Evening star., 1923-05-27

| Crutches that day for the first time,
looked back from the elevator shaft
and scowled. And the senior surgical
and thereby altered number Of
things.
Hello" said the pharmacy clerk.
Shut the door,"
The senior surgical inferno shut the
door and shifted. Smells like n bar
ROOM" he commented.
The pharmacy clerk turned around.
Little experiment Of mine" he ex-
planned. Simple sirup, grain alcohol
and some flavoring extract. It's an
| imitation cordial. Try it,"
The senior surgical inferno was not
a drinker, but he was willing to try
| anything once. So he secured a two
ounce medicine glass and filled it.
After he had finished it he felt about
seven feet tall and very important
He had strong inclination to go up
| to II and tell Jane Brown the truth
| about Johnny Fraser-which he
| yielded to.
Your mans wrong, that's all there
is about it," he said. II can't say any,
/ thing and you can't. But he's wrong
! That's an operative case. The staff
| knows it."
Then why doesn't the staff do it?''
Because, dear child" he said, its
your mans case. You ought to know
enough about professional ethics for
| that"
q h,,k
| sowcd something in the probationer's
| mind.
TWENTY-FIVE got over his sulk-
| l. ing and planned a concert in the
chapel. So that morning he took
Elizabeth, the plaster cast, back to
H ward.
He put the concert up to Jane
Brown with a certain amount of anx-
iety; if she refused to take any part
he did not intend to have concert
IL can play" she said.
Good, he said. You know. like
the way you say that. It's so-well,
it's so competent" He got out a
notebook and wrote Miss Brown,
piano selections
On the very day of the concert
the quarantine was broken for a few
| minutes, forcibly, and by an officer
of the law. A little newsie, standing
| by a fire at the next corner, had
caught fire. The big corner man
stripped off his overcoat. rolled the
boy in it and ran to the hospital
Here he was confronted by brother
officer. who was forbidden to admit
him. The corner man laid the newsie
! on the ground, knocked out the
quarantine officer in two blows, broke
the glass of the door with third,
slipped q bolt. and. his burden in his
arms, stalked in.
1t did not lessen the majesty of
that entrance that he was crying all
the time.
The probationer pondered. After
all, laws were right and good, but
there were higher things than laws.
She went and stood by Johnny's bed
for a long time. thinking.
Twenty-Five presided at the concert
that night. He was extravagantly
funny. and the sort of creaking So
lemnity with which things began
turned to uproarious laughter very
soon.
Everything went OF wonderfully.
The musical event of the evening
was Jane Browns playing. She
played Schubert without any notes.
because she had been taught to play
Schubert that way.
And when they called her back she
played little folk songs of the far
/ places of Europe. Standing around
the walls, in wheeled chairs, on
crutches, these aliens in their eddy
/ listened and thrilled.
AT the end she played "The Minuet"
| with a sort OF flaming look in her
| eyes that puzzled Twenty-Five. He
could not know that she was playing
1t to Johnny Fraser, lying with closed
| eyes in the ward upstairs. He did
not realize that there was a passion
of sacrifice throbbing behind the
dignity of the music.
DR.. Willie had stayed over for the
| concert. He sat, beaming benevo-
lently, in the front row, and toward
| the end he got up and told some
| stories. After all, it was Dr.. Willie