Arizona republican., 1918-09-11
Eighteenth lnstaIlment (Chapter V Continuedl

NCnapter ContinueoD Still the love affairs of the French did bother us. Henry did not mind them so much: but to me they seemed as unreasonable and improbable as the ocean and the onion soup seemed to Henry. Every man has his aversion, and the French idea of separating love from marriage, and establishing it beautifully in another relation, is my aversion and it will have to stand Henry was patient with me, but we were both genuinely glad when a day or two later we came back to the sprightly little American love affair that we had chaperoned on the E.s- pagne crossing the ocean. That love affair we could understand. It had been following us with the feline te- nacity all over France. When we left the Eager Soul with the Gilded Youth in the hospital at-we'll say Landre- court, because that is not the place We thought our love affair was gone forever. The letter she gave us to de- liver to the Young Doctor we had to trust to other hands; for he was not at the American hospital where he should have been. He had gone to the British front Tor weeks experimental work in something with four syllables and a Latin name at that. But the cat came back one day, when we visiting hos pital four hours out of Paris.
 The Young Doctors Trail
 The place had that curious French quality of charm about it, which we Americans do not manage to put into our places and palaces" Down a winding village street-a kind of low walled stone canyon, narrow and grey. but frightened with uniforms like the | ntc of a1, days-we Wormed our machine and stopped at an important looking build ing-an official looking building. It was not official we learned-just a chateau. A driveway ran under it. That got us. For when road leads into d house in America, it means a '~il or a courthouse, or a hotel. or a steel magnate's home or a department store But when we scooted under the house we came into a wide white courtyard, gravel paved. We left the machine and went from the courtyard into T garden-the loveliest old walled garden imaginable. At the corners of the gar den were fine old trees-tall, spike shaped evergreens of some variety. anu in the midst of it was a weeping ycW tree and a fountain. Around the walls were shrubs and splashed about the SO geous dabs of color. phlox and asters, and dahlias and holy-hock and flow CTS of various gay sorts. And back of the garden. down a shaded path. lay the hOspital-a new modern barracks of hospital in a field sheltered from the street by all that grandeur and all that beauty. The hospital was made of rough, brown stained boards; it was one story high. built architecturalIy like tannery. and camouflaged IS to the roof to represent green fields and running brooks" Board floors ana board partitions under the roof were covered as we'll as they could be; and stoves furnished the heat
 Acres of Hospital Beds
 The beds-acres and acres of iron beds-were assembled in the great wards and stretched far down the long rooms like white ranks of skeletoned ghosts. The place was American-new eXcruciatingly clean and was run like a factory. We were proud of it, anG ot the business-like young medical stu dents who as orderlieS and bookkeap- CTS and helpers went about in theii brand new uniforms-young crow! princes of democracy, twice as hand some and three times as dignified d: they would have been if they had roya blood. Henry called them the heirs ap parent of all the ages" and enjoyed them greatly. They certainly gave tn, place a tone, converting a sprawiinf ugly pile of brown boards into king palace. When we had finished our CT rands at the hospital and were return ing through the garden, we met ou young doctor. He was sitting on ;l old stone bench. among the asters ant dahlias-wounded. It was not ser ious wound from an ordinary man standpoint; but from the Young Doc tors it was grave indeed. For it Va bullet wound through his hand. H thought it would not affect the muscle permanently-bu no one could know Then he sat there in the mediaeva garden among the flowers under tn yew trees and told us how it hap pened; took us out to the first aid pos again. and on out to the first lin trenches, and over them into No Man Land, stumbling over the dead, hel~ m the stretcher bearers with the wounded In time he came to a wounded Germa "a Prussian officer with shell-wouu in his leg.
 A Matter of Fact Story
 He told us what happened, imperson ally. as one who is listening to anotl
 
 gave him something like a first aid { stop the bleeding" the young Doctc paused, picked ravelling from h bandage and went on. still detache from the narrative. Then I put III arm around him. to help him back { the ambulance" Again he hesitate and said quietly, That was half mi back and the shells were still poppi,l more or less-around us." He locke for appreciation of the situation. J got it, smiled and went on without Tiff ing his voice. Then he did it.",
 Not that fellow?" exclaimed Henr
 Well, how?" from me-
 "Thats the How of It"
 "Oh. don't know. He just did # droned the Young Doctor. We wai talking along; and then 1le seemed quit talking. I looked up. The pist was at my head; l knocked it away he fired. It got my hand" He stopoe began poking the. gravel with his to and smiled again as one who has heal an old story and wants to be polite I Henry and me, it was unbelievable. W sat down on the hoary. moss cover, curb of the ancient fountain regarde of our spanking new uniforms al cried Well my Heavenly home" nodded, drew deep breath and sai That's the how of it.
 Well, what do you know about -
 Then Henry checked me with. "Yc weren't expecting it? Did he make warning sign?"
 Not a peep-not a chirrup." an wered the Doctor still diffidentl Then he added. as one reflecting ov an incident in a rather remote pas Tt was odd. wasn't it. You wou tv,1- ANk