Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1934-05-23

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whom the mad Servant called Beel-
zebubf The terrible prince of ban
dts who crucifed those who double
crossed him. Sonya shivered In the
coming day. What had he said to
Starr Stone7
"Hombre, you disobeyI Let's 60"
Where had they gone? What
would he do to hlmf And why had
he disobeyed, In what7 With deep
intuition she knew the d~lsobedience
had to do with her, with his arm
about her In the public place.
1t was a small thing. Not a
double-cross. Yet the very thought
of the sinister words chilled her to
the bone.
Come" she told herself, SNAP
out of 1t. There la something dark
and terrible here. but Starr Stone
again she thrilled at the mental
sound of his name-"will take care
of himself. He'll come back to talk
again."
At Blue Water she found what
she had expected, and a great deal
more. Two Navajos, an old man
and a young one, lay In the hogan
hot with fever. From the shelter of
a skeleton brush canopy over an
outdoor cooking fire Yellow Buck.
the medicine a whom she had
seen at Two Fingers, watched her
with flaming eyes In his wrinkled
face.
Critically the girl studied the two
sick men, With st~ethoscope on the
hot brown breasts she knew her
course.
The old man was beyond help, his
lungs already stiff with congestion,
sunk In coma. The young one not
so bad.
Bad business" she told herself.
Spanish fiu-summer iu-or I'm
very much mistaken. This one"
she said to the women, pointing to
the old sire. lis about to go on the
Long Journey. | come too late. This
one Wen try to hold. Get me hot
water In the cooking baskets and
cold water from the hole. Also a
warm stone wrapped In cloth"
In two hours the ancient one was
gone on that long Journey and she
helped the women carry him out
and lay him decently under some
blankets In the canopy's shade.
All day she worked In almost ut
ter silence, The sick man could still
speak. and once he asked after Two
Fingers wife, and again directed
the women to cook and feed the Blue
South. Woman.
Here 1t was again, her sweet and
mysterious name among them.
The day wore on, and night came
cool and sweet, and still she stayed
by the bed on the sand floor, MAX
Ing her mustard congresses for the
laboring chest, using hot water and
cold alternately, giving her drops
to reduce the CHASTITY fever, and at
two of the night by the watch on
her wrist the sick mar sighed and
went to sleep, his temperature down
to a hundred.
"Glory!" said Sonya to herself.
ITS a great life IL you don't
weaken"
She slept a bit herself, and dawn
found things better In the hogan.
Noon found them better still, and
late In the afternoon she went away,
leaving strict instructions to her pa
tient to stay In bed until she came
again. If he got up he would die,
she told them all fatty, and that
was that.
AT home she told Lila and Serge
of what she'd found and disinfected
herself from head to heel before
stretching her tired body for sleep.
Il told you there'd be work for
you," Serge told her soberly. ~
heard of another Ease today"
MY heaven!' said the girl, sit
ting up suddenly on her bed In the
room beyond. "Where7 Is 1t going
to be e%pidemic"
up In Bad Canyon"
THAT'S a long ride. I'll need the
car for It. Well, heaven help them,
I've got to sleep now, or I'll be no
good later"
With the visit to Bad Canyon
next morning Sonya Savarin knew
she faced the coming of ordeal. Not
one but three cases met her there,
and she heard of Ave more In a
nameless wash beyond.
The days that followed began
take on the semblance of a night
mare. The sickness which had de-
scended on the Reservation grew
and spread like some noxi0us
growth. The girl travelled night and
day, humping on long drives In the
ancient car, threading the inacces-
canyons on Darkness, STOPPING
the dark hogans to alleviate suf-
fering. covering dead faces, trying
to reason the living out of their su-
DerstitIous custom Of abandoning
their dwellings where death had
entered.
Sonya sighed and her heart ached
than usual.
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