New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 5, 1927, Page 10

Quicksands of Love Adele Garrison’s New Phase of Revelations of a Wife—— Philip Veritzen Drops in On the Night Club Party | Jivoluntarily, 1 clutched Dicky's | arm tighter as I heard Jack Leslie's volce raised in angry expostulation, | and realized to whom he was talk- ing. The next instant I regretted my action, for 1 knew his intense dis- | like of the night club dancer, and | feared that my apparent fright might cause him to accost censur- ingly the man whom he had labeled “the capering cockroach,” To my relief, however, he appar- ently paid no attention to the wrathy @ancer, but hurried Lillian and me through the doors of the supper club, and after an effusive greeting | by the hostess, found s for us at a table, which, unused to such places as I am, 1 saw was one of 1he most advantageous in the crowded room. But that he had seen both Jack Leslie, and his co panion, I realized, when, as soon as | we were seated, and he had given his order to a hovering waiter, he fNned to me with a little frown | confacting his forehead. | “Wasn't it the Baker insect from | the fourth floor that Leslie was| ragging?” he asked. “Yes, it was,” I returned gravely. ‘What's that?” Lillian demanded | sharply, and I realized that from the other side of Dicky she had misse: the incident which had so troubled me. I at once told her of the cen- sure to which the dancer evidently was subjecting our queer neighbor, | 2nd Lillian looked suddenly thought- ful and troubled. “Just what was it he sald?” shy anked. | “He wanted to know why the dev- 11 she waited till this time to tell him some mysterious thing.” Dicky returned and Lillian suddenly shrug- ged her shoulders. “Perhaps she had just decided te elope with another man,” she said, and at the mental picture her words presented as we contrasted the de- bonair dancer with the ugly, re- formed elderly woman, Dicky ai forgot our vague concern A Lost Trap By Thornton W. Burgess The trapper does no mercy feel Who sets the vicious trap of steel —O0!d Mother Nature As you know, certain of the peo- ple of the Green Forest are hunters. They live almost wholly on smaller people of the Green Forest, and these smaller people of the Green Tlorest are always in fear of these fierce hunters. But there is one thing that is undersfood among all the people of the Green Forest, lit- tle and big, and this is that the hunter hunts only that he himself may live. He hunts fairly. It is his wits against the wits of those he seeks. It is understood among all the little people that the price of life is the price of constant watch- fulness; and that only the smartest | live, which is quite as it should be. | Man alone, among all the hunters ‘has ever stooped to unfair hunting. Man alone has ever set a trap. The | trap is unfair. It is a deadly enemy, lying in wait at a place where no | enemy is to be expected. It is mer- ciless. If it does not kill at once, it | still holds on. The hunters in fur and feathers kill at once. The steel | trap seldom kills. So it is that all | the little people of the Green Forest and the Green Meadows, all the lit- tle people who travel up and down | the Laughing Brook, around the Smiling Pool, and along the Great River, look on the trapper as one | without honor and without justice | or fairness. Now, Paddy the Beaver is wise in the wisdom of the trapped and hunt- ed. The moment he discovered that break in his dam, he suspected a hunter. Until well into the night he | and Mrs. Paddy worked to repair that dam. And when the next day they found it cut open again, Paddy was more susgicious than “I know.” said he to Mrs, Paddy, *“I know what it means. One of those two-legged creatures wants to | cateh us. He knows that we will | repair that dam. He knows that we must repair it.” “But what T don't see is what he | eut that hole for in the first place.” | declared Mrs. Paddy. “What good did it do? What good can it do?" 