The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-08-03

Her when they reached the Hoilies.
 "rll go straight up." Dr. Dudd said, and Georgie led the way.
 Dr. Dudd bent over the bed. and for moment there was silence, then he turned to Georgie.
 Run away for moment"
 "I'd like to stay" the girl insisted. but he shook his head.
 Run away. I'll come down and tell you all about 1t, he promised.
 "As if I were a child." Georgie thought resentfully. but she obeyed and went down to her uncle's + brary, and poked the dying fire into a blaze.
 All the short way home she had tried to screw up her courage to ask the doctor how Nicholas was, but somehow 1t had been difficult to speak his name; perhaps when he came downstairs she would have more pluck. She heard his footsteps and went out into the hall to meet him.
 "Is it indigestion?" she asked, and wondered why he seemed to avoid looking at her.
 I'm goin, to take her along to the hospital" he said.
 "Hospital?" Georgie's eyes grew wide with alarm.
 Shell get proper attention there" he promised her. And she can not be nursed here. I'll call in on my way back and they'll send the ambu. lance"
 "Ambulance!" Georgie gasped. For indigestion
 I'm afraid it's something little more serious than indigestion" Dr. Dudd said. But you need not worry; she'll be all right" CEoRGIE felt as if the ground was 0 slipping from beneath her feet Lovelock seriously i'll! What was she to do without her?
 Don't look so alarmed" the doc. tor said again smiling a little: he laid hand on her shoulder. Where is your uncle?" he asked.
 "At the Boar's Head. think"
 They looked at one another for a moment, then the doctor said. "Why didn't you stay in America. Geor- gie?"
 She shook her head dumbly.
 "This is not the place for you" he told her.
 Why did everyone say thatY Georgie wondered.
 "It's the only place I've got" she answered.
 Well. we'll" he patted her shoulder and turned away. "Pll call in and tell your uncle." he said.
 "He won't care" she answered dispiritedly, she followed him to the door.
 "Is Mir Boyd very ill?" she ven- tured when he was well outside in the dark garden.
 Boyd? Boyd? Oh. no he's not very Ill. Trouble with his leg. that's all. Well. I'll be getting along"
 She stood looking after him till he had driven away and the night was all quiet again. then she went slowly upstairs to Mrs. Lovelock.
 They're going to take you to the hospital" she said gently. Mrs. Lovelock did not speak or move. and touched with some impulse which she could not explain Georgie took the woman's work-roughened hand in hers. 'Is the pain very bad?" she asked, and was mortified to see slow tears creeping from beneath the closed lids. Lovelock crying! Georgie's own eyes were suddenly wet. And for the next hour life was like a bad dream; the ambulance which she had hitherto only con. nected with road accidents. stand- ing at the gate, and two strange men carrying Lovelock away on a stretcher.
 Tt can't be true" Georgie told herself as she went back into the empty house and clos ed the door. She went to the kitchen because 1t seemed the most chsery spot cnd knelt down by the fire, shivering a little.
 She knew that her uncle would be furious; he hated anything that disturbed the selfish routine of his life: he would rave and what Mrs. Loyelock always called "carry on."
 Nelly wouldn't be able to come down for the weekend now; every. thing would be differentiation. ganized.
 Georgie drew up the high-backed chair with the red cushion in which Mrs. Lovelock always sat and closed her eyes. The silence and the warmth of the fire on her face were soothing: presently she slept. She was awakened by the crash. ing of the front door; a crash that seemed to shake the house and which sent her to her feet still half asleep and trembling in every limb.
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