stepped into the next room,
and again that maddening low-voiced
humble.
"rll be back about noon," In slight
ly louder tone. "Have those prescrip-
lions filed soon as the drug store
opens. / want her to have the first
dose at eight"
The doctor gone, Warren again took
up his post by the bed.
as 1t appendicitis2 Helen chung to
his hand with feverish intensity. "Win
there have to be an operation? Oh.
tell me what he said
HE thinks you'll be all right-if you
keep perfectly quiet. Now I'm going
out for those prescriptions" glancing
at his watch.
"Oh, must you go7" clinging to him.
"Can't you send messenger"
mo, we want some other things-a
couple Of ice bags and absorbent cot
ton. won't be long-the nurse is
right here"
With an unreasoning depression,
Helen heard the door close after him.
"The first thing We'll have some air
In here" announced the nurse with dis
concerning briskness, as she threw up
the shades and opened both the win
dows.
"Oh, leave the shades down." pro-
tested Helen weakly. "They can see
right in"
mot with this out" switching off the
light by the bed
But Helen shrank from the cheerless
morning light. She wanted the becom-
ing glow of the rose lamp by the bed.
She resented the intimation that the
room was not we'll aired, for both WIN
dows were down from the top.
"No-no, you can't turn on your
side You must keep that ice in place.
That towels wet-where will find the
clean towelsT
"In the hall closet-the third shelf
from the bottom" murmured Helen,
with a growing antagonism for this
nurses assertive personality.
ooh, a cat How it frightened me?
Oh, no, you can't have her on the bed
cats are most insanitary." And with
firm authority, unheeding Helen's pro-
test, she drove Pussy Purr-Mew from
the room.
It was trivial thing, but 1t con-
tributed TO Helen's increasing aversion.
Her drug-distorted thoughts were in
famed with animosity. There was also
a childish desire to have her own way,
to be humored and INDUCED, desire
always paramount when she was i'll.
With tremulous relief she welcomed
the slamming door and Warren's quick
step in the hall.
"More pain?" Giving the packages to
the nurse, he stopped over her.
Helen shook her head. Then as Miss
Saunders disappeared into the bath
room she whispered q quivering:
"Oh, don't like her can't bear
her! If 1 must have a nurse don't
want her."
snow none of that" with note Of
sternness. "You mustn't get any OF
your foolish prejudices."
81 can't help it-she antagonized me
the moment she came into the ROOM"
and with sick, childish resentment
Helen sobbed out the incident Of the
shades.
"That's easy" Warren rose, pulled
down the shades and turned on the
light by the bed. "Better?" Then as
the nurse came in. "Mrs. Curtis prefers
the shades down."
Miss Saunders, bending over, adjust
ed the ice bags without comment, but
Helen saw the obstinate set of her
mouth. When she again left the room,
Warren, pushing up the lace sleeve Of
Helen's gown, rubbed her soft white
inner arm with an anxious:
"Now, Kitten, you're not going to be
difficult, are you? Your jobs to lie
quiet and get well. Never mind about
the nurse. You don't have to like her
but don't give way to any foolish
prejudices. That1l make II hard for
everybody"
"Oh. you know don't want to make
IL hard-Dut can't help
Eyes, you can," as he stopped to kiss
her. "Now don't talk-doctor wants
you to sleep. That pillow too high?"
To be looked after and waited on by
Warren was a sensation deliciously
new. The very warmth and security Of
his hand on her arm held a magnetic
soothing. Her attitude toward the
nurse seemed suddenly small and
childish.
"oh, dear, I'll not even think of the
nurse''
That's the stuff" as he smoothed
her hair. you're not to worry about
Just remember-rm right
here on the job"