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Show THE LEHI SUN. LEin. UTAH PAGE SIX EVR Illustration ly IRWIN MYERS, D. S. C. Copyright by Oaorga H. Dorar, Company. WNTJ Brvlc By LEONARD NASON i wmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmimmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm aas as asnaaaaaaaaa , CHAPTER VIII Continued .19 , Another long night of horror, of queer low-roofed building, like a sectional sec-tional barrack, only built of brick, with , tiny opaque glass windows. Eadle, laid down upon the cement floor, found himself In a narrow aisle between two rows . of beds. Theee beds were all decorated with some kind of overhead construction, with weights and pulleys and all sorts of things, like-the framework of a skyscraper. sky-scraper. This must be a fracture .1 . 1. . O I k fPr I it SI were for the supporting of Injured limbs. A nurse was making. up beds. "III!- said Eadle weukly. "How's chances on something to drink ?" rPhA r iifan atnit nnttiB And tttafxaon 1 1 V returned with a tin cup and a slice of bread and Jam. Endle bit on this oreaa. u lasted uue a niouimui ui ashes. Ashes 1 That was all he could think 'of. Me could not swallow It The coffee In the cup he tried, but It was cold and had a frightful tuste. He put both bread and cup down beside be-side the stretcher. - A man In a long white coat, evidently evi-dently a doctor, hud been busy with a dressing when Eadle had been carried car-ried In. He finished his put lent and then came down and looked at Eadle. "Where did this man come from?" asked the doctor, wrinkling bis nose. "The bearers brought him In." "Where are you hurt, soldier?" "In the belly." said Eadle huskily. "Well, this Is a fracture ward. Come on, take this man out of here!" .. There was an orderly who had bis bead over the doctor's shoulder and tn htm Iho ilnpfnr rnrnprt- "Go get Jacobs and take this man away," be directed. "Where will we take him to, sir?" "I don't care where you take blm. Get blm out of this ward. I'm not going to have him smelling ray ward all up." "But " "Do you understand English?" The orderly departed and likewise the doctor. Out Into the cold they took the sergeant, ser-geant, there was a great deal of bumping bump-ing over rough ground, grunting from the stretcher bearers, "and finally they entered a tent, a long green affair, that was used to house wards In field hospitals, but which oow seemed to contain some of the hospital personnel. per-sonnel. They began to go away after Eadle had been brought In. "Who said to bring him In, here?" demanded some one, who seemed to be In charge. "This Isn't any place for a man tn that shape 1" "Well, you tell the doctor that. Ha gave us our orders." "Put. him on the bed by the door." "And move the bed outside," suggested sug-gested some one. They transferred the sergeant to a bed near the door. The door was, of course, but a bole In the side of the tent, and the wind and rain drove In. A leg of the bed was broken and the sergeant's feet were higher than his bead, while his body sagged toward the corner where the broken leg was. A young man. hardly more than a boy, who was probably the orderly In charge of the tent, came and stood beside be-side the bed. "How do you feel?" he asked. "Rotten," answered Eiidie. "How long have 1 cot to stay here?" "I don't know. This Is a convalescent con-valescent tent. Probably they haven't Kt any room In the wards." "Tell me," asked the sergeant. "Do 1 smell a little riper "Yes," raid the orderly soberly, "you do." "I haven't had my wound dressed for five days," said Eadle, "and It's u belly wound, too. I suppose it Is a tUtle high, but 1 don't notice It myself." my-self." Tin going over to the otllce," said the orderly energetically, "and tell u.cin to look after you. There's a mls-UUe mls-UUe somewhere. I'll be right back. While he was gone Eudie began in EU.Tcr. It was bitter in that tent t,nd the sergvuni way chilled. He was cubing net from the rain oi the dis i-j'i'e f liis wound, His position v.