Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1928-04-06
Published by special arrAngement with IT
Chicago Tribune 6yndtcate)
IN TWO PARTs-PART ONE


IT WAS Saturday before the August
bank holiday and Beach street, the
1 principal shopping thoroughfare OF the
great and Justly popular seaside resort of
Rustingor. was overrun with crowds,
throngs. and m%ultitudes Of visitors.
The sidewalks of Beach street were
embarrassed with many p~erambulators
and their pushers and their escorts, and
also with young men and young girls,
effectively II cheaply dressed, who were
obviously determined in due course to
have wedding rings and perambulators OF
their own. Nothing smart, nothing fash
ionable-to the aristocratic or the pluto
cratic; but the average Rustingor visitor
who knew no better, all was smart and
fashionable.
The august and omnipotent policeman.
by means OF his white ended right arm.
was holding up all the wheeled traffic in
Beach street in order to allow cross traf-
fc to pass. A youngish man, rather fat
indeed fat, stood on one side Of Beach
street and he desired to get over to the
other side, but the vehicles awaiting the
fall Of the arm Of the law were packed
SO close together that he hesitated to
~insinuate himself into the press. At last,
however, he found a space Of eighteen
inches between two motor cars, and
stepped into it-only to be prevented
from further progress by a van whose
driver was creeping up every foot he
could steal.
The policeman's arm fell. The young
man, seeking in vain an opportunity to
dash, did not stir. He was safe from the
car behind him, which dare not run into
him, and he was, of course, safe from the
vehicle in front of him. But-in motor
traffic there is and can be no 'of course"
The car in ron Of him backed instead
Of going forward. 1t was a small car
and a cheap car, even the smallest and
cheapest car, however, when colliding
with the human body. is very ruthless
and unyielding. The girl driver gave
one "Ohl" of surprise, and instantly cor
rected her mistake; but the elegant fat
young man by that time was lying in the
road, and in a moment crowds of people
were all aroun him, and other people
were standing up in cars to see him, and
the entire traffic was once more i'm
modified.
The policeman pushed through the
crowd like a steam roller and became
cutting counsel. All the surrounding per-
sons who had been in a hurry were no
longer in a hurry, and all felt that a bit
of luck had fallen their way.
The young man, white as the young
woman was scarlet, had tainted for a mo-
ment, but he very quickly recovered.
Clearly, one Of his legs was broken. A
doctor magically appeared. as doctors
will. The doctor said to the young man,
after examining him, Would you prefer
to go to the town hospital or to a nurs-
ing homes? Rather a good nursing home"
The young man weakly Nodded in ia
vor Of the nursing home.
II must trouble you for your name and
address. sir" said the policeman, note
book in hand, after the young man had
been lifted into the offending car, whose
occupants, except the wicked driver. had
been turne out of it.
Part Of the wicked drivers punishment
was that she should be compelled by the
policeman to drive her victim to the
nursing home.
The victim made no reply to the po-
liceman's respectful request. The police
man, still more respectfully, repeated his
request.
arthur Beachcroft," answered the
young man. 100 Picadilly, London"
Then he shut his eyes and sighed. The
doctor, sitting next to him, signaled to
the policeman that his patient must be
spared further inquiry for the present,
The car moved forward-very gingerly
All other cars made room for 1T. The
cowd dissipated itself and hundreds OF
individuals went about proudly describ-
ing the unique accident which they had
witnessed with their own eyes.
tits you who are the queer man to be
giving a false name to the police yester-
day afternoon, Mr.. Purfill."
These opening words from the young
and lively dark eyed nurse as she came
on duty at eight o'clock in the morning
gravely disturbed the owner of the
broken leg. He had passed such q night
as one Is liable to pass in a well run
nursing home. The limb had been adj
mirably set and the Nurse had done her
work admirably, and, in a light hearted
way, sympathetically; and the nurse had
finally gone off duty and then the pa
tent had become aware that a bell was
installed outside his door las a bell al
ways is installed in a well run nursing
home) and that this bell functioned ir-
regularly n often. 1t seemed to be
connected with thousands Of bedrooms
all of whose occupants wanted something
urgently. The patient began to be hum
cry and there was nothing to eat, and
the blind ratified, and when he. switched
or the electric lamp its crude ray dazec
his eyes. In the end he had the audac-
ity to ring the bell himself, and it en-
phatically did ring. In twenty minutes
he had made the bell ring emphatically
three times. At the end of thirty min
utes the night nurse entered and In
quired with sympathetic n yet warn
ing ~blandness. Did you ring?"
So that by seven o'clock the patient
was living for one event only-the ar
rival of his bright, ~vivacious, Irish nurse
These two had grown very friendly IN