The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-10

Its really true, isn't lt! she asked, tits not just a little rally, before? Don't make me expect him to be better and then tell me something different"
 Now that's dealing with real ity," thought the doctor with ap- proval Aloud: It's exactly as l say. and it is encouraging. But I'm going to stay here the rest of the night. I wish we had him in a properly equipped hospital"
 The professor had reused and was listening. At the doctors last words Amy eyes darkened with an emotion he did not understand. She seemed, h.. thought, angry, hard. If there is anything more We could get for him here," said the professor quickly, please get it. He explained briefly the ar engagements he had made with Jane.
 There's nothing. But he never should have been brought here in
 the first place. An hour or so was
 wasted night there." He went back
 to the sickroom.
 If Howard dies" Amy was thinking, q will kill Jane Terry"
 In the morning the doctor came in again, gray and tired, but tri-
 umphant, to say that Towards gain had been held. that he was, surely unmista kably, little more way to go yet" he warned them. "Pneumonia'S as, ltreacherous as a snake"
 1nnc Q v,d ho made, it seemed to Amy, no more than infinitesimal progress on it. But now and then there were red letter days. The day when the oxygen tent was abandoned. The day, not so long after, when the whole oxygen apparatus went out of the house, The day when she was permitted to see him for 10 minutes, and to hear him exclaim with wonder and rapture at the sight of her. The day when two of the nurses could go. The day when he had rubbed his unsightly chin and demanded a barber, though he wasn't yet able to sit up. The most encouraging day when he was so cross and fault finding and refused his broth, calling it damned slop." The day that stood out most to Amy was when he asked her where he was and how he got there.
 All 1 recall was that my head was going round like wheel and I couldn't get my breath for the pain in my side" he said. II pull ed out my wallet to get some money. I thought vaguely I might telephone to camp, and that card with Jane Terry's address on it. 1 put it down that day at Christmas when we were afraid she might want to take Nancy?- was there, and 1 sort of looked | around and realized that I was al- most in. front of the place and it came to me that she'd know me and could telephone the camp, and after thatI must have passed out"
 From that story Amy's contempt | of Jane increased. She could hard ly wait to get Howard out of the | Q partment. The place grew more | irksome with each day she stayed | in it. It seemed to her as if Jane | was there, a 5enomouS, threatening | influence, waiting impatiently any | chance to harm her further. Her | nerves were tiddlestrings. She could | not control them Mightn't she take Howard back to Marburg, soon, she begged the doctor,
 But the doctCr told her she | must not hurry. There was a bad | spot in one lung which did not !, clear up as he liked. It was not | until the May air was soft and | warm with promise of summer 1 that he was willing Howard should | go, and even then he made a du- | bious face about it. The Colonel | had arranged long leave for his There was a possi- bility that he might be permanent ly discharged-if that spot did not go away.
 Jane had never appeared at the apartment, although her secretary had been there several times to take away various things she need ed. No word had come from her. It was not until the day they left that Amy saw her again, and then by accident, because they were de- layed day longer than was plan ned in wait for some papers from the military authorities. Jane had come home expecting to find the place empty. Instead, she met Amy just inside the door. How ard and the Professor were in the below-but Amy had come back to fetch forgotten wrap.
 It was as If they had exchanged natures. Amy was the one who was hard and cruel and aggressive now. Jane shrank from the loath- ing in her eyes.
 "1 thought you'd gone" she  < "You'll find everything clean and in order. and nothing missing. The