Thursday, February 25, 1937
THE HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON.
Beware Coughs
DEPUTY OF THE DEVIL
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Copyright, Ben Ames Williams.
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By BEN AMES WILLIAMS
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That Hang On
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But Dan would not by words alone Nancy and I will get him ready. hands lifted, protecting
them
Only by the sense of touch could
be daunted. His mouth twisted in Come back quickly.”
against any least contamination. He the thing in fact be done. The bul
a
grin.
“
I
’
D
show
you
something
He turned submissively away; said: “You know it’s hopeless, Mary let had ripped into Dan’s abdomen;
Her heart leaped. She cried :
about getting well that you never and then Ruth appeared, her arms Ann. We’re not properly sterile. its course must be traced and all
“Father, he’s all right. See!”
Infection—
its ravages repaired. And to do
Doctor Greeding fought back to saw before,” he insisted, laboring full of linen.
Nancy, during what followed, had
Nancy, with the can of ether in this, the eye was relatively useless;
self-control; he began a swift ex over his words. “I’m—telling you!”
Doctor Greeding shook with a no sense of dealing with the body of her hand, cried miserably: “I can’t it was necessary that probing fin
amination. Nancy’s eyes blurred
gers should seek out the rents that
with tears, but she heard buttons murderous rage; Dan was like a Dan, whose flesh and blood she open this!”
Trusting Ourselves
yield, and the movement of gar scotched snake, to be crushed un loved. This was an impersonal task
“Stick an ice-pick into it,” Mary must be closed.
Most of us can fool ourselves
der
a
grinding
heel.
The
Doctor
that
must
be
done.
She
and
Mary
And Doctor Greeding thought, Without half trying.
ments, and saw Dan’s white flesh,
Ann commanded. “And—don’t touch
and saw through misty eyes the looked over his shoulder toward the Ann stripped off his garments, and anything that we’re using after with a deep wonder, that his hands
path
along
which
Nancy
and
Mary
while Mary Ann and Ruth lifted ward, Nancy. You’re not clean now. had never better performed their
wound.
“Does it hurt, darling?” she Ann had disappeared. There was no first his head and then his feet, Doctor—we’ll have to risk infec task than now. He had not even to
one
in
sight.
His
eyes
searched
all
Nancy slipped under his body tion.” Her voice broke for a min direct them with his eyes.
pleaded. “Does it?”
While he worked, a change by
Dan shook his head, his white lips around; and then he knelt beside blankets and sheets to cushion the ute in something like a sob. “For
grinned. “Not a bit,” he said weak Dan again, his countenance contort hard shutter on which he still lay. that matter, there’s, infection enough slow degrees took place in him. He
“For thirty years I had stubborn
constipation. Sometimes I did not go
ly. “Tell Mr. Jerrell—it’s all right. ed If the man were not now dead, A pillow under his head ; then already inside him. Begin!”
began to be able to look with a clear for
or five days. I also had awful
yet
he
must
die!
sheets
over
him,
expertly
slit
and
“He’s not ready yet.”
eye upon himself and upon the gas four
Accident!”
bloating, headaches and pains in
But Nancy called, from the path: folded to expose the field in which
the back. Adlerika helped right away.
Jerrell, somewhere above them,
Mary Ann was white with des world.
Now I eat sausage, bananas, pie, any
standing over them, cried: “Dan, “I’m coming, Dan.” So Doctor Doctor Greeding must work.
peration, white with haste. “Dan,”
He saw Nancy clearly, and per thing
I want and never felt better. I
sleep soundly all night and enjoy life.”
Once Dan whispered something, she cried. His lips moved. “Dan, if haps for the first time. He compre —
I swear I tried not to. Something—” Greeding stood up quickly, brushing
Mrs. Mabel Schott.
his
hands
together,
withdrawing
weakly, and Mary Ann said: “Hush, it hurts, lie still,” she commanded. hended her love for. Dan, and he
Mary Ann flashed one glance to
If you are suffering from constipation,
sour stomach, and gas
dear. Rest!"
ward him, reassuring, comforting. from the stricken man.
