The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-06-21

if / 50 IN as went through
the door . = h1-5ilal. Moc, prom
ise!"
Il wish I could. dear" he re-
piled And I do premise this:
that II it's not strictly n-cc-1ry
you shall rot be moved"
Her usually soft eyes giorcd at
nm. The consent OF the patient
must be obtained beiOrc-" She
began.
We won't talk OF It now" ne
sOOthed her. Il haven't an idea
you'll have to go to a hospital.
It's probably Just a touch of flu
or something like that. A few DAYS
in bed, and the right medicine,
and you'll be as good as ever"
AS he started toward the tele-
phone she called TO him. Not DR..
VanNeSs. MacI l won't have HIM
Not a neighbor, a friendl IF I
must have someone listening to
my heart and lungs l want it to
be stranger"
So Mac called a young ply
sIcian whom he knew; and while
Dr. Stern was busy with his re-
bellious patient upstairs, AIDE
ladies family waited anxiouSly
downstairs for the verdict.
Il can't tell yet" he said when
he joined them. I'm having some
blood tests made tomorrow. II
looks like a low form of typhoid.
But where on earth could she
have got typhoid here?"
In concert they all started to
tell him of the Springfield visit;
then stopped abruptly and al
lowed Isobel to complete the tale.
The woman she visited lives
Just out of town. I don't even
know whether there was city wa
ter there or not. She just got back
yesterday, you see, and has been
too unlike herself to tell us any
thing about it,
Eric asked: Shouldn't she be
in a hospital?"
''Of course she should. but the
very mention of It throws her
into Mysteries" the doctor said
with Impotence. in her present
condition. and without her con-
sent / have no right to order her
there Well, we'll see tomorrow"
Not Much Wiser
RUT they were not much wiser
II when the reports of the blood
tests came in. They were slightly
positive on several counts; IN
dulant, typhoid malaria
But she can't have them ALL"
cried Brenda.
she doesn't. in fact. have any
one Of them" the doctor in
formed them gloomily. This
simply means she's been running
temperature for a long time so
its stimulating any number OF
t hin gs. T ere's infection. of
course. I'll have more tests made
and we'll soon locate It."
But Adelaide'S illness proved
TO be one of those unaccountable
cases which battle medical science.
Try as he would DR.. Stern could
find no focus of infection. Yet the
fever rose daily. nausea and
weakness persisted and Adelaide
reused only to full consciousness
when the word hospital was
spoken in her hearing.
Brenda showed her cardboard
with its neatly drawn squares
under her bed. and installed her
self as nurse. ISobel relieved her
but Isobel had her work to do.
Both the men helped at nights.
Even Grenadine could be trusted
now and then to sit by the bed
and see that Adelaide's few wants
were supplied.
And presently Brenda received
reinforcements. Miss Ormon
came over the third day of Ade-
ladies illness.
Il may be too old to teach but
I'm not too old to help care for
the sick" she announced GRIM
~. you look tired out, Brenda.
child. Go take a good long nap
while stay with Adelaide.
Kindly DR.. VanNess came over
every evening to hear young
Storms report He said he under
stood perfectly that Adelaide
might prefer a stranger to
friend in her illness. Maud came.
toe. and tried to take her turn at
nursing but she spilled the entire
bottle of alcohol over the patient
when she tried to give her a rub.
she could not pass the bed with
out humping into it. and alto
gether Brenda concluded that
Maud could be of more help cut
side the sickroom than in it.
IF you'd plan the meals for us
and sort of superintend Grena-
dine now and then" she sug-
gested.
One of the greatest rurprises-
though Brenda said afterward
there were so many it was hard
to grade then-was the efficiency
of Mrs. Arnold'S Dorothy. She
came late one evening and in
sisted on sitting up with the pa
tent during the night. She was
so altered IN appearance that
Brenda'S tired eyes hid - look
twice to recognize hc-. Her heavy
hair had been cut and thinned,
and the permanent was an accom-
Dlished fact. Il was not becom-
ing 70 her, as her b-ncfactor
never tired f pointing cut. But
to Dorothy herself ( was the
equivalent &C 4 magic robe, and
IN her own eyes she v.alkcd n
beauty since its attainment.
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