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Perhaps no other career tests lentlessly as trained nursing. It cal physical. The reward is not large, are able to win the big prizes the eighteen, is taken In at the hospita influence of young Dr. Max Wilso invalid mother and her Aunt Hari strange young man, as a roomer In very mysterious but charming, an school sweetheart, becomes violen enters hospital service her threads first sight of this in the installimeni CHAPTER VI.-Continued. -6 "Tired?". He adopted the gentle, al most tender tone that nmade most wom en his slaves. "A little. It is warm." "What are you going to do this eve maing? Any lectures?" S "Lctures are over for the summer. I shall go to prayers, and after that to the roof for air." "Can't you take a little ride tonight :and cool off? I'll have the car wherever you say. A ride and some supper bow does it sound? You could get .away at seven-" :1'ss Gregg is coming!" With an impassive face, the girl turned away. The workers of the op erating room surged between them. But he was clever with the guile of the r'ursuing male. Eyes of all on him, he turned at the door of the wardrobe room and spoke to her over the heads nf a dozen nurses. "That patient's address that I had forgotten, Miss llarrison, Is the cor ner (if the Park and Ellington avenue." "Thank you." She played the game well, was quite .alm. He admired her coolness. Cer ataily s oe was prty, and certitnhly, V00, She ias interegted l. him. ' H w'Vent whistling into the wandrobe poom. As he turned caught the li erue's eye, and there passed between themi a glance of complete comprehent -alon. The Interne grinned. Tie roon wats not empty. was troth er was there, listening to the co ients of O'ara, his friendly rival. "Good work, boy i said O'Hara, and *ulaPped a hairy hand on his shoulder. "That last case was a wonder. I'm -proud of you, and your brother heri Is Indecently exalted. It was the Ed wardes method, wasn't It? I saw it done at his clinic In New York." "Glad you liked It. Yes. Edwardes was a pal of muine In Berlin. A great surgeons too, poor old chap I" "There aren't three men t the coun try with the nerve and the hand for It." hisdiwaotedswhtoe"hakebronher ootManto iet to niseho he ohard wae out '7 7. " "Can't You Take a Little Ride To. night?" 'wot ld think of his own untidy miethods -o)iibt pared ith Mar's ext ravaganit or *der-of the bag, for instance, with the *dog's collar in it, and other things. On hese occasions he always dletermined ~to clear out the bag. . "I guess I'll be getting along," he A said. "Will you be home for dinner?" 0 "J' think not, I'll-I'rn going to r out of town, and 'eat where it's epol.' 'The Street was notoriously hot iU sulumer. "'here's a roast of beef. it's a pitj to cook at roast for one." Wasteful, too, this cooking of food for tivo and only one to eat it. A roast if beet meant a visit, $ni Doctor Ed'i nzodest-paying clientele. He still paid A thrilling mys man who lost h girl who helped) the quality of womanhood so re. Is for many qualities, spiritual and and while many seek them, but few service offers. Sidney Page, age I as a probation nurse through the n. The Pages-Sidney, her semi. -let-had taken in K. LeMoyne, a order to help meet expenses. He's d Joe Drummond, Sidney's high. tly jealous. Immediately Sidney of life begin to tangle. You get printed here. the expenses of the house on the Street "Sorry, old muan; I've made anothei arrangement." They left the hospital together 1'verywhere the younger man receivet the honage of success. The elevatoi nan bowed and flung the doors open with a smile; the pharmacy clerk, the doorkeeper, even the convalescent pa tient who was polishing the great brasw doorplate, tendered their tribute. Doc, tor Ed looked neither to right nor left * * * * * S* Sidney, after her involuntary bath It the river, had gone into temporar3 eclipse at the White Springs hotel. It the oven of the kitchen stove sat hei two small white shoes, stuffed with pa per so that they might dry in shape Back in a detached laundry, a sympa thetle uald was Ironing various sof white garments, and singing as shi worked. Sidney sat in a rocking chair in I hot bedroom. She was carefulli swathed In a shi*t from neck to toei except for her arns, and she was belnj as philosophic as possible. Someone tapped lightly at the door. "It's Le Moyne. Are you all right? "Perfectly. How stupid It must b, for you!" "I'm doing very well. The iaid wil soon be ready. What shall I order fo sulpper?" "Anything. I'm starving." "I tlilnk your shoes have shrunk." "Flatterer !" She laughed. "Go awa: and order Supper. And I can see fresl lettuce. Shall we have a salad?" K. Le Moyne stood for a moment I front of the closed door, for the mer sotmd of her moving, beyond it. Thing had gone very far with the Page r'oiner that day in the country; n( I so far as they were to go, but ft enough to let him see on the brink wha$ misery he stood. lie couli not go away. He had pron ised her to stay: he was needed. E thought he could have endured seelit her marry Joe, had she cared for ti boy. 