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Pbetiabahe hobeahe bet bob CHAPTER XIV. (Continued ) T was December then, aray and raw, with a wet snow that changed to rain as Mt fell. ‘The country roads were ankle-deep with mud, the wayside paths thick with sodden leav Seven miles from the end of the car line he found a roadhouse and stopped in for a glass of Scotch. “Hello!” called K, There were siow footsteps upstairs, the closing of @ bureau drawer, the Tustle of a wou down the stairs, “Not very busy here noon,” he said to th on the staircase, Then he saw her, It was Tillie, She put a hand nst the door frame to steady herself, Til- Me surely, but a new illic! With her hair loosened around her face, a fresh blue chintz dress open at the throat, a black vel her n'a dress coming this after. unseen female t bow on breust, here was a Tillie fuller, in- finitely more attractive than he had remembered her, amile at hun, “Well, But she dil you've found ine, Mr, Iw n he held out his Just had to do it, not “And how's everything going? You look mighty fine and—ii ppy “I'm all right. Mr, 3 te the post-ottice, He'll be back at 6 Will you have a cup of tea, or will you have something “Scotch and soda," ise” “And shall I buy a tick»t for you to punch?" id Le Moyne, But she only smiled faintly. He was he had made the olunder, Gently the Street and all that per- tained was a sore subject. 8o this was Tillie’s new home! It for this that she had exchanged inal integrity of her life at McKee’s—for this wind-swept house, tidily ugly, infinitely » There were two crayon en- ents over the mantel. One was witter, evidently. The other was paper-doll wife. K. wondered what curious instinct of seif-abne- had caused Tillie to leave the there undisturbed. Back of ition of honor he saw the girl's tion of her own situation, On qooten shelf, exactly between the jotures, wags another vase of flowers. Ie brought the Scotch, already ina tall glass, K. would have A to mix {t himself, but the was good. He felt a new ro- for Mr, Schwitter, fou wave me a turn at first,” sid le. “But I am right glad to seo you, Mr. Le Moyne. Now that the yoads are bad nobody comes very much, It's lonely.” ‘Are you happy, Tillie?” said K. “T expected you'd ask me that. I've thinking what to say.” Her reply set him watching her ( More attractive it certainly ‘waa, but happy? Thero was a wist- about Tillie's mouth that set him wondering. “Is he good to you?” “He's out the best man on earth, He's never said a cross word to me— @ven at first, when I was panicky and @cared at every sound.” Le Moyne nodded understandingly, “I burned @ lot of victuals when I firet came, running off and hiding when J heard people around the place, Tt used to seem to me that what I'd done was written on my face, But he sald a word.” “That's over now?" *] don't run, I am fright- ened.” “Then it has been worth while?” still ‘Tillie glance ip at the two ple tures over the mantel “Bometimes it is—when he comes in tired, and I've a chicken ready or some fried ham and eggs for his supper, an@ | see him begin to look rested. He lights his pipe, and many an evening he helps ma with the istws, He's happy: he's getting fat." “But you” persisted “Lwouldn't go b: to where I was, but [am not hap le Moyne, There's no use pret “And she—there prospect her’— uN. Phere was no solution to Tillie's roblem. Le Moyne, standing on the arth and looking down at her, re- mPimr¢ that, after all, Tillie must work wut her own salvation “There were some people out here lately, They didn't know me, and T heard them talking. They said Sid- ney Page was going to marry Dr, Max Wilson.” “Possibly. I believe there ts no en- rement yet.’ ae had finished with his glass Tillie rose to take tt away, As she stood before him she lov his face “If you like hor as well as T think you do, Mr. Le Moyne, you won't let him get her” “Tam afraid that’s not up to me. js ed up into 2. What would [ do with a wife, ia" “hye. be faithful to her, That'e ‘eine 02 a Pould be © cu in FS EGODIL I LOTR LEI IGN PO Ph OPIS | Story of Romance and Mystery Revealing Lite in a Wospital By