Show CIE AV 61 a rc F wyer V 0 aa I 1 in order to piece out financial needs sidney page paged her moth mother er and her aunt harriet take K X lemoyne a strange young man as a roomer sidney aged eighteen and joe drummond aged twenty ane one childhood sweethearts have havia agreed to marry after years and years but the girls promise wavers on better acquaintance with the roomers roomer and after ai aunt at narelet opens opan a dressmaking shop downtown she decides to become a trained nurse and goes to her friend dr ed wilson across the street tor for influence with his brother max brilliant surgeon to get her into the hospital things ln to happen tile the plot to unroll the mystery to deepen CHAPTER III continued 3 only a week and love was one of the things he had to give up with others not of course that he was was in love ov with sidney then but he bad been desperately lonely and tor for all her pric practical clearheadedness she was softly and appealingly feminine by wai way of keeping lil his head he talked suddenly and earnestly of mrs mckee and food and tillie and of 0 mr wagner and the pencil pad its ICs like a game he said we disagree on everything especially mexico if you ever tried to spell those mexican names why did you think I 1 was engaged she insisted now inks ink in K s walk of life that walk of life where there are no toothpicks girls did not receive the attention ot of one young man to the exclusion of others unless they were engaged but lie he could hardly say that oh I 1 dont know those things get in III the air its johnny rosenfeld Ko said sidney with decision its horrible the way things get about because joe sent me a box bos of roses As a matter of tact fact rin im not engaged or going to be mr J L e moyne im going into a hospital to be a nurse le moyne said nothing for just a moment be closed his eyes A man Is in rather a bad way when every time he closes his eyes he sees the same thing especially if it Is rather terrible when it gets to a point where he lies I 1 awake lit at night and reads for tear fear of closing th them Yo youre tire too young arent you doctor ed one of the wilsons across the street is going to heleme his brother max Is a big surgeon there I 1 expect youve heard beard of him were very proud of him in the street lu lucky for K L L le e moyne that the moon no longer shone on the low gra gray y doorstep that kidneys Sid mind had traveled far hway away to shining floors and rows of white beds life la fa the raw doctor ed had bad said that other afternoon closer to ta her than the hospital was life in the raw that night so even here on this quiet street in this distant city there was to be no peace max ma x wilson just across the it it was route ironic was there no place where a man could lose h himself 7 he would have to move on again of coarse course but that it seemed was just what he could not do for I 1 1 I 1 I want ta toasa asi yau you something and I 1 hope hop e be quite quit efrank frank said sidney anything that I 1 can do J its this it if you aie are comfortable and and like the room andall and all that I 1 A V why did you think I 1 was Enga engaged aed A she insisted Inai eted wish stay W J she hurried anif on it I 1 could teel feel that mother had a dependable pen dable abu you lathe house bouse It li would all be eisler easier dependable 1 That stung but forgive my asking im it really eally interested can conr ni other manage xouy get practically no ab nb money during your training thought of that A friend of mine christine lorenz Is got going t to 0 b be e inn cried her people are wealthy bli but t hell have lave nothing but what palmer s halkes shed like to have the parlor ind and sitting room behind they interfere with you at all she added hastily lastoly las christides Chri stines father would build blittle a little balcony on the side tor for them a sort of porch and sit there in the evenings behind kidneys Sid carefully practical tone the mairead man read appeal never before had lie he realized how narrow tile the girls world had been the street with but one dimension bounded itt in her perplexity she was appealing to him who was practically a stranger and he knew then that he must do the thing she asked jie ae who had lied fled so long could roam no more here on the street with its menace just across he must live that she might work in his world men had worked that women might live in certain places certain ways this girl was going out ont to earn her I 1 living iving and tie be would stay to make it possible but no hint of all this was in his voice 1 I shall stay ol of course he said gravely 1 I this Is the nearest thing to home that ive known for a long time I 1 want you to know that you are very good to me said sidney when she rose IL le moyne sprang to his feet anna had noticed that he be always rose when she entered his room with fresh towels on X katies atles day out for instance and she liked him for it years tears ago the men she had known had shown tills this courtesy to their women but the street regarded such things as affectation 1 I wonder it if you would do me another favor im afraid take to avoiding me if I 1 keep on 1 I dont think you need fear that this stupid story about joe drummond im not saying ill fit never marry hina aln but rm im certainly not engaged now