'TIat way, at least, lay safety fi heri. The boy had tleity and devot written large overi him. But this ne Wilson, the surgeon's recIprocal into est In her, with what he knew of t I'romi the top) of the narrow sta ('ase' to the f' oot. aind he hado lved ye'ar's tor'nent ! At the foot, howeva he was start led out of his reverie. J I rintinotinl st oodi there wauiting I him, his blue eyes reeklessly alight. "Yout-you dlog '" said Joe. There were people In the hotel pa lor'. Le Moyne t ookc the frenzied b iy the elbow andit led him~i past t dloor to the emipty laorch. "Now,"' he sabll, "if' you will ke *your v'oice down. I'll listen to il you have to say." "You know what I've got to say." T ihis faiing to dlrawi from K. Moyne anythi ng butt his steady -gan .Joe jerked his uarm free and clench his fist. "W hat did you bring her out he for?" "I do not know that I owe you a explaination, but 1 11(n willing to gi you Eme. I br'ought her out here for trolley ride and a pic:nic luncheon." lie was sorry for the boy. Life K having been all beer'a and skittles hIm, lhe knew tha t Joe was sufferib anduo ws ituavelously paUtient with hi I"W'here is slie now? "Shet had the iinisfortune to fall thle ieir. She, Is upstairs." And, sa lng thte light ofl unbelief In Joe's eye "If' you care to uiked~ a tour of inves gation, you will 11ind that I am entii ly trtthful. In tihe laundty a maid "Sihe is enigat.ed to me"-dlogged "E'ver'ybody ini the' neighborhood1 kno' it. at -I yet you tbring her out here for plitnic! It's--it's udaned rotten tre men t." 111.4 ldt had unclenched. Before Le Moy'ne's eyes his own Cell.,gliegf suiddettly young antd futile ; his ji rage iuneod to bhilust 'rintg in his ears, "I dlon't know where you cat trotm," he staid, ''but around here cent mien cut out w~hen a girl's *gngedi." "I see !" *"Whtat's more, what do we kno about you? You tmay be nil right, b how do I know It? You get her ii trouble and I'll kIll you !" It took courage, that speech, with Le Moyne towering five inches abo haim and growing a. little white abc the lips. "Are you going to say all these thin to Sidney?" "am. And I amn going to find c why you were un' tin. Jnst n-o. tery story about a s courage and the im tofind it again Perhaps never in his twenty-two years had young Drummond been se near a thrashing. Fury that he was ashamed of shook Le Moyne. For very fear of himself, he thrust his hands in. the pockets of his Norfolk 4 coat. "Very well," he said. "You go to her with just one of these ugly Insinua tions, and I'll take mighty good care that you are sorry for it. If you are going to behave like a bad child, you deserve a licking, and I'll give it to you." An overflow from the parlor poured out on the porch. Le Moyne had got himself in hand somewhat. He was still angry, but the look in Joe's eye startled him. He put a hand on the boy's shoulder. "You're wrong, old man," he said. "You're insulting the girl you care for by the things you are thinking. And, if it's any comfort to you, I have no Intention of interfering in any way. You can count me out. It's between you and her." Joe picked his straw hat from a chair and stood turning it in his hands. "Even if you don't care for her, how do I know she isn't crazy about you?" "My word of honor, she Isn't." "She sends you notes to McKees'." "Just to clear the air, I'll show It to you. It's no breach of confidence. It's about the hospital." Into the breast pocket of his coat he dived and brought up a wallet. The wallet had had a name on it in gilt let L ters that had been carefully scraped of.. But Joe did not wait to see the note. 'iOh, dain the hospital!" he said and went swiftly (own the steps and into the gathering twilight of the June night. CHAPTER VI1. 11 -. r Sidney and K. Le Moyne were din Ing together at the White Springs ho tel. The novelty of the experitce had made her- eyes shine like stars. She r saw only the magnolia tree shaped like I a heart, the terrace edged with low shrubbery, and beyond the faint glean a that was the river. The unshaded glare e of the lights behind her in the house 8 was eclipsed by the crescent edge of 9' the rising moon. Dinner was over. Sid it ney was experiencing the rare treat r of after-dinner coffee. f Le Moyne, grave and contalied; sat across from iher. To give so mUc pleasure, and so easily I How. young e she was, and radianti No wonder the g boy was mad about her. She fairly ke held out her arims to life. )r Ai, that was too badf Anothe tabile was beIng brought ; they were no w to h~e alonxe. But what roused in hi in violent resenxtmnent only appealed t' ~r- Sidney's curiosity. xe Carlio tt xHiarrisonx camne out alon( Althxoughi the tapping of her heels wva ir- dulled by the grass, although she ha ai exchixagi her~ cap~ forj the black hai ar, Sidney knew her at once. A sort c 00 thrill r-an over her. It was the prett Or nuriise troml D)octor Wilson's office. Wit It po)ssiblie--but of course not ! Th book of rules statedl explicitly thxat suc tr- tin~zgs were forbidden. . 