MARY PODERTS RINEMART | | Loh Sa SO eRe Bie eld eee Sabet! ROR AB IIA | ” A wow nane Minaya witien Tae) red encuah for Wile, # would marry Wim, ie felt that rian card enowa CHAPTER XV. ALMPAL and Cheating ee turned from thelr wedding | trip the day K. Aiacovered Tite, Anna Page made much of the arrival. It was her quick eye that discerned erana- thicw wrong, Christine waa not quite mony, | /Mirriod fe takem @ iittle adjust. whe maid. “Afior wo! do ourselves for a number! of yours, it Ie mot easy to live for some one eine” | in doar, have hive Christine atratghtened from the ten ;table ahe was arranging. Men are ro eet,” natd poor Anna, who had never been set in any thing in her life. “It is ha them to mive in. And, of mer is older, and his habl - “Phe less said about Palmer's bite the better,” flashed Christin appear to have married @ bunch ot habits.” When she heard a atop in the hall, she opened the door herself. She ha determined to meet Palmer with a eile. But {t was K. in the bi “You!” said Le Moyne, “Why, wel- come home.” She Was finding in La Moyne some- thing that she necded just then, She felt that here was @ man she could trust. ‘The day's exertion had been bad for Anna. 1 Moyne found her on the couch in the transformed sewing-room and gave her a quick glance of ap- prehension. She was propped up high with pillows, with a bottle of aromatic ammonia beside her. “Just—short of breath,” she panted, “]-1 must get down, Sidney—is com- ing home—to supper; and—the others Palmer and"— ‘That was as far as she got. K., ch in hand, found her puise thin, stringy, irregular. He had been pre- pared for some such emergency, and he hurried into his room for amyl- nitrate. When he came back she was almost unconscious ‘They had sent for Sidney, but the little house had no telephone, and the message was slow tn getting off. At 6 o'clock Dr, Ed came panting up the stairs and into the room. K, back this ts Harrict,” sald Dr. E . in the name of Heaven when T wasn’t around, didn’t you get onother doctor. If she had had some amyl-nitrate’— “[ gave her some nitrate of amyl.” raid K. quietly. ‘There was really no time to send for anybody. She al- “ most went under at half-past 6." . Max had kept his word, and even Dr. Fd did not suspect K.'s secret. He gave a quick glance at this tall « young man who spoke so quietly of what he had done for the sick wom- fan, and went on with his work, Sidney arrived a little after 6, and from that moment the confusion in the sick room was at an end. And then, with death in her eyes, she took up her position beside her mother, Once she turned to K., standing watchfully beside her. “I think you have known this for fn long time,” she id, and, when he did not answer: “Why did you let me stay away from her? It would have been such @ little time!” “We wero trying to do our best for the a The Evenin CAN “You & | MUST GO AND TELL MR DOVE ASouT OuR WAR FRIEND "No, “What tim: ‘After 3 o'clock, Sidney had lighted the gas and was throwing on her dressing-gown, When he went out did he say"— quarrelling. in t Jo's gone back to he: ¢ World Daily Magazine. Thursday, June 29, 1916 ) FOR WAR_HE ONE TO ENI art! Cita Sidney, but I don't know what to do.” “Are you 11?” Palmer has not come home. ist suid nothing, We had he has ou Never Can Tell «<= ) \ WE ARE Cron | MUST HURPY TH Say ) To MR OYNAMITE. He 13 WiLL BE THE First Sidney, Tam going home » morning you don’t mean that, do you?” don't I look us if I mean it? How Much of this sort of thing is a woman Supposed to endure?" “Perhaps been delayea. These things always seem terrible iddle of the night, but by morn- ing Christine whirled on her, “This isn’t the first time, You re- member oe lever I got on my wed- OOOO E EARLE DLE DLELL ERLE EEE REBAR AERA CANE T Say CrO0D BYE To MR DYNAMITE BEFORE HE Goes To WAR ) HE IS PROBABLY ON HIG WAY BY THis TIM€ —- ADP ( DYNAMITE ) WOULiN'T Go To ) WAR... A MOUSE SCARES HIM To DEATH tl | CAME To Tete MR DOVE 4 Goop JOKE On OuR WAR FRIEND DYNAMITE “I've got something to tell you,” she said. “Don't have a fit and don’t laugh. If you do, I'll—I'll Jump out of the