Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-12-01
CHAPTER xV.-cnntinued

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CHAPTER XV.-Continued.
1t was a bumpy cold way to the
Morgenroth farm, and she was asleep
when they arrived.
Here was no glaring new house with
= proud photograph, but a low white
washed kitchen smelling of cream and
cabbage. Ajolph Morgenroth was ly-
ing on a couch in the rarely used din
ing-room. His heavy work-scarred
wife was shaking her hands in anx-
iety.
Carol felt that Kennicott would do
something magnificent and startling.
But he was casual. He greeted the
man, We'll, well, Adolph. have to fix
you up, eh?" Quietly, to the wife,
Hat die drug store my schwartze bag
hier geschick? So-schon. VIE viel
Chr list S? Sieben? Nun, lassen uns
Elm wenig supper zuerst haben. Got
any Of that good beer left-giebt's
nocn Bier?"
. He had supped in four minutes. His
coat off, his sleeves rolled up, he was
scrubbing his hands in a tin basin if
h sink, Using the bar Of yellow
kitchen soap.
Carol had not dared to look into
the farther room while she labored-
over the supper OF beer, rye bread,
moist cornbeef and cabbage. set on
the kitchen table. The man in there
was grooming. In her one glance she
had seen that his blue flannel shirt
was open at a corded tobacco-brown
neck, the hollows OF which . were
sprinkled with thin black and gray
hairs. He was covered with a sheet.
like a corpse, and outside the sheet
was his right arm, wrapped in tow
els stained with blood.
But kennicott strobe into the 9TH
mr. ~1@r - :. ~-.S . IL Z. , =
With surprising delicacy in his large
fingers he unwrapped. the towels and
revealed an arm which, below the ell
bow, was a Of blood and raw
flesh. The man beloved. The room
grew thick about her; she was very
seasick; she fled to a chair in the
kitchen. Through the haze OF nausea
she heard Kennicott grumbling,
Afraid it will have to come of,
a reaper blade? Well fix it right up.
Carrie! Carols"
h couldn't-she couldn't get up.
Then h was up, her knees like wa
ter, her stomach revolving a thousand
times a second. her eyes filmed. her
ears full Of roaring. She couldn't
reach the dining-room, leaning against
the wall, trying to smile, flushing hot
and cold along her chest and sides,
WAiAo Aei1iACoIt uAu11AO1Su, SAY, netp
Mrs. .MOrgenroth and me carry him
in. on the kitchen table. No, first 20
out and shove those two tables to-
gether, and put a blanket on them
and a clean sheet"
It was salvation to push the heavy
tables. to scrub them, to be exact IN
placing the sheet. Her head cleared;
she wa able to look calmly in at her
husband and the farmwife while they
undressed the wailing man, got him
into .. clean nightgoWn, and washed
his arm. .Kennicott zane to lay out
his Instruments. She realised THAI.
with no hospital facilities, yet with
no worry about ii, her husband--her.
husband-was going to perform q
surgical operation, that miraculous
holiness OF which one read in stories
about. famous surgeons. I,
She helped them to move Adolph
such a funk that he would not use
his legs. He was heavy, and smelled
Of sweat and the stable. But she put
her arm about his waist. her sleek
head by his chest; she tugged ut him;
h clicked her tongue in imitation
of Kennicott's cheerful noises.
When AdOlph was on the table
Kenhicott laid q herMispheric steel
and cotton frame on his face: sug-
Bebteu 70 CRFOI, now 81 Sit here
at his head And keep the ether drip
ping-about this fast. see? I'll watch
hiss breathing. Look who's here!
Real a~nesthetist! Ochsner hasn't rot
better one! Class. chi ST.
Now. now, Adolph, take It Easy. This
wont hurt you a BIT. Put you ali
nice . asleep and it won't hurt a
bit. Schweig' NAL! Bald schlaft man
graf vie Elm Kind SO! So! Bald
gents Dessert
An ehe let the ether drip, neryously
nicott had indicated, Carol stared at