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to Katherine with his stiff formal
courtesy, and escorting her 20 the
house. and finally Katherine herself.
with flushed cheeks and starry ex-
cited eyes, lovingly embracing both
OF us
DR.. Petit. with stilted little
bow, closed the door between him
self and US. and Lillian uttered a
tense monosyllable.
"weM?"
He came to bat all right
Katherine answered.
who. Smith ?'
''If You Knew"
The man you described TO me as
smith. Even II you hadn't told me.
| think 1 would have known that he
was something other than the farm
lGbOrer he pretended TO be. He
strikes me as a man who has been
accustomed 20 dominate every one
around him"
He has been practically a car
among his neighbors for years" Lii
Ian replied But please begin az
the beginning and tell US everything
YOU possibly can. Madge iust
switch on your memory I'll need
il and your closest attention. be-
cause I don't want TO keep any writ
ten record Of what Katherine tells
u. But. oh, girls, II you knew what
work Il has saved me 70 have the
fact proved that Smith and the man
in the hospital are connected i'm this
thing, I was afraid / might have
two entirely distinct problems on
my hands Now, Katherine. for
your story"
We'll" she said. hesitating, 1T
1 begin at the beginning. I'll be like
the child trainer and the grand
mother OF the child"
That's what I want" said Lillian.
Go back 20 the minute you entered
he hospital"
y Simple Compliment
1t involves something-even fur
ther back than that" smiled Kath-
crime, and that is the treatmen,
his former nurse was compelled TO
give him. You see. when he frs,
hecame conscious there we're so
many things In which she had 10 sn-
tagonfze him. He didn't want 20
take his medicine, and he wanted
foods ne couldn't have, and. oh. I
don't know what all! At any rate.
ne fairly hated her, and as for the
poor girl, she was a wreck. But, you
see, he was getting better all the
time. so after 1 came I didn't have
TO impose nearly so many restric-
tiOns on him. and the result was
that he became very tractable."
"Of course you have given US TIE
only reason for his becoming tract
able" Lillian said dryly, and 1
smiled with her at Katherine's gen
uinely-puzzled look at US. She is
so modest about the great skin
which is hers in nursing. and about
the potency OF her personality. I
sometimes think she does not real
lie herself the power that lies in
her.
"Of course. II you had nursed
him when he first became conscious,
he would have been just "a hard to
manage" I suggested slyly.
Katherine flushed shyly. Her IN
nate honesty kept her from the dis.
claimer a less sincere woman would
have offered.
But. you see. she stammered Il
had 50 much experience with sick
me7 and boys over there I ought
10 know something about handling
them"
over us both swept the realiza-
ton, old. yet ever new. OF what thls
slender. starry-eyed woman had un.
dergone in. those long months OF
service in the overseas hospitals. 7
knew that no one in the nursing ser
vice held a more creditable record
than Katherine, yet she rarely re-
ferred 10 those days.
I'll radio the ships at sea you
ought 20 know-and do" Lillian
SAID emphatically. But let us get
on with the tale The man is
tractable now Ell ,"
"Oh, yes. entirely so" Katherin.
rejoiaed "In fact. I think he is
beginning 10 Ike me. He called me
a 1ofely lady today"