“Nancy’s going to give you ether comprehended in all its implications sleeplessness,
bloating, there is quick relief for you
Yet
he
took
only
a
grudging
and
“Where's—Nancy?” he asked.
Then she watched Docto) Greed
now. Just breathe deeply. You won’t her love for himself too. So many In Adlerika. Many report action In
reluctant
hand
in
what
immediate
minutes after taking just one
“Here,” said Nancy, and touched feel it long."
ing. He met her eyes and shook his
times he had hurt her, wounded thirty
dose. Adlerika gives complete action,
ly followed. Thomas and Jerrell his lips with her finger; so that he
her, frightened her; and yet always cleaning
head in negation.
your bowel tract where ordi
Nancy
came
with
the
can,
the
pun
laxatives do not even reach.
Her cheeks flamea. She cried: and Nancy and her fathei worked was content.
gent smell of ether preceding her. there dwelt in her a love for him nary
Dr. H. L. Shoub, New York, reportât
together.
Thomas
had
brought
one
“You can help him! You .can op
When they were ready, Mary Ann “Pour it on the towel, Nancy,” Mary that, no matter how often he “In addition to Inteatinal clnniing, Adlerika
of the shutters used to seal the win said crisply:
the growth of Interinai bacteria and
erate!"
Ann commanded. “Now lay the tow spurned it, was still ready to offer eheckt
colon bacilli.**
dows
of
the
house
in
winter;
and
him tenderness and comforting.
The doctor protested: “Hopeless!
Give your bowels a real cleansing
el
over
his
face!
”
And
then,
curtly,
“
Go
tell
your
father
to
hurry.
”
they laid it on the ground, and man
with Adlerika and see how good you
And Doctor Greeding thought of feel.
I’ve nothing here to work with.”
her shoulder: “Ruth, scrub
Just one spoonful relieves GAS
aged as gently as possible to lift Nancy obediently departed. Mary over
Mary
Ann,
so
bravely
steady
now,
and
stubborn constipation. At all
Mary Ann stood up. “We’ll man Dan
your
hands
with
soap
and
water
and
upon it. His breath whistled Ann went to the sink, and unaer the then alcohol. Don’t touch anything rigorously controlling all the sor Leading
Druggists.
age,” she insisted. “You’ve got to. through
lips, and his mouth running faucet scrubbed her hands afterward. We may need you.” To row and terror she must feel, on
Quickly. We can’t just—give up!” twisted, dry
but he did not speak or
He faced her. “Mary Ann,” he
Doctor Greeding: “I’ll assist, do the slim chance that she might, by
strength, save Dan. Of Mary Ann,
said gravely. “If we could act in complain.
everything
I can.”
They lifted him, and with Nancy
RS. Maude Davis
who loved Jerrell enough so that
stantly, there might be a slim and
“
We
’
ll
have
an
explosion
here,
”
of
710 12
N.
M
her father at one end, Jerrell
even
after
his
shot
struck
down
her
Maple St., Spokane,
chance; but as it is—to get him to and Thomas
Doctor Greeding muttered. “These
at the other, they car
Wash., said : “When
brother,
she
could
offer
him
forgive
the mainland, to the hospital, to ried the shutter
fumes, and the stove.”
I was a girl develop-
and its burden
ness and comfort with an unasked
ing into womanhood I
move him. It’s hopeless!”
“It’s a gas-stove,” Mary Ann in kiss.
across the court and through the
was awfully nervous
He added: “And even if there gate,
and weak. I suffered
sisted. “Not lighted.”
and
along
the
path
toward
the
She
loved
Jerrell,
would
be
happy
from
headaches asso
were time, it would need a miracle house. They came to the kitchen
“Coal fire in the water heater," with him. But—could she ever be
ciated with functional
to save him!”
