The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-04-26


 i5 to her with sympathetic look
 we were pretty worried tlli; time yesterday" she whispered tc Kitty We didn't know, you see You were out of town? He call- ed for you the first minute he knew anything.
 Kitty had gone to the bed once more, knelt there, her hand hold ing Cars. The nurse pushed a chair up to the bedside.
 You might as well be com fortable, Mrs. Frew. You can ring if you need me. That's the bell. ! She tiptoed out of the room leaving Kitty alone with Gar.
 The room was very quiet ex- cept for the drip of the rain out side. Kitty relaxed in her chair IL seemed an eternity since that moment her father had turned from the telephone calling her ''Winton wants you on the long distance, Kitty" Sally had been there with her, and her mother. They'd been looking at the brides maids dress, laughing talking. And then: Gar has been hurt in an automobile smashup. Can you get a train tonight?" David talking. The hurry, the concerned faces of her father and mother, Phil saying he'd drive her over to Albany, and then the endless hours of the long night, the torture of uncertainty
 "Oh, Carl" She put her hands out to him in an expressive little gesture of longing.
 Every word of that nights quar- rel came back to her, to flay her She'd goaded him to say things he didn't mean; she said things sine didn't mean. They'd inzulted one another; hurt one an- other He'd flung himself out of 'she house and she'd locked the door of her bedroom And the next day she'd gone to Bridge water without seeing him.
 "The room next is empty, Mrs. Frew Why don't you take a nap? I'll call you when le awak-- ems The nurse had come in.
 fI know how you feel she went on, in her whisper But he's all right, and you don't want to get sick yourself. When he's bet ter he's going to be awful fussy --ihds shoulder and ankle, you see. 3
 Reluctantly Kitty yielded and let the nurse take her in the adjoin- ing roof It was cool and white and quiet; though she thought she could not sleep, in a few minutes she was sound asleep in the mar TOW bed
 She wakened, bewildered for a moment by her surroundings. She had been dreaming of Sally. Why, tomorrow was Sally's wedding day! She must go to Bridgewater, talk to Sally about taking things so seriously
 Then. fully aroused, she sprang out of bed, alarmed. That nurse should have called her! Perhaps Gar needed her. She rushed out into the corridor and there stopped short, facing Carol.
 itGar?" she asked, frightened.
 Carol shrugged her shoulders, "Oh, I guess he's all right, I don't know" She was. moving toward a door across from Cars. Her manner said plainly that her pres ence here had nothing to do with Gar. She was carrying a long box of flowers in her arms.
 T suppose you know Marge Crosby's gone?"
 And with that she opened the door she sought and closed it softly behind her.
 Paul Somerset-shed gone in to him, of course. The brief lines she had read in the paper, crushed in her fingers, came back to Kitty. The exultation that had edged Carols voice struck her with sick ening meaning. Carol expected that she, too, must rejoice at Marge's goingl The old fear as- sailed her as sine opened Cars door.
 The nurse was carefully put ting a pillow under Cars head and he was muttering grossly un- der ministrations. But when he saw Kitty his face cleared.
 T told him it was a shame to wake you up, Mrs. Frew, you were sleeping so soundly I peeked in. And he almost took my head off
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 Can he talk now?.
 "A little. But you mustn't let him get excited or move around. You see they haven't get his sfoul- der in a cast yet Tomorrow, may be. tell him he's a lot luckier than that other poor fellow they brought in with him"