MYERS
SYNOPSIS. -— Nurses In the
Southern hospital at Avonmouth
are angered by the Insolent
treatment accorded them by Dr
John Lancaster, head of the in-
stitution, and there is a general
feeling of unrest, into which
Joan Wentworth, probationary
nurse, is drawn Doctor Lan-
caster is performing a difficult
operation, for which he has won
fame. Joan, with other nurses,
is in attendance She is upset,
through no fault of her own, and
makes a trivial blunder at a crit-
fcal moment. The patient dies
ami Doctor Lancaster accuses
her of clumsiness She is sus-
pended, the action meaning the
end of her hope of a career as a
nurse Without relatives or
friends, and desperate, Joan,
urged by her landlady, goes to
Doctor Lancaster's 10 ask
him to overlook her blunder and
reinstate her She overhears a
violent altercation between Doe-
tor Lancaster and other men she
does not see Joan is struck by
the favorable change In the ap-
pearance and demeanor the
doctor, recalling that at times in
the hospital he has been gentle
and thoughtful and at others su-
percilious and bullying He tells
her he can do nothing for her at
the hospital, but offers her a po-
sition in a nursing institution In
the country, telling her she can
be of “great assistance” to him
office
of
CHAPTER Ill—Continued
Bn
“You're a fool! You don't
when you are well off. | tell
wash my hands of you. This is final—"
Joan could not help but hear.
as she emerged Into
the
Myers came hurry-
know
yon, |
the passage, all
time hearing sounds of tl
quarreling voices,
ing past
He did not see her,
flung it open,
the steps into the street.
the
He
door,
went
As he
saw him
along the passage the girl n
staring right and
came out, he saw her and went toward
that it
left; then, as
her. She knew was she whom
Ing
Doctor Lancaster was
he kad heen
"yy was it
Miss Wentworth, be
he usk
YOu.
ed In
Joan stared in i
Now she reali;
taken hin
annarer
app
honsel
1
“Will
asked
aside with sneer
he
if that's
“1 shall
very wel
attitnda ”
attitude,
answered
Joan turned swiftly upon him. *1
don't », but |
mplain of you to Doctor Lancaster,”
she sald,
Myers
and chuckled.
tie went back
And the
quurreling dialogue.
Joun found herself in the street In
the twilight, and now the unreality of
the absurd interview siruck home to
her. She tried to puzzle It out. Be-
fore she reached the boarding house
she thought she had her elue
That Lancaster, the terror of the
nurses, should have been unable to
promise Immediate reinstatement, his
wident good-will, his Indecision and
fliness were explicable only In ene
way. The man Myers must be a rel
ative, the third man perhaps a nephew,
Lancaster had been supporting a
vorthless pair In idleness, and had
turned on them in exasperation, That
was the meaning of his look of lliness,
Vis preoccupation--the shock of some
Anmestic discovery,
At any rate she was satisfied with
some such solution. And she was cer-
tain that, If she pleased him with her
mysterious mission, her reinstatement
would follow. She went home happy,
snd Mrs. Webb read the news In her
tace the moment she opened the door.
“1 knew it, my dear,” she exclaimed
with pleasure. "I knew that you could
twist that old devil round your finger
if you tried hard enough.”
“Mrs, Webb, it was nothing of the
kind,” sald Joan. "And Doctor Lan-
caster Is one of the kindest of men.
He's going to try to have his decision
reversed. and--Mrs. Webb, he is send-
ing me to a sanitarium, on a ease, in
the meantime.”
She checked herself, suddenly re-
membering Lancaster's caution. But
Mrs. Webb took the girl to her wide
bosom and kissed her,
“Yon little humbug!” she sald,
“Mrs. Webb,” cried Joan, scandal.
ized, “If you knew"
But when shé was upstairs she sat
down suddenly and fuced her con-
science, What Impression of herself
had she given In the consulting room?
She did not know. This scene, like
that of the morning, had become
blurred in her memory, and time had
begun to flow very fast after the slow.
ness of her twenty-two years. Cer
tainly stranger things had happened
know who you ghall
are
looked nat
Then,
into
voloes
her and sneered
without a word,
doctor's root.
kept up their
the
that day than at any time since her
mother's death!
She leaned out of the window. She
suddenly remembered that the insti
tute was not many miles from her old
home. It would be almost going home
—and on the morrow. Joy leaped into
her heart,
Then she saw something that for an
instant chilled the blood in her veins.
