The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-01-24

watched her husband as n rho never
had seen him before. Presently lights
blazed from collar 10 attic. maids flew
Ia every direction. nres were lighted.
the moving Of heavy furniture shoot.
I the floors. Derry. the little uncou.
Hcioua cause 81 II nli lay quiet. with
Mary watching him.
New York had been aSloep. Il was
awakened now. Motor cars wheeled
into tho GrcRorya street. Mr.. Greg
lory herself answered the door Here
was the nurse. efficient. yet s,mpa.
thctic. too. with her paraphernaiia
ana her nHuHtauta Yes. she had been
able 90 got g. Dr Gregory. Yes.
Doctor. she had that Here Was the
man from the drug store that WAS
all right. Doctor. that was what he
expected. being walked up IN the
night. thank you. Doctor. And here
was George Valentine. too much alb
sorhcd In the business In hand 20 say
more than an anectionate Hello
10 Rachael. Eut with George was
| Alice. white faced but smiling, and
! little sleepy Jimmie. who was 10 he
smuRgled Immediately into bed.
Il thought you'd rather have him
\ here said Alice
/ Rachael knew why. Rachael knew
I what doctors said 10 each other,
when they gathered. and used those
quick low monosy llables. She knew
wiz Miss BEDDING WIS speeding the
arrangements for the lmprOyised op
Grating room with such desperate
hurry She knew why one Of these
assisting doctors was delegated 10 do
nothing. but slt beside Derry watch.
/ ing the little hurt breast rise and
fall. watching the bubble Of blood
form and break on the swollen
mouth.
Warren had told her 10 get into
I dry clothing. and then TO take a slim
uiant. and have something 20 eat.
{ And eager 20 save him what she
could. she was warm and dry now
/ She sat in Dcrrys room. and pres
entity. when they came 10 stand be-
side him. Warren and George. they
found her agonized eyes. bright with
Questions. facing them. But she knew
better than 20 speak.
Neither man spoke for few dread
1 fui moments. Warren looked at the
child without a flicker Of change In
. his impressive look. George bit his lip
and almos, inpcrcepubly shook his
head. And in their faces Rachael
read the death Of her last faint hope
we don't dare anesthetizc him un.
{ al We know just the he Of those
| broken ribs" said Warren graveiy
20 his wife. "and yet the little chap
~ so exhausted that the strain Of
trying 10 touch II mny--may be too
much for him. There's no time for
an xray. Some Of Those Fellows
think IL Is too great n risk be
/ iievc Il may be done. II there are
/ Internal injuries, we can't hope to"
/ He paused. "But otherwise, be
I llcve--"
Again his voice dropped lie stood
! looking az the little boy with eyes
that were not n surgeons now: all a
I fathers.
Good little chap he said softly.
I DO you remember how he used 10
watch jim. thru the bars OF his crib
when he was about eight months old.
and laugh as " Jim was the funniest
Z thing in the worid?''
Rachael looked up and nodded with
trimming eyes. She could not speak
They carried Derry away. and Ra-
chael followed them up 10 the head
Of the stairway outside OF the oper-
ating room. and sat there. her hands
locked in her lap. her head resting
against the wall. Alice dared not
I Join her, she kept her seat by the
Z library fire. and with ono hand
pressed tight against her eyes. tried
20 pray
Rachael did not pray. She was IN
able even to think clearly. Visions
drifted thru her tired brain. the pan
Drama Of the long day and night
swept by increasingly. She was in
I Eighth ave. again, she was in the
hot train, with the rain beating
against the windows. and tears run
ming down her hot cheeks. She was
entering the Where's my
boy2" And then she was driving the
car thru that cruel world OF water
and wind She would have saved him
II she could She had done her share.
Instantly. unilinchingly. she had
torn thru blackncss and storm; a hat
tered ship beating somehow toward
the familiar harbor Now he must
be saved. Rachael knew that mad !
ness would come upon her II these I
hidcous hours were only working
toward the moment when she would 1
know that she had been too late. For
the rest OF her life she would only |
review them: The har. the wet roads. 4
the detour. and the frightful seconds I
on the bridge. There had been some. I
thing expiatory. something symbolic I.
in this mad adventure. this flight I
thru the night The fires that
had been burning in heart for the I
past terrible hours were purged. she 4
must he changed forevermore after /
tonight. But for the new birth. .
Derry must not be the pricel The I
strain had been too great. the deli. 1
cate machinery OF her brain would /
give. she could not take up life |
again. having lost him--and lost him |
i'm this way
They were torturing him: the |
child's cry of utter agony reached her |
whore she sat. II came TO her, In a 1
fash, that Warren had said there |
might be no morciful chloroform /
Cold water broke out on her fore. |
head. she covered her ears with her |
hands. her breath coming wild and |
deep. Derry
"Oh. no-Daddy, oh. no, Daddy, /
oh, Mother Mother"
"Oh. my God this is not rightr' I
Rachael said half aloud. "Oh. take |
him. take him, but don't let him SUI.
fer SOL
She was writing as IL the suffer.