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Thursday. March 4, 1937
THE HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON.
DEPUTY of the DEVIL
Copyright, Ben Ames Williams.
CHAPTER IX—Continued
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Ann insisted that Doctor Greeding
go to bed for a while.
"I’ll call you later,” she prom­
ised. “Nancy will stay with him,
and I’ll sleep here, and we’ll call
you!”
So Doctor Greeding went to his
room; but at first he did not sleep.
He turned on all the lights, unwill­
ing that there should be anywhere
a shadowed corner in which any­
thing or nothing might be hidden.
The man’s nerves began to twitch
raggedly. He had a sense of dark
forces gathering like a smothering
cloud. He slept at last uneasily;
and when at last some one came
tapping at his door, he woke with a
bound and a cry.
“It’s Nancy, Father,” the girl
said reassuringly, through the pan­
els. “It’s all right. Nothing’s hap­
pened. Only Mary Ann thought you
might come down for a while now.”
“At once,” he promised, steadily
enough; yet it was in fact some
time before he was sufficiently com­
posed to face them. When he came
downstairs, he found Mary Ann by
Dan’s side, Nancy half asleep in a
great chair near. Doctor Greeding
touched Dan’s wrist, his brow, and
nodded reassuringly; and Mary Ann
smiled. She went to spread a
blanket gently over Nancy.
“You lie down too,” Doctor
Greeding directed.
She obeyed him, white and weary;
and Doctor Greeding was left with
the hurt man. He stood beside Dan
for a moment; then he too sat down
—sat without moving, while long
thoughts absorbed him.
Sometime later he looked toward
Nancy. Her eyes were open. He
saw the glint of them.
“Awake, dear?” he murmured.
She smiled. “I had a bad
dream,” she whispered. “But it’s
all right if you’re here.” And she
sighed, and slept again. Her faith
was like a draft of warming wine.
Hours later Nancy roused, and
came and stood with her hand
touching Dan’s. His fingers closed
faintly over hers.
“He knows me,” Nancy whis­
pered; and Dan muttered:
“Nancy. There?”
“Here always, Dan. Hush now,
darling. Sleep.”
She held him in her love as a
mother holds a babe in arms. Doc­
tor Greeding drew back into the
shadows while she took his place at
her lover’s side. And so at last the
long night ended, darkness yield-
ng to the warm gray of dawn.
He began to work with a new in­
tentness. Mary Ann, facing him
across Dan’s body, sensed this, and
looked at him quickly. But she
said nothing, asked no question, con­
tinued like a machine to supple­
ment in every way his efforts with
her own.
And presently, as his senses
cleared, Doctor Greeding began to
feel, with that fine instinct of the
surgeon which is so often right with­
out any tangible reason for its con­
clusions, that Dan might be saved.
All went so smoothly. The bullet
had been driven by a light powder­
charge—by a target, rather than
a service-load. Also, the ball had
struck Dan’s belt and thus lost
somewhat of its force, so that its
destructive effect was less than
might otherwise have been the case.
Thus the wound itself was as
mild as possible—though deadly se­
rious enough. But also there seemed
to Doctor Greeding ground for hope
in the fact that this absurd, irregu­
lar surgical procedure insisted on
performing itself without the least
hitch. Bazor-biades instead of the
knife, blunt scissors for dissection,
thread and needle in place of snaps,
clumsily bent spoons for retractors,
each in his hands so incredibly
shrewd and skillful served their pur­
pose well; and at the moment the
supply of gauze for sponges neared
exhaustion, Jerrell and Thomas
came racing up the path, bringing
all that might be required.
When Doctor Greeding saw the
end of the task in sight, he spoke
to Nancy. “Enough ether—take the
towel away now.” She obeyed, and
l e finished, sure that what he had
done was well done; with a nod to
Mary Ann, he withdrew from the
table where Dan lay. He went to
the sink to wash his hands. Nancy
was there, leaning back against the
drain-board, white and still. Doctor
Greeding looked at his daughter,
and he asked gently:
“Head ache? It’s the fumes. Get
out of doors. We must keep Dan
warm, can’t open any windows
here.”
Nancy went obediently toward the
kitchen door, and Mary Ann said:
“We’ll move him into the dining-
room, arrange some sort of screen
around him there to keep off
drafts.”
Doctor Greeding nodded. He said
wearily: “It’s been a strain. My
head's whirling. A surgeon should
CHAPTER X
never operate on his friends!” •
“You did all that could be done,
There followed days of waiting, of
did it perfectly,” Mary Ann assured
him; and she asked, with a sudden that inaction which is so much more
weakening in her tones, her first con­ difficult than action, when they
fession of fear: “Tell me what you could only tend the hurt man, and
seek to cheer him with their smiles
think?”
