A webs a by Victor Rousseau Copyright by W. G. Chapman SOMETHING HIDDEN 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 hag 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- fen] moment. The patient dies and 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 office to ask him to overlook her blunder and reinstate her She overhears a violent altefcation between Doc- tor Lancaster and other men she does not see. JoAn is struck by the favorable change in the ap- pearance and demeanor of 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 A man named Myers demands she tell him what the doctor had sald to her. She denies him the information, and he covertly threatens her, At the institution which Is owned by Doctor Lan- caster, Joan finds Myers. He tells her he is the secretary in- stinctively disilkes and fears him She CHAPTER IV—Continued a The girl, after a moment's tion, preceded Mrs. Fraser into building. She saw a corridor, with a number of doors on either side, and the stairs in front of her. “You would lke to ! ie Miss Wentworth?" asked the 1 ong build- the mn- tired and see t “Or perhaps you are » tO like to nts?" would prefer to “No. } your re should see yon many patie “Only Mrs. Dana. here, now, wi a hoy nlways vou k , with a broken m, but | ft this morning crowded Miss We good This | often place, He sleeps here: ¢, and next to ing room. tlere we keep ‘This is my room. Mr. Myers retary, has his roon tor's. This Is the din there is the kitchen. Now your room upstairs, Miss The the st Wentw a repli the h branches corridor above At nASKA Ce passage was one helow, end irs a little toward a la vith rge window in the w a door to one “Mrs. Danan occuples said the matron. “Perhaps tor mentioned her?” “Doctor Lancaster sald “She of her mind Tn, but she Is see, Miss Wentworth, infant mentally. She you. Excuse me a moment.” She drew a key from the bunch hung at ber walst and door very softly, and with a furtiveness, Joan thought in. the girl saw a strikingly ha woman of about and years, seated In a chair beside a win dow, with a shaw! over her knees was In a dressing gown, and her hair hung over her shoulders in two bralds She not look up matron entered, and Mrs. Fraser, closing the door behind her, presently came out and locked it again “I'll show you your room now, Miss Wentworth,” she said. “You will be alone this floor except for Mrs Dana, but you are not afraid of her?” “Not in the least. Is she incurable?” “Yes, quite, poor thing. She has sat in that chair all day for nearly three years.” “And never goes out? “Out? No, we don't let her out. It might But I am not sup- posed to speak about the cases. [It's sud, though. She comes of a very family, and they neglected her she was in trouble. Miss Wentworth, and she's as good as dead to everyone now. She never speaks, but FF don't know whether she could. I've never heard her since | came here three years ago This is the ward. And this is your room.” The open doors along the corridor had revealed clean little rooms with iron bhedsteads and plain furniture: the room at the end of the passage, however, wns well furnished, with a heavy new carpet and old mahogany furniture Outside the window, through the twilight, appeared the distant mountains Josin, turning, was surprised to see Mrs. Fraser watching her intently, As their eyes met the matron lowered her own In some confusion. There was a furtiveness about her glunce that momentarily revived Joan's un easiness. It was a strange journey, nnd Doctor Lancaster's behavior had been strange. Then there was the man Myers, Joan felt a sudden sink- ing of the heart; she was alinost re gretful that she had come, * A colored mald brought up her sult case, “This Is Lucy.” sald the matron. “She will do anything you tell ber side of It, this room the d is out poor w quiet. she is perfectly lke will unlocked certain dsome seven thirty She did or stir as on excite her, very good when She sleeps overhead in the attic. And my room Is underneath,” she added; “so If you should want anything at any tine, just tap on the radiator, and I'll come up ut once. And supper will be ready as soon as you are.” in the hall Joan found Mrs. Fraser, ten minutes later, talking to the sec- retary, “Miss Wentworth, ers,” she began. “We've met already,” sald Myers, scrutinizing her closely, He seemed now to weur the same furtive air as Mrs, Frasee; it seemed part of the atmosphere of the Institution. Jean had perceived it iu the coachman, too. “Miss Wentworth is to have charge of the nursing under Doctor Jenkins" sald Mrs. Fraser. “l hope 1 shan't conflict with—" be- gan Joan doubtfully, “Not at all, not at all,” sald Myers, speaking with false heartiness »] hope we shall all get along well to- gether.” Joan refused to of Myers' undoubted this is Mr. My- face the hostility. problem She to her rellef that the table was only lald for one. “Mr. Myers asked. “You are to have your meals alone, the ma has had supper?’ she answered “But 1 should not wish—" “It is the doctor's orders,” said Mrs Coming in with the dessert, Mrs. Fraser found her nodding aut the tahle She work than realize, that her at the hospital had been hegan to too, harder “1 belleve | shall go straight to she said, “The thing you Wentworth Everybody first arrive bill air You Wentworth, and do, feels Miss sleepy it's the well, Miss best cnn here. m i rest please remember car down in She preceded her up the stairs ryving an oil lamp. She set it Joan's room, and then she “Miss doctor Wentworth,” she said wants us to do everything 8he Would Remain. She Decided That While She Was Dressing. work Yon think? isn't likely to be any unless some patient comes in to attend Mrs. Dana, | “1 was told got.” “That's Miss Wentworth.” matron’s air was a very decided were not 80, The one something bidden, which was, further, meant to remain hidden, “The wired me that. 1 don't suppose sald anything about Mrs, you? Or—or Mr. Myers? Her stealthy watchfilness now seemed of ominous portent, and the matron made no attempt to Suppress the eagerness with which she nwalted Joan's answer, “No, Doctor Lancaster said ing.” answered the girl. Then, seeing that the matron still regarding her doubtfuily, added: “But is not Doctor Jenkins resident here? 1 have not seen him yet, you know." The matron stared at her in aston. ishment, “Why, Miss Wentworth. that was Doctor Jenking who drove you up from the station! Didn't you know?" she asked, “That was Doctor Jenkins?” “1 thought Doctor Lancaster wounld have told you about him. He's a graduate of Johns Hopkins, Old Doe tor Lancaster wanted to build up an institution here where we hill people could work among our own, But the plan fell through. You see, the hos pital In Avonmouth got hold of most of the money, und then--there were other difficulties. [| don’t know about them-—1've only been here three years, and Doctor Jenkins wasn't graduated then, and we never pay at- tention to the gossip of the villagers.” She checked herself hastily, as If she was afraid of compromising her self, “Doctor Jenkins has given up his life to the work here” she continuved, “He lives at Millville, but we hope some time that Doctor Lancaster will bulld up the place again, If only if only he" doctor he Dana to noth was she fe ih There was almost a look of agony on her face, and agnin she turned her eyes upon Joua's face ag If to search out her thoughts, Then, with an ab. rupt “good night,” she turhed away. Joan called to her as she wns leav- ing the room, “Mrs. Fraser,” “1 understood there wus a here besides Mrs. Dann.” The matron turned slowly roond, “There wus the who left this morning,” she said inquiringly. ‘But | understood from Doctor Lan- caster—at least, he didn't tell me in 80 many words, but he gave me to understand that there wns a special case here, requiring and sym- pathy.” The matron, stared there's nobody,” she except—" Suddenly she uttered a convulsive sound, and, putting her hands over her face, ran from the room. her stumbling down the corridor out- side as if she had gone blind, She stood irresolute in her room. Her sleepiness was gone; afrald. and she seemed to have got out of her depth. It had begun with John Lancaster's strange behavior in his office the evening before. She had not been able then to reconcile him she said, putient boy care at her, “NO, wid “Nobody she self-satisfied and the nurses in agitation the whom she had seen, smug. vain, In the operating room who kept the fenr, though John Lancaster of heard. Then equally Some mystery all: and becuse bully and traditionnl she lind wus the man My. and the matron, the heart of it more afraid her fear was he was there ers, strange ; wns ut the for Joun the unknown to Wins reason her Her sleepiness was gone, beside the window, the darkness A whipp ealling monotonously among the wirwill pines; here und there among the hills a ~oll- tury Hght was twinkling, The eon) the jut in apprehension and halsam scented, It was like dearly remembered dayx at home, the heart of that peace was back now, Joan had extraordinary Avonmouth I Looking thought that she undertaken a rash and adventure in coming so and at the reputation from alone, proposal of a man whose wus un evil one. She would us SE tase Peat t apparent heavy o sudden wn country to It. Her the night si would she was anda fours were glows She remain, She decides dressing And yet a art And with it remetnhranees of somet! while doubt was in her he the hud disturbed Filtering Into her the Caine that night ness came during the her CONSTI S- recotliection of