Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-03

mon help.
1t seemed to him that never since the
world began could any night have been
as long as was this night.
Every second was torment. every
minute was an agony, every hour an
eternity of dread and suffering.
But this is written and changes not.
that all things come to their appointed
end, and so at last, at last, he heard at
about half past six approaching foot
steps. They were those of boy com :
ing with the milk, and Keith hurried
at once to meet him and told him there
was some one i'll in the house. giving
him also note and asking him to hurry
with 1t to the nearest doctor at his ut
most speed.
The boy seemed intelligent and tc
understand and went off at a trot, and
Keith returned to the house to wait
with what patience he might. But he
had three hours more of eternity to en-
dure before at last he heard the glad
sound of an approaching motor con
tanning a doctor and the nurse, for
whom he had also asked in his note.
hp uV'tOi was u plueTlV mar
who seemed very Mortified to think his
patient had been left so long without
attention, and by no means inclined to
listen to or accept Keiths explanation
that he had not thought it safe to leave
her
mot safe to leave her in that state.
you mean" he said severely. How
did it happen-a fall?"
Keith told his story briefly. saying
that apparently she had been attacked.
though by whom he could not say, and
the doctor seemed good deal puzzled
and slightly incredulous.
II don't see who could attack her
there" he said. 'It can't have been
poachers, for there is nothing in that
wood to poach, and tramps and so on
give it a wide berth. Don't you think
it may have been an accidental fall from
her bicycle?"
Keith said he was sure not. but the
doctor appeared inclined to keep his
own opinion
''There is no sign of any violence ex
cept for the blow on the head" he said,
'and that seems very like the result of
a fall. Still, I suppose you had better
inform the police. Mr.-er-?"
Wentworth. said Keith after a
moments pause, thinking. perhaps it
might avoid complications if he adopted
the name which seemed to be that of
the rightful tenant of the house.
"And--?' continued the doctor.
glancing at his patient and at her left
hand on which there was no rig.
"On-er-my sister," said Keith
hurriedly. realizing that she had to be
accounted for, and not knowing what
else to say.
The doctor did not make any remark.
though he did not look too satisfied. He
and the nurse conveyed Keith's newly
adopted relative to the room upstairs
and put her to bed there, and after Il
time the doctor came down again, leav-
ing the nurse in charge. He still seemed
a good deal upset that his patient had
been left so long without attention. and
was evidently inclined to regard Keith
with some suspicion. To Keith's re-
lief. however. he did not appear to
think her condition very serious.
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