The Washington times., 1926-01-27

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DATary Rose heard her mother
say vaguely, as she ran down the
stairs. But there was no time 70
explain further.
WreciSage
Tom might be dying, right now,
Tor all she knew
There's been a fine, young
wreck down hereIat the corner,
the taxi driver said to her as he
helped her into the cab.
And, sure enough, when they
turned the corner of g Street there
there was q pile of wreckage
heaped up against TIE curb, gleam-
ing in the rain and .the unsteady
glow from swinging arc hight.
Looks as III two cars bumped.
doesn't it2'' the driver called back
TO. her. Some OF these fools
shouldn't be trusted with
The wind took the rest CT the
words out OF his mouth.
It wasn't until hours afterward
that Mary Rose realized that one
OF those two wrecked and twisted
. cars was the powerful black road
kter that Tom had always IN.
suited ~ the name of stink
wheel.
l The smell of ether and earbolic
acid in the halls of Mercy Hos
pitaI made Mary Rose a little sick
and dizzy as it always did when
she vent into a hospital.
Al slark-haired nurse, all in
rustling white. came clicking
down, the wide. bright hallway on
her white heels.
Dead-Game Sport
X RIM Miss Sims. S called you
up while ago. she said to Mary
Rose, and put her arm around
her, as if she saw that the girl
was almost ready to faint away.
Or. Fitzroy says to come right
upstairs. =
He not unconscious, then2'
Mary Rose asked, as she stepped
into the elevator. Toni not I'M
consci0us?,,
Miss Sims smiled and Mary Rose
found herself wondering how any
body could smile who lived IN a
place like this where people came
with their ills and their agonies.
What q dead-game sport q. nurse
was, when you stopped TO think
about it!
when I said DR.. Fitzrov r
meant old DR.. Fitzroyss Miss
Sims explained He's upstairs
with young DR.. Tom. We always
cali the young one :DE Tom here
Mt the hospital.
The smile faded from her faca,
leaving her very grave No, DR..
Tom Is not conscious she went on.
He was Tor q few minutes
while ago That's how we knew
he wanted you. He kept calling
for you
Alisffled II Bahdages
She led Mary Rose Down long
corridor and then turned another
one. the end OF 1t was a
closed Ellite door with the mum
Der 81 painted on It. 81
Isn't that oincidencethat
he's in room. 81. and that he's
asked Mary Rose as she laid her
hand against its panels. So
she didn't finish the sentence.
but Mary Rose knew instantly
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was going TO die there in that
room behind the white door.
She opened ft and went in.
He was lying on the high. mar
row bed In the middle OF the bare
hospital room muffled in band
ages like a mummy Nothing of
him was visible except his eyes.
his nose and his lips.
Mary Rose had heard the phrase
"bloodless lips before, but it
never had meant anything to her
until now. For Toms lips really
were bIoodIess. They were only
shade more gray than his gray
face that had been so fresh and
rudy under it's freckles an hour
ago.
M0tiOnIess
She tfptoed to the side OF the
bed and looked down at him,
dry;eyed. He did not move He
seemed not even to breathe.
The door behind her opened
and Toms father came into the
room. He had on long white
linen coat, such as doctors wear
when they operate, and above it
his keen, fine face looked older
than Mary Rose had ever seen
ii before.
He came straight to her and