Across the street, leaning against the
park railings and looking up at the
house, was a short, square-bullt figure
of a man wearing a hard hat. She
could not distinguish the face, hut
she thought it was Myers. And she
remembered his threat.
What did it mean?
turned into her room again.
regretted now that she
Lancaster.
But in the morning
the incident from her mind as a fan
tasy.
Bewildered, she
She half
was to go to
she dismissed
Chapter IV
At half-past seven in the evening
Joan descended from the train at Lan
day ride.
Joan could
was on a
she
It was like going home,
not see her village, which
branch line, but at Medlington
was only four miles away. There
were the same misty ‘mountains, break
ing the horizon line, the same small,
straggling towns, the same fragrance
of the deep forests, bringing back to
her remembrances which a
chance odor suddenly unlooses, as at
of some stave
those
touch magician's
recollection,
As the
tant mountains
circle of
flow
changed
irregular
afternoon by the dis.
into a semi
Now the
foothills
heights
into the
land. This was
country than
The villages were he
lusters of negro cabins
train wns
It was a
the
had ever been,
fur
ioneiy
back
coming mere ¢
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CS.
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The Horse Breaking Into a Short Gal.
lop Near Every Summit.
and each time the coach became shab-
bier and more disreputable, and more
impregnated with tobacco smoke. The
character of Joan's fellow travelers
changed as well They were un.
couther, they wore chin beards and
rough store sults; they sat perspiring
and collariess, the soft hats pulled
over their foreheads. But she looked
at them with the loving appreciation
of her own people that was In her
heart, and they. in the presence of the
pretty girl who was traveling alone,
displayed the innate courtesy of the
SKoutherner,
The sun descended; it was gilding
the whole land with level rays of gold
and dancing on the horizon like a red
ball when the train pulled Into Lan-
caster, the last station before Mill
ville, the terminus. Joan got down
and looked about her.
The station was a tiny place and
seemed deserted. The booking office
was closed. In the waiting room, sp
pearing almost to fill it. was a stont
negress with a dozen parcels; from
the wicker sides of one two hens
heads with blinking eyes protruded.
Outside a ramshackle buggy. with a
lean chestnut horse attached, was
drawn up to the edge of the muddy
road.
A well-dressed young mountain boy
in a hard-felt hat was standing be
side It. As Joan enme out of the sta
tion he turned toward her, took off his
hat, and bowed,
“Miss Wentworth?" he inquired, in
a well-bred tone.
“Yes. You are from the Institute?”
“Yeu, Migs Wentworth. Mrs. Fraser
will be expecting youn." He looked be
yond her, and Joan, turning. perceived
to her digcomfiture the man Myers, in
his hard hat. He must have traveled
up In the train with her,
Myers came forward, taking off hia
hat grudgingly. “Miss Wentworth,
I'm sorry If 1 dnnoyed you last night"
he sald. “I ought to have explained
RE
to you that I'm the secretary of the
institution. I guess my manners ain't
very good, but I meant no harm.”
Joan, who had witnessed
ence with consternation,
sudden reaction from her
course, Myers' explanation
situation intelligible,
She bowed, and he turned
boy. “You can take Miss
up,” he said. “I'll find a buggy some
where.”
As there was only room
Joan did not
proposition, She stepped
man holding out his hand to
guard her dress from the wheel, Joan
ginneced at the mun momentary
interest. He had the appearance of a
gentleman, and the manners of one
There no hint of either servi
or presumption, and yet
of independence about man
which fitted him admirably He
flicked the horse, and the buggy hegan
of the station
street of a
Was n
fears
made
to
the buggy,
in, the
young
with
was Hty
there was 8
sort the
es Lesty ae
piong
i
Vii
white vil
to crawl out yard
the single
stragglin iphill, It
but clusters shanties a
among the pines
presence of the black element,
their
tiny age
Inge, of ittie
back betrayed the
1 here
wns a store or two, fronts plas
tered with tobacco and baking powder
and in front of
gaunt, vellow-faced hillmun
ng after
fuce
“This is Lancaster?
“Yes,
“The people here look Pp
den) of
Hook
to eall
advertisements, each
stood a
chewing and gazi the buggy
with unanimated
naked Joan.