-j decidedly uncomfortable, for he t,.:j on a sharp slope and kept slip p ug inch by inch, so that lie feared eventually he would fall off the ht tr.'o the grass. Tlie orderly returned, but had no rr 'S fur the sergeant. Eadle suf-f suf-f red terribly. A long time after dinner, when It v already growing dark, a fat man i. jiared with two Mreteher hearer 'Where's the sick man?" he called In a hearty voice. Cadle scarcely felt himself being j.iced on the stretcher, nor the swaying sway-ing and Jolting of the Journey. The rrard was a quiet, comfortable sort of p'ace. There was do noise such as there had been In the evacuation hos-r!tal, hos-r!tal, no clgarettf smoke, do movement move-ment It surely was a bare enough place, thought Eadle, but he was here for n while and would not have to make any more Journeys by hospital train. Well, he was glad be bad arrived. Thirds might be a little rough at first, but they always straightened out. Overhead Eadle could see the rough boards of the roof, full of cracka and knotholes. His was the last bed on the left side of the ward and beyond him was an open room, containing a large wooden table, some kerosene stoves, and piles of dressings under glass cares. Across the aisle was a solid brick partition, with a half-open door opening onto the aisle. This was probably an office. The walls were of cement for a distance of two or three feet from the ground, and above that naked brick. There was no sign of any arrangement for heuilng. The sergeant felt really at peace with the world. Solid comfort, that was what he was enjoying, for the first time since he had been. In the array. Let the war rage and the big shove succeed or fall, he was out of It for the winter. All over. Jake appeared and sat down upon the opposite oppo-site bunk, where be lined his Jaws with snuff and, producing a plug of tobacco, bit off a piece. "I haven't seen you do that eince we were on the transport," said Eadle. Jake made no reply, but got to his feet and turned back Eadle's blankets with bis hairy hand. "Here I" cried Eadle. "What do you think you're going to do?" "I'm going to dress your wound." said Jake. "You'll play h 1 dressing my wound, you big Jugheadl" cried Eadle, struggling to yell the way men do In dreams. "1 wouldn't let you put Iodine on a boil 1" Jake, however, continued his arranging ar-ranging of the blankets. Eadle, turning turn-ing bia bead, discovered that there was a nurse on the other side of the bed, holding a great basin and this nurse was abetting Jake. "Are you all drunk?" cried Eadle. "Don't you see that this man Isn't competent to do a dressing? God knows he knows as much about being a doctor as some I've seen since I've been In the army, but that's po reason he's fit to undo all my stitching." The bandages and a number of pillow-like pads 'were removed from Eadle's middle and Jake, skillfully enough, was washing off the sergeant's stomach. Then he flourished a pair of tongs and Eadle, watching as though be were another man, saw the tongs take out a long section of rubber rub-ber bose, a yard or so of gauze, and then a great number of balls of cotton. cot-ton. In would go the long tongs, In to the hilt, and out they would come with a roll of cotton in their Jaws. Eadie was fascinated. There must be some kind of magic here. "Listen, Jake," he said finally, "let me see you take a rabbit out of there." "If you were 8 well man," said Jake gruffly, "I'd slap your Jaws for you." "You'll make little ones out of big ones for the next couple of years If you make a pass at me. I'm a sergeant, ser-geant, sick or well, and don't forget It for a minute." Jake Irrelevantly began to roll die on Eadle's stomach, rolling them around and around, but never calling his point. The nurse watched the procedure calmly. ' "I thought you were dead, Jake," said Eadie. "Where have you been goldbrlcklng so long?" "You'll never know," replied Jake. Ho removed his rubber gloves, put on a cap, and began to fumble In his pocket for a cigarette. "They did a poor Job on you there." he continued. con-tinued. "When that stop? suppurating I'll cut It open again and do a better one. "You'll play n I!" said Eadle with energy. Jake made no reply, but went away, rubbing his freckled hands as If to warm them. The ward was warm, quiet, restful. rest-ful. The sergeant felt sleep stealing over him. a complete perfect restful uess such as he had never known before. be-fore. He did not want to sleep, how ever, he wanted to stay n withe add en Joy the sensation. That drunken Jake, having the nerve to dress a man's wounds! Well, hospital was a soft place to be after all. . Keller than spending the winter up there In Unfold Un-fold mud. "How do you feel, soldier?" Eadie turned. There was anothei nurse Mulling