03y "Don't- turn arountd,'' she said swif lhe 13y. "It is the Miss Haxrrison I told yo ab~out. She is lookinig at uis." ep) Carliottai's eyes were blinded for at mlomlenit b~y the gixare of the hou~s lights. TIhxen she sat up, her- eyes 0 L4e Moyne's grave profile turned t< Le. ward the, valley. Lucky for her thi se, Wilson hadl stop~pedl in thxe bar, thu ed Sidney's inistinctivye good mxanners foi hadie her staring, that only the edge < re the summxner moon shone throuigh th trees. She went white and1( clutche ny the edge of the table, wih her eye ve closedl. That gave her quick brain a chanice. It was madnaess,.TJune mia( ness. She was alwaxys seeing him, eve LOt ix her dreams. This man was olde: to zmuch oldIer. She looked atgain. ig, She had not been mistaken. Her< mD. and after all these months I K. L Moyne, quite unconscious of lier prex in exnce, looked down into the valley. re- WVilsonx appeared on the woode 8: porch above the terrace, and stood, hxi ti- eyes -searching the half-light for hel e- If he caime dlown to her. the man at th "next table miighxt turn, w~old see her ly. JShe rose and went swiftly back t< vs waxrd the hotel. All the gayety wa a gonxe out of the evening for her, bli xt- she forced a lightness she dlid not feel "It is so (lark and dlepressing oU K. there-it mnakes nie sad." alt "Surely you do not w'ant to dIne ii ist the haouse?" "D~o you mfhid?" nxe "tYour wish is my law-tonigrht,"* hx he- s9aid softiy. ' a- After all, thie evening wvas a disap Pointmtaent to him. T.ihe spontaneity haa gone out of it, for some reason. Tm w girl who hiad thrilled to his glxance ut those two mornings in his office. whose to somber eyeo had mect lisa, fire for fire across thxe ope ating room, was no K. playing up. Sh , sat back in her chair ye eating little, starting at every step, Hie ut eyes, which b~y every rule of the gami should have been gazing into his, wer< ga fixed on the oilcloth-covered passag< outside the door. ut "I think, after all, you are fright *nedi" By MARY ROBERTS RINEHART "Terribly." "A little danger adds to the r.?st of things. You know what Nietzscht says about that." "I am not fond of Nietzsche." Then, with an effort: "WL'at does he say?" "'Two things are wianted 17 the true man-danger and play. The-'efore he seeketh womni as the most dan- t gerous of toys.'" t "Women tire dangerous only when g you think of them us toys. When a 1 muau finds that i wo.'an can reason- 1 do anything but feel-he regards her i as a menatce. But the reasoiing wom- t an is really less dangerous than the other sort." a This was mnor. like the real thing. t To talk careful "stractions like this, v with beneath eacle abstraction its con- t cealed personal application, to talk of s woman and look in her eyes, to discusts s new philosophies with their freedoms, ( Ii .9 t t She Went White and Clutched the Edge of the Table. to discard old creen's andI old mnorali ties-that was lis~ game. WIlson be came content,Interested again. The girl was nimble-minded. She challenged his philosophy and gavet him11 a chance to dlefend it. With the conv'iction, as their meal went on. that Le Moyne a nd~ his companion muitst surely have gone, sihe gained ease. -It was only hy wild driving that she 5 got bac'k to the. hospital by ten o'clock. IWilson left her at the coirner, well ("ontenit withi himitsell'. As lhe drov'e up fthe Strleet he glaneed ner"'ss at the Y P'age house. Sidney was there on the doorstep, talking to a toll man who e stood beloaw and looked uip lit her. iWilson set tied his tie. in thei darkness. Sidney wats at inighty praett y grir. The June night wais ini hIs blood, lHe was Lsorry he had i nor k issed C'ariot ta good night. Hie rther thought, now he a looked back, she had exrected it. C As lie got out of his car at the curb, a youtg muan who hadl been standing in 'the shndow of the tr(eehox mioved t quickly away. t Wilson smiled after him in the diark 'ness. f"That you, Joe?" he ('ailed. e But the b)oy went on. ii . * * * * * 0 * s Sidney entered the hospital as a pro a bationier early In August. ChristIne 'twas to be nmarrled in September to Palmer Howe, and, with Harriet and ' K. in the house, she felt that she could safely leav~e her mother. 