'No good,” replied Paddy, cause he doesn't know that I know what he is about. But if young Beay ers without our experience were in our place it might do him a great deal of good. You mark my words, my dear, there is a trap somewhere around that opening. it fellow wants our skins. But he'll keep right on wanting. S0 it was that when Mrs. Paddy went over second break in thei sisted that Mrs, Paddy shoul come too close. He himself, taking the greatest care, looked that ope ing all over. At first he found notl ing piciou He found_nothin guspicious, yet he w sspicions all the time. He co t get it out of his head that there was a trap there somewhere. Again he went around, slowly, carefully, swimming, but taking the greatest care not to step down on anything. He was just about to give up and decide that after all he had been mistaken when he discovered, cleverly hidden at Jjust the point where he would be most likely to step in repairing the hole, a suspicious bit of iron Paddy got a stick and care poked it in over that bit of jron He brought another stick and did the same thing. How he worked. “he- rad to rep dam Paddy Ny Iresently he had that place well cov- | ered. Then he and Mrs. Paddy wor ed as only Beavers can work. The buried that trap, for a trap it was, where it could not possibly harm any one, Tn fact, gkl | conjecture concerning | recogniz | that Farmer Brown's Boy | vised they sprung the | trap with one of P“ sticks they of t\p leper have been the applica- fev: cents. laughed. That this was what Lillian | meant us to do, I guessed, but had | no opportunity to fathom her motiva for she scized the conversational ball, and kept it rolling so fast that there was no opportunity for further Jack Leslie, even if we had wished it. “Do you see Nocl Veritzen?” she asked after a few minutes, agd 1 nodded an ¢ for T already had d the delicate sensitive face of the young vio he sat in ‘It seems a crime for him ste his talents playing in a like this,” I commented. “It needs a stronger word than ‘erime,’ " Lillian retorted, “but I've no thesaurus handy. If T only had the power of the high justice, the middle, and the low, what I'd do to that stiff-necked ther of Noel's would go down in history as the most ficndish refinement of torture r invented You're most amusing when you're blood-tt ty, Lil.” Dicky laughed. “But—talk of His Satanic Majesty —and all the r of the proverb. Train your eyes a little to the left, old girl, and tell me what you see.” Lillian obeyed, caught her breath and for the fraction of a second to place | | stared undisguisedly at a tall figure who was being welcomed so raptur- ously Dby the spectacular hostess, that it was plafly to be seen he was the unexpected cap sheaf of her tors. “My sainted aunt! It's Phil Veritzen himselfl” she exclaimed under her breath and then added with a swift glance around,— “Be prepared to strut your stuff graciously. The only vacant seat s at this table.” “Oh! for the love of——" Dicky began crossly, but Lillian shot a quick, warning glance at him, and he subsided only just in time, for the Thostess with her hand laid affectionately upon Philip Veritzen's arm was bearing down upon us. Copyright, 1927, by Newspaper Feature Service, Inc. Paddy got a stick and poked it over that bit of iron were pushing down. They heapea up the mud and piled it in and pack- ed it in until that trap was so deeply buried that they knew that trapper would have to cut the dam wide open In order to find it again. Then they filled in the break in the dam, and tired, but happy, and once more safe, they returned to their house. This time the trapper did not an- noy them again. He gave up. Pe haps it was because he found out had dis- covered what he was trying to do. Anyway, no more traps were set for Paddy and Mrs, Paddy. (Copyright, 1927, by T, W. Burgess) The next s Home Yet Not at Home. Your Health How to Keep [t— tory: “At Causes of Illness BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Tditor Jour of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine In Cavville, La., the United States government maintains a stitution, at present 2 From time to time som e ¢ ot harg the patients til the attending nee they cured, hich is dete u not d physicians have been niined by b ischarged the most care seientific asked to yus fn- uminations. have the e Twenty-nine | epers e N to spital at var die to the hos- scrious condi- Changing formerly constituted wko w where Ideas was leprosy those tients, known that gerous to re n it it is those urs thic reral is & not so dan- comi n contact A few that chaulmoo; haa virtues in the tre 1ent of this The authorities at Caryill say that absolutely conelusive re ports have not heen obtained, b that defir has fol- 1o number of ma years ¥ o was found peciti improvemen ed in a sufficiently larg cases to encournge bot sician and the patient ing the treatment | Various methods have for giving the oil so that it may be distre Other in continu- bee chanlmoogra