and then when you are taking your evening walks if you would ask me to walk with you K X looked rather dazed 1 I cant imagine anything pleasant er but I 1 wish explain just how suidney idney smi at him As lie be stood on the lowest jiter jaep their eyes were almost level if I 1 walk with YOU yon know im not engaged to joe she said with engaging directness the house was quiet quie tP 1 he waited in the lower hall hall until she had reached the top of the staircase F for or some curious reason in the time to come that was the way sidney always remembered K le moyne standing in the little hall one hand up stretched to shutoff the gas overbear over bead and his eyes on hers above good night said K M le moyne and all the things be had bad put out ont of lit his S life were in n his voice CHAPTER IV on oa the morning after sidney had invited K le moyne to take her to walk max ajax wilson came down to breakfast rather late doctor ed had breakfasted an hour before and had already attended with much profanity on the part of the patient to a boll on i the ithe back of mr Ro neck better change your laundry cheerfully advised doctor ed cutting a strip of ad adhesive heslie plaster your irritated from your white collars rosenfeld Ko eyed him blin suplicio suspiciously sly b ut possessing a bense sense of humor ilso also lie he grinned it aint my everyday thill things digs that bother me lie he replied its my blank alani dress suit but it if a mar man wants to be tony mr rosenfeld buttoned up the blue bianes shirt which with a pair of 0 doctor IMs eds castoff cast enst off trousers was his bis only wear and fished in his pocket how much doe doc two dollars said doctor ed briskly holy cats I 1 por for one jab of a L we knife my old woman works a day and a halt half for two dollars 1 I guess Us its worth two dollars to you to be able to sleep on your back 01 lie ile was imperturbably straightening lag bla small email glass table table he knew rosenfeld it if you dont like kyprie my price 0 ill lend you yuh the knife next time and you can let your wife attend to you rosenfeld d drew re ur on out t a a sliver silver dollar and followed it reluctantly with a limp nad and dejected dollar bill th theres eres times ile he said when n it if put me ani ani th the missus and a knife in the same saleroom room you have much left but buk the knife doctor E ed d wa waited cited until he had bad made his stiff necked exl exi then retook betook be tool the two dollars and the money into an envelope indorsed endorsed Indor sed it in n hla lit illegible hand lie he heard ills his brothers brother step stel on the stairs and doctor ed made haste to put away the Is last st vestige of his little operation eds lapses from surgical surg leal cleanliness were a sore trial to the younger man fresh from the clinics of europe in ills his downtown office ile to wh which fell lie he would presently make hla his leisurely aels rely progress lic wore a white coat and sterilized things tuis of which doctor ed did not even know the names nes max ajax paused at the office door at It lt already he said oreave Or bave YOU yon been to bed ita after nine protested ed mildly it if I 1 dont start early I 1 never get through max mas yawned dawned better come with me lt he said it at things go on as been doing ill have mohave an assistant rd id rather have you yon than anybody of course ile he put his lithe surgeons hand band on his brothers shoulder where would I 1 be it if it badat been tor for you all the fellows know what youve done 1 in spite of himself ed winced it was one thing to work hard that there might be one success instead of two halt successes it was a different thing to advertise ones inferiority to the world ills ilia sphere of the street and the neighborhood was his own to kive give it all up and become his younger brothers assi assistant even it if it meant as it would better hours and in more or C money would be to submerge his identity he could not bring himself to do it 17 1 I guess ill stay where I 1 am he said they know me around here and I 1 know them by the way will you yon leand this envelope at mrs me mc kees keels maggie rosenfeld Is ironing there today Ws its for her max mas took the envelope absently go on here to the end of your days working vi for a pittance he objected inside of ten years therell be no general practitioners then where will you be arii ill manage somehow said the brother placidly 1 I guess there will always be a few that can pay my prices better than what you specialists ask max alas laughed with genuine amusement 1 I dare say it if this Is the way 3 you let them pay your prices ile he held out the envelope and the older man colored 0 very proud of doctor max was his brother yu unselfishly selfishly proud of his skill of his handsome person of his easy good manners very humble too of his own knowledge and experience if he ever suspected any lack of finer fiber in max ajax he put the thought away probably he was too rigid himself max mas was young a hard worker he had a right to play hard bard he prepared his black bag for the days clays calls stethoscope thermometer eyecup eye cup bandages case of small vials a lump jump of hb absorbent cotton in ii a no not t over fresh towel in the bottom a heterogeneous erogene ous collection of instruments a roll