New Britain herald., 1927-01-07

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 { And so the weeks passed, with Jim the pivot around which revol-
 we'd everything that went to make up
 the E,wclls little world During
 those weeks the lovable personality and the unstinted devotion Of Nellie
 Drowning 10 her sclf-imposed as
 signment earned for her q place in . the heart of Moliie and Prof Elwell
 that neither time nor separation would ever dislodge.
 And then late one day in July word was received that Dr. Lawson, | inc celebrated brain specialist on
 strongly, was on his way back to ! New York.
 ] CHAPTER NXVIII | Shortly after word was received that pr. Lawson had sailed for
 America, an order went through transferring Jim Elwoll to a hospital on Staten Island.
 ! Here. within walking distance Of I took up their residence and their vigil of waiting for circumstance or science to give them back their Jim of pre-War days. But circumstance and science work out their ends some times in ways that are slow and misleading.
 Life on Staten Island was vel come exchange for that of the re- stricted hospital environment of Brooklyns suburbs. The institution was reached by trackless trolley from the downtown street car line which connected with the ferry.
 A forest Of oaks. and naples sur rounded the place. Sloping swards and grassy dells with the salt air from off the ocean and New York Bay made it a health resort of the most desirable kind. Motion picture shows and a cafeteria provided en- tertainment and little luxuries for patients. nurses and doctors. Under more enjoyable conditions Prof and Mollie would have pronounced 1t an ideal place 10 pass the summer.
 During these days Jim was taken on numerous trips to New York and once 10 Coney Island. accompanied hy Prof. Mollie and Nellie Downing. Sometimes Mike Hennegan, stiu at the other hospital, would get a day off and visit them.
 Mike Henegan told Jim's mother one day, If you ask me. l think there's hope for the boy. He's a lot better off now than the day I first laid eyes on him in the other hos pital"
 Mike tapped his head. "Only," he said, "only there seems to be some thing wrong with the machinery up here. There's something that's either snapped or that's got a clog in the line somewhere. I've got a hunch we're gonna pull him through"
 Mollie Elwell was grateful even for the poor assurance of a layman like Mike Henncgan. It was pitiful 10 Prof, watching her. to see how eagerly she nodded at Mikes words and pressed him with more ques- tions.
 On occasions likc this Prof Elwell would go off to a corner by himself and mediate. This thing. he told himself, was going to kill Molle If something didn't happen. And the tWins-away out there in Indiana, dying to see Jim, but if was so use less to let them see him in his present state. Not, at least. until they knew that nothing further could be done
 Ono day Prof and Mike Hennegan took Jim over to New York and up in the tower of the Woolworth building. While he attracted some notice from the more observing ones by the nor, or less automatic man. ner in which he walked and handled himself. he was not particularly con- Spicuous. Prof taught him to pay his own fare on the trolley cars and at the ferry, and although he had no appreciation Of money values he would take change when 1t was given to him and put it in his pocket. While lacking initiative to any ap- prcciahle extent Inc seemed to pos soss powers of imitation nowadays to a marked degree.
 These powers of imitation, how ever, were of nature which occa- sionally brought about. curious and sometimes rather embarrassing situ- ations.
 AS ono of the hospital doctors re- marked to an interne one day. Through initiative action he- has learned to shake hands with any person who offers his hand, He has mother and kiss her. This he often does of his own volition when she