Doctor Greeding hesitated. “Ev­ feeding with the fuel of their un­
erything was as fortunate as possi­ tainted strength the flickering fire of
ble,” he said. "There are many per­ life that burned in him. Sometimes
forations, as you saw. That was in­ he was in torment, but he managed
evitable. But not much poisonous to grin despite the pain, hiding his
matter free. Of course, all we could
do was repair the damage, and
drain the wound, and—wait. You
know that as well as I.” He added:
PP
"Yet—I believe he will get better!”
rep
With Thomas and Jerrell helping,
they carried Dan into the dining-
room, and laid a mattress on the
table for his bed, and set a fire on
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the hearth.
And thus began the vigil that must
endure for days. Doctor Greeding
assumed command. “Another pro­
cedure may be necessary later,” he
explained. “I’ll get whatever we
are likely to need, have it ready.”.
He telephoned to Boston and ar­
ranged that a full kit should be dis­
patched by messenger. He suggest­
ed a nurse; but Mary Ann nega­
tived that.
“I shall be within call always,”
she said. “And Nancy will want to
help. Any unnecessary peopi could
only add to the confusion. He needs
quiet, needs to sleep.”
He assented. “Yes, that’s true,”
he agreed.
“But I must let Father know,”
she remembered.
Doctor Greeding said quickly:
“Of course.” And he urged: "Have
him come up here, Mary Ann.” He
was suddenly and for no tangible
"Head Ache? It's the Fumes,
reason eager to see Professor Car­
Get Out of Doors.”
lisle again.
Jerrell took this matter in hand; anguish behind a brave mask of
he volunteered to drive to Boston mirth from these folk who loved
and fetch Dan’s father. “It’s bet­ him.
ter than having him make the trip
He did thus deceive Nancy; but
alone," he said. "And—I must con­ at such hours his brow was wet,
fess my fault to him, Mary Ann.” and Mary Ann knew he suffered,
She reassured him. "It wasn't and eased him as she could
your fault. It was an accident,”
Doctor Greeding himself seldom
she urged. Yet she let him go.
went far from where the hurt man
Thomas took him in the boat to lay. He clung to Dan's proximity,
the landing where he had left his as a mariner in stormy weather
car. He would, they decided, return clings to sate anchorage, with
next day.
a jealous diligence. Here was his
Dusk began to creep across the task and his desire; to make sure,
lake and cloak the island. Dan first of all, that Dan came back to
was drowsily conscious, murmur­ health again. He would not by even
ing absurdities and realizing their a brief absence take the least risk
absurdity and chuckling at himself; of failure.
and Nancy, close by him, holding
The vigil left its mark upon him,
his hand, laughed with him ever so so that even Mar Ann urged him to
tenderly. Mary Ann had made a rest, to walk around the island, or
couch in the billiard-room, close by take a boat-ride, or find some oth­
where he lay. After dinner—they er means of distraction.
ate in the kitchen, in relays, one
“You need it,” she insisted.
of them always by lus side—Mary "You're deadly tired.”
“I’m all right,” he protested. “I’ll pipe, his old eyes stern and still. enough that between Mary Ann and
stand by.”
"Strange things do happen,” he said Jerrell there was a bond which
Jerrell and Professor Carlisle had gravely, “—some things too dark for grew stronger in these days under
arrived early on the first morning, the human mind to contemplate.” the same roof together. Jerrell
having left Cambridge at dawn. He met Doctor Greeding’s glance. seemed younger each day; and
Doctor Greeding welcomed them. “I perceive,” he said, “that Dan Mary Ann wore radiance like a
There was rising in him a deep af­ and Nancy—"
garment, and a happy certainty
fection for these folk, a new per­
"Yes. I am much pleased,” Doc­ and pride.
ception of the kindliness and under­ tor Greeding said hurriedly.
The second day after Dan’s hurt,
standing in them all. Jerrell, for in­
“You do not—object?” the Pro­ there was a change in the weather.
stance, had not offered to throw the fessor asked.
It grew warmer, and a hot haze ob­
resources of his wealth at their
“No,” the other man assured him. scured the sky, diffusing the rays
disposal; his silence seemed to as­ "No!” And he said: “Strange of the sun. Dan suffered from the
sume that whatever could be done things, yes. Dan’s recovery—I heat, as they all did; yet the day
for Dan, they would do. Some men, think he will recover—is almost passed somehow. After dinner. Nan-
Doctor Greeding reflected, would like a miracle, for instance.” Some­
have displayed the arrogance thing like an appeal for mercy was
natural to financial power; would in his tone.
have insisted on summoning other
The old man said inflexibly: “Yes.
physicians, nurses, on importing If he does recover.”
hospital facilities of every kina. He
And at that, abruptlj, Doctor
liked Jerrell for his reticence in Greeding turned away and went out
this direction.
through the billiard-room to where
And Doctor Greeding had, where Dan lay. He questioned Mary Ann
the others were concerned, even with a glance.
more personal reasons for grati­
“He’s fine," she said. “Not much
tude. The accident to Dan was. pain, and no temperature. Doctor,
after all, his fault; and Nancy, and you mustn’t—doubt. He’ll get bet­
Dan too—since they were familiar ter.” She smiled hearteningly. “He’s
with firearms—must know this. Yet bound to. This is one of your mir­
neither reproached him, or offered acles, you know.”
him blame.
