Evening Star Newspaper, May 27, 1925, Page 22

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, Martel was what {8 called “a good| “She’s away In Provence” he said, |long time very still in the large arm- | was very ill and would like very invalid”; he did not sigh, complain, |not looking at the sick man's face.|chair by the window, and he tried [much to see her. LO( : INN fret; and when he forced words be- |“I've sent her a wire at prodigious not to listen to the tortured breath He keeps on asking for you,” he /| tween those harsh, tortured breaths |expense, saying you want her to|ing of his friend, and he wondered |wrote In one note, “and h he only said: come and see you. She ought to be |what more could he do. He had done [ want to see you dancing! He's almost | o1 want Conauelo—to come and— here any moment now." {all he could, surely! Four times in|got brain fever as well as pneumonia dance—please, boy! “Good—good!” And what was left |four days he had gone upstairs to|you see. You might be a sport and do N Certainty,” musmured Noel Anson.|of Rev Martel's fine face tried to|see Consuelo Cox, and four times she | something abont it, Consuelo. 1f vou | he whis. |had refused to see him. The answers | would just come down and e a WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 1925. "The Dancer of Paris [")“i-:;i-: = BY MICHAEL ARLEN. seems to Has the finest view of the Chesuucake om_Baltimore to' Norfolk stories. Attention, Patent Attorneys Copyright, 1925, b~ the Ridgway Co. (Continued from Yesterday's Star.) “Good God, the man says i'. as though it was a double whisky!" “Little more whisky and a little less work would have done Sir Roy muttered Mason. “If I may say so, sir—" *'Say on, Mason.' “THe caught a chlll, sir, walking up and down these YOO“\*! ull night and getting ‘ot and opening ‘all the win dows to shoot drafts into him as they might be bullets.” Mason hated drafts. ““And then, sir, this pneumonia came Doctor's in there g 2 v - B ‘Ah, that's good!” murmured Young Anson, for the great bearded figure of Dr. David was one of the mos: re- spected figures in Parls, fine physician and charming gentleman. “About all that is good, sir,” said Mason. “Sir Roy won't have a nuss, and But, by Gad, man, he must have a nurse! He must be made to have a nurse! You can't have double pneu- monia without a nurse, Mason! Why ft's—it's—well, it's sily!” i “E simply refuses, sir. Went mad when we got a nuss to him last night. Nice girl, too, sir. Scotch. But Sir Roy, ‘e went mad, delirium and all, ¥ jumping out of bed and swearing ter- ¥ rible that he'd 'ave no women messing i about his bed, not nusses nor ange & with one exception, sir. keeps on $ making that exception.” “One exception, Mason i son wondered immensely. “Well, sir, this is private, if you { understand me, sir- Ot course, I understand you, ma could pass an examination on what haven't told me."” Vell, sir, seeing that you're Sir Noel An- 'Oh, get on, man dangerously ill we mus this exception at once. “Dangerously 1l he is, right enough sir. Doctor says ‘e’s as good a brain fever on top of it “Couldn’t happen to me!" muttered young Anson. And Sir Roy, sir, ‘e keeps on ask ing for that young dancing lady up. 1 stairs to come and—" S “Look here!” cried Noel Anson ‘One of us is mad. Which? Do you iseriously mean to stand there ention and tell me that Sir Roy Miss Cox to come and nurse him Not to nuss him, sir—to dance to get hold of ‘im,” muttered Mason sulkily, yet with a note of apology for his master, Sir Roy Martel. Noel Anson whistled a thoughtful note between set teeth. “And I thought he hated her]” he muttered. “They was engaged to be married once," said Mason thoughtfull how, 1 understood they was engaged. York.” sald young And then what Roy, sir, ‘e broke it off. So I did he!” said Noel Anson. ““There’s a lot of oh's and ah's in this business, Mason.” “And Sir Roy and I, sir, we never heard nothing of 'er again until she suddenly comes and lives right atop of us Rere, all covered with friends and Jewels, if 1 may say so, sir. Lady she was originally, too. 1 think it upset Sir Roy considerable, coming against her again.” Young Anson frowned thoughtfully. Thinking always made him frown like medicine, on added, almost nervous'y: Roy, sir, I'm sure e’ would be grateful If you'd come and take Bl your quarters here until the crisis y no more, Mason,” said the young man absently * ¥ % % YX/ISE men say that there are laws governing all things, whether it be power or pneumonia, but, becaus