New Britain herald., 1927-01-12

dianapolis. "we're not taking an, excuses. Jim and they simply have got 10 go with us to Europe next month. Now be good and bring them all back with you when you return
 At that moment. although they were in blissful ignorance of it, Jim ElWell lay in the shadow of deaths
 He had not regained consciousness the day after his accident. Nor the day after that. On the third day Nellie Downing paid a call on Dr Lawson, the famous brain surgeon That worthy gentleman. remember ing the case, and the sad, haunting look on the face of Mollie Elwell went back to the hospital with her but even he shook his head gravely when he had seen Jim.
 CHAPTER XXXVI
 Its simply amazing to me that the boy is still alive" Dr. Lawson told Nurse Nellie Downing.
 The famous specialist had spent two hours talking with the hospital doctors who had been looking after Jim Elwell, and in studying the pa- tient himself.
 When he had finished his own ex- animation. he said to Nellie Dow ming: Pm glad you came to me. Will you take it upon yourself to keep me in touch with this case?"
 She would. the little nurse told him. Was there-did that mean there was some hope?
 "I should have said" he remarked tersely, that there was no hope of his living this long. It all goes to show you how profoundly ignorant we fellows are. I am becoming humble in my old age"
 That afternoon Jack Nevin of the Planet called on Nellie at the Staten Island hospital.
 You know" he told her, with a quizzical smile, T am a trifle dis appointed"
 Would he please explain himself?
 
 charming to see.
 Well" he said, T had thought I'd be able to say that I had lost my job because of you. But I've been thwarted in my hopes of martyr dom."
 Jack, will you please stop talking in crossword puzzles? What on earth do you mean?''
 It seemed, he explained, that with holding good news stories from ones city desk because of the whims of pretty nurses was only little less than a capital offense. While not punishable by hanging, it"
 DO you mean to say" she asked, that l got you into trouble with your paper?"
 Not the least bit" he assured her. smiling And that's why I'm so disappointed If l had been able o tell you that I had lost my job on your account you might have had an inkling of my devotion"
 Nellie Downing blushed. Talk sense, please"
 T went back to the office that night and handed in my resignation. The city editor wanted to know why and l told him l had thrown down tho Planet on a good yarn because of the light that shone in a woman's S eyes.
 What. he asked, was the yarn?' told him and he swore. 'Nevin,' he told me. you're something of a damn fool. but you're also some- thing of a white man. That was | funny thing for a city editor to say, wasn't it?'
 Nellie Downing said she was curious to know what the city editor had done about the resignation.
 "Why, he tore it up. He also said hat l wasn't the first young man he had seen do damn fool things over women."
 Why, how horrid of you!'
 "1 beg your pardon" said Jack Nevin. "Of course, I'm taking ad- 'hhN"5N bi soh' ttllillS you liiiS, put you see the disappointment was so great-and wanted an excuse for seeing you"
 How, he asked presently, was Jim Elwell? If he dies. you know, I'm afraid thcrc'll be no keeping the thing out of the papers,"
 Perhaps, She told him, she had been wrong in asking him to keep out his story of the other night. "But his mother and father had been through so much. I'm afraid seeing the story in print would have made Mollie suffer horribly"
 There had been, she added, no change in Jim Elwells condition. He hangs on the verge Of death, Dr. Lawson says feather might move the balance either way"