window. I've got @ place in @ store.” “Good for you!" In the end she gave in. And on the way out he lived up to the letter of their agreement. Wien the car drew up before the Schwitter place he slipped a_five- dollar bill into Johnny Rosenfeld's not over-clean hand Johnny Rosenfeld. True to his promise, Palmer wak- “You here in the ward, Johnny! ened the sleeping boy before 9 o'clock. Grace had eaten little and drunk put Howe was slightly stim- She had not see! 4 death; but she found her on duty 4 the surgical ward. working side by side. Sidney's reco been vous, pleasantly, — _——— — ee ——= ‘> ) r — _ a AM STRONG OY. aor FOR Wap WE Foe Orace HT To & . ‘ j qaHr ; m2 DOVE ) 7 — -J > asa n For the second time in four months the two girls were tion of her previous service under Carlotta made her ner- But the older girl greeted her It was after & when Sidney found an broke. But don't let that jive her the ‘once over,’ he told worry you. Dr. Max Wilson ts going Johnny, “and then go back and crawl to operate on me, I'll be doing the into the rugs again, I'll drive in. Grace sat beside him, ‘Their prog- ress was slow and rough over the country roads, but when they reached tango yet. could do it. The Christmas morning had brough: Sidney's eyes shone. Of course, Max t Hi the State road Howe threw open tho Sidney half a dozen gifts. K. sent both of you,” he replied. Christine! Oh, I ain eure you're throttle. He drove well. Tho liquor her He rifts: He Anat Anna died elite after midnight, a wrong. He's devoted to you. I don't was In hia boot. to took chances Mek Bead eer an inte. tanet ai so that only Sidney wuiet passing, g he knew when she and the two men went away. Sidney kept up well until after the funeral, but went down the next day with a low fever. th “Overwork and grief,” Dr, Ed sald, and sternly forbade the hospital again until Christmas. Morning and evening K. stopped at her door and inquired for her, and morning and evening came Sidney's reply: “Much better, I'll surely be up to- morrow.” But the days dragged on and she did not get about. There were evenings when the Howe car was filled, not with Chri tine and her friends, but with women of a different world; evenings when the destination was not a country estate, but a roadhouse; evenings when Johnny Rosenfeld, ousted from the driver's seat by eome drunken uth, would hold tight to the swing. ing car and say such fragments prayers as he could remember. ‘h night Christine put in, hg One suc! eh QP poy t., lying wakefully in her bed, while the clock on the mante! tolled hour after hour into the night. Palmer did not come home at all, He sent a note from the office tn the morning: “T hope you are not worried, dar- ling. The car broke down near the Countey Club last night, and there was nothing to do but to spend the night there, I would have sent you word, but I did not want to rouse you, What do you say to the thea- tre to-night and supper afterward?” Christine was learning, She tele- phoned the Country Club that morn- that little rat of a Ro rest I thing: believe it!" “Believe it or not, “that's exactly what know hospital had ta are not all in one, norning Pa She CHAPTER his bachelor habits his wedding day, In indolent, rather selfish sald Christine I got something out of nfeld boy, and because I know He's out with her to-night.” ght Sidney one that it took many people to make a world, and that out of these some Were inevitably viciou “It isn't fai me hate all the Palmer cares for you, and yet he can do a thing like this!” Christine was pacing nervously up and down the room, “They thank ‘hheaven,” she said decent men: At 4 o'clock fn the Howe came home. in the lower hall, pale, but entirely sober. fronted him in her straight white gown and waited for him to speak. am @orry to be eo late, Chris,” “The fact 1s, I am all in. was driving the car out Seven Mile Run, We blew out a tire and the thing turned over.” Christine noticed then that his right arm was hanging inert by his etde, lke Palmer, “There are ise, ts another, Christine met him He was rather G HOWE had been firm- ly resolved to give up all