The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1952-10-17
Leonard Is Injured
Again in Ball Game

going on. The Academy team is
picked to overcome Riverdale High
but after last Saturdays skunkiug
there's no predicting what will hap
pen. Perry'l be back in, however.
That kid sticks to the ball like Scotch
tape. It's going to be too bad for
Riverdale if they let him fasten on
it and then give him any daylight"
At the moment, Harvey and Kate
were in the nurses station. Harvey
picked up the order book and
opened it, asking, will Perry's'
sister be there?"
Kate shook her head. Virginia
can't CO."
A sigh escaped Kate.
What is it, sugar." The intern
looked up at her, his finger mark
ing place in the order book.
What are you doing tonight?" she
asked slowly.
His face Lit up with a Joyous
smile. Are you going to take me
somewhere" he asked hopefully.
Kate shook her head. Her pale
face had harassed expression. In
an undertone she explained briefly
about Virginia's unreciprocated af-
lection for Dudley Page.
"You mean this Page guys been
playing her for sucker so he could
use her brother to hoist himself to
fame?" demanded Harvey.
well, something like that" MUIR
INJURED Kate.
''The dirty louse," exploded the in
tern, nattening out the order book
until the binding protested audibly.
What do you want me to do? Way
lay him and punch him in the nose?"
mo" said Kate. She smiled at
the tall, indignant young man, think
ing that he possessed all the quail
ties of the ideal knight. II know Viz
ginia has an engagement with Dud-
ley this evening"" she explained,
but / have a feeling it's going to
be broken. 1t would be nice if you
could be around just in case"
why, sure, honey" He smiled
obligingly, then picked up a pencil
and bent down to write in the order
book. Wonder if the gal likes Pc
cans" Kate heard him murmur as
she walked away.
The latter part Of the morning
Scott Kenyon appeared on the floor.
Kate watched him as he came into
the ward with Albert Warren. In his
dark blue suit Scott looked almost
skeleton-thin. He had kept going
during his bout with the virus infec.
ton, but he had paid for it, she
thought. His eyes were dull, the hol-
lows at his temples deep. He pro-
PEELED himself forward with OBJ.
stinate determination.
When one o'clock came every
radio on the floor was tuned in and
waiting for the football game to
start. The day was still dark and
cloudy. A high wind was blowing.
'They won't have the sun in their
eyes," Harvey said to Kate as they
approached each other in the corri-
dor, but wind like this can send
that ball galley west"
LET me know if anything impor-
tant happens" Kate told him.
He halted, catching at her arm
and looking at her in amazement.
aren't you going to be listen
ing?"
II don't know much about foot
ball." she said.
He scrutinized her sternly before
he released her arm. IF you're
going to be a Riverdaler you'd bet
ter mend your ways, sugar."
She went on down the corridor to-
ward a diet kitchen where she in
tended to mix Dickie an eggnog.
But I'm not going to be a River
daler. she told herself. The thought
should have been like oil on the
trouble waters of her mind. Instead,
it seemed to disturb them anew.
She was busy during the first half
of the football game. Albert War
rem had asked her to give an intra-
the private rooms. She did that, then
she put on sterile gloves and gown
and gave young victim of erysip-
elias sponge bath and alcohol rub.
She worked on records, carefully
printing in the spaces below Nour-
ishment, Treatment, Remarks; she
went to the laboratory and did a
blood count; she went to the medi-
cal library to get some needed in
formation; she studied the electro
photographic tracings of a child
with rheumatic heart.
While she worked she was con.
scious of the radios blaring.
Kate closed her ears to the racket
and descended to the Record Room
on an errand for DR.. Warren. A
short time later. when she was COM
ing out, she met pert stenograph-
er from the cashiers office who
said. isn't it dreadful about Leon
ard Perry?"
With a stab OF fear, Kate asked,
What about him?"
why, he got kicked in the head
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