Irregularity
and
was
underweight.
I took
he
insisted.
Ruth, and Margaret, the cook,
with him if Dan, whom Jer Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription as a tonic
Mary Ann held his eyes with hers. door.
She said in a still fury: “We’ve happy
had
made
all
ready
there.
They
and
my
appetite
increased,
then
I
gained
in
rell had shot, should die?
“You can do miracles,” she said, bore Dan into the kitche.i, and laid
weight and developed into strong healthy
got to risk something!”
And Doctor Greeding thought of
womanhood.” Buy of your druggist
her tones vibrant, compelling. “I the
Doctor Greeding picked up a Dan, so near death now, whose
shutter upon which he rested
iem. But it wasn’t on the
$+
table, and Doctor Greeding
razor-blade from the kettle. It was crime had been no more than that
ee. Oh, I’ve seen
still hot enough to burn his fingers, Nancy loved him. And as Doctor
your hands, your felt the hurt man’s pulse.
and he dropped it, with an exclama Greeding’s thoughts thus spun and
Nancy turned quickly to the serv
erything you did! ants.
tion.
“Margaret,” she directed,
swirled, he began to feel himself
To Get Rid of Acid
it you did! It was “you keep
the kettles boiling. Ruth,
“Careful!” Mary Ann cried in a utterly alone. By the interwoven
and Poisonous Waste
you.’ She caught
deep exasperation.
Your kidneys help to keep you. well
loves which bound these others to
ed them firmly, bring blankets and sheets ano pil
by constantly filtering waste matter
Doctor Greeding steeled himself; gether-Nancy and Dan, Dan and
miracle for Dan,” lows. Lots of them. Clean ones.
from the blood. If your kidneys get
Don’t let them touch anything, the
he picked up the blade again. He Mary Ann, Mary Ann and Jerrell—
functionally disordered and fail to
remove excess impurities, there may be
looked at his hands.
h felt himself hopelessly excluded.
She spoke quickly to Nancy. wall or anything.”
poisoning of the whole system and
Old Margaret, white-faced but
These hands of his were, miracu Their lives were full without him.
body-wide distress.
“Your father will have to operate,
Burning, scanty or too frequent uri
lously, steady. He studied them as There was no one to whom he, his
here, at once. In the house. With steady, turned to the stove. Ruth,
nation may bo a warning of some kidney
though they belonged to some one life, was indispensable. No one now
or bladder disturbance.
plenty of light A table, some pale as death, departed to do as
You may suffer nagging backache,
Nancy bade her. Jerrell stood si
else, astonished at their rocklike in the living world.
persistent headache, attacks of dizziness,
where.”
lent
by
the
kitchen
door,
waiting
for
firmness.
Himself
in
turmoil,
his
getting up nights, swelling, puffiness
He
was
lonely
for
Myra,
for
his
Nancy caught strength from Mary
under the eyes—feel weak, nervous, all
body and his soul shaken as by a wife. Through all the years of his
played out.
Ann. She suggested steadily: “The commands; and Thomas went stol
idly
out
of
doors,
a
lumpish
man
not
tempest,
it
seemed
to
him
incredi
In such cases it Is better to rely on a
manhood
she
had
been
welded
to
kitchen. There’s a big skylight, and
medicine that has won country-wide
easily dismayed. Doctor Greeding
ble that these trained hands of his his side. He realized, suddenly, that
acclaim than on something less favor
a long table."
ably known. Use Doan’s Pills. A multi
should be so still and sure.
where she who had been flesh of
Mary Ann nodded. “Perfect.” She looked around at them all—saw
tude of grateful people recommend
Dan’s chest was heaving, his his flesh had been torn away, there [
Doan’s. A sk your neighbori
turned to Jerrell. She saw then Margaret, her back turned, busy at
breath labored. His face was cov remained an open wound that would
that he stood white and shamed the stove, and he said softly:
“Nancy, and you, Ira, you’d bet
ered by the towel. The fumes of never close.
and sorrowful; and she went to him,
If the Man Were Not Now Dead,
ether filled the kitchen.
