The Washington times., 1921-04-03

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fore Nurse Elsie was half way
down the veranda. She flung her
self on her knees beside It.
"Oh, Dinah, my very dear" she
said In her cooling voice. II am 30
glad; they are going to take you
out of this hot house up to the
lovely hospital on the top of the
hill. where you will have such good
care"
Dinah burst into tears, sat up-in
her bed and declared her intention
Of running away. She made q leap
right out OF bed and began bumb-
ling with hands that shoop pitt
fully for her clothes. Nurse
Elsie who had been Intellectually
trying to interrupt Malera's speech
now took action.
"Here, don't mind her." she said
In the clear. deliberate tone used
SO effectively by the practised
nurse. You're not going any
where. Get back into bed and havo
your beef tea. You're going to
stay here. in this house. Come on.
get back"
"Oh, am so sorry," grieved
Maiera, cooingly. We we're all out
on the veranda again. 81 was so
anxious to get her to go. ! meant
it all for the best"
"Hmp!" commented Nurse Elsie.
'In my experience nine-tenths Of
the mischief that's done in the
world goes under that label.
hope when I die that they'll put
on my tombstone, She never meant
anything for the best"
~ have brought some more Of
those good lines of LaluaA for
her." said Maiera. meekly accept
ing the reproof.
Thanks. She fancies them, and
they take down the fever little."
said the nurse.
Let me cool them. like before?"
asked Maiera 1T is such a pity
there is no ice. See, you must use
very, very sharp knife like mine"
(she pulled razor-edged sheath
knife from her dress) land you
must cut the lime in two with a
quick sweep, so that the oil shall
not come out too much from the
skin: II is too harsh, that oil. II
burns the lip. Then, like this, you
put 1t In the wind. but no sun, for
ten, minutes, and It is cold"
She set the plate of lines on the
flat-topped rail Of the veranda.
They were certainly magnificent
fruits; round, smooth-skinned and
as large as tennis-balis. Maiera
shifted the cut halves SO that tha
wind should blow over them.
"Give her to drink" she said, and
fioated away down the steps, out
through the garden.
Looking back upon that week,
across the seas and across the
years, It seems to me the most
actual, vivid part of my life. can
hardly realize that at the time It
all seemed to me like a dream.
Yet this was so.
Harry England was away. He
had called once. after his formal
call on Lorraine, to tell me that
important business took him from
Hawonga but that he would be
back the day before that fixed for
the wedding.
He stayed a little while for n
chat. I was more and more aston
ished by the difference between his
behavior to me, and that of Luke.
Luke, in the little time that had
been ours together, had seemed
especially anxious to mark his pro
prietorshfp Of me.
Harry England, on the afternoon
when he came to say goodbye. was
tactfully left with me by Lorraine.
We were on the little side veranda,
I remember.
He handed me comfortable
chair and took for himself the only
straight one on the veranda, in
which he sat upright. as he always
did, one foot little back. one hand
leaning on his knee, the other drop
ped at his side. It Is a graceful
attitude. hut / do not think he knew
II to be so., except as he knew, in
general. his own physical perfec. /
tion. He sat thus, looking at me
oftener and longer than I could
have wished, talking scarcely at all.
and not moving. drrifs--4Ae first
half-hour o. his stay, from the posi-
tion he had taken up.
IA homely phrase his immobility
"got on my nerves" at last; had
never seen any human being keep
so still. His dark, long eyes, full
Of things uncomprehended, incom-
prehensible, seemed the only live
things about him.
do you want me to be livelyf"
asked England, with the ghost Of
smile about his lips, and those
dynamos in his eyes beginning to
sparkle more than ever.