Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1917-05-10

what was on the tray" she finished
piteousIy. 81 looked at the label; / al
ways look"
BY a shifting of the group around
the bed, KS eyes looked for a moment
directly into Carlotta's. Just for mo-
ment then the crowd closed up again.
1t was well for Carlotta that ii did.
She looked as If she had seen a ghost
closed her eyes, even reeled.
Miss Harrison is worn out" Doctor
Wilson said brusquely. "Get some
one to take her place."
But Carlotta rallied. After all, the
presence of this man in this room at
such time meant nothing. He was
Sidney's friend, that was all.
But her nerve was shaken. The thing
had gone beyond her. She had not
ened condition that was turning her
revenge into tragedy.
II am all right" she pleaded across
the bed to the Head. Let me stay,
please. He's from my ward. IL am
responsible"
Wilson was at his wits end. He
had done everything he knew without
result. The boy, rousing for an instant,
would lapse again into stupor. With
healthy man they could have tried
more vigorous measures-could have
forced him to his feet and walked him
about, could have beaten him with
knotted towels dipped in ice water.
But the wrecked body on the bed could
stand no such heroic treatment.
1t was LIE Moyne, after all, who saved
Johnny Rosenfeld's life. For, when
staff and nurses had exhausted all
their resources, he stepped forward
with quiet word that brought the in
ternes to their feet astonished.
There was a new treatment for such
cases-it had been tried abroad. He
looked at Max.
Max had never heard of 1t. He
threw out his hands.
"Try it, for heavens sake" he said.
'Tm all in"
The apparatus was not in the house
must be extemporized, indeed, at
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ing room. K. did the work, his long
fingers deft and skillful-while Mrs.
Rosenfeld knelt by the bed with her
face buried while Sidney sat, dazed
and bewildered, on her little chair in
side the door; white night nurses tip
toed 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 Rosenfeld opened his
eyes and spoke the first words that
marked his return from the dark val
ley.
Gee, this is the lifer' he said, and
smiled into KS watchful face.
When it was clear that the boy
side and went over to Sidney's chair.
"Hes all right now," he said-"as
all right as he can be, poor lad!"
"You did it-you! How strange that
you should know such a thing. How
am I to thank your"
The internes, talking among them
selves, had wandered down to the din
ing room for early coffee. Wilson was
giving few last instructions as to the
boys care. Quite Unexpectedly, Sid
ney 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
broken thing to her room that Carlotta
Harrison and X. came face to face.
Johnny was quite conscious by that
time, a little blue around the lips, but
valiantly cheerful.
More things can happen to fellow
than I ever knew there was p he said
to his mother, and submitted rather
sheepishly to her tears and caresses.
"You were always a good boy, John
ny" she said. "Just you get well
enough To come uOIue. IL Jake care
of you the rest of my life. We will get
you wheel-chair when you can be
about, and can take you out in the
park when I come from work."
'I'll be passenger and you'll be
chauffeur, ma"
"Mr. LIE Moyne is going to get your
father sent up again. With sixty-fve
cents day and what make, We'll get
along"
"You bet we will p
"Oh, Johnny, if 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
been making sort of subconscious i'm
preston on the retina of his mind dur
ing all the night. 1t would be difficult
to tell when he actually knew her.
When the preparations for moving
Johnny back to the big ward had been
made, the other nurses left the room,