Flesh of his flesh; and—torn away
and rose on tiptoe to kiss him— ter leave me with him.” He might
even now find the opportunity to do
Yet He Must Die!
touched his cheek reassuringly.
They stood in a silent group, wait by his own hand! He accepted this
ing; Doctor Greeding by Dan’s side, fact with all that it implied; and
“Don’t—worry. You must—help what he intended.
But Nancy answered stoutly: ana her arms above the elbow. She Mary Ann facing him across the ta he remembered with a wry smile !
us, Ira,” she said. “Get something
ripped a sheet in half and folded
to carry Dan into the house—some “I'm never going to leave him it like an apron around her shoul ble, Nancy at Dan’s head. Ruth, something Professor Carlisle had
holding her scrubbed hands out in said, long ago. Something about I
Nature can more quickly expel infection when
thing so that he can lie flat. I will again. Never!"
aided by internal medication of recognized merit
Then Mary Ann, her hands full, ders, slit holes for her arms, made front of her, white and motionless, the unwisdom of supping with the
telephone the nearest hospital.
Ruth
pin
the
sheet
like
an
apron
devil, unless one had a long spoon!
came through the pantry. “I got behind.
stood
near,
awaiting
any
command.
Where is it, Nancy?”
She then
thoroughly
He had paid no heed to that cau
Nancy told her. Jerrell, instantly the hospital on the phone,” she re washed her hands with alcohol; Old Margaret, the cook, bowed her
HAVE RECOGNIZED MERIT
tion, at the time; but it was too
ported.
“
They
’
re
sending
every
galvanized into activity, was al
head,
and
her
lips
moved
silently.
bade Margaret empty the wa
late for wisdom now. His fingers
ready running toward the house. thing. Nancy, have some one meet then
There
was
no
sound
save
Dan
’
s
ter out of the boiling kettle and set
were already burned.
Mary Ann looked at Doctor Greed the car at the landing. And I’ve it,
with the things it contained still long, rattling inhalations; and the
With a rising pride he watched
ing. “You will need,” she reflected, been rummaging the house for
clock
ticked
on
the
wall.
these fingers of his, working here
“these things.” And she named things we could use.” She spoke to steaming as they dried, on a chair
“
He
’
s
ready,
”
said
Mary
Ann.
by
the
table.
Doctor
Greeding
and
"FOUR
so skillfully. Burned or not, they |
them, in a swift catalogue. “Any Doctor Greeding. “You can begin
Doctor Greeding’s thoughts began could still work miracles when he |
TEASPOONFU
with what I have here. By the time Nancy returned.
thing else?”
Mary Ann said briskly: “Doctor, to race. It was a moment before chose.
Doctor Greeding said gently: you’re ready to close the wound,
you
can scrub up at the faucet he realized that, at her word, and
And suddenly Doctor Greeding re
the
things
from
the
hospital
will
“No, that will do. But—it’s no
without command from his will, his alized that he did so choose; that
there.
Here’s alcohol.”
have
come.
”
use, Mary Ann!”
He urged: “Mary Ann, don’t hands had begun their business he wished, deeply and profoundly
He said stubbornly: “Dar is
The girl ignored his word. “I’ll
here.
and with a certain desperation, to
have them send everything,” she sinking, Mary Ann. This is valor count too much on this.”
She retorted: “I’m not count
work now a miracle for Dan. He
said, moving toward the path; and ous, but it is futile too.”
CHAPTER
IX
ing,
I
’
m
not
even
thinking.
I
’
m
just
wished it just as a man swept by a
then, to Nancy: “While I’m phon
She deposited her burden on the
strong current toward the crest of
ing, get water boiling. Get Dan on draining-board beside the sink and doing all I can. You must—do the
Doctor Greeding, during tha i
a cataract wishes to cling to the HEARTBURN FROM OVEREATING?
the table. Find some razor-blades took Dan's wrist in her hand; and rest of it!”