“It’s already twenty-four hours,”
He welcomed Professor Carlisle's he reflected. “Wound draining?”
coming as an opportunity for con­
“Perfectly.”
fession, hoping by an open admis­
"I’ll stay with him for a while,”
sion of his culpability to ease his he suggested. “If you want to—
own heart ; and he took the first con­ rest.”
I
venient occasion. He and Jerrell
And he did in fact stay close to
were in the big living-room; Mary Dan’s side during the days that fol­
Ann and Nancy and Professor Car­ lowed. This was not all solicitude
lisle were with Dan in the dining- for Dan. It was in part defensive;
room, the length of the house away. since so long as he stayed near
Then Professor Carlisle came back Dan—who was conscious and ration­
from Dan’s side; and he asked Doc­ al now—he need not be alone with
tor Greeding:
Professor Carlisle.
“You think he has a chance, Doc-
There was in Doctor Greeding a
tor? Mary Ann says that is your passionate desire to avoid that wise
opinion.”
bold man, whose shrewd eyes saw so
“I believe so, yes,” Doctor Greed­ much, who might be keen enough
ing assented. And he said, to Jer- to suspect, and even to credit, the
rell as well as to Professor Car­ incredible. He perceived that ques­
“It’s the Way the World Is,
lisle: “I hope so. Because, Pro­ tions multiplied in the other’s mind;
Though, Isn’t It, Father?”
fessor, this was not Jerrell's fault: but so long as he himself stayed cy and Doctor Greeding went out
it was mine.”
who must overhear any on the open terrace in front of the
Jerrell protested generously: near Dan, that
might be attempted. house, where a faint breeze stirred.
“Hardly, Ned. It was my clumsi­ catechism
Professor Carlisle could not inter­ The stars were obscured by the
ness.”
him.
haze across the sky; and Nancy
But Professor Carlisle waited, rogate
And—Doctor Greeding haa no an­ said:
watching Doctor Greeding; and the swers
ready for the old man’s un­
"We need a shower, Father, to
surgeon said explicitly:
asked
questions;
he clung to Dan clear the air.”
"No, Ira.” He spoke to Dan’s as a buckler and so
a shield.
He nodded. "Tomorrow, prob­
father. “You see, Professor Car­
He and Mary Ann and Nancy ably,” he said. “It's never uncom­
lisle, I had just fired the pistol. I shared
that vigil; but he bore the fortably hot here for very long.”
removed the empty clip, thinking I
burden. It was as though
They stood side by side, her arm
had fired the last cartridge. Most greater
he poured his own life and strength through his. “But I don’t think I
accidents with automatics occur into
hurt man. He seemed in shall ever like it here again,” she
through just such carelessness as fact the
visibly to fail while Dan grew confessed.
mine. I should have worked the stronger.
For Dan's strength did
He was shaken. “No? Why, Nan­
action to be sure that the barrel was begin to return,
his color to im­ cy?”
empty. I neglected to do this. I prove; and his spirits
were brave
“I think partly because Dan was
should have made sure the gun was and unsubdued.
—hurt here,” she decided. "And—
empty before giving it to Jerrell.”
Doctor Greeding, by contrast, be­ it can’t ever be the same without
He smiled frankly. “Nc one has gan
look like an ill man. Nancy Mother. When Dan can be moved,
blamed
me,”
he
confessed. paid to him
a heavenly tenderness. let’s go back to Cambridge, Fa­
"They’ve all been mighty kind and And Mary Ann
entered with her in­ ther. Sell the island.”
generous. But it was my fault, just to this conspiracy
of gentleness to­
“I wish you’d stay here with me,”
the same.”
ward
the
man
who
so
visibly
grew
he
suggested. “For a while, for
Neither man spoke; and he added weary and drawn before their eyes.
this last time—”
honestly:
She said, with the blind cruelty
“As a matter of fact, this was She said to him, once, at dawn:
“You mustn’t—wear yourself out. of youth: “I hate leaving you. Fa­
worse than carelessness. With that
particular pistol, if the barrel is Doctor.” And she added, under- ther. But—I want to be with Dan,
empty, the action stays half-open. standingly: “Father told me you always. Life’s so short! I know
The fact that it was closed should blame yourself for Dan’s being hurt. that now. We’ve so little time. I
have warned me that there was still But that’s wrong. You mustn’t wor­ don’t want to miss a single day I
a cartridge in the barrel. I was in­ ry. Grief and worry can make you might have with him!”
