New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-01-12
CHAPTER VIH-Continued.

"Yes."
"Wcll, this is the question: She's
getting better. She'll be going out
soon. Don't you think something
ought to be done to keep her from
going back"
There was n shadow in KS eyes
now. She was so young to face all
this; and yet, since face it she must,
how much better to have her do it
squarely.
Does she want to change her mode
of lifeY"
IL don't know, of course. There are
some things one doesn't discuss. She
cares II great deal for some man. The
other day | prOpped her up in bed and
gave her a newspaper, and after n
while | found the paper on the floor,
and she was crying. The other pa
tients avoid her, and it was some time
before | noticed It,. The next day she
told me that the man was going to
marry someone else. lie wouldn't
marry me, of course she said; but
he might have told me-"
lie Moyne did his best, that after
noon in the little parlor, to provide
Sidney with Il philosophy to carry her
through her training. lie told her that
certain responsibilities were hers, but
that she could not reform the world.
Broad charity, tenderness and healing
We're her province.
Help them all you can" he finished.
feeling inadequate and hopelessly d.
dactic. Cure them; send them out
with "A smile; and-leave the rest to
the Almighty"
Sidney was resigned, but not con
tent. Newly facing the evil of the
world, she was IA rampant reformsr at
once. Only the arrival of Christine
and her fiapce saved his philosophy
from complete rOut. He had time for
a question between the ring of the
bell and Katie's deliberate progress
from the kitchen to the front door.
"How about the surgeon, young Will |
son Do you ever see him?" His tone |
was carefully casual.
almost every day. He stops at the
door of the ward and speaks to me. |
1t makes me quite distinguished, for a
probationer. Usually, you know, the
staff never even see the probationers."
"And-the glamour persists?" lie
smiled down at her.
81 think he is very wonderful" said
Sidney valiantly.
Christine Lorcnz, while not large,
seemed to fill the little room. Her
voice, which was frequent and pene-
trating. her smile, which was wide and
showed very white teeth that were a
triile large for beauty, her all-embrac-
ing good nature, dominated the entire
lower floor. H., who had met her be-
fore, retired into silence and a corner.
Young Howe smoked a cigarette in
the hall.
"You poor thing" said Christine,
and put her cheek against Sidney's.
'Why, you're positively thin, Palmer
gives you a month to tire of 1t all;
but | said"
81 take that back" Palmer spoke in
dolently from the corridor. There is
look Of willing martyrdom in her
Howe was a g~ood-looking man, thin,
smooth-shaven, aggressiyely well
dressed. This Sunday afternoon. in
a cutaway coat and high hat. with an
malacca stick. he was Just a
little out of the picture. The Street
said he was wild" and that to get (
INTO the Country club set Christine /:
was losing more than she was gaining. I
Christine had stepped out on the bal I
'ony, and was speaking to X. just in l
,ide. n
Its rather a queer way to live, Of ,
che said. But Palmer is a pau '
,er, practically. We are going to take |
,ur meals at home for a while. You see,
things that we want we can't r
ave If we take a house-a car, for in 4
ftance. Well need one for running :
tut to the Country club to dinner. d
Ind we're getting the Rosenfeld boy S
o drive it, He's crazy about machin- b
ry. and he'll come for practically 10th
ng." n
X. had never known a married ii
to take two rooms and go to
he brides mothers for meals in order I
n keep a car. He looked family L