The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-02-11
SETTLING.
Chapter 83.


The camp became gradually larger
and larger mixture of chaos and OF
order. An elderly man who was engi-
neer and architect too, had planned
the little city methodically. with one
long street that went UP a gentle
slope and ended at the mines where
tne mountain took a sleeper twist
upwards.
The homes were being built along
TINS street and a few lanes that ran
across it-provision stores, machine
plants, power house, workmen's cot
tages and natives huts near the
mines, the better houses further along
where the noise was less and where
there was magnificent view over the
smaller mountains toward the coast.
The doctors house was nearer the
center, new buildings went up on the
edges, and the inner part assumed
order and cleanliness. There was time
TO build the promised living room to
the house, a room half open to the
outdoors, with screens and awnings.
the long view and the cool wind to
make it delightful place.
Furniture came in from Buenos
Ayres. Mrs. Talbot and Amy packed
barrels of small things to make the
place attractive-sofa cushions, table
linen. silver material for clothes, lit
lie civilized Injuries. The camp was
becoming town.
Donald worked hard.
There's no reason" Jane an
nounced one evening, why ! can't be
your assistant You certainly need
one. ! don't care whether the COM
pany employs me, or pays me the
money OF not. And it's no use writing
10 New York to find out, it takes
months for an answer"
THE hospital is in awful condition.
Donald confessed | will turn it over
to you gladly, and you can see what
YOU can do with it,
James spirits went UP.
She could not have career. Her
long and expensive training was part
ly wasted-but only partly There
were more than thousand people in
or about Camp Ajax-a real little town
now that revolved around a pile CT
machinery, a power house, a gigantic
pump and toy railway engine.
There was enough to do. The hos
pital" was small wooden building
containing three hospital cots in one
room. There was no nurse-the young
Spaniard true adventurer who had
circled the globe and done everything
from acting with one-night stand
company to crossing the jungle VITA
party of explorers, had picked up
on his way a varied and useful stock
Of knowledge. Among other things ne
knew a little of nursing and doctor
ing" as he called it, and until Donald
arrived, had done wonders with mn
ment, peroxide, quinine and iodine.
But his ideas of sanitation are
sketchy,' Jane observed.
Minor troubles came to her. cuts
and smashed thumbs and the fever
that broke out among the children
the chills and colds, the eternally SICK
babies of the native women. Jane
found herself with large clinic with
in a month of taking up the work
THANK Heaven you are able TO re-
leye me of the small things, Donald
said. sprawling full length on the
couch in the evening. have chahce
10 breathe now and then.
But most of his breathing was
done at the Bachelors Clubs the
big messroom in the dormltory pullu
ing where the company officers and
cred every evening for cards and gCs-
sip. Jane found herself IN an ouu po-
Sition.
She was the most intelligent woman
in the camp, and by far the most
serious and best educated. some Q,
tho women were almost tongue-ued
in ber nresence-the most ignorant
ones-because she too, was doctor
All of them talked alike-their child
ron If they had any, their trouble WIN
-,atiye servants. their husbands faults
and virtues, and any scanuai vi 9o'
sip about the place.
lane longed for good conversation
not necessarily intellectual, but
merely bright, and broad, the views OF
raonIe in touch with the new and IN
taresting movements of life Donald
cot this to an extent among the men
~ tho card room-she had nothing
at ali but the occasional evening when
como of the men came to play at her
house. 80. ,o
I'm settling down, I'm useful, Jane
,id onca IN Donald I'm beginning
IN he IN YOU what Mrs. Straker is ~
Lor Iiu-someone to be around 10
tarl, 10 when YOU want to talk, 10 stay
nome when YOU want TO go out ATONE
to help you with your work ana run
your house" .s his
And why not?" Donald asked, ms
Quick eyes glancing to her TO see II
She seemed discontinued. ma.
sounds as though you were an lueal
wife Most wives run house, more
or less badly. and let 1t go at tndt'
lin Straker says his wlfes ahothsi
rond and foot for him
she is, she's another part OF JIM
Straker. And ! am another part o.
YOU. That is. | am an addlton' az
annex, something built on Tor utiI1-
tartan purposes Both OF US nave
strong Municipalities, and in a mar
rage between two such people, one
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