Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-28


We fixed up private room at one end of a prac-
ticaly deserted ward. There was single cot with
a rubber sheet clamped on it got two nurses
besides Mary to help us and two orderlies.
Danny had had his regular injection at seven
O'Clock that morning. BY supper time ms eyes
were all pupils and he made gallant show of
trying to eat but the thought of what the night
held for him stood in the way.
Seven o'clock came-time for the evening dose
Danny had gone to bed in the private room. He
looked at the clock, watching the mindte. hand
crawl past the hour and wet his lips with his
tongue His eyes were like black caverns.
Mary left the room for moment and Danny
beckoned to me to come close. Doc just want
to tell you" he whispered IF if start to pass
out. for keeps. just let the curtain drop
. l don't want to go on this way.
Quit it, Danny" 1 said, forcing a confident
note "We're going to pull out of this in good
shape you'll see. !" But the look in his eyes
was that of brave man facing death. however
when Mary came back he tried TO cheef her up
AS best he could.
Eight o'clock came and the lads hands were
twtching like things with lives of their own. He
began TO perspire-it rolled from his forehead ana
soon his hair, fiery red normally, was dark and
damp and the pillow under 1t was soaked through.
By nine o'clock the linen sheet over the rubber
one was soaked Danny said through clenched
teeth "Doc-you better get the straightforward.
With his last atom of self possession he sat up
and held out his arms for the sleeves and buckled
them tight behind him. Soon the heavy canvas
Jacket was wet through.
told Mary to lie down and try to rest
would stay by the lad. She went and | sat down
beside his bed
His lips trembed and at last rush of words
came tumbling out doc, you got to give 1t TO
me.
STEADY, soldier this is the works.
Through cenched teeth he forced the words,
Sorry, Doc"
But the tears were pouring from the corners
of his eyes and the rest of the words sank into an
agonized moan
A shudder shook him and then another-ter-
rible commissions of the diaphragm-and he began
to reich nurse held curved basin and wiped
his lips with gauze The boy vomited until his
stomach was empty but the spasms continued un'
til he lay back exhausted, moaning ncoherently.
There were few minutes of quiet. l wondered
if the symptoms could get any worse-H a human
being could suffer any more than Danny Malloy
was suffering now. But this only the begin
ming
Like an explosion the first scream tore itself
from the boy throat. Instantly Mary Hughes was
in the room, her arms around him, pressing hei
cheek against his hot forehead but the lad didn't
know she was there.
ooh Mother of Codw His voice rose past
human register until it was like the sound of ar
animal being slaughtered-a terrible inhumar
squeal
His bladder let go, drenching the cot while the
orderlies worked fevershly to change the liner
but l told them not to move him. How long woulc
the symptoms continue?
took Mary Hughes firmly by the shoulders
'Mary-go over to my bungalow. Stay with Mrs
La Roe, tonight. You're only torturing yourself
staying here
She shook me off. "Tll stay with him!"
She held his face between her hands trying tc
get through the wall of pain trying to let him know
that she was there-that she was suffering with
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