an auto up to atl of conversing in low tones Then the machine heen inobile rolling the door mens volees under her had rolied about tne wi WW, away. [It must have in the Perhaps a patient bad been brought to the institute, thought the gi she Mrs the only person morning 4 rl. ns downstairs Frasec's and the went closed, nastir seemed to be door was colored waid Joun began te pace the long verandah in front of the building. looking oot hills and thinking over her situation Perhaps it was only morbidness, or mental fatigue, that had her rend things in the faces of Myers und Mrs. Fraser which did not exist there Perhaps the her position more definitely. She was walking past the open door of the building when man leaving the doctor's wns Myers, the secretary. Joan and came briskly out the randah. “Good morning. Miss Wentworth ™ he said, in his rasping tones. “Pleas ant weather, isnt it? Much better here than in the heat of Avonmouth '™ “How do you do, Mr. Myers.” said Joan. trying to overcome her instine tive disgust of the man. “You have a new patient here, haven't you? He looked at her with a sort of quizzical shrewdness, “What makes you think that, Miss Wentworth?" he inquired. neross the mnde day would disclose she room It He upon RW nn Kaw yi Evidently the institution is a place of mystery. And what brings Doctor Lancaster? (TO BE CONTINUED.) No Danger From Comets The Nuval observatory says that the muss of a comet Is never large; and thes material Is, for the most part, ex: ceedingly tenuous, It is probuble that the earth, If struck by a comer would witness nothing more than a meteoric shower. The explosions, if any, would be similar to those hither to observed In the cease of large meteorites ! Appreciate Color, Line, Accessories Distinguished Appearance of Women Due to Their Keen Judgment. If women have tion In the art far from it smart not learned perfec. of dress they ars not wamen Coat of Shaggy Finish Dashing in Appearance keen appreciation line, chalee of und to a the accessoriey, There ix clean-cut definiteness about silhouette of the xenson that Is intriguing and the effect of of distinction In the modern woman's scheme of hat or dress or cont with considering its relation to tume, The resv!t is a infinitely chic In plaids designers hnve found a ma- terial peculiarly adapte toy Of vout und the surprising to 1 zi Yi4 . X (LR er tiint i is N every oon her num turiere of note has included In collection of youthful models # ber deve oped in plalded fabrics of pinld tu I Teton are an In ensemble costumes ' and their sis fers of subilehn A street taunt ores imante ngs - achieved smartness with fine and trim of rich Rich Plaid Is Featured Street Dress pretties fresses is na nel which has a three tunic bound with red plaid, and n over a skirt The fashion of lining the or of using one of the plaid, 3 which plaid on Histinctive hus vonlens Aare the on for note of the one the new plain other ne that achieved a de red enameled neck to nugaune, tins huttons hem on a dress two large huttons liver fasten a cont {roel while numberiess hut. th green crepe de chine After all is sald and done, it is the ight little youthful frock that holds first place in feminine affections. And in {tx utter simplicity, its freedom from useless and superfinous details, it fit modern spirit more stra the much interprets tingly Social life is of women's activities ling widened, all has had an effect fushion g During the war women became more hours of the sufficiently smart. faithful to the same time they still remain dresses of this type is proved by newest models, An important feature of these sim. ile dresses is the excellence of the material used and the cleverness dis. played in their trimming. color. n line of tiny metal buttons, a row of braid, or an outline of piping decoration, ple frocks was made of kasha In the pale natural tone that Paris took up in the latter part of the summer and whieh quickly attained a decided vogue on this side of the water, The cleverly cut overskirt atid the necesanry bit of color wns ory on the neck and sleeves, The high favor of natural muskrat nad leopard ent cannot be overesti mnted. Many new conts which are ap pearing are of either of these two furs, (me natural muskrat cont noted wns so dirk In color that it looked very much A decidedly struck in this coat. { being separated by bands of long-H. | bered lustrous mohair and filled with 3 { raised face of dowey wool. novel note has been Vegetables and Greens Must Be Strictly Fresh ind greens must ¢ ised It prepare if the mate Helen Harring He nt in Ai Home ' Ind greens tables to be served as turned an hour or so pened for into a bes veins from TC ¥ iry-pack 1 the can roducts, is first 0] Ig Metal Lace for Dance Hat One of 4 interesting hion