'The balcony outside the parlor was aliiretady under way. On the night be fore she went away Sidney took chairs. out there and .ent with her mother tin til thei diew dhrove Ann'a to thb lamp SIn the sewing room and her "DaIly Thoughts" readting. 0 Sidney sat alone imd viewed her w ~orld f romn this new and pleasnant angle. She could see the garden and the wthitewashedl fence with its morn' laig glories, and at the same time, by t turning her head, view the Wilson house aceross the Street. She looked mostly at the Wilson house. K. Le Moyne was upstairs in his room. She could hear hinm trampIng up tad down, aind catch, occaionally, te bitter-sweet odor of his old brier What sort of disgrace Is K. LeMoyne trying to live down? betrayal? Or would you say he has been disappointed in love? (TO BEI~ CONTINUEiD.) A flew meuthod of cold storage in sulation, invented in EnglAnd, is to use< slabs of cork expanded to over twice their normal size, IUSSIANS SLOWLY fIELD TO PRESSURE ILAVES BATTLE. HARD BUT RE TIRE STEADILY UNDER PRES. SURE IN RUMANIA. 1IG GUNS ARE ALL ACTIVE Oeace Notes. Are Delivered, World Awaits Answer to Steps in Direction to End the World War.-All Nations Interested. Fighting a series of defensive bat les, but slowly yielding to the Teu Onic pressure. the Russian rear uards in Wallachia and Dobrudja are eing pressed backward to the north. leavy fighting is in progresb in the icinity of Rimnik-Sara, midway be. ween the Buzeu and Sereth rivers in Vallacha. Russian advanced .posts ,t Rakoxitcheni. in the foothills of he mountains west of Rimnik-Sarat, vere compelled to retire after bat lee at that point and at Vandulsore o An engagement at Balatchenui, outh of Riminik-Sarat, also is record d. indicating that the Russian lines till protect that town. These engagements are regarded by ome Teutonic military critics aq an 'ffort on the part of the Russians ud the Roumanians to cover the re reat of their armies and of the Rou nanian refugees across the line of he Sereth river and to cover the lank of the Russo-Roumanian armies ighting in the Carpathian mountains if Moldavia, In Dobrudja the Russo-Rounianian lefensive line is reported to have vithdrawn northward until it is only i miles south of the northern ex remity of that province. One artillery activity is recorded on he Russian front in the vicinity of laranoviehi. The big - gutis are active also in he region of Hardamont and Cham oretta. near Verdun. Operations on the Macedonian front re being prevetited by bad weather. The American ambassador at Pet ograd delivered the German peace iote to the Russian government Sat itday, and President Wilson's note o the belligerent governments was kanded to the Italian foreign minister oy the American ambassador at Rome. It is unlikely that the reply of the mtente powers to the German note vill be dispatched before Monday and t may be delayed for ten days, ac .ording to the British foreign office. rhis is attributed to the delays in iommunication. It is reported in 'aris, however, that the reply is al nost finished. Rumors are circulating it London that the entences answer a being drawn up at Rome NAR NATIONS MUST DECIDE PEACE TERMS THMESELVES. Reception of Note In Official CIrcles of Germany Sympathetic. Berlin. via Salville.-Baron von Demn Bussehe-Haddenhausen, Under Becretary of State for Foreign Af tairs and formerly first secretary of the German Eimbassy in Washington, in an interview with a member of the D~verseas New.; Agehcy stated regard IE;; President# Wilaqn's note to the bel ligerents. de.r-ribes the recep~tion of the acte by Gesrwman officials as symipa thetie. Thme I 'nder S.-er.etary said that so l'ar as the nmote related to the general arrangeJmnts for the future, he be sieved the t 'nmited States would liay aim mportanmt part in themi. and added: "The l'nited States always has been afimng the most enthusiastic and fore. most advocates of the idea of arbitra '.ion. "As to the conclusion of peace itself this must be (lone by the belligerents. [ think I understand President Wilson aright if I said that he does not offer mediation for this point, and that he :mly shows that the interests which the United States, as well as all the ather neutrals, naturally have to see p~eace restored. The President says that in this direction it would be of material advantage if conditions rcould b~e comuneiated under which the belligerents consider it possible to make peace. FRANCE STIRRED BY ARRIVAL OF SWISS PROPOSAL. Paris.