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Show I LOVE and MARRIED LIFEf ; hxy the noted author H I Idah M?Glone Gibson I 11.VIIY m uv it, ., I snatched the bab from her bed as she went Into a more violent paroxysm of choking I held her ; tightly to me Don't do rhnt. Mrs. Gordon. ' said Mis Parker, as she deftly arranged 1 a hot bath. Stripping off the little jl iiU-ht rirs she quickly Immersed sM Mary's liny body In hot water 3 "Hold her there." she- ordered and 1 then lighted an aromatic smudge on a plate which she held under the, 9 baby's nose j In a fen minutes this stopped her I coughing, but she was so exhausted that she COUld not open her tiny eye- "Djd yOU as!: the doctor to come'' ' fflL l 1 1 u stioned. anxloualy t" f I "Yes. He should bo here by this 1 Ml time." rl flew to the telephone. I could not stand In.iriion I must be doing something. The volco of the doctors on li b sir! laid V !8, Mr. Gordon, the doctor left immediately after the nurse tele-phoned tele-phoned him. He should be at your house by this tlrne " Aff.iln I stood over my baby's bod. There! was a little blu line about her mouth and her nose looked pinched and her eyelids were only half closed. ... disclosing n part oC her brown e'es -i 1 beneath. . Oh, I m sure she Is going to die. I'm sure of it!" I said to M!s3 Parker :lV in agonv You must not go to pioeo this E&V I Way, Mr; Cordon 1 do not think the i baby Is In .mv great dancer ir re pMK can keep her front having another mF choking attnek she will bo ;ill right ' rag Just them the bab stirred in heri I sleep, i.ut Miss Parker pulled thei ( clothing up about her md the dread choking spell that I feared did not' it seemed to me as if some fiendish' . fairy hid stopped the hand. of the j.clock, the movcii sq slowly. 1 'Hug anything happened to th doctor do you think?' 1 asked Mist I'arker. ' Surely he h.iS time epoilfpti (ei drive over " Mrs. Gordon." said Miss Parker, as she put her arms around mv shoulders, shoul-ders, 'you must realize. that it has only been ten minutes since you, came in." I looked '.it he lncreduously it seemed hours and I rould not have Stood It another momrnt If she had not opened the door to the doctor's I ! .ghl knock He looked the tiny form over care-I care-I fully, raised the eyelids a little, listened Intently i" her breathing and then said. "I think the worst is over." Then he turned lo t ompllmi-nt MlSS Pnrkei on her quick Judgment and skill I could see that he thought I OU'ed to her my baby's lilt He forced some medicine between I Die half-open lips of mv Child and then sat down to wait, his fingers upon her little wrlat. She'll be all right nov.," said the doctor as he placed Mary back upon the dean, white blanket which Mis; I'arker arranged on the bed. She did seem better but oh, that awful pallor, that absolute coma' It did nut serm to rue that anyr ne . mild he as weak anil HI as my baby was at that moment and live. "Arc- you sure, doctor, she Is not , Koini: ; die : ' I asked tearfully. 'I dan be sure nf nothing NTr Cordon, ' ne answered with a kind o' hard-heartcdnoss. which 1 BUppoau came from seeing hundreds of babies in the same condition and from nnswenng the same question from hundreds of mothers. "I think however, she'll get alon I all rlgh:. " "I'll telephone for John," I sale? TOMORROW '' sorvov Are Our Own (Copyright National Newspaper |