a
“IT IS TOO LATE"
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-
ical 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 altercation 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 teil him what the doctor had
said to her. She denies him the
information, and he covertly
threatens her. At the institu-
tion. which is owned by Doctor
L.ancaster, Joan finds Myers He
tells her he Is the secretary. She
instinctively dislikes and fears
him. The only patient at the
institute is a Mrs Dana, de
mented but harmless Joan is
vaguely uneasy, feeling that
there is some mystery about the
place, Doctor Lancaster arrives
Joan accuses him of deceiving
her, declaring her (Intention of
leaving He tells her the
patient who needs her, saying he
wants help In a "big fight,” but
makes no further explanation
She decides to stay Evidently
Doctor Lancaster is afraid of
Myers
he is
CHAPTER V—Continued
enn
“There is no reason why 3
not see him because
with Mr. Myers."
“Well, Miss Wentworth,
Myers is his secretary,
Ways a
you shoul
he happe ns to Be
Mr
there's al
lot of business to be done.”
you see,
and
Doctor
to attend
“What Is
“Doctor Jenkins,
is in no condition
sald Joan.
ter with him?”
The doctor looked righ
if trying to
girl was standing in front
and he could not enter the buggy
out pushing her away.
“Miss Wentworth, please don't
me about the dustons he said. “1
my best for him. It Isn't In my power
to do more than 1 am doing.”
“It is
master
to busi
ness.” the mat-
t and left,
refuge.
an
find some
of him
Ww vith-
the
in your power to help him
of himself. How can
most famous surgeon In the
come here and be at the mercy
man like Myers?
“Why, Miss Wentworth,
that wrong.”
Myers Is only the secretary.
all he can for the
got to keep the
Miss Wentworth, and
You
over to the
he
you've got
Jenkins
Mr
doctor.
institute
protested
ers does
We've
gether,
doing our best.
trust fund wasn't
doctor. He was only In charge of it,
and when the money was missing It
worried him. And—and--"
He as if he
tO
sao} i
each See,
made
stopped, had en
should not have been
Then. as Joan stood aside,
into the vehicle,
muttered, ralsing his
away furiously.
Joan remained where the buggy had
been. She realized that for the pres
ent she could get no help from Jenkins
He had seemed afraid, not for him-
self, but for Lancaster. What had
Lancaster done, then, that he should
be in the power of Myers? Had he
embezzied the funds of the Institute?
The question was an absurd one. It
was unbelievable that Lancaster
should be a thief; besides, the expla-
nation would not solve the problem
et all
She went back to the verandah. She
was resolved to reach the bottom of
the mystery, for Lancaster's sake: to
prove her loyalty although he had
withdrawn his demand on her.
As she reached the front door she
was startled to hear her name spoken
in the matron's room. The speaker
was Myers.
“But she knows nothing at all,” Mrs
Fraser was saying,
“She knows a good deal too much.”
Alyers answered. “What do you sup-
pose the doctor brought her here for,
if not to try to publish his shame to
the world?
“Aye, his shame,” repeated the ma-
tron bitterly. “It's hard work for
three people to try to hold up one
man, without a fourth coming in.”
“Weil, Is that his game?” demanded
the secretary. “Is it or isn't it?”
“We want a nurse. You know we've
often tried to get one, Mr. Myers, but
they won't stay here. It's hard work
taking care of the patients sometimes,
when there's a rush.”
“Rush!” repeated Myers scornfully.
“Who'd rusn to this old place with the
doctor's reputation?”
| "They do come, and the people trust
him,” sald Mrs. Fraser, half crying.
“Yes,” scoffed the other. “And the
doctor still has his grandiose Ideas
mentioned,
he leaped
morning.”
hat, and
“Good
drove
By
Victor Rousseau
Copyright by W., GC, Chapman
x
about building up the institution—him
that wrecked I(t.”
“Well, that girl knows nothing,
way."
“1 tell you she means to help the
doctor in his crazy plan of notorlety.
She means to undo all our work In
his own Interests”
mently.