fmprovements in the care | | NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, tion to his condition of those things commonly included under physical therapy. These are hot and cold baths, light, heat, massage and ex- ercise. Patients Cheerful Under such treatments improve- ments have been obtained in ses. | of stiffness of the joints and weak- ness of the muscles, especlally of the arms. is likely to suffer pains pressure on the nerves ules of this disease. have been relieved by methods now employed. In a recent visit to the leprosari- um, 1 found the patients unusually cheerful for hospitalized patients The patlent with leprosy from the by the nod- These pains the newer | under continuous control. Many of the patients were en- gaged in industrial pursuits. Most of them avail themselves of the ra- dio and lectur The most beautiful surroundings have been provided in this institu- tion by the government. The rooms for the patients are commodious. o) hing possible is done to pro- vide th se unfortunate sufferers with a livable existence. FASHIONS By Sally Milgrim When Planning a Black Costume, Consider the Youthful Effect of White Trimmings. Black, especially when touched with white, or trimmed with bril- liant details of one kind or another, is delightfully youthful in effect. For this reason it is affected by young girls as well as by the more mature woman. Care should be taken, however, to select youthful materials, the most satisfactory of the new fabrics being crepe satin. tched today is a very young affair of black crepe satin embel- lished with white chiffon and em- broidery. Gray little sleeves of white chiffon give a fluttering line fo the bodice. Two tiers, one of satin and the other of chiffon, nc- hieve the same effect on the skirt. In addition to these cnriching de- tails of white chiffon are discs of black and white embreidery placed at a low line on the bodice. The skirt, save of white chiffon, and very short. Altogether an ideal little frock for luncheon and tea wear during the festive winter months. An engaging frock of black crepe satin is trimmed with white chiffon and small discs of black and white is plain, narrow | embrotdery Menas for the Famlly (By Sister Mary) Breakfast—Rolled oats with chop- | ped dates, thin cres | codfish, cornmeal muffing, milk, cof- | ycar | Dinner | turough a | erumbs, | the phy- | Tabl n de- ( taken without | creamed salt Luncheon — Dried pea timbales, med carrots, apple sauce, ginger d, graham b d, milk, tea. Veal steam, tomato and mushroom sauce, stewed rice, date nd banana salad, lemon sponge pie, whole wheat bread, milk, coffee. Tomato and Mushroom Sauce One cup canned tomatoes rubbed sieve, 1-2 cup broken 1 tablespoon butter, 2 tablespoons sifted dried bread 1-4 teaspoon salt, 1-2 tea. spoon pepper, 2 tablespoons cream. If fresh mushrooms are used, sim- mer in the butter for five minutes n add tomato saucc. Cook over a low fire for fifteen minutes. If canned mushrooms are uscd, sim- mer tomato and mushrooms for ten minutes and add butter, sifted crumbs, and salt and pepper. Stir until thick and smooth. When ready to serve, stir in eream. can be cre bre mushrooms, used in of cream and of course the sau e thickened with flour in bread erum (Copyri; 1 can A { Aspirin Gargle in Sore Throat or Tonsilitis ) ) ! garg lets b o dissolving f Aspirin” spoonfuls of wa thoroughly. two ‘“Bayer in four table- . Gargle throat cpeat in two hours if cossary | re you use only the Bayer Aspirin, marked with | Bayer Cross, which can be had in| tin boxes of twelve tablets for few + rvice, Tne.) | place of | i | Jim was alive. | | of Mollie Elwell's life. | wir and and effective | genuine | soemed WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1927. Brokengl NFA ICE INCG,, WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE “To the home of Prof and Mollie Elwell in ndenville, Ind., one night © in October, 1898, comes Martha Dalton, a nurse, jearing woman who had fainted ¢n a train. Elwell is an artist. He has a son, | Jim, aged 5. Late that night the woman bears twin girls and dies without revealing her name, The story then moves forward 18 | ye: . The twins, now growing to | beautiful womanhood, have been adopted and named Margaret and Elizabeth. They have been nick- named Ru W Betty. Jim Elwell enists in the World War. He then discovers one of the twins is in love with hin. Put in charge of a machine gun unit, he is ‘shell-shocked and, through a mixup, is registered as