Miss Wentworth
4»
depressed
"There's a sickness
Miss
what
good
Wentworth,
they
there isn't malaria
diet-—salt pork and soda biscuits
there's |
worm, and
malaria But
it's bad
And
gen
used
any here ;
peilagra; it's been here for
erations, but It
that
wasn't till last year
the medical commission discov
act knowledge n
man’s
have been ludicrous in most men of
iis class, but
the
I taineer
there was nothing ridie-
refined face of the
He
knowledge at
ulous in grave
must have
the in
thought Joan
healthy up In
rth +
“But it's the
Wentwi
Millville
the valley
e added
They used
5
over sonder,
village is
cotton in
YG sill feo
ity, BANG dail id}
3 little water power
ance of a
farmhbouss
road . he ffl
wer the hills
The horse
breath again
saw a white lin
over the
from the station to the buil
way UD was a black
that seemed to Joan knew It
was Myers’ hard hat, his body being
hidden among the bushes
She shuddered slightly; the man was
very repugnant to her,
The horse went on again, the road
winding uphill through pastures gay
with buttercups and white with little
branched asters. It dipped between
hedgerows pink with meadowsweet,
The sun had set, but ite light still
glided the hills, The scene was very
peaceful. Now the Institute seemed
to swing out from among the undula-
tions of the mountain flanks imme-
diately In front of them.
The buggy came to a standstill be
fore the longeWwooden building, which
was of unshingled boards and very
much the worse for weather. It had
not been painted for years, and two
windows in one wing were broken. A
patch of weedy, unmown lawn extend.
ed between what had once been
hedges, but were now mere tangles of
undergrowth. Nearby was a large
inclosure in which were a few chick
ens, picking for grains of corn, and
a cow at pasture turned her head and
gazed at them placidly.
The door opened and a pleasant.
looking woman came forward,
“How do you do, Miss Wentworth™
she said. “1 am the matron, Mrs.
Fraser. Doctor Lancaster telegraphed
about your coming. ‘I'll show you
your room, and your supper will be
ready in a few minutes”
Joan descended. The driver. who
had leaped to the ground, held his
hand over the wheel, but did not offer
it to her. Then he re-entered the bug.
gy. and, rather to Joan's surprise,
drove off along the road by which
they had ascended.
rocky si
ding. Hal
little speck of
nove
from view
The mystery deepens, with
Myers the secretary of the insti.
tution. Is Joan In for a dis.
agreeable adventure?
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
In parts of Africa and southern
Asia the cowrle, a sinall shell, is used
for con.
Sports Togs Hold i
Center of Stage
Wide Variety of Sweaters
and Tweeds Offered for
Outdoor Wear.
The winter
full blast,
warinest
Eresit
of
for the
season sports is in
gayest and
clothes, Athletic women take
delight in the bright-colored |
knitted sweaters, with the sn rompany- |
ing knitted und uther |
Beusonable
The pe
lashiion
calling
caps, scurfs
garb,
loubtuble
writer in
kasha, observes a
the New York Her
Brown Chiffon Velvet
Trimmed With Kolinsky
ald-"T'ribune, is once more turned (0 ug |
the oi
Bhorts
funding fubric
Hind
OWS HoH
for
clothes
fod
tweeds
wake
Lon
YOe Is,
closely In ls
there
don
COUTTS,
wide variety of
tweed
Ing
inuny women
tradqiti
The
distinetly
Ish and mal
its
still
appeni to the
cling to the anclent
tradition, too, particularly
feminine types whic
est advuntiace
weed
snd nang
pnumneroys
Jumbe Middy Pull-On Knitted
Scarlet and White Bandings
is are | en
Lad |
ind have coliars of fox or seal
for
le of fur
A pretty
«iit in
i
white
Nearves Sports wear are often
ied with cloth or kasha
worn with a little
had the neckband of
knsha on which was a nurrow
band of jleopard, It was knotted In
fri nt and had two short wide ends on
vaeh
one white
Paris
of the leopard,
in spite of
they would
many predictions
not achieve SUCCERR,
the modes of the present season. In
the majority of cases they are adapta
tions tuken from the picturesque cos
they are quite in harmony
The interest in things directoire has
fashion. One finds tones of burgundy,
of bottle green, of a rather violent
purple snd of a dull gold that are
reminiscent of that particular period
and the smooth-faced cloths and high-
lustered satins suggest the materials in
favor, at that time,
m— — —
Peaked Crown Becoming
to Majority of Women
There ure so many different varia-
tions of the peaked grown that it is be
conting to practically all types; for in
gtunce, there is the four-dented crown
tip nnd the three-dented tip, the creased
or helmet ridge that runs from side to
glide or from back to front, or the ridgé
that Ix turned over in quite a roll from
one side to the other, or from the back
to the front, :
The peaked or pointed tip Is more
wiiitable to the: young person, The
helmet ridge type which runs from
side to side, no matter in what way it
i aecomplished Ig better for the older
woman with the heavier type face, for
it gives her the width that 8 20 neces
sary for the stouter aml larger face.