rr monogram, and got away with them, laughing at the girl’s gasps of dismay. ‘There was another car going toward the city. Now jt passed them, and as often they passed it. It became a con- test of wits, Palmor's car lost on the hills, but gained on the long level stretches, which gleamed with a coat- ing of thin ice. His Nght car skidded and etruck the big car heavily. ror. Sidney's eyes had glowed, great box of roses marked in D1 Max's copper plate writing, “From neighbor.” has corridor, “Merry Christmas held out his hand, than broken mudguards would have been the result. But on the ice the small car slewed around and slid over the edge of the bank, At the bottom of the declivity it turned over. Grace was flung clear of the wreck- age. Howe freed himself and stood erect, with one arm hanging at his side. There waa no sound at all from the boy under the tonneau. ‘The big car stopped. Down the bank picamed a heavy, goriila-lke figure, long arms pushing aside the frozen branches of trees, Whon he reached the car, O'Hara found Grace aitting unhurt on the ground. In the wreck I of the car the lamps had not been 9; extinguished, and by thelr Ight he made out Howe, awaying dizzily. “Anybody underneath?” “The chauffeur, Ho's dead, I think, He doesn't answer.” The other members of O'Hara's party had crawled down the bank by that thme. With the ald Jack, they got the car up. Johnny Rosen- feld lay doubled on his face und neath. When he came to and opened his eyes, Grace almost shricked ber relief “I'm all right,” said Johnny Rosen- the chapel. rift downtown since morning, and I have Ed's Peggy in sleigh, Put on your things and com for a ride.” pre he sald; to be certain of it, he ma, Netously raised his voice a trifle, “Just a little run, on your warmest thing! Sidney protested. imer con- ‘but she had promised to £0 home, ry well; I'll go.” despair. went back to it. Seeing Carlotta bored, the proba. tloner, Whose ventured @ “I wonder something,” she sald. ittle gosatp with his way hristine a toilet mire But the gift of gifts, over which was @ Services over, the nurses fled out. Max was waiting for Sidney in the he said, and On a smooth “Merry Christmas!" sho sald. sho cried. itmakes road perhaps nothing more serious Carjotta. was watching them from “My car's been stalled in a snow- early this He hoped Carlotta could hear what “Put Bhe was to be free that afternoon until 6 o'clock, Ten to Carlotta had gone by that time— gone with hate in her heart and black The Christmas excitement had not died out in the ward when Carlotta name was Wardwell, if you have noticed “T have noticed that the § o'clock d ye ae medicines are not given,” eaid Car- and found that Palmer bad not ne wag much tn love with his wite, feld. “I gucae Tit get up.” With his lots sharply. been thers, Bul aitholgh sh Kale "But with the Inevitable minunders Sais Ne lfied Bimeaie toe atthe | Mim no moseln” ane pala, pubblng he r jon, anc rac! n the tray ont le, * y always had deceived her, as probably @tandings of the first months of mar- PrRian a anaes te canto mae oy. ee “ he. iabley Beseuiaia toy hovalways would, ele ‘hesitated 19 riage had come a desire to be ap- to you wor! a y confront him with what she knew. eclated once again at his face is ery Me the second time it happened orecte: e anal : 5 As it Was not required that teare wey ne eiccd. It wae aimost value, Grace had taken him, not CHAPTER XVII. be recorded on tha record, Carlotta Christmas then, and Sidney was well on the way to recovery, thinner and very white, but going slowly up and down the staircase on K's arm, and sitting with Harriet and K, at the dinner table. She was begging to he back on duty for Christmas, and K. for what he was, but for what he seemed to be, Afid 80, back to Grace six weeks after his wedding day came Palmer Howe, not with a suggestion to renew the old relationship, but for comrade felt that he would have to give her ship. up soon, Come on out," he sald. "T’ At 8 o'clock one morning Sidney car now, No taxi working its roused from a light sleep to hear a off for Just a ittle run rapping on her door, 3 that