The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1919-04-24
Propinquity's
Part
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~ DOROTHY DOUGLAS
pyright. isls. BY Mcci,rs Newspaper
syndicate


. 4 shalt wait for you--always." she
i II u played about hnppy lips.
r "But--of course you viii. xiri
}, | You're fhnt kind Ut stun, And IN
y aom- back 70 you with chest full Of
2 medals nDd arlis fun Of love- Her
= head dropped on his KHAKI shoulder for
!. moment While she utmost gave way
4 .Good.by.' she whispered and pushed
: him from her.
& He held her for one more moment.
: "Good-by my girl he said swallow
! Ing the lump that almost ehoked him.
!. Then hr took his cap and strobe down
The garden path. closed the gate be-
8 hind him and WAS lost 10 her among
/. The shadows ~ The trees.
7 June twisted her handkerchief ~ \
: hard knot. biz her lips and Kept her
. eyes glued 10 the opening In the trees
where she had last seen him. Then.
slowly. she lei the tears how down her
! checks. threw herself iRfo the ham
mock aud sobbed.
. Capt Teddy Blake MAS soon back
: In his quarters With The knowledge In
his own heart that this WAS the last
time he should see June for many n
,Iny, That he would sail on the fol-
lowing dny or The next at The latest
he was sure, II seemed very hard To
Leave June; they had been W happy:
she WAS wonderfully lovely. But-he
would come back aud claim her some |
duy. Tint she would not wall tor |
HIN. TINT he could forget--those were |
| impossible suggestions.
| June answered the call Of the Red
| Cross for nurses. She Eel, In her first /
| detection and loneliness as II she must
| do something Ia help hasten the end of l
| The war that hnb separated Teddy from
her, She WAS accepted and went Into
n hospital for training almost at once.
She became absorbed In the work. met
many new and interesting persons nDd
soon found herself quite cheerful
agnln. AZ night when she wrote her
letter To Captain Teddy she told him
~ her work, OF the new fnces, Of her
ambition 10 get "oyer there" and help,
and perhaps take care ~ him. Bur
she did not weep. rather she grew
more ana more proud Of having sent
her captain OF 20 hravely. and CON
graduated herself for her own cheer
fnlness.
'Yon're going to make . wonderful
nurse, Miss Prince" one Of the doc.
tors told her after she had helped him I
In some surgical dressing.
''oh am n she exclaimed. II love
the work"
Doctor buchanan watched the Won
derful eolor Hood her face ut the com =
he hid paid her n, was thlr. !
ty.fyr and had been ~ absorbed In his
profession that h. had never taken y
time To get married n
June worked more enrpestIv than Il
ever after that word Of prpIse from v
so clever u surgeon n. Doctoy I'm. y
Also size now had The teiner.
ny to Smile al him when she passed
him in The corridors or he CHANGED n
inpon her in the wards. Heretofore n
.he had never noticed any of the doc i,
Tors some one having told her II was .,
better to attend strictly To the profess d
'lonal side OF the work and not permit Il
herself To know the doctors socially. p,
Captain Teddy's letters were filed h,
With interesting stories az ,sunts her.
ind there. when he Ind Tim. IA him. =,
elf lie spoke more than once of ths h,
.iaerity with which he w. nIckiny nm AZ
he French language. A presty FRENCH n,
irl Jeanne ti., Naeyer. whon, h. ha,l ~
net MT a canteen. w.a giving hin, ie.. h,
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