John Powell. Ie is removed to an American hospital and reported dead. The family gets the news of his death and is heartbroken. It is then discovered that father of the twins is dead and | that they are the nieces of the wealthy John Clayton of Indianapo- | 1 The 1 go to the Clayton home for a visit. Word then reaches the Elwells that Jim is alive. NOW BEGIN THE STORY CHAPTER XXIII ge that the The me opened w secretary of read: ! “You are hereby informed that the report you received from the war office in January announcing | the death by shell explosion in rance on Novewber 7 of your son, James T. Elwell, was a mistake, He | alive and confined in Hospital 3 on Long Island, N. Y., but is | ¢ ill. Would advise that you pro- ceed there at once, if possible. Ask to see Nurse Nellie M. Downing on | your arrival at the hospital.” He looked up from the typewrit- ten words on the yellow sheet of paper and his heart gave a great surge. Mollie P rof Elwell was standing in front of | him, the dark shadow of a new fear creeping into her tired-looking eyes. | The girl: she began with jerky | articulation. Has one been—has | something—" she stopped, the ques- | tion hanging. | No, dea said Prof huskily as he wound his around her with a tendern of deep emotion, “it’s the me: ge of hope and cheer and gladness that will put the sunshine back into the heart of my Mollie. So get liold of yourself, old pal of mine, hecause you're goin' to hear something great!” He took a deep breath, “All ready? Well?>—and he paused once more— “Jim is alive! T report of his death w ake. He's in a hospital on Long Island, New York, but he has heen very I, so the me sage states.” Joy rarely kills, and it didn't kill Mollie Elwell, although her hushand felt her body slump for just an in- | stant. Then it quickened again and she reached for the telegram in his | hand and read it with staring eyes. “God is good to us, dear,” said Mollie Elwell a minute lat She spoke very softly and a prayer of gratitude lay in the tones of her voice. Then a new shadow erept | into her eyes and darkened for a moment the glad light that the good news had brought. “The message, Prof,” she said slowly, “states that he is vers ill. | “We must go to him, Prof, at once. We must start tonight. We'll call well arms born | or its fluttering flounce [up the girls and then catch the first train, Oh, Jim!” And then the storm broke and the rain came down in torrents. Prof Elwell let her cry. Himself he walked over to the window and | looked out on a world made sudden- ly bright. The sun was warm and a | soft breeze blew in. He said, nk | God!” and walked back to Mollic. But her storm of tears was an April shower, a brief downpour through a rainbow in the sky, a shower that freshened and lifted up the drooping flowers in the garden What a God-given thing, Prof was thinking, was hope—the one thing | that springs eternal in the human | “Without it life would be a | shuck and a weary existence and an irksome drag.” To Mollie, when she had at last lifted her head, he said, “We must | call up John Clayton on long di tance and let him know immediately so he can'tell the twins. Think of their joy when they get the news! I'd give anything to be there when they hear it | John Clayton, summoned by the | butler to answer a long distance call, heard Prof Elwell's voice and then %0 far forgot his dignity as o out in a voice that reverberated throughout the big ho “Marg ret! Elizabeth! Come a-running! They came, on the double quick. ‘layton turned away from the phone briefly to tell them Prot was on the with good news “About Jim?” Ru “But no—" her face 3 “I'm not saying,” said John Clay- | ton. “Talk to him yourself And over the phone Rusty and Petty, sharing the earpiece, heard | from the lips of Prof Klwell that sereamed. | a hospital up in A mistake was n e just found it out The gitls cried out in one 't we go up to see him k) rrof as afraid they couldn’t. v sick, girls, and .y think it best up there that his mother and father come alon The twins were disconsolate for a | moment or two, during which John | vton, looking at both of them keenly, sought to discover which one it was that was the only girl for Jim Elwell. But he failed to find what he w “-” looking for. He had seen both of them put their hands up very quick- when they learned the news — letty to her lLeart, Rusty to | throat. Both faces had grown sud- denly pale and both voices had fall- en to awed whispers. DBoth of them when Drof