at him, one lie had not seen hefore, but the thing Hint iistoti islied him most was that she was at tractive, not to say beautiful Ho hal not thought there were any young tini pretty nurses In frame. He hat never seen any before. "Oreat !" answered the sergeant, "except ttiut my feet are cold." "Ill fix that." said the nurse. "Would you like an egsnog?" "I ll say I mould i" "Leave It to me!" smiled the nurse She was back in a few minutes, win a basket full cf hot-water bottles These she shoved against various parts of the sergeant s frame, then s!ie whisked away again, to return with the eggnog. "I'm a good looking guy If I have a shave once a month or so." observed the sergeant The nurse laughed mer ri!y and the egsnog having all disap fieared, she had one of bis feet off the hot-water bottle and began to massage mas-sage It with expert hands. "You needn't go trying to pull my leg," said Eadle, "I haven't been paid for eight months." Again the nurse laughed. She rubbed and kneaded, stopped to take the sergeant's pulse and then began on the other leg. Eadle's feet began to tingle and bia legs to hurt His feeling of deep comfort began to melt away and changed Into one of Irritation Irrita-tion and unrest His wound began to ache and each time that the nurse rubbed her hand on him, It shoved him a bit, and the stitches tugged on blm like so many fish books. He began to feel as though be had been broken Into fifty parts. "Hey, lay off, will you?" be finally demanded Irritably. "I felt all rlgbl until you started to monkey around. You're making me sick I" "Am I?" cried the nurse Joyfully. "Do you feel rotten? Good!" "Good? How come? Good? Say, maybe you don't think I've got a bad The Soup Went Down, but It Only Increased Eadle'a Disgust With Things In General. wound. Read my card!" But the nurse was gone after a fresh set of hot-water bottles. Eadle ruged and pleaded alternately. alternate-ly. His wound began to pain him terribly. ter-ribly. He discovered that the ward, after all, was cold as Ice, that some men were playing cards at the far end of it talking loudly, that a man a few beds away was whittling. A door somewhere kept slamming and he could hear the rattling of pans. "Lay oft I" cried Eadie. "For sake, leave me alone I 1 was all set to go to sleep and you've got me stirred up so that I won't sleep for a month !" "You were set for a good long sleep," replied the nurse, "but you don't know how long it was going to be. Now I I've got a pulse started on you and you've begun to take an interest in-terest In life. I'll pour a bowl of hot soup down you and see If that doesn't make you a little more amiable." The soup went down, but it only Increased In-creased Eadle's disgust with things lu general. The man a few beds away still whistled. . . "Say, cut out that g d d n whistling!" whist-ling!" yelled the sergeant, making a great effort The whistling stopped. "Who ttie h I told you you owued the ward?" demauded thw whistler. He nevertheless neverthe-less whistled no more. "Who's that bellyachln'?" asked some one. Privileges of Peers In England there Is always wore or less objection to the house of lords, and efforts art constantly made In the direction of "reforming" it lu one w:iy or another. The word really means egtuils, utnl conies down fnnu the Middle ages, when the great ten nts In chief ot the crown, that is. those who held their land directly from t lie sovereign, were regarded as lelng all equal (for "pares' lu the Latin) In law. Gradually u distinction distinc-tion arose between these direct ten anis, or greater barons, and the rest And so the old "p;ires" became ttwrs And as tl.eir tirsi duty was to atteml the king courts. s bil by bit grew up tlie custom of attending parlia mom. Thus originated the house i lords. The peers have always enjoyed cer tain privileges. The peer is exempt ed from serving on a Jury, the theory. True Education The entire object ot true education Is to make people not merely do the right things but enjoy the right t hi ops, not merely Industrious but to love industry, not merely pure bat to love purity, not merely Just but to hunger and thirst after Justice Eos-kin i it-m that iruv la Number One," replied the whistler. "He's got appendicitis appen-dicitis an he thinks he's got a right to go bellerin' around at real wounded men." CHAPTER IX Further Treatment of Gunshot Wounds There was no monotony