.
RE SABA
Showing luxuriously trimmed
kolingsky trimming.
affair, The bodice is heavily emb.oid
ered in gold and red.
Double-Breasted Coat—
Four or Six Buttons
are
ashion
vit only one the
For the woman who
these
wide plait side
drives her own cnt
box
front, stitched down for some
six from the then
left free a very practical mode
{ and is becoming as well,
skirts are made with wide
piaits in
inches waist and
This is
iro
| Blue for Evening Wear
Is Much in Limelight
coats of various
cloths trimmed with light-colored fox,
are features of the mode. White foxes
dyed light blue, or a wheat
| known as ble are also used
cConts
Evening
or chiffon,
Smart of velvet
shade
on these
gowns aro mostly of velvet
heavily embroidered with
beads, and revealing much use of gold
i and silver combinations. Almost all
| shades of blue are expressed In gowns
for formal wear,
A broadtall wrap made with a short
cape effect was completed with a small
felt hat of light bine, having a crystal
and riinestone pin as its only orna-
ment.
Rhinestones on Tulle
Bandeaux Hold Favor
The newest bandeaux for the ball
are rhinestones on shaped bands of
tulle. One lovely bandeau, intended
for wenr with an ecru lace creation ls
brown tulle shaped to a point in front
with rhinestones embroidered In Rus
sian design, leaving a wide margin of
tulle at the peak. Others have the
points at the side. A bhesutiful ban.
dean has rhinestone embroidery on
draped band of rose satin,
Charming accessories worn Inelude
{ erepe do chine scarfs, very wide, with
| fringe of ostrich, clusters of gold ross
Land =ilk hose Tn delicate shades
Velvet and Chinchilla
Nothing loveller could be imagined
than an evening weap o. flamecolorsd
veivet trimmed with wide hands of
chinchilla worn over a brocaded elif
fon frock of the same tone,
HOW TO KEEP
WELL
name
DR. FREDERICK R. GREEN
Editor of “HEALTH”
(@. 1920, Western Newspaper Union. )
WHO SHOULD DRIVE
AUTOMOBILES?
HEN you get on a rallroad train
and roll into your pullman berth,
yuu go to sleep with perfect
in the and ability of
man at throttle, You know
engineer of a passenger
confidence
the
that
train is
intelligence
the
the
sure to be a tried and tested employee
of years of
You know
“TICE
a
and
training and exp
that his eyes and
have been e
always true
rajlroad
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128K INK) olor
REMOVING WRINKLES
BY PARAFFIN
formed
nim
the
{ace 1
iy.
tion ren he patient,
all,
What the operation
know, Several methods have
vented ing wrinkles. One is
the injection of parafiin, Paraffin has
been in faclmlosurgery for over
20 years. It is of great value, for in
stance, in repairing a broken nose or
in building up a fallen bridge of the
nose I'he melted paraffin is injected
by a syringe under the skin, Alling out
sunken While it
it can be molded into the exact shape
desired. Then some beauty doctor got
the bright idea, that paraffin injected
into the cheeks would fll them out
and, by stretching the skin, would pull
out the wrinkles, just as blowing up a
toy balloon stretches the rubber bag
and makes it smooth and round.
Paraflin was supposed to be harmless
The operation was only a needle prick.
Many women who wanted plump
cheeks without wrinkles had them
pumped full of parafiin, hoping that
they'd look yomthful and lovely once
more. Since then, most of them have
been wishing they hadn't and trying to
find someone who could dig the hard
ened wax out of thelr cheeks,
The trouble is that, after the wax
is injected, it hardens and the neessure
stops the blood supply. Toe cheeks
are plump, alas sometimes they are too
plump bat the skin over the mass of
paraflin is bloodless and dry. It looks
Hike, and really is dead skin. It ean
be covered with rouge and powder, but
it has no color or vitality. It is es
pecially Hable to infection, having no
resistance, The paraflin may melt and
one's cheek run down into one's neck.
which is most anplensant,
Don't be fooled by enticing adver
tising or foolish friends. Yon can't
buy a god complexion in un drug store
or a beauty parior. Fresh air, pure
water, inside and out, pod soap, sim.
ple fond and plenty of outdoor exer
cise and open-air sleep will Lring bets
ter resnite and no regrets.
r
infect and i
wrinkles and
was we do not
been In
for remos
used
the space, is soft,