New Britain herald., 1926-12-10

tNcCh' ucdu dllu dlls IAlS LdIl q !" full. Then carry her across the street for me to the Elwell cottage. Then you hurry over to Doc. Palmer's an bring him back as quick as you can.
 There was no lost motion in the cogs of Nurse Dalton's brain nor in her talk. She did her work well and did it fast. Always.
 In the driving rain, the agent car rled the woman across the street and up on the porch of hospitably- lighted cottage. There he jerked the dripping tarpaulin off and let it drop to the floor. Nurse Dalton. holding the suitcase handle In one hand and the handbag and hat in the other. stepped close to the door and gave it couple of lusty kicks The glass panes in their settings shook and the doorknob rattled.
 "Mollie an Prof. come quick" she cried in a voice that cut sharp above the scream of wind and the splash of rain. Its Dalton out here-Nurse Dalton!"
 An instant and the door was open ed wide. A man. good looking, young. with a face alive with friend ly interest. stood framed in the opening. Behind him stood a pretty young woman with a boy of per haps. five by her side. Nurse Dalton stepped quickly inside, followed by lt H,yr in sealskin coat. The young couple and the little boy stared with wide open eyes.
 "A woman taken Ill on the train," began the nurse at once, and her tongue worked fast. She's fainted. It's an emergency case. 50 l had Charlie bring her here. I knew you both would be glad to help. There's no time to take her out to St. Mary's."
 She turned to the man who had helped her to the Elwell's and jerked a thumb toward sofa near the wall. He stepped across and laid his burden down.
 "Pll hurry now an get Doc" he said as he strengthened up. Martha | Dalton nodded and he opened the door and darted out again into the story night. The nurse whispered something in Movie Elwells ear. Why certainly! Of course!" ex. claimed the young wife with quick warm sympathy. We must get he, to bed at once."
 She turned swiftly to her husband
 Prof. dear" she said. Dalton says she expects a little stranger is coming to visit us. Jim and you SC out and light the gas range" She gave moro directions, while her hus- band listened attentively and sympa- thetically. Then, followed by the boy he started at once to carry out or ders.
 No questions, no hesitancy. Just ready to help-always. That was Ed win Elwell. scenic artist and gold decorator, known to everyone in town as Prof"
 Ten minutes later Doctor Palmer arrived. Nurse Dalton led him into the room where the unknown guest from out of the night had been put to bed. A few moments afterward Mollie Elwell came out again into the sitting room where her husband and boy were waiting. She told them the story, just as it had been told to her by Martha Dalton.
 ''The poor dear has come out of her trance" she related, but she has no realization of her surround ings. She is babbling of a brother to whom she was going home: of a husband she calls Jack; of wom an she has learned he had loved that he never told her about; of her unborn child that he should never see.
 "Oh, Prof, it's pitiful-tragic. My heart just aches for her. she's SC young and beautiful and. oh, my dear, so evidently broken-hearted! And she has said nothing to in. dicate who she is?" questioned Prof Elwell with his ready sympathy, but Q sympathy toned down to a mans practical view of such matters | Hasn't she any cards or letters ir ! her handbag to show where she came from? It's very strange, you know. dear,' he went on, that 8 woman of her appearance, in the stats she Is in, attired as she is and wearing a thousand dollar diamond should be travelling alone. For she must, of course, belong to people oi culture and wealth somewhere"
 "She hasn't made mention Of 6 single name except Jack" Mollis