Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1917-02-15

maids" he said i~rrclevantly. "She was
l0veiier than the BRIDE"
'Pretty. but stupid" said Carlotta.
II like her. I've really tried to teach
her things. but-you know" She
shrugged her shoulders.
Doctor Max was learning wisdom.
II there was q twinkle In his eye, he
yelled 1t ~discreetly. But. once again
in the machine. he bent over and put
his cheek against hers.
"You little cat! You're jealous" he
said eXultantly.
Nevertheless. although he might
smile. the image Of Sidney lay very
close to his heart those autumn days.
And Carlotta knew 1t.
Sidney came off night duty the mid
die of November. The night duty had
been a time Of comparative peace to
Cariottn. There we're no evenings
when Doctor Max could bring Sidney
back to the hospital in his car.
Sidney's half-days ut home were &C.
casions for agonies Of jealousy on Car
iotta's part. On such an occasion. e
month after the wedding. she could not
contain herself. She pleaded her old
excus of headache, and took the troll.
ley to a point near the end of the
Street. After twilight fell. she slowly
walked the length OF the Street. Chris.
tine and Palmer had not returned
from their wedding journey. The No
vember evening was not cold. Sidney
was not In sight, or Wilson. But
standing on the wooden doorstep OF
the house was LIE Moyne. The allan.
thus. trees were bare at that time,
throwing gaunt arms upward to the
November sky. The street lamp.
which in the summe left the doorstep
in the shadow. now shone through the
branches and threw into strong relief
lie Moyne'S tall figure and set face.
Carlotta saw him too late to retreat.
But he did not see her. She went. on,
startled, her busy brain scheming
anew. Another element had entered
into her plotting. 1t was the first time
she had known that X. lived in the
Page house. 1t gave her Il sense Of
uncertainty and deadly fear.
She made her first friendly over
ture of many days to Sidney the fol.
lowing day. They met in the locker
room in the basement where the street
clothing for the ward patients was
kept. Here. rolled in bundles and
ticEcted, side by side lay the hetero-
geneous garments in which the pa
tients had met accident or illness.
Rags and tidiness, filth and cleanli-
ness. lay almost touching.
Far away on the other side of the
whitewashed basement, men were I'M
loading cleaning cans of milk. Floods
of sunlight came down the cellarway,
touching their white coats and turn
ing the cans to silver. Everywhere
was the religion Of the hospital. which
Is order.
Sidney, barking back from recent
sights to the staircase conversations
of her night duty, smiled ut Carlotta
c%heerfully.
"a miracle Is happening" she said.
"Grace Irving Is going out today.
When one remembers how Ill she was
and how we thought She could not live.
Its rather a triumph. Isn't III"
"Are those her clothesT
Sidney examined with some dismay
the elaborate negligee garments in her
hand.
"She can't 60 out in those; 1 shall
have to lend her something" A little
Of the light died out Of her face. "She's
had a hard eight, and she has won,"
she said, but when l think Of what
she's probably going back to-"
Carlotta shrugged her shoulders.
TITS all in the days work." she oh.
served indltferently. "You can take
them up into the kitchen and give
them steady work pairing potatoes. or
put them in the laundry ironing. In
the end It's the same thing. They all
so back"
She turned, on her way out Of the
locker room. and shot q quick glance
ut Sidney.
II happened to be on your street the
other night" she said. "You live
across the street from Wilson's, don't
you"
"Yes."
II thought 50; I had heard you speak
Of the house. Your-your brother was
standing on tho steps"
Sidney laughed.
II have no brother. That's a room.
er. a Mr. LIE Moyne. It isn't really
right to call him q roomer; he's one
Of the family now"
lie Moynew
He had eve taken another name
II Ind hit him hard, for sure.
KS name had struck nm always re.
sponsive chord In Sidney. The two
girls went toward the elevator to.
gether. With a very little encourage.
ment, Sidney talked Of X. She wns
pleased at Miss Harrison's friendl,
tone. glad that things were all right
between them ugain. At her floor she
put d timld hand on tho girls arm.
Il was afraid l had offended you o,
d~ispleased you," she said. I'm *
glnd II isn't no."
Carlotta shIvcred under her hand.
Things were not going any too well
with X. True, be had received BIZ
promotion ct the ONCE, and with thia
present influence Of e22 q week he VA
able to DO several things. Mrs. Rosen.
field now washed and ironed one day q
week at the little house, No that Katie
might have more time to look nftes