Elwell had hung up, in a daze and talked inco- “And in voice: ly the Lht rently to their uncle amid a pro- e flow of tears. *After a whil ton, their nucle, fu said John Clay they could take a trip to Long Tsland would go with it until he is on the don't Jim, “But we must wg road to recove how he i | trying that girls. and sick 1in he to hung But gentleman, quixotic w Ve, be he 1o} pic about and “Bcehave yourself, y. g 1t the these was an he he en the and in his mind he guess., uncle is party He t the table drew little late suitc Chicago with | in Cent pocket. hurled Mollie 1 | get train very, driver shut Dut ret to him And to e led live Prof out rk only ry He “I'a the of then in tir again, he one, had r now, lebrate Elwell went to five each, and Twe which to for shoved his watch back in his | shoutcd a ta hopped in lwell i caffic inned, and they “Goodness! gained t gu he o hlow the show for dinner.” P the hundred dc a his wife, hoarded arrived in T into ad of were " panted her Prof patted I “There’ still left in many @ the and you can bet on served with jocular f Mollic smilc was window wondered and | died in alive hours arms her right the le 1 » cling But her and or rou lip: They ien s sv “Ahout Jim?" both | “But, no—" and s a he Everything tin. would old Tiome girls would be which pethe: marricd rt, happy noy was happy, on her her eyes told of {he singing. at the it among | was a mother whose died in France. som, France t00. and the song leoked liy She pas: her Jim after ting for WO neck, bring him she told her there, and one was his 100. They body. Rusty her face fell, them little honored h of the hoy who so denly had been snatched back from the g He had seen of looks a sudden interchange told him- | and your you to Jad nc e in town hank with + driver knew I ng throngs and thes son had fought his k would self., would would Sereamer. | hreads % Clifford L WebbedErnest Lynn Mike, or I'll call the guar happily ever after. a fairy story to Mollie ting in the racing and sec | them. Livell taxicab w know had been so dark of late I now glorious sunshine athing her in its Keenly, my honorable the sud- Sl 1de did not know that she ¢xchanged positions w ihat wi new the disc alive had brought with i i, that John Powell was d rmed a{ Nor did she know woman in Newar named Helen Craig what the and the knew h was & | "not know that the young soldier who | me, Mike John P old | Lad been ticketed as lay on a cot in the Long Island 1 looking on a world with d N 18 eyes, unspea unt ing, unmoving—a living dead n 01d Lady Destiny was still p ,{he strings. And the lady at | has quite a perverse way abou ctimes she pulls them one nother, She on with safet run true to forn . . ws. and and A one for city ars ) sometime samble 't alway o doces; in ot . Leaving Prof and Mollie ir taxi rushing to catch wenticth Century to New Yorl move back a little distance ir story to picce together some broken {hreads. It becomes n ity to introduce one Mike an, ex-soldier of Uncle Sam's Franc Mike, be it whispered, was nd he looked the part. He was that way, too, and the event wa important one in the Shamrock Corne | the first day in April of 1 back end of Finnegan's I looked down into Pokerdice 1t is related of Mike by sor his humorous and unyeracious | rades in arms that just a week that into the | out on the hack porch to give } look at the scenery across the roof-tops toward B Iyn Bridge. orant| o BUt Mike, and him and a3, 50 + tende light in r heart out the so the story goes, {ed he He looked down ins Sufferin’ cats, Ma!” he yi ting the scene below. T down in the alley! The and they're shootin’ | indic | slant there had e not wa Brief el his s on all S Tl buy you a old man ke a cleanup. shtub and the growler, v all of which it d that Mike had a wea for rolling the bones, Which true. But on the day we are duced to Mike he met an old fi e back to The e would pal Tive broken threads. friend was a nurse named | Downing, who had administer: a shell-shocked youth in Fran N CHAPTER XXIV lone of the ike ndering through City Hall New York. the old fountain he stopped. old dried-up fountain which wa running dry, for the big stone i of Bolivar Brutus, which with a fine and sardonic | humor later christened Civie 10t yet been erceted. Mike stopped, however, not t | mire the fountain Ihad seen something tripping toward him sen v else, 1t from @ park and it wore a uniform. uniform of 4 would have Jut a nurse. And a remarkably tao, with she he a soldier, for looked