you, Aunt Harriet?” aha — It was the afternoon of the day , ented. sat : ; before Christine's visit to Sidney, TAKE THE EVENING WORLD WITH YOU ON YOUR VACATION . ch 1 3 y ad “I don't want to £0 . ‘ ' Sidney Patines ey Fame Chris- “phate not true, ere you So that you will not miss any of the weekly novels and tine slipped into the room. She car- know it.’ ried a candle, and before she spoke she looked at Sidney's watch on the bedside table, ‘| hoped my clock was wrong,” ehe sald, the country roads, eh?” “You and I are through.” “It's your doing, not roads are frozen hard into the country will bring your color ‘Tam sorry to waken you, back.” mins. an hour's run pald no attention to this, Y Christmas Day Sidney was ee a eeent Tce?” back in the hospita! 4 !'ttle wan. but valiantly deter- mined to keep her I!fe to ita mark of service. The hospital wards and corridors Page.” heart and hold it “They're old friends.” Wilson's or.sy about Miss A hand seemed to catch Carlotta’s “piffle! Being an old friend doesn't were still lighted when she went on make you look at a etrl as if you re duty at 7 o'clock. She had been as- wanted to take a bite out of her. OvOK) aces acinar ns may continue to enjoy the daily magazine, comic and other special features. Include them in your summer reading. Order the Evening World Matled to Your Summer Address The MR OYNAMITE 'S GONE .HE Went FISHING THIS MORNING ANO WON'T BE BACK TiiL THE WAR I OVER / ~~ Me Dove LEFT <4 For THE WAR THis MORNING AT THE FI never finish bi marry him,” Carlotta’s pe girl was right down to the de brain, As tnev fe) 0 O © po Oo | ge @ ¢ signed to the men’s surgical ward, and Mark my word, Miss Harrison, ahe'll aannnannnnnnnannanaccnces |. | « By Maurice ketten annanncnnocoanss ep HE ENLISTED RST CALL er training; she'll wero dry. This crude Carlotta knew it ths of her tortured itably as the night followed the day, she was losing her game, She had lost already, unless If she could get Sidney out of the hospital it would simplify things. Sho surmised shrewdly that on the Streot apart. common ground, At 5 o'clock Wardwell to firs prise of that se son, The ward about quietly, C Carlotta Kave cines. their interests were wide It was here that they met on Carlotta sent Mi: { supper, to the sui Idom surprised per- jay suli or shuffled hristmas was over. the 5 o'clock medl- Then she sat down at the table near the door, with the tray in front of hor. She took a hott cupboard, and, label for bi ‘old one. ono of the tray. me In the dining-roon tlon talking, table, Miss Wardwell le from her medicine writing a new asted it over the she exchanged It for size on the medicine at the proba: was “Helleve mo," she sald, “me for the country this. and th I've got eyes in is stark crazy 0} she thinks I don't see it. mind; of the jolts she b When Carlotta © simple life after ‘They think I'm only a proba- toner and don’t se@ anything, but my head, Harrison ver Dr, Wilson, and But never I pald her up to-day for a few nas given me. camo tn she greeted none of them. They did not like her, and she knew It. Before hor, instead of the tidy sup- Der table, she w cine tray ag she “TL guess I've fi. herself. Her very soul was what she had do: ag seeing the medi- had lef! tt. xed her,” she sald to ick with fear of ' | there tery Black fy PRED RK —— I’ | a nant “ oo | Mra “ 1 atl cloned age ‘nly laola dea ” ? urna, iD after UJ hor treat knowledge that he was that» Hd n torn. rh ae | ted tim Her “They say L gave bim the wrong meticine; that he's dying; that - | murdered hin o shivered K. touched ber hands, They were re in nothing ¢ Ten duty at 6 o'clock and tl cines. When the night nurse everything was all right. The a it ahould icine tray Was just J inny Was asieep. Ct went to say good night to hin and hehe waa asicep. f didn't give him anything but what was oa the tray,” she fine fahed pitnou dat the # look Tailwa ly w shifting of the group around the bed, K.'s eyes looked for @ mo- ment directly into Carlotta’s, Just for a moment; then the crowd closed up again, It was weil for Carlotta that it did. She looked as if she bad seen @ ghost-—closed her eyes, even reeled. Miss Harrison is worn out,” Dr. Wilson said brusquely. “Get some one to take her place. Kut Carlotta rallied. After all, the presence of this man in this room at such @ time meant nothing. Sidney's friend, that was all. But her nerve was shaken. The thing had gone beyond her. She had not meant to kill, It was the boy's weakened condition that wae turning her revenge into tragedy. Wilson was at his wits’ end. He had done everything he knew without result, Tho boy, rousing for an in- stant, would lapse again into stupor. It was Le Moyne, after all, who saved Johnny Rosenfeld’s life, For whon staff and nurses had exhat ed all their resources he stepped for- ward with a quiet word that brought the internes to their feet, astonished, ‘There was a new treatment for such cases—it had been tried abroad, He looked at Max, Max had never heard of it. Ho threw out his hands, ry it, for heaven's eake,” he #ald. "mn all in.” When the two great rectangles that were the emergency ward windows had turned from mirrors refleoting the room to gray rectangles in the morning light, Johnny Rosenfeld opened his eyes and spoke the first words that marked hia return from the dark valley, “Goe, this is tho life!” he sald, and smiled into K.'s watchful face, When it was ¢ that the boy would live, K, rose atiffly from the bedside and went over to Sidney's chatr. ‘9 all right now,” he sald—“‘as right as he can be, poor lad!" “You did it—you! How strange that you should know such @ thing, How am I to thank you?" It was after Sidney had crept Uke @ broken thing to her room that lotta Harrison and K, came face to face, The meeting was very quiet, Miss Harrison!" ‘ea, Dr, Edwardes." I am not Dr. Edwardes heres my name is Le Moyne,” “An!* “L hav St. John’s. “No; I- suppose they not seen you since you left I rested for a few months.” not know that you were—that you have had any previous hospital experience,” “No, Are you going to tell them? { shall not tell them, of course.” And thus, by #imple mutual con- sent, {tf Was arranged that each should respect the other's confidence, Carlotta stargered to her room. There had been a time, Just before dawn, when she had had one of those awift revelations that sometimes come at the end of a long night, She had CHAPTER XVIII. seen herself ag she was, Her past SAW Sidney for only a mo- stretched behind her, a series of small ment on Christmas Day. revensew and paswoniie Oem This was when the gay Mt- qarel not look ahead She hate tle sleigh had etopped in herself with that deadilest loath rout of the house, that comes of complete self-revela- Bidney had hurried mdiantly tn for whe enrried to her room the a moment, Christine's parlor was knowledze that » night's str gay with firclight and notsy with hed been tn vain t chatter and with the clatter of her Johnny | nfeld would live, teacups, gained ng by what he hat suf K,, lounging indolently tn front of the fre, lad turned to see Sidney in the doorway, and leaped te : Ls in” she erted, “Lam only here for a moment. Lam ont eletish riding with Dr, Wilson, It's pertectly delightful.” When she went out to the sleleh again K. followed her and tucked the robes in carefully about her: “Just how m: men are in love with you, Sidney?” asked Max “Not one that | know of, unless"— ixactly, Unless!te— “What [ meant.” he eatd with atg- nity, ‘is tl 48 one counts very young me that tsn't really love. *We'll leave out Joe Drummond and myseif--for, ot young. Who 8 sides Le Moyne at the hospital?” “Me! Le Moyn m: suc ed K course, | ain very In love with you he- ‘Any of tho internes © {9 not tn jove with wy sincertty in her rang teld door ier to K, never torgot the ecene tn the forad nole night had shown er the sof any stratag from his new ellox irpriged him int Sidney's slond ide her way up the Nover, In all his her, had phe CHAPTER XIX. IO Harriet Kennedy, Sidney's sentence of thirty days’ | suspenston came as a blow ae the news to her 1 that vening before the for Sidney's arrival Harriet stared at him, “What did sha do” There was a mistake about the medicine, and she was blamed; that’s