Evening star., 1940-12-08

1t all very mOnotOnouS The Sergcants face plainly
said could get people to understand the simplest
things Budd had served the northwest for eighty years. but
darn it, when accident happened people rushed tee-
phone and stupidity called the nearest hospital which all
wrong because Bemores district the northeast section
Nobody used their heads and called police headquarters
People always rushing Budd and saying there
automobile accident, shooting braw down
the street; and always getting quite provoked and angry
because all the would do would be to telephone
Longwood Hospital eight miles away, to send ambulance
They'd point Budds three idle ambulances, with three
drivers sitting their and doing nothing else
their pay and say Indignantly why don't you send of
your ambulances? They just got mad and stamped
out when told that impossible
1t very usual all very usual - it would have been,
except that while they their way back, only
blocks from Budd, and Peter moodily scrawng
DOA slip dead arva) they heard shrek of brakes,
impact of metal against metal deathy scream and
people running toward
Whoa" said Peter. That sounds like a bad one'
mot district said Harry. None of business.
Stop Dammit, stop!' snapped Peter.
So Harry stopped As he later testified before the board he
demonstrated but Dr. Winthrop told him to shut his trap
and pull around the of the accident So he did There
there both in at the nose, and
with his head showed clear through the windshield and caught
there the eyes wide open while the blood from the uguar
spurted out Il told him then it wasn't district
Harry testified before the board, and DR.. Peter Winthrop
did deny He told that he the boss by heck,
and shut up SO shut up After ALL I'm just ambulance
driver.
1t Dr. Winthrop who discovered that the whose
head stuck through the window dead Dr. Winthrop
who the other old sedan and found the
pant of it still living and conscious eyes rolling wildly hor
rby conscious with shard of glass utng from his breast
Dr. Winthrop who took worked the then sad
We've got to get him to the hospital Bring out sretcher
Harry!
The policeman said I've already put in call to Long
wood"
DR.. Winthrop said The hell with Longwood We've got
to do a Cardiorrhaphy on him..
ANNABELE remembered all this very we'll because she
the admitting that night when Dr. Peter Winthrop
in saying Miss krke, hop Get anesthetist
We're doing a cardiorhaphy in five minutes
She got eers She got everything ready Peter just stood
there washing his hands, Oh very calmly while he drove
others mad with his demands Every time he called her Miss
krke her heart jumped and touched something in her
throat reminding her by contrast that he had often called
her pal which silly because he called taxi drivers
pal Pal you make Weston and Ninth in five minutes
Now he called her Miss Krke. and they had the
the table the greenfield operating in three minutes
In three minutes Jeers murmuring quietly mo pulse
doctor. No pulse
The man was white and clarnmy No pulse at all. Why,
he dead! His heart stopped No pulse when Peter
Winthrop sad RIB shears Miss Krke Later she
bered how it The greenfield room was empty
when they went into it. Now it filling rapidly The hos
pal asleep but woke up and filled the operating
That always happened - knew how at opera
ton.
mo pulse murnured letters quietly mo pulse"
The nhalator bag sagged.
Ugly crunch of bone the shears shipped through cart
lage. "Retractor Peter said Retractor She almost
surprised find herself handing him the right instrument
mo pulse - muttered Jefers No pulse
trap door opened in the mans chest under the retrac
tor Peters hand dove into it. heart his hands.
mo pulse said letters monotonOusly.
The heart haccd ees Peters left hand held it
fully The right brought up shining blade The blade ncked
the membrane covering The heart eked spasmodcaly
Peters hand
"Pulse said Jefers He tried sound casual but didn't