--The unanimous vote of the Benate affirming that France cannot conclude peace with an enemy who. accupies French territory coming at the same time as the peace note of the Swiss Government has stirred mnew the French press and public. P'he action of the Senate gave fur her indication of the atitude of the inntente Allies toward President WII ion's proposals while confidence voted a the Brain ministry. Li. S. WANTS DETAILED STATEMENT FROM NATIONS. Washington. - Information as to heir exact meanming in seeking a 'just and permanent peace" is the rhole purpose of the note addressed o all the belligerents by President Wilson. The United States desires a unil, practical and detailed statement romn each of the governments address. id. This government does not know, mnd feels that it has not reat means f knowing, what terms would' be re luired to make nesce. CONGRESS QUiCK PASSES FlE BILLS ADJOURNMENT FOR HOLIDAYS TAKEN BY CONGRESS UNTIL JANUARY 2, 1917. PASS 5 SUPPLY MEASURES rho Urgent Deficiency Legislative, Indian, District of - Columbia, and Diplomatic and Conspar Appropria. tion Bills in Three Weeks. Washington.--Congress adjourned lor the Chriotmas holidays to recon-. vene January 2. In the three weeks of the sessio the House passed five Gor ernment supply measures,. the urgent deficiency, legislative, Indian, District, of Columbia and diplomatic and consu lar appropriation bills, more than ever were passed before in the brief period preceding a holiday recess. 0 - of these bills. the urgent difle lenc. has passed the - senate. Railroad legislation suggested by President Wison failed to get much attention in either branch. The House Commerce Committee decided to await initiative action in the Senate. where beginning January 2 the Senate com merce commt-tee will hold hearings on the proposed railroad arbitration measure and the bill authorizhig the president to take over the railroad, telephone and telegraph lines in case of military necessity. At the conejusion of the hoarings the railroad measures in some form will be pressed as amendments to the pending bill to enlarge the interstate Commerce Commission. Senator Newlands, chairman of the committee, hones to get. action before the March adjournment. The Senate passed the immigration bill with its literacy test provision a-'1 it is now in enfierencme. The National prohibition constitu onal amendment was reported favor Ibly from the Judiciary Committee in each House and will be pressed by its -hamnions a( every onportunity. al. though they have little hope of sectr ing the necessary two-thirds majority at this session. House committees also reported the Borland food investigation resolution with a favorable recommendation and the Susan B. Anthony constitutional amendment for woman suffrage with out recommendation. Neither resolu tion .advanced to consideration' in the hiouse. PRESIDENT WILSON NAMES NEW SHIPPING SOARD. Three Democrats and Two Republi cans Selected to Serve For Gov ernment, Washington. - President Wilson nominated the following to be mem bers of the Government shipping board: William Denman of San Francisco; Bernard N. Baker of Baltimore; John A. Donald of New York ; John Bar, ber White offr nsas City, Mo., and Theodore BreUi jf New Orleans. The board will have general super vision over freight rates in American waters and is empowered to organize a $50,000,000 corporation to build or buy merchant ships. The ships built or bought will be available to lease or charter by pri vate interests, but may be operated by the government should prtato concerns fail to take them. The intent of the law, aside from restoration of ship1) for American commerce remoy ed by the war is to openi up trade routes which private capital does not consider yet profitable enough for it to enter. Mr. Denman, who .gets the longest term of six years, is a Democrat and a lawyer with~ experience in Admir alty cases. Mr. Baker, nominated q., $ir... year term, has had wide' experience as a ship owner and for thirty years was president of the Altantic trasport line, Hie is a Democrat and Mr. Don ald, the third Democratic member, was nominated, for four years. He has had a, iife-long experience in the steamship bm~iness. KING QHRISTIAN SIGN'S SALE OF ISLANDS TREATY. Copenhagen, via London. -King Christian in Cabinet council ratifled the treaty providing for the sale of the Danish West [idies to the United States. This follows the passage by both 1 houses of the Danish Parliament of the bill for the ratification of the ' treaty. The exchange of the ratifica tioni instruments will take -place in Washington probably towards thi end of January. TEOTONS DRIVE BACK FOE AFTER SHARY BATTLE. Londlon.--1xcept in northern Do. bru~Idja, where' the troops of the Cob. tral Powers continue .4a drive the Russians and Rumanians towards Bessarbia, there has been little fim portant activity on the battle fb~nts - of IEurope. The. Russian troops in Dobrudja, Petrogradi announces, were forced to I retire northward under heavy attactis from nntpnerically superior hostile