he'd better come home and stay home,” said Harriet shortly However had hardened her ines'a circled eyes and pathetic mouth “You child,” she sald, “You poor oa ways something tacctnating shout the fa man who “starts on © shoestring” end makes hie way into a fortune. Stel 6 story is told tnt NEXT WEEK'S COMPLETE NOVEL IN THE EVENING WORLD | Love plays a vital part In this inspiring romance of A HOTLY-CONTE He was fi the ' Gold 8. HECHDOLT | TED OIL FIGHT wocccesecesess Nitle ¢ Aoa ort ere world ner Whe her ye ‘ | aaeed for just that ona @ ‘ «Wat , it oy Up- m iu s opened the M » your” ia aa by hinking things aver,” sine 1d Detter f carefully open. muity, Bid- {didn't do It!" he erted passione ately, “I know If didnt. but I've loot faith in myself Leant keep on; thate All last night, |. 1 felt it going, 1 kept saying to 1 om didn't something tm. f mo was saying, ‘Not now, per but rometine you may.’ ” vor K. had reasoned all this eat for himaeif. “After this disgrace’ —— “There Is no disgrace, child.” “Max Wilsun will think me careless, at the least. And his ideals are eo ken to be with you. “IL worship him, K." #he eald tragically, “When [ seo him coming T want to get down and let him walk on me, I know his «tep in the hall, I know the way he rings for thi elevator, When I see him in tl operating room, cool and calm wh every one elso ia flustered and ex- cited, he—he looks ike a god. Then half ashamed of her ont- burst, she turned her back to him on stood gazing at the emall coal What about yo “It's all over, anyhow, since this, If he'd renily cared he'd have come over to-night. When one ts in trouble ‘one needs friend: Back in a@ circle she came inevit- ably to her suspension, She would never go back, she said passionately. She was innocent, had been falsely ie uestionea ernately questions er, alte @oothing and probing. “You are positive about itt “Absolutely, I have given him his medicines dozens of times.” “You loked at the label? “I swear I did, K." “Who else had access to the medi- cine closet?” “Carlotta Harrison carried the keys, of course, I was off duty from four to six, When Carlotta left the ward, the probationer would have them." “Have you reason to think that either one of these girls would wish you harm?" “None whatever,” began Sidney ve- hemently; and then, checking herself —“unless—but that's rather ridicus ‘hat 1a ridiculous? ve sometimes thought that Car. lotta—-but [am sure she ts perfectly hme, Even if she-if she’— ven if ehe likes Dr, Wilson, I don't belleve-—— Why, K., wouldn't! It would be murder.” “Murder, of course,” eaid Ky “in intention, anyhow. Of course ghe didn’t do {t. I'm only trying to find out Whose mistake It was.” Soon after that she eaid good and went out. She turned in the doorway and emiled tremulously back because I believe tn you” With a quick movement that was one of her charms, Sidney suddenly closed the door and slipped back into tho room. K,, hearing the door cl thought she had gone, and avily into a chair. My best friend tn all the wortat* eaid Sidney suddenly from bebind him, and, bending over, she kiseed dim on the cheek ‘The next Instant the door closed behind her, and K, was left alone to such wretchedness and bliss as the evening had brought him. Joo Drummond came to see Sidney he next da Joo!" she said, and thenr you sit down @ going back? “Absolutely.” “Because you love the hospital, or because you love si vody connected with the hospital? Sidney was thoroughly angry by thia time, angry and reckless.” She had coma through so much that every nerve Was crying in passionate pro- If it will make you things any bet she going back for + She was sorry words s¢ oncerned, long to be. listening. : ranged far ahead. vu think Christine has her hands with F r, don’t vou? Well, 1 take Max W soing ave mM : in Christine ever dreamed of | can tell you some vbout him now that wil make nk tice." Sidney nad reached her Mmtt t over and flung t Every worl thag you s me how right [ ant 4n n you, Joe," sald, “Real Ay rings about ¢ « a bad boy. I don't want ye back until you Bave grown up.” . (Toye Continued) sw | |