Nancy stood by uncertainly, and terminable time while he waited stout rope which chance has thrown
—new ones, if you can—and put after a moment she said crisply:
Hurried or overeating usually causesheart-
Mary Ann said to her:
beside Dan, with Mary Ann facing within his reach and grasp. To burn. Overcome heartburn and digestive
them on to boil. And if you’ve some
“His pulse is not bad!”
him,
and
Nancy
at
his
left
drip
save
Dan
might
not
suffice
to
—
save
distresses with Milnesia, the original milk
“Nancy, you scrub up too. Scrub
blunt-ended scissors. Or any scis
Then, almost sternly: “Doctor
sors will do. And thread, and big Greeding, I have seen you do mir your hands, hard, with the brush ping ether on the towel, felt him himself. Yet Doctor Greeding re of magnesia in wafer form. Thin, crunchy,
flavored,pleasant to take. Each
needles. And big spoons. Put ev acles. You didn’t do them with in and soap. Then wash them in alco self helpless as even the stoutest alized, with a sort of pride, that deliciously
wafer equals 4 teaspoonfuls of milk of
erything on to boil. But first come struments, and equipment. You did hol. Don’t touch anything afterward. swimmer must be helpless in the this did not greatly matter. It was magnesia.20c, 35c & 60c sizes at druggists.
show me where the telephone is. them with the gift of healing that is Stand near us here, in case we full sweep of a mighty current. And of others he was thinking now.
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As he had wished death for oth :— —............................-
need you. Your father will tell you when at last he began, he watched
I’ll call the hospital, and then I’ll— in you. You can do one now!”
8—37
like a spectator this conflict between ers, and even a while ago for Dan WNU—13
search the house, see what I can
The man’s eyes flickered uncer what to do.”
find. There must be first - aid tainly, in a sort of desperation; and
She bound a strip of linen across his will—which desired Dan to die— himself, so now he wished life for
things—”
beads of perspiration appeared up Doctor Greeding’s mouth and nose, and his deed. He wished to bungle, Dan. For the sake of Mary Ann,
They went swiftly together toward on his brow. He repeated after her, made Ruth do a like service for to be inept and clumsy; but de that she might be happy with Jer
the house, and Doctor Greeding was like a lesson learned by rote: “I herself. And she showed Doctor spite himself, those long-trained An rell; for the sake of Nancy and
left alone here beside Dan.
can do one now.” Then his color Greeding the kettle and its con gers went about their accustomed her love; for Dan’s own sake, he
The man stood looking down, his flamed, and he seemed about to tents. “I’ve boiled everything I tasks, seeking out the hurts that wished Dan to live! This wish was
eyes brooding. His universe was speak, to refuse. But in the end, as found that you might usa,” she said. must be mended, discovering them like a humble prayer.
•
(TO BE CONTINUED)
ALL
chaos in this hour. The discovery though surrendering, he said de Her voice caught. “It isn’t much infallibly by touch alone.
that Dan was not dead—though his cisively: “Quick, then!”
COMFORTS
of a kit, but I bent these big spoons
wound must almost certainly prove
AT RATES
Mary Ann nodded; turned back to for retractors; and here are scis
fatal—had struck Doctor Greeding the sink. “I found this can of ether, sors, and razor-blades. They’re dou Ancient Ceremony Amusing in a Modern
with a shocking force.
ALL
in the bathroom closet upstairs,” ble-edged. You’ll have to be care
English Setting at Lord’s Installation
Dan, the rock upon which all his she reported. “It’s never been ful not to cut yourself! We've no
CAN AFFORD
hopes and plans were shattered, Dan opened. And here’s iodine, and al snaps, so you’ll have to catch the
small vessels with thread as you go
Lord Willington recently was in- ' taining “the franchises, liberties,
whom he hated and whom he had cohol, and gauze for sponges—”
Here are needles, and stalled lord warden and admiral of customs and usages of the ports.”
meant should die—was still alive!