In hospital hos-pital life In that hospital. Reveille was at seven o'clock every morning, awl consisted of an orderly appearing appear-ing beside a man's bed and pounding upon a wash basin. When the man awakened, he was given a basin full of water and allowed to wash himself. When the task was completed, the orderly went to the next bed and .repeated .re-peated the operation. Breakfast was at eight a bowl of cream of wheat with a spoonful of molasses, also one mug of black fluid called coffee. There was sometimes evidence that rodents had been nibbling at the breakfast food, but then, as the head nurse re marked, a man was not compelled to eat It If he wanted to leave It and wait for dinner nothing would be said. There were fifty-two beds In the ward, with three nurses. The head nurse fought with the other nurses and with the patients ail day, the second sec-ond nurseit was she who had taken care of Eadle the first day made the beds, washed the patients, took tern peratures, swept the floor, and made her?e!f useful. The third nurse was the doctor's assistant She went around with the butcher cart every morning and was busy all sfternoon making pads and dressings for the next day. The personnel of the hospital hos-pital were boys from some Eastern college. Some old grads bad ad dressed a mass meeting at the college and asked for volunteers for a unit that was to go immediately overseas. What the unit was to be he did not say. It went overseas, too, and "took over" this nice new base hospital. The boys found that their part In the war was to perform menial tasks for wounded men, and since they could not revenge themselves on the men who had lured them Into the army, they took it out on the patients. Y After breakfast the slam of a door and a hurried irritated voice asking if everything was ready, announced the arrival of the doctor. Then would come creaking of wheels and a rattling of glassware. The butcher's cart a rubber-wheeled affair bearing Instruments, Instru-ments, dressings, and various utensils for the catching of blood or the bathing bath-ing of wounds would appear, shoved by an orderly. The doetor would put on his rubber gloves, be tied into his apron by the nurse, and proceed witn the dressing of the wounds. Eadie being in Number One bed, was always the first victim. The other members of the ward watched and waited. Eadie usually gave them something to think about, for he had a deep wound, Into which a pair of tongs a foot long was plunged again and ugain, and moreover the doctor hart never forgiven hlra for the things he had said the first afternoon, when Eadie, semi-delirious, had thought the doctor was Jake, The doctor bore no resemblance to Jake except that he smoked Incessantly. There was no merriment, no Interest Inter-est in anything but the approach of the doctor, and when any man groaned or cried out, every one In the ward trembled in sympathy. They knew they would get theirs In turn. The dressings were all changed by dinner time, which meal usually consisted con-sisted of bully beef and boiled pota toes, or soup for the liquid tiiets. Day after day the same things, varied by Growth of Centuries however, being not so much out nf any favor to himself as from a fear uiiii ins rank might Intluenet his fel low jurors to his own point of view And in addition, he has the inagniti ceiit though uever exercised power of keeping ou his hat In a court of law. Very Embarrassing , A Profession:) I 111, 'lie! una ..no nl. :ht posing in riie mile before a dozen men m nc uieui oi) getiing every sf ond of the fleeting tiour, in 0 Sje ice nroKen oniy ty tlie nervous scral ;ch mg or onnrcoiii on p:iper. when incident mcurred which throws odd liplii on feminine psychology lutes -Walt Mchouiil. the cartoon an an re- ist in -mis is tne l.l.er Oniy a minute or so remained I . f m fore the period of rest. when, with a sharp shriek of Reiiuine alarm, the lovely model leaped from the stand . . ..... , I IT- ond fleif outside the circle of II foctisod nrxm hr f ght "I saw a man looking down onon me Hum mai wiuuow next door!" nhc managed to explain when her agira-tinn agira-tinn had subsided Self beltef or confidence can best be cniuvarea ay tne tiahft of aocceed- prunes or canned apricots for dessert on Wednesdays and Sundays. In the. afternoon the patients slept, or read, or visited witn eacu oiuer, per beans and canned tomatoes, or