New Britain herald., 1917-04-25
What the Delirium of the Nigh
 Brought to Madgc.

Brought to Madgc.
 When I finally awoke after my night of dreaming horror it was broad daylight. Dicky was nowhere to be seen, but Lillian sat in low rocking chair by my side watching me. :, As she saw my eyes open she rose quickly and came to my side. f.
 T was beginning to think you were one of the original seven,' she said cheerily. You certainly have been making up for the sleep you lost last night. Do you know it is high noon Your physician called, but when he saw you he said under no circum- stances to disturb you, SO i've been on guard like a watchdog ever since. Now let me take your temperature. If you have none you may have some- thing good to eat.''
 She. took her tiny clinical ther- mometer from its case, shook 1t down, dipped it into a solution standing in a glass on the table, wiped it with a bit of gauge and popped 1t into my mouth.
 "Dicky?" I queried in spite of it.
 She shook her head reprovingly.
 "Close your lips on that and don't speak again until I take it out,'' she said firmly. "Dicky is all right. He held you for nearly two hours last night, fearing you might awaken if he 1oosened his clasp of your hand. When you finally relaxed and dropped your hand away from his I sent him to bed. But he didn't stay there very long. He has gone into the city, but he left a message for you that he would be out on an early train"
 I closed my eyes, and the weak tears stole down my checks. All the terrors of the night just past swept over me in unreasoning array. I felt that I could not be sure that Dicky was really with me instead of being with Grace Draper as my dream had pictured unless I saw him beside me.
 Did Dicl<y Forget? /
 See here this will never do," Lillian said sternly, taking the ther- mometer from my mouth and wiping my eyes. You have no tempera- ture, but you soon will have one if you keep this up Now tell me what you want to eat and forget the water works for awhile"
 Her brusque words were just the tonic I needed. But could not forbear voicing my fears to her.
 1T had such terrible dream" I said apologetically, in which Grace Draper and Dicky went off together. 1t was so vivid that the horror of it is still with me-
 "Grace Drapers" she calculated, staring at me. Why! whatever put her into your head just now?"
 She broke off abruptly. I picked up her words.
 Why just now?" I asked.
 No reason, she answered quickly ''It seemed so queer for her to have come into your thoughts after she has been out of our lives so many weeks. But dreams are queer things, and to take any notice of them is the most futile of proceedings. I am as- tonished at you. Madgee!"
 She smiled merrily at me. but she did not fool me- I saw that she had gently, and that I had startled her with my mention of the girl. I knew, however, that she would tell me nothing more, so I repressed my anxious curiosity and tried hard to put all morbid doubts out of my mind But I brooded all the rest of the day over the thing when was not f1inching under the pain of the dressing of my burns. I could not see why it had been necessary for Dicky to go into the city. I knew 1 that his work was not so pressing l as to make it necessary for him to 1 leave me after such a marrow cs- cape as I had had
 I was diverted for a little in the l afternoon by the arrival of huge l clusters of roses and carnations bear | ing the cards of Robert Gordcn, l Harry Underwood and Alfred Durkee, l our guests at the dinner just before l I had been burned.
 They've bought out the local florist, evidently" Lillian said, when she was trying to make a place for l them all.
 The flowers and the thoughts for me that they evidenced pleased me greatly, so when Dicky came back and up to my room with not a single blossom in his hand for me I felt ill used.
 Better. swaGtheart?' he asked