Mary Ann went to the stove to in along.
the Cinque ports by the grand « urt I The post of the lord warden is to
And he had meant that Dan should spect the things boiling there; she thread.”
She saw him waver, and she cried of Shepway, writes a London cor day a sinecure. It costs the holder
die by Jerrell's carelessness, so that nodded, satisfied. And she turned
Mary Ann would abhor the man. to Nancy, looked at her apprais ir a swift storm of determination: respondent in the Chicago Tribune. about $400 a year and there are
“What’s the matter with you? You To have witnessed the installation various titles attached to it which
Yet—here a moment ago—Mary ingly.
Ann had kissed Jerrell on the lips.
“Do you want to stay, to help?” act like a scared interne!” Her was to have seen the greatest pos are more or less meaningless. Even
tones rang with scorn. “If you sible muddle of ancient and modern the “Cinque Ports” is a misnomer,
She loved her brother; she should she asked.
bungle this. I’ll see that the world in ceremony. A great gentleman since there are seven ports—Hast
for his carelessness hate Jerrell.
“Yes,” said Nancy.
knows it. You can do thir; and with a notable record garbed in all ings, Dover, Hythe, Romney, Sand
But instead, she had kissed him, in
“You will stand up to it,” Mary you’ve got to. Doctor. You’ve got the finery of uniform that an ad wich, Rye, and Wincheless.
comfort and in love.
miral can boast; “barons” and
The mixing of ancient customs
Doctor Greeding could not recog Ann decided. “But first, send some to! Now come!”
BROADWAY
He said with a helpless gesture: “combarons” dressed in scarlet and costumes now meaningless with
nize the world so long familiar. He one to meet the car from the hos
& SALMON
pital,
at
the
landing.
”
“The ether, Mary Ann. Who will cloaks with trimmings of blue and those modern elements for which
felt himself under the glance of a
Jerrell volunteered: “I'll go.”
I give that?”
gold and the arms of the Cinque can be found no ancient pattern is
stem, condemning eye; he seemed
SALMON
He was grateful for even this | They were ready, scrubbed, stand ports on the shoulders; others in the result of the Englishman’s love
to hear mockery in the air, and a
& PARK
small
chance
to
be
of
help,
hurried
black
knee
breeches
and
white
satin
of
pageantry
and
his
passion
for
ing
by
the
table.
Mary
Ann
for
a
derisive laughter.
still the romantic past. Sometimes it
He spoke, without knowing it, away, and Mary Ann turned back to moment hesitated helplessly. Then: embroidered waistcoats;
aloud. “He must die! He can’t Doctor Greeding. The man was still “Nancy will,” she decided. “I’ll tell others in black frock coats and top “comes off” successfully, some
like one dreaming, bewildered, her how." To Nancy: “Take that hats. All were gathered on Dover times it is funny.
live;” he muttered.
Dan on the ground at his feet, stunned. Mary Ann, because she towel and fold it twice, and pour college close for the ceremony. The
More Speed
said stubbornly, without opening his knew exactly what she wished for, ether on it and then lay it across old court which had a real service
“If I had a race hoss,” said Uncle
eyes: “I’m not dead yet. Doctor!” commanded him in his uncertain his mouth and nose. Then a few to perform was held at Shepway
And the older man said, crush- ties. “Go and prepare yourself,” drops afterward, whenever I tell Cross, but this modern one was held Eben, "I'd call it ‘Money,’ ’cause I
under a marquee, where the lord don't know anything dat kin go
ingly: “You’re badly hurt! Don't she directed. “We'll have to do with you.”
out gloves. I’U contrive a inask. | Doctor Greeding stood with his I warden undertook the duty of main faster.”
nurse any futile hopes.”
CHAPTER VIII—Continued
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