corned beef hash-canned and canned tomatoes. The lights went put at nine o'clock and the patients could sleep. Ah I they could sleep, but I A man named Carrel and another named Dakin had Invented a fluid that kept a wound from suppurating and assisted as-sisted granulation. This fluid must be Injected into the wound every two hours night and day, by means of a number of rubber tubes that remained permanently in the wound. In the daytime It was not bad, but in the cold darkness of the winter night the nights are very cold In France, even in summer the man had1 to be dragged from sleep every two hours and this liquid Injected. It could not be warmed, for that would destroy Its properties. Eadie had four tubes In him, but some men had eight or ten, even more. When the orderly or nnrsa .nvpak-pnpfl them thev WOUld swear terribly, cry out at the bite of the Icy Dakin, then drift to sleep again to be aroused two hours later for the same performance. The nieht orderlv was a man who made up for all the deficiencies of his fellows. A faint whisDer. "Orderly." and he was there at the bedside, Qe had bought himself felt slippers to deaden the sound of his footsteps on the floor. If a man felt ragged dur ing the night or was suffering, or thirsty, or cold, or just lonely ana homesick, the orderly was there to do what he could. He brought up food from the officers' ward for the seriously ill, not telling that he had begged this food for himself from bis brother, who was orderly In the officers' ward. He wrote letters, he shaved, he smuggled In wine, al ways patient, always smiling, always working. Every man In the ward har-borded har-borded two ambitions, two projects for the day when he was a well man. One was to beat the day orderly Into a red mush and the other to give the night . orderly the best drunk he had ever had in his life. The really interesting time began after Eadie could sit up. The first day he sat up a minute, the second ten, and by the end of a week he could sit up for a whole morning. He began be-gan then to make acquaintances. His name, he found, was Number One, the men in the ward being designated by tne number of their beds. There was a man a little way down the ward called the Regular, another the Marine, an Italian who had lost his leg was caiiea Garibaldi. There was a man known as Forty whose voice Eadle naa learned to recognize during the weeks when the sergeant had lain on his back. There were also four German Ger-man prisoners in the ward, all badly wounded. There was no love lost between be-tween the Americans and the Germans. Ger-mans. The latter had no friend but the head nurse, who spoke to them charmingly, and went out of her way to be agreeable to them. She was perhaps strengthened In this course by the outspoken disgust with which the Americans regarded it A morning arrived, then, some time after Eadie had been sitting up, when ne really felt at peace with the world. The breakfast having less caraway seed in it than usual, he had eaten a hearty meal and so felt the need of tobacco. He regarded his watch. Five minutes of eight, a man was not allowed to smoke before eight o clock, but what were three or four minutes? He selected a cigarette from a package his friend the nurse had given him and lighted It. a long drag and a cloud of smoke rolled out skirts aiSle" There W8S " 8Wish of "Ah!" said the head nurse In a tone of satisfaction. I caught you. didn't I?" up, agreed the sergeant, putting, two minutes of eight" The outside door banged then, announcing an-nouncing the arrival of the doctor. o she went out with no more ado. Eadie dragged on the cigarette. " bet she turns y0U , for tegular grimly. "Aw, ,,." answered the sergeant he!snt snbad as you birds try to out. She never dirt anything rough to me an.1 she wouln, f you du,,)', M,va,lie sas, t.od illuming to ihos, Jerries" .wo0.,?,''? ?id,aii,hi"S. but one or M ,a 1B,,ed a Then the office d;r slummed ami the doctor Limed olenpatKadie. Hehind hi The '-ml nurse. Two juinl)8 erea, the sergeanr, bei ln were smoking this morning toe- Mia did yuu do i, for? KeTer Iis wrdSnwe,,gaiD Wr.ta iiiis WJrd 'No ce. If ,oa do .. have you oU, 0f that bed and on the rockpiie. fnderstandr -Vessir." 8aid the ... k r-'r tUrued bruPtly and - of4r,er ,';:xr, THERE Is nnthin li . ' takm place of BVerA?K an antidote for pain. 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