The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-07-12

ing In his hands. He felt as if they could get round great big, lumpy things, round giants of india-rubber or anything of that kind. He had a dim recollection that as a child, when he was feverish, he had had this lumpy feeling in his hands and he recognized 1t again.
 "I am very hot" he murmured. ''Lie down for little now. I'm still busy serving, but I'll get done quick" She took the empty plates and went with them down the lad der. The rain still came down. Martin let himself sink back on the large pillows and closed his eyss. There was a singing in his temples, but his thoughts escaped him. After a while he unloosed his collar. unbuttoned his shirt. and kicked off his wet shoes. Suddenly he gave a violent shudder and crept drowsily under the quilt. He put his arm out straight because his elbow hurt him every time he nov
 ed it. and lay listening to the rain
 and staring at the candle.
 An hour later when Vest came
 back, he was asleep. The candle was still burning. Vesi gazed down at the young man. His fingers twitched in his dreams like a dogs legs and sometimes his face was drawn in a grimace. His fair hair had lost its brushed-back neatness and was now tumbling in disorder. Vesi was touched by a maternal tenderness. She bent over him and his forehead. Then she shook him tS, oh AYv1dar oorf1vy of Avcf oY nd then more emphatically. Martin sighed and only slept the sounder. She stroked his face. It was hot. "Poor boy-he's tired and half starved" she thought with pity. The candle had burned out when he finally awoke. AS he felt for his shoes in the darkness, he could hear the heavy breathing of Vesi, asleep on the floor. Martin. his arm throbbing, fumbled his way down the ladder, but was able to get out unheard and unseen.
 Frau Pauline Mayreder was in a sad plight. She saw Frauensee em- plying rapidly, but she could not tear herself aaway from the bath- ing beach and the swimming in- structor. A kind of paralysis has laid hold on her rather short, re- solute person, a sickness, a rheuma- tism of the heart that might a1- most be called love. It made her restless-too sad to-day, to happy tomorrow. It pulled her this way and that. She was discontented and fretful. She was zealous over her exercises and took her coffee of late without sugar or cream.
 Hardly had the rain stopped be- fore Frau Mayreder put on her wa- ter-proof and hurried to the bath ing beach. When she caught sight of Martin, she gave slight start.
 But you don't look at all we'll"
 she said, as she fixed her eyes upon
 his drawn, pinched face.
 "Oh, am very well indeed. thank
 you" answered Martin, who could
 not bear to be pitied. There was
 rain in the iee-cold wind. and the
 bathing beach had 8 forbidding
 and dreary air.
 "You're surely not going to bathe
 in this weather?" he asked in as- tonishment.
 "Yes, I am," she said heroicalIy.
 Martin went in a temper to his
 hut and changed into his bathing
 caetume and cloak. Frau Maygeder
 for her part arrayed herself in her
 hounced silk costume, though her
 flesh crep and the wind whistled.
 q want you to teach me the
 crawl, Herr He'll" she was sud-
 denly inspired to say. She saw days
 and days Of swimming lessons in front of her, dny after day of swlm-
 ming lessons in the company of
 Herr Hell. Her knees trembIed with
 cold.
 sThe crawl--weil, yes-why not 7'
 Martin said with Q very bad grace.
 lie had to get out of his bathing
 cloak to show her the strokes. frsi 10 the siFs and thsn in ths wstss.