at Mike would have 1y, But nd slim high- ankle, The little Lim, for she the glad hand smile, “Why, looked the and he had an eye rched instep and a sl nurse seemed to Mike Hennegan!” sh claimed joyfully. “I certainl glad to see you again! .ml;m s0 healthy and good!” She added that when he ha the Tospital over in France h had her worried. “You didn’t very pert. What are you | now 2 - ¢ smile trembling on her Jim E region taking place lip up two bits and I'll go dow but becanse Oh, it was like , sit- ith a lips. e and the clouds had lifted and the of happiness was rm benefic ence. had ith a and lwell t the ad. little girl e did owell ho umb. hink- man. ulling times t her. way, is not one she m. Elwell in } | “it's the k, we n the of its e Henne- | army | Trish, born as an of on which Alley me of com- after April Yool day when he came | world his mother took him him a | stretehing way rook- | fool- ud, ooed, ke a nan’ L new a new may be kne: R intro- riend, and this contrived {o piece together The Nellie ed to nce. Hennegan one morning was Pra When he drew close to The still mage Komeone se of irtue, 0 ad- he came ACross Not Mike that, pretty nurse, a very petite figure. lieen of the heavy tank pattern Had other Mike liked them young for a ender know rushed right over with and a welcoming he ex- y am And you're a left e had look doing | :se\\'ed up in his coat when he was hrought to the hospital at Metz that i the | Whiskers are | ing about. { dome on the World Building for half | rant on the corner and get {and yellow Mike grinned a whimsical grin, a grin so wide that the ends of his mouth came very near to touching his ear lobes. “Well,” he made answer, “I'll tell you, Nellie, darlin—or Downing, I mean—I'm just hangin’ around. And the hangin’ is pretty good around this park. The mayor gave orders to the police last week to let ex- service men sleep on the grass—i1 we'd keep the snow shoveled off. An’ we get all the icicles we want to eat free of cost. They drop from the eaves of the municipal building.” That, Mike went on to explain, was why he was looking so fine and fat., “Icicles are great for gas-bombed soldiers’ with a little salt on ‘em— salt on the icicles, not the soldiers; they don't need any salt — w been fed up on salt—salt bull, horse, salt everything. “Of course,” he went on, his gaze sting speculatively on a hobo at sase on a nearby bench, “it's under- stood that ex-soldiers have gotta keep away from the city lodgin® houses an' jails. They're well filled all the time with cash customers— mollbuzzers, kups, an’ cannons. When didja get back from France, an’ where yuh goin' now?" The laughing mouth of the litfle | nurse straightened and a serious | look came into her eves. “T returned yesterday on a steam- er from Cherbourg,” she told him. *“And oh, Mike,” she went on quick- ly, “seeing you made me forget for a moment, but I'm on a very sad assignment, #In connection with a young soldier, one of my patients over in France. He was ghell shocked at Sedan and his brain is wrecked. “He's now in No 3 Hospital on Long Island and there has been a terrible mixup in his identity. We supposed from letters and pictures of an elderly woman and a girl found salt he was a John Powell of Newark. But when Mrs. Powell and the girl came to visit him on Long Island they said they had never seen him before.” How those pictures and letters came to be found in his coat, Nellie Downing went on, was a mystery. “The war office was notified and finally communicated with the hos- pital authorities in Metz, but every- thing was topsy-turvy in France and is yet. This young soldier belonged to a machine gun unit of six, four of which were blown to pieces by a German shell. Part of another body was found near the shell holes and buried with hundreds of others. ““All those bodies have been taken up and are now being prepared for shipment back to this country. So you see how impossible it was’ to straighten out matters over there. I'm hoping to get seme kind of clew, but I'm afraid I won't.”” She shook | Ler head and looked across the | zo. | Long T “you're the right sort, all right, through an' through. I knew that, o’ course, over in France, th’ way vou looked after us gassed birds. But—holy Pat!” he added with a chuckle, “if T'da had this last night what I couldn’t have done to that crap game in the mailin’ room of the Planet! Wow! The “right sort” held up an ad- mionishing finger an@eyed him se- verely. “You listen to me, Mike