San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-03-23

Lane, came no farther than the
threshold. He was holding close TO
his nostrils a cloth that gave out 4
pungent, vinegary smell, and his jaws
worked vigorously the while, for he
was chewing a stick of snake-root as
a further measure of prevention.
! Meanwhile, his companion, who was
that same DR.. Beamish he had recon-
mended, approached the patient and
made swift, practiced, and silent ex-
animation. g.
The physician held her wrist for a
moment in his bony fingers, the mid
die one upon her pulse. Next he
carefully examined the blotch upon
her throat. Finally he raised first
one of her arms and then the other,
whilst HOLES at his bidding held the
candle-branch so as to cast the light
into the armpit. A grunt escaped
him upon the discovery of swelling
in the right one.
"This is unusually soon," he said.
at is seldom before the third day
that there is such a manifestation"
At his elbow HOLES spoke in a
toneless voice.
"Does it does it mean
that her case is beyond hope?"
The physician looked at him.
"Dum vivimus sDeremus," said
he. Her case need not be hopeless
any more than another's. Much de-
ponds upon the energy with which the
disease is fought"
He say the flash in HOLES eyes at
that, as through the colonels mind
sped the vow that if it was a mat
ter of fight he was there to
wage it.
aMuch depends upon that. But
more-indeed all-upon God, my
friend" He spoke to HOLES as to n
husband, for that, indeed, was the
relationship in which he conceived
him to stand to the afflicted lady. IF
suppuration of that swelling can be
induced, recovery is possible. More l
cannot say. To induce that suppura-
ton infinite pains and tireless labor
may be necessary"
"She may depend on that" said
HOLES.
The physician nodded. Nurses"
he added slowly, "are scarce and diff
ficult to procure. l will do my best
to find you one as soon as possible.
Until then you will have to depend en-
tirely upon yourself"
II am ready"
80 much the better, then. And
row, my friend, there is no time to
lose. Speed in applying remedies is
often all. She must be brought as
quickly as may be into a free and full
perspiraton and for that she must be
got to bed without delay. If her life
is to be saved, you must get to work
at once"
'"Tell me but what to do, SIR"
,"Not only that; i come prepared to
leave you all that you will require"
He produced a bulky package from
his pocket. and, reckoning Holes to
the table, there opened it, and enumer-
ated the lesser packages it contained
and the purposes of each.
Here is a stimulating ointment
with which you will rub the swelling
in the armpit every two hours. There
after you will apply to it a pouitice
of mallows. linseed, and palm oil. Here
is mithridate. of which you will adj
minister a dose as an alexipharmic.
and two hours later You will give
her a posSet drink of Canary and
- irits of sulphur. The spirits of sui
phur are here. Make fire of seacoal
in her bedroom. and heap all available
blankets upon her, that she Ihay'throw
out as much as may be of the poison
in perspiring.
"For tonight, If you do that, you
will have done all that can be done.
/ shall return very early in the morn
ing, and We will consider further meas
ures."
When HOLES, disregarding the ply
sician's aid, had, single-handed. car
ried her to the room above, she re-
covered sufficiently TO demand that
she should be left to herself; and,
despite her obvious weakness, DIR.
Beamish concurred that to permit her
to have her own way in the matter
would be to make the more speed in
the end.
The effort of undressing, however,
so exhausted her and awoke such tor
turing pains that, when at last she go5
to bed, she lay there, painting. reduced
to state of utter prostration.
Thus HOLES and the physician found
her on their return. DR.. Beamish
placed upon a table at the foot of the