“I shall be lonely without you
ill, and Dan doesn’t blame you.
credibly stupid!”
Nancy," he confessed.
There was a moment’s silence. None of us do.”
“I know,” she nodded. “And I’m
He said: “I wonaer if that’s why
Then Jerrell said uncomfortably:
“Decent of you to say that, Ned. Dan’s getting better. Because he’s sorry. It’s the way the world is,
But after all, if I hadn’t pointed the not blaming me, not—hating me. though, isn’t it. Father? No mat­
Hate and anger are poisonous ter how much I love you, I must
gun at Dan—"
He added, in an incredulous rec­ things, Mary Ann. They can de­ go to Dan.”
He assented gravely. “Yes. And
ollection: “I didn’t mean to, tried stroy a man, if he harbor them.” I won
’t try to keep you from him.”
She protested smilingly: "Nobody
not to. I can’t understand it, ev­
She laughed, clinging to his arm,
en now. It was exactly as if some hates anybody here!”
He said gently: "You’re a very her voice deep and warm. “You
one’s hand, on mine swung the pis­
tine woman, Mary Ann.” There couldn’t, ever," she whispered ar­
tol toward Dan—”
“If it had been empty, you could was a question in his mind, but he dently. “No matter how you tried.
have done no harm,” Doctor Greed­ did not ask it. There was no need. Nothing ever can.”
(TO BE CONTINVCD)
To any discerning eye, it was clear
ing insisted.
Professor Carlisle looked keenly
at the Doctor. “No one is—blam­
able for an accident,” he remarked. Russians Unearth Rich Archeological
“This of course was an accident.
Finds That Are of Historic Importance
Let it rest so.”
And he repeated his question of a
Archeological finds of historic hut twenty-five meters long, tombs
moment before. “You think he will
importance have been brought to and a sacrificial altar were un­
recover?”
light by a number of Soviet scien­ covered. In the altar were found
“Yes.”
"Why?” the older man inquired. tific expeditions, says the Chicago the charred bones of prehistoric
domestic animals, pot containing
Tribune.
“On what signs do you rely?”
The Crimea, Kazakstan in cen­ the remains of food, and several
Doctor Greeding hesitated, shook
his head, smiled. "I don't know,” tral Asia, the ancient Tatar re­ bone cubes resembling modern
he said. “Instinct. A guess, per­ public, the Georgian republic in dice
That the Stone Age man roamed
haps.” He chuckled. “Or it may the mountainous Caucasus, and the
be that I’m relying on my luck. I Ural province, are among the re­ the mountains of the Caucasus is
was born under a caul. Professor. gions which have yielded rich finds indicated by the discovery of a
The old women say that’s a sign of that are being studied by specialists cave near the city of Jugilee, Geor­
gia, in which a number of flint
luck, you know; and I've always ir. various Soviet museums.
Ancient flint implements on the implements were found.
been lucky, certainly."
Professor Carlisle sat down, al­ site of a 200,000 year old settlement
most suddenly, as though he were of Neanderthal man were found on
Olfactory Organ
tired. His eyes still on Doctor the Katcha river in the Crimea by
The sense organ of smell, the
Greeding's face, he filled his pipe ar. expedition of the Moscow His­ olfactory organ, is tucked away in
and lighted it So presently he torical museum. This is reported a not easily accessible region. |
to be the first settlement of that making it difficult to reach it for .
spoke.
"Born under a caul, were you. era discovered in an open area, all experimental purposes.
It is at |
Doctor?" he repeated thoughtfully. previous Neanderthal settlements the top of the nasal chamber, back |
And he said: “I remember you having been found in hillside caves. of each eye socket. It consists of |
In the village of Pychka nearby a patch of membrane about an
once told me some strange experi­
ences of a friend of yours, who the expedition discovered some in­ inch square that differs in color ■
teresting examples of the art of the from that of the surrounding areas. |
was also born under a caul.”
Doctor Greeding felt his cheek pre-Scythian culture of 3000-2000 It is covered with delicate fila- I
flame; then the blood drained away, B. C. These drawings depicted menta resembling hairs that are '
and he cursed his folly, his own battle scenes, executed on the face the sense receptors. A coating of |
loose tongue. There was no accusa­ of a cliff in red pigment, over an mucous substance is maintained on |
the membrane immersing the
tion in the Professor’s tone; yet area of ten meters.
Numerous relics of the Bronze sensitive filaments. The substance
Doctor Greeding felt himself ac­
cused.
Age were found in Kazakstan by that produces the smell reaction is |
"Yes, so I did,” he confessed another expedition of the Histor­ dissoved in the mucous coating |
ical museum. After weeks of pains­ and in this dissolved form affecta i
lamely.
Professor Carlisle puffed at tus taking excavations, a communal the filaments.
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