The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-07-14
CAST OF CHARACTERS

TRAN DEARBORN-heroine
student nurse. She ran into love
and trouble when she met
DR.. BOB BENCHLEf-hero
handsome young inferno. He had
trouble, too, keeping up with bril-
liant
DR.. STEPHEN SARGENT
head surgeon. DR.. Sargents prob
lem was something else again.
Yesterday: Opportunity comes
to Tran when she act, as inter.
prefer for an Italian patient. She
does not notice that someone en-
tera the room as she quiets the
injured man.
CHAPTER VII
Tran did not notice that when
Dr.. Benchlcy was about to inter
fupt with a swift question, some
one who stood i'm the background
stopped him with a quick, low
word.
She only knew that the eyes of
the man on the table chung TO
hers for reinsurance, and that UNI
der her hand the Quivering in his
arm lcssened, the tense muscles
relaxed And for the first time
in her life. Tran felt power.
1t was something entirely apart
from the quickness of mind that
made ii so easy for her to learn
from books, or the dizziness that
made play of manual tasks. IL
was the sense Of power that
comes. from having strength to
lend TO another in need OF
strength.
She did not know how long she
stood so witohut looking up
feeling quivering muscles relax
under her fingers and the calm
assurance of her voice-before a
orderly and wheeled the patient
white-clad nurse came with an
away.
1t was only then that DR..
Benchley said with the irony of a
patience too long strained. "lf 1t
isn't too much to ask, it might be
interesting to get some idea just
what il was all about
Tran lifted her head and an
swered sbSently out of the upllft
of that newly discovered sense OF
power. HE thought he was dy-
ing. | told him that it was going
to b. all right
mented DR.. Benchley dryly.
"As simple as that, eh?" COM
Tran did not answer. Instead
she turned and walked like wo-
man i'm trance. straight out of
the rnOm-without even seeing
that terrible DR.. Stephen Sargent
stood Just inside the door watch
ing her with a thoughtful frown
between the arrogant sweep of
his browS.
Once outside. Tran found that
her knees were shaking SO help
leSSly that she had TO cling to the
wall as she went along the cor
rider.
So that was what Miss Philbin
meant when she talked about
giving to the patient
There was another thing about
that evening that Tran never
knew.
Late that night Dr. Sargent,
coming from the operating room
gray with fatigue. halted in the
corridor outside Miss Armstrong s
office at the sight of light framed
by the transOm, Knocked and
went inside.
Miss Armstrong. her cap slight
" aSkew. was brooding over a
sheaf of reports. At this time of
year Miss Armstrong often brood
ed well into the morning over the
reports of her students.
"Hm" grunted DR.. Sargent;
"And so on-far into the night,
| suppose. And this is the hard
boiled lady who sends her girls
to bed at 1880"
IL might say, And this the
head-Surgeon who rides his sub
ordinates for turning up red-eyed
for want of sleep, and then piles
a midnight charity operation on
top of a full schedule" Well,
how did it go, Stephen"
Mr.. Armstrong had been SUI
Saint Eincent'S when Stephen
Sargent had been the raweSt of
young interneS.
"Ruptured before | could get
to it," he said. sliding down in his
chair and thrusting his hands in
to his pockets, his long legs
stretched out before him. THE
poor devil had wife and three
children. and couldn't make up
his mind to take a chance till. this
evening. the thing hit him like a
bomb she'll"
He took a silver case from his
pocket. extracted a cigaret, and
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