of adhesive pl plaster astei a bottle or two of sugar ot of ellk tablets for the children a dog collar that had belonged to a dead couie collie and had bad got ln in the bag in some burlous f asclon and there remained ile he prepared the bag a little nervously while max ate H he e felt that modern methods method sand and the best usage might not have approved of the bag on his way out he paused at the 1111 ing room door are you going to the hospital operating at four fou wish you could come in im afraid not max ive promised sidney P page ge to SP speak eak n bout about her to you she wants to enter the training school too young said max briefly why she cant be over sixteen ashes eighteen well even eighteen do you think any girl of that age Is responsible enough to and death put in her han hands dsa besides be sides although I 1 noticed her lately she used to be a pretty little thing there Is no use filling up the wards with a lot of ornaments it keeps the internet In Int ternes erniS an all stewed up up since when asked doctor ed mildly have you found good looks in a 11 girl a handicap in the end they ampi compromised omi sed max gouid would see sidney at his office it would be better than having her run across the street would put things on the right footing for if he ha did lifave her would have to learn at once that he was was no longer doctor max amdx that asa asa matter of tact fact he was now staff and entitled t 0 much dignity to 9 speech without contradiction tra diction or argument to clean towels and a deferential def at his elbow down the clean steps went doctor dector marthat mas Max that morning a if big man almost as tall ta 11 as K le moyne eager of ilife life strong arid vt a alt reckless not fine PC perhaps but not evil he had the same zest of living as sidney but with this difference the girl stood ready to give herself to life ilfe ile he knew that life would come to him all dominating dom male was doctor max as he stepped steppe d into wi his car and made his way to ills his office here were people who believed in him from the the midd middle le aged nur seIn her prim alia uniform to the row of patients patie sitting thi the walls odthe of the waiting room doctor max drew a long breath this was vias the real thing work and plenty of it a chance to show the other men what he could do a battle to no humanitarian was he e but a fighter each day he became came to his office with the same earne battle tast lust the office loftlee nurse had bad her back to him when she turned hi he faced an agreeable surprise instead ins lot miss simp son on he faced a young and attractive girl faintly familiar we tried to get fy you 0 u fro by acie telephone 1 she ehe explained 1 1 I am a m from m the h hospital s miss as father died ahls this morning and she knew you would have to have someone I 1 was just starting for my vacation so they sent me aae rather a poor substitute tor for a vacation he commented she was a very pretty girl lie ile had seen her before in the hospital but he had never really noticed how attractive she was rather stunning she was he thought though ti the combination of and dark eyes was unusual ne ile remembered just la in time to express regret at miss Simp simpsons sons bereavement rea 1 I am miss harrlson harrison explained the substitute and held out his long white coat the ceremony purely tory with miss simpson on duty proved interesting miss harrlson harrison in spite of her high heels being sm small a 11 and the young surgeon tall when he was finally in the coat she was rather flushed and palpitating tating but I 1 knew your name of course lied doctor max mas and im sorry about the vacation after that came work miss harrlson harrison was nimble and alert but the surgeon worked quickly and with few words was impatient when she could 1 I k ja 4 i i A he faced a young and attractive girl not find the things he called for even broke into restrained profanity now and then she went a little pale over her mistakes but preserved her dignity and tier her wits now and then he found her dark eyes fixed on him with something inscrutable but pleasing in their depths the situation was rather piquant once during the cleaning up between cases be he dropped to a personality he was drying his she placed freshly sterilized instruments on a glass table you are almost a foreign type miss harrison arrison II last year in a london ballet I 1 sawa saw a blonde spanish girl willi who looked like you youa my mother was a spaniard lard she I 1 uld not look up where miss stepson simpson was in the th habit babit of clumping through the morning in flat flat heavy shoes miss HarrIsO Harrl sons nR small heels beat a busy tattoo on the tiled floor with the rustling of hex hei I 1 starched starch eddress dress the sound was essentially feml feminine aln almost insistent when he had time to notice it it amused amus e d him that lie be did not find it annoying once as she passed him a bistoury he deliberately placed his fine hand band over her hei fingers and smiled into her eyes atvas play for him it lightened the days work sidney was in the waiting room there had been no tedium in the mornings waiting like all imaginative people she had the gilt gift of dramatizing I 1 herself I 1 she was 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