there must be a “‘catch” in everything they add that we very seldom know what those laws are. Of pneumoni we know that there is a crisis that may come after days, and that if the patient is alive on the morning of the eighth he will assuredly—anyway, the chances are that he will y alive to die another day. In the case of Sir Roy looked, from da as if he would not surt the crisis. He reathed with increasing diffieulty. And he seemed to care so little whether he breathed at all. He lay as though acked by a tremendous, dark indif- xcept every now and then, s a flash. said Dr. David grave- him in a wretched A||" to overwork. Body tired, mind dead tired.” Mason grunted. He had no sy pathy with all this working. Martel it drafts. Mason, these days, had a fatal air of told you so” all over him. The two men, under Dr. David's di- rection, took turns in the sickroom: Mason in the morning, while Noel An- son read the newspapers in his room at the embassy, & room especially fit- ted up for that purpose with chaire, desks, telephones and Blue Books: and Noel Anson in the afternoon, while Mason was “putting things straight,” a leisurely pursuit also intimately connected with newspapers. When Mason was mnot “putting things straight" he was generally to~ be found indulging a grim passion for polishing brown shoes. “Sir Roy,” he told Noel Anson, “is very partial to a deep shine.” Noel grunted. The sick man spoke very little. He insisted on neither of his two “nusses” sitting up at night with him. Noel begged him not to be an ass, when he at_once lost his temper, his haggard, saturnine face trembled with wrath, and so they had to soothe him. “Mason can make up bed in next room,” he just managed to say &t last. “Leave door open. Call him when 1 want him.” But it was young Anson who took the bed in the little room next his friend’s. Mason was inclined to be rather annoyed about that, but sald nothing. Mason had spent a long life in being rather annoyed about things but saying nothing and it told on his nerves. On the third night, as he was “put- ting things stralght in the sickroom, suddenly said Roy Martell: “Leave the door open.” Mason opened the bedroom door and, with a resigned look, left it open. Not that door, you fool!"—a harsh whisper. Why, there ain't another, sir!" pleaded Mason. Hall door, man—for God's sake. Leave it open—all night.” iason consulted with Mr. Anson. ‘Of course,” sald Mr. Anson thoughtfully. “Naturally you must leave the hall door open all night, Ma- son. It's always done in cases of dou- ble pneumonia “Both balmy,” thought Mason. Five days passed, silent days, fe- verish nights, tortured by a very eick man's fight for breath Delirilum had at last left the thin thing which had once been the ar rogant . Roy Martel. He scarcely And |spoke; he wanted nothing. Roy EEEE ]EED_DEEEE LANSBURGH & BRO. & BASE | fi & 'TRANCE, 8TH ST. AND E ST. MENT French Voile Flowered Voile Darker Voile These dresses went like wild fire in the first sale! A new shipment just arrived, and with it another opportunity for Washington women to complete their summer wardrobe. STORE AIRWAY, 8TH ST. SHOE SHOP VESTIBULE Beautiful Voile Dresses Shop Early! ou musn't talk so much, old Good -Lord, any one would | think you'd only got extremely single [ ned pneumonia by the way you chatter|to grin on and on A thin, “Boy, why doesn't she come Noel Anson found he ,could . not look at the haggard face with the burning _eyes. the blankets very thoughtfully. There is a great deal in arranging blankets | don’t ta - "a sick man, and Noel Anson|Roy.” made a great deal of it. And then Noel He set to arranging The Hub—Seventh and D Sts. smile. you know, el ¢ thing—in a world of—white said as much!” touched his wrist. he will—come, “You bet your life, of the maid, an unsympathetic maid, had beer “Miss Cox is not a. home, sir” “Miss Cox excee y regrets the illness of Roy Martel, sir, but is afrald she cannot see vou today, as she is resting.” fiss Cox is not at home, sir.” is not—-" time, and stamped downstairs, a good| And he had sent notes several notes >h, hell!” he had sald that fourth | step or two for him and smile for a moment or two—couldn't The doctor it might difference—please, Consuelo He had bitten his 1ips in penning | He had wanted to put ||| _ 3 a nd-death ||| Several desirable offices available at letter. was almost it's a beggin letter as it is!" he had thought old Roy would hate it if he knew— how he'd hate it! 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