Hennegan,” was her stern command, “you get yourself a week's meal ticket and a room with the balance of that twenty and keep out of crap games. Now, do as I told you and hurry back.” “You said it, Captain.” Mike Hennegan jerked his heels together and saluted. “Orders from head- quarters. Attention, company. I'or- ward march!” The “company” marched. marched straight to the nearest r taurant, filled up on four orders ¢ ham and eggs, washed it down with three cups of coffee and then, fecl- ing considerably strergthened. marched into a barber shop, called for a shave and shine, got them and marched out again. Half an hour after he had left his superior officer, Mike Henncgan was facinz her again in City Hall Park, T brought back the shave, Cap- tain,” he stated, his chest thrown out and his shoulders back, “the last one in the commissary. I'll snag a meal later. All I had time for was a few eggs and a little ham. That'll_carry any soldier until it" time for mess. So lead on, Capfain The detail is all ready an’ rearin’ ta Next stop Number 3 Hospital nd. Under orders to make clf useful to Nurse Downing. “Behave yourself, Mike,” infer- rupted the “captain,” rising and fac- ing about, “or I'll call the guard and youw'll get ten days on short rations. Now come along. But the irrepressible and irre- sponsible Mike had got somecthing sironger than toilet wated when he left the barber shop and was not to be suppressed. Hence his former nurse, on the way to.the hospital in Long Jsland. was kept in a state of mind fluctuat- ing between a desire to scream and to cuff him soundly. She managed, however. to hold herself in check and so they reached their destination without any casual- ties. Nellie Downing, Red Cross nurse, presented her assignment papers to the hospital superintendent, who looked them over with interest. “The patient referred to here,” he It | stated when he had finished reading and had looked the nurse over, too, tagged John Doe Number 2. There is another here whose condi- similar to his. Both their identities have been lost or misplac- ed. Number 2, upon his arrival, was in a terrible shape, as you are aware. park, a worried expression on her | face. After a moment she turned | back again to the man in khaki. Don’t you want to go over with | she ashed, a little plain- | tively. “We'll take a surface car over to Brooklyn and then get a taxi out to the hospital. Don'l you want to go Mike Hennegan allowed himself to | look at her—quite a long look. Then he scratched his ear meditatively and stroked his chin where a three- days’ growth of beard glinted warm- ly in the rays of the April sun. Again his mouth took on a whimsical twist as he glanced down sideways at the good-looking nurse, “Well,” he made answer slowly, | just like this, Miss, Downin T'd like to go, all right, but I'm, I'm | not exacty what you'd call blistered with jack.” “Jack?" she repeated. “You know, dough. You see, I haven't got a card yet in the Pan- | handlers’ Union, so they me work on the Big Stem. I was thinkin' of joinin’ a subway mob, but the cannons say my hands are too big for liftin’ pokes out of tight hip pockets. That's why these " “I understand, Mike,” cut in Nel- lie Downing, nodding wisely, for she had been bred in N York and knew fairly well what he was talk- T think I can fix you up all right so you can go with me. Just turn around and look up at the a minute,"” Mike turned and looked up as he was told to do, the while his grin spread alarmingly. He was a good guesser, Mike was, and, as they happened to be standing in front of a hedge, he guessed at once that & Red Cross private bank was going to De raided for his especial benefit. But Mike wasn't too thin-skinned and it didn’t make any difference 1o him right then where it came from just 80 he got it. “Here, take this,” he heara the voice of Nellic Downing saying. He looked around again and the volce went on: “Go over.to that restau- a good meal. Then get shaved and come right back here. I'll be walting for you on one of these benches.” Mike accepted the bill that was heing shoved at him. It was nice and had the figure 20 on it. He smoothed it out with a loving touch. Then he reached out his right hand. “Shake, little partner,” he said: won't let | “During the months since then he has recovered the use of his limbs | and can walk around the corrido by himself, although a careful watch 9 kept on him even feed hims clu at all times. 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