res and dance hat for which meta Gold is the favorite up in turban shapes trimming. In the which tie ponsored by Fi is the little taurant i chosen this season, made no lace, there is addi metal emshroidered net introduces color “kins the the and mink striped horizontally with nutria A novelty scarf noted was of leop ard, which was rather wide trimn black monkey was worn with a suit and smart complement Japanese mink coats are often embellished with cocoa dyed fox collar And dark natural mauskreat, which is a close second to ir, is worn In Incquette types like Japanese being garment trimmed ed with short also Scarf Still in Fashion— Day and Evening Wear The scarf is still with us, but in | more varied and flexible incarnations | than before. | Evening dresses accomplish searf | effects by means of a panel fixed to | the shoulder with a band of red roses. Tiles of fur, or In material bordered with fur, take the place of scarfs. They ean be sewed to the coat or put on separately. One end is often passed | through a slit in the other and thus held snugly about the neck. Hats Growing Higher Hat crowns are growing highe: {One new model Is an exact reproduc. [tion of a man's “topper,” except that iit 1s In log cabin brown velvet and ihag a wide band of black satin | around it, Mark New Gown Six large cloth-covered buttons on the right shoulder and a scarf of the goods which ties at the back of the neck nre features of a new frock The material is a suede finished fabric in carnmel brown. a a] a POINTS ON KEEPING WELL DR. FREDERICK R. GREEN [Editor of "HEALTH" Nemes X-RAY FOR WHOOPING COUGH pyrG the winter of 1923 was an unusoal amount Ing cough in this country this kills about ten thousand bables ua year. This is enough, but every four or five years for some reason, it Is particularly prevalent. Evidently, 1923 was one of these yenrs, Existing methods of treatment are of little the fuse four 1o nine coughing, child, often develops and lndivectly actually, a victine of We do not know this diseuse thut in there of whoop Ordinarily, disense bad use, Once din- runs contracted, course of from frequent and wenken its Weeks he spasms of exhaust the who pneu diew but none the less whooping the exact cause We do know, Liowever, most cases, the thyvm in front of the and trache; consi 1% giandg, focated bronch ! wrably enlus tlie guring wid 34 oh early thie first fifteen years, unti the adult there is lef aniy a fibrous « been surmised that th pressing on the air something » o i ti Ea SI f Coughlin While with treating these enlarged glands X-ray, it w that, soon after the Hein the spells of Sa Dr treatinen were hegun, weyty ers d RY £3 rolls 3 coughing were relieved Ralph Leonard, of Boston, de value of X-ray treat ment in a large number of baby Boston FI hospital ired habies with wi cided to test the pa tients in the Four hunt cough were selected ned, so that SPECTATORITIS MARSHALL = country 1 ted Tox this five-cent is a good can fering health «© largest cities tatoritis” and and very ®]eee ng grandstand Daring There are play fon many acenpyi bleacher seals the beau of days of sumn en, most of them and are crying for exer and watch a When fall season baseball the baseball closes, 22 men play football mateh or a Or it 3 DOoxing contest hilliard doing are looking on players are (rained to minute. To be a star basebal crack halfhack, they have veloped their bodies far beyond needs of present-day life that their hearts are twice us large as they need and that by middie life. when they ought to be in thelr prime, they have futty Instead i wuscular hearts. Athletes generally die young. The looker-on doesnt take any chances of a fatty heart. He has his fat around his waist. His muscles are flabby and he doesn’t have a good sweat from muscular exertion once a year, So the 18 ball players or the 22 foot ball men overwork and shorten their lives to amuse the thousands ¢f spec tators who underwork and shorten theirs, Sounds silly, doesn’t it? It ix. The object of games is not to produce stars, any more than the object of ent ing is to produce men who can eat four tintes us much food as the aver age man. Our present system of ath tetics Is killing off oor picked! young men ut a time when they should he in their prime. The hundreds of thon. sands of spectators who pay to sit stil and see other men work when they should be working themselves are kid. ding themselves. You can't keep fit hy watching another man work, any more than yu can keep strong by watching another man eat, Can't some wide awake American in- vent a universal game? We need it In our schools amd colleges and more than all ir our every-day lives A few Thousands men are the work “he the I player de the This means
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