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Show SIN FOR SHORT " 1 Taleqrem Fiction, by VW Hunt CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE "You'll hold my band. David?" "Of coure. Sin! But what la Jim going to think T" "He out of town," ah admitted. "He paying for the operation. 'That on reon I want to nave It tomorrow. It hurt hint to ta aaa ma auffer." An expraaaioa of pala croaeed Davld'a face. "It bun ma. loo," ha aald. She put an eager hand on hie. -Dear David, but you arc to strong. You can stand It I mean. Jim can't Not becauae It's m. Ha s that way with everyone." "You're Mill very mucb In love with him, rnt you?" Her eye evaded hi. A faint color came Into her cheeks. "Yea." aha lied. "It would be very dlsloyel of m not to love him ftr everything he ha don for me." G to Slarp She did not aee the look In David' eye, but ah felt the contraction of the hand beneath her. "I want you to be happy, honey! If that meana marrying Jim, then I'm for It One hundred per cent." If he only knew! If aha could only have told him thaa oa tha eve of lha operation what waa really In her heart ! But how could lha when It waa Jim' generoelty which waa making that operation poaelble? "Even If I don't lov Jim the wy I did, th leat I can do la keep till about It," Sin reminded ber-aelf. ber-aelf. - - But ah was grateful that It waa David, not Jim, who eat bealde her that laat night giving her courage. "Everything going to be fine. Sin! You'll Jut go to sleep and when you wake up you U be a new woman." "How long do you auppoae It will be before I can walk again?" "Tha doctor about 10 day to two weeks." "That will be wonderful, won't It?" ah aaked, wanting ta b re-atured. re-atured. "It will. Now promt m you're not going to worry." "A little about Uklng the anesthetic." anes-thetic." she confessed. "But It will help If I know you r holding my hand." I Lava Yen! Tou ran count on that" David promlaed. Early tha next morning ha waa there to amile at har on bar way to the operating room. They bad given "You're not aorry, Sin?" "Sorry? Oh, no! I'm aa glad. You don't know what thla meana to me" "Maybe I do. Maybe you've already al-ready told ma." Hi dark ayea behind their shining shin-ing glaaaaa were beaming with bap-plneea. bap-plneea. "8ln, darling, there'a no uaa hedging hedg-ing with ma now. You aee, you did talk." "I did?" ah aaked. In a weak vole. Btaylag Longer "You told tha world," David aald triumphantly. "It waa tha eweeteet mualo I over beard and under cir-cumetancee cir-cumetancee I could not poealbly have Imagined. Becauae look, darling, dar-ling, what could I do? You bad ma on tha epot And did thoaa nurece and doctor laugh?" "It muat have eounded terrible." "It waa worth being kidded about for the reet of my life." be declared. "But Jim promlaed ta do whatever what-ever waa neceeeary," aha aald pui-xled. pui-xled. "I alill don't understand. He waa going to talk to tha doctor the very next day." "I got there flrt" "W'ht do you auppoae Jim win ay?" "Doe It matter?" ha demanded. She shook her head. She had not heard from Jim alpra ha had left for Chicago, but the next day a letter Informed her that ha waa compelled to stay longer than ha had expected. "1 hope you ara getting along nicely," Jim wrote. "I didn't have a chance to talk to the doctor before I left, but I will do eo on my return." re-turn." I A week paaaed, during every day of which aha made rapid gaina. It waa Ilka floating up to heaven from the drpth of complete despair. Her appetite returned, aha slept without with-out a drug and her old seat for living surged Into her vein I "Lov u sure wonderful," one of th little n ureas sighed. "You're like a different peraon." "There certainly ia no privacy around here." Sin complained. "A patient can't even fall In love, It aee ma, without tha whole boepltal being In en It." "When patlent ahrlek It to the houaetopa the way you did." the nuraa retorted, "we can't very Weil keep from knowing It." (Continued Tuaaday.) (Copyright, ItlT, for Tha Telegram.) bar a hypodermic which made bar exceedingly drovrey, but (h waa sufficiently conacloua to feel the ateady praaaura of bia finger agalnat bora. It waa har aole link with Ufa aa aka waa awept out Into thoaa dark wavea which had ao nearly smothered smoth-ered her before. Thla tlma they eurely would hav dona a bad It not bean for him. "David, darling. I need you. Pie aaa don't go wy! I'm going to marry Jim. David, but It you I lov. Don't go away, darling! I'll never tell you becauae you aaa I bava to marry Jim now, but I love you, David. Da-vid. Don't go away." "I'm here, Bin! Co to deep now." "Where ara you?" ah sobbed, loet la mlt of black fog. "Right here, honey! Holdingyour hand." "Don't go awy!" "If all over. Sin. The operation' la over and you're all right But I won't leave you." Gradually tha comfort of thoaa word penetrated like a powerful narcotic to her dated mind. "Go to sleep, honey! If all over. Everything fine!" Did I Tlk? When ah opened her eyes ih waa surprised to aa that It waa dark. But David waa there juat aa be bed promlaed. "You look tired," she aald. "What Um I It?" "Almost g o'clock " "You muat go bom and get some reef," aha aald, wondering If h had spoken aloud or only dreamed the things aha vaguely remembered "Your nuraa haa gone to aupper," David explained, "and I'm to stay until h cornea back." He eounded Juet the cam. Not a bit different than before she had taken tha anesthetic, but she d better bet-ter make aura. "Have I been talking?" "No, you'v been aeleep," David aald tenderly. There waa lea pain than she had expected. Several bad hours, but with them th knowledge that eh would aoon ba walking again. The famous, surgeon who had- earn her only twice expressed himself well pleaaed, pocketed hi fee and departed. de-parted. Tha third night David found her resting comfortably. Ara Yen Hurt "I atlll aan't believe It really over." ah said. "How do you feel?" "Fine!" "Strong enough to listen to aome-thlng?" aome-thlng?" Her heart began to flutter a he took her hand and lifted It to hi II pa. "Would It make any difference to you." David aaked, "If I ahould tell you thkt I paid for your operation?" opera-tion?" "You?" shs gasped "Why, David Pepper, ara you aura?" "I ahould be." he laughed. Realisation of what thia meant to them both swept over her In a tide of joy which left her speechleea. She lay quietly, afraid to move for fear eh might dlacever she had been drtming again. |
