The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-06
..WouId madame IKE to rest un.

.sWould madame like to rest un-
til the doctor comes?" he asked.
"How can / rest" she cried and
seated. herself in the chair beside
the bed. She was trembling.
Just then they heard an automo-
bile horn. Ellen ran to the win
dow and saw the flash of head
lights. After q wait that seemed
endless the doctor came into the
room. In the grip of nightmare
Ellen answered his questions and
saw him pour something down
Stevens throat. Vertigo swept
over her but she sat quietly lest
the brisk, efficient lnan at the bed
side should send her away. He had
said there was chance Steven
would regain consciousness. so she
sat watching, watching the closed
Stevens breathing barely stirred
the sheet that covered him. Il,
Presently Ellen was sent to wait
in the living room beyond. DR.
Westcott told her with professional
kindness to lie down but she could
not lie down. She could only wait.
Another doctor arrived. Symes
arrived. She heard cars sweeping
UP the driveway and heard the
frantic, persistent ringing of the
telephone. She heard doors open
and shut but she was cut away
from the activity and barred from
Stevens SIDE. She could only wait.
After, a while a nurse rustled into
the living room, snapped on the
lights and told Ellen to be in read
mess for a call. She urged Ellen
to drink an ammonia solution but
the girl would not nor would she
lie down. She sat, pale and still,
her hands clasped, her eyes filled
with useless, burning tears. She
prayed over and over that she
might once again speak to Steven
and look into his kind, brown eyes,
The slow hours dragged on to-
ward morning. Symes, haggard and
unshaven, came to tell her what
they were doing in the room be-
yond, came to tell her something
else as well but she pleaded SO
frantically to be allowed to return
to Steven that he kept silent, Won
dering, as he looked into her white,
still face, if he had not been wrong
after all. Presently he went away.
Ellen walked up and down the
room and tried to think of Steven
dead. The whispers, the alarmed
eyes, the quick movements in the
room beyond, even her own heart
told her that Steven was dying.
The nurse entered again.
What time Is it," Ellen asked
DULY. ..,s
Half past FIVE"
Ellen saw that dawn was break
ing. She thought that soon 1t
would be noon and then night and
then noon again. Time would not
stop even if Steven died while she
wouldn't they let her go to him
She was his wife, She had a right
to be at his side. But had she :?
Ellen covered. her face with her
hands.
The nurse went away again. The
room was very quiet.
Scents of the dawn drifted in
from the garden. scents of flowers
and grasses. Ellen heard the chirp
of awakening birds and somewhere
a dog barked.
She thought of home and felt a
desperate nostalgia. She wanted
to be with those who loved her. to
be again in the shabby apartment
on Pine street. Everyone was max
ing it plain that she had no place
here with her husband.
Ellen knelt by the window and
rested her head on the Sill. She
sobbed out her grief and misery
and Symes found her there. when
! he came to tell her that Steven was
regaining consciousness. Very gen.
tly he told her that she was to GO
ITO BE Continued)