Joan walked away. She had over
heard unwillingly, and enough to con-
tout there was a mystery,
Myers at the bottom of it, and
she had rightly sensed an enemy in
him, and he in her. Now her
was resolute to remain and fight for
Lancaster. It was as If her decision,
suddenly crystallized, had
grown crystal-clear.
But she had not
any-
passed the en.
out.
his
came
with
open violently and Myers
He stood confronting Joan
Insulting leer,
“Miss Wentworth,"
you and I had
you hadn't seen
didn't know how thing
and I don’t blame you, Now
seen that the doctor needs a guardian,
Well, I'm his guardian.”
“1 do not think that Doctor Lancas
ter needs a guardian, Mr. Myers,” an-
swered Joan, facing him steadily,
“See here, now, Miss Wentworth"
Myers, swallowing hard. “Yon
the drift of things, just as
I thought. You think I'm trying to
stand in the way of your work,
only trying reach a sort
agreement to
order Thi
he began, “when
our talk this
the doctor. You
you's ©
said
to of
keep things
it's my
I right?”
“I don’t
think you
Take off your
ther
are ext:
know whe you
emely un
hat!" flushed
Joan
from
aston
the hard
stared at
Myers removed hat
and in
He could not und
initiation of h
that's
head hier
ishment,
her sudden
“Well, |
stilities
reckon
he
tory
my
He
‘I'm sorry
nerves, Miss Went
“but I wasn't
man. How
Joh, and 1 reckon yon
think I'm trying
the doctor and you
sald.
sorry,”
t
De conciils nosy
get on
he
your
persisted,
know ydurs it you
come and now.”
“1 have
see him right
no complaint to make, and
Joan.
see him,” persisted
and
* said
none,
“Come and
“You're
it's up to
She
My-
FUCHS
ors the nurse, I §
you"
looked at him,
i
she asked
nothing that 1
be better.”
dismayed by his
Doctor Lancaster
worse?"
“Well.
but
didn’t
he might said Myers,
He walked toward the door of Lan-
and openad it. Through
Joan saw
in a large
bent forward on his
imbs immobile hurried
room,
the aperture
out
his
his
chalr,
head breast,
She into the
the
the sleeve,
He ralsed
up
side.
turned
limp arm
and
punctures,
ing heavily, and beside him
little table, was a syringe,
little bottle containing a few
pale fluid. Joan drew In
was what she
“Morphine,” sald “He al
comes homme
Myers
Miss Went
worth, I'm responsible for him
try. Now you see,
his master,
guess you won't think
set him against you”
The bully In the man
to the surface again,
his head toward Joan.
“Because, If you do, | may as well
say, Miss Wentworth, I'm the boss
here. Understand that?" he continued.
with a blustering alr. “The doctor
hires all sorts of people when he's lke
this, and It doesn’t mean nothing. He
can't pay out no salaries unless my
0. K's on the vouchers. We want a
nurse, snd If you llke to stay on yon
can. But If you stay you help me so
far as the doctor's concerned, and you
do what 1 tell you. That's straight.
Is It clear or isn't 1t?
Joan looked at him Indifferently,
“Help me put Doctor Lancaster on the
bed,” she sald, “and then run and
get me a hot-water hottle.”
He scowled furiously, but he obeyed
her, And all the while Joan sat at
Lancaster's side watching him, her
mind ran over the questions that were
puzzling her.
Why had Myers spoken of Lancaster
as coming home, when he lived In
Avonmouth?
Who had hired him to be the doe
tor's keeper?
And with whom had Doctor Lan
caster been speaking so bitterly In his
consulting room that evening when
Joan called at the house?
————
Chapter Vi
She sat for hours beside the sick
man, conscious sometimes that Myers
had come In and spoken to her. But
she never answered him. As the pulse
strengthened she let her mind work
And 1
I'm trying to
was coming
He thrust out
upon the problem again. Lancaster
had taken an immense overdose, one
inconceivable In the ordinary morphine
habitue. And he mus: have taken It
during the brief period when Myers
was with him; he must have taken it
a8 soon as he got hack to his room.
Why had Myers permitted 11?
At last Lancaster opened his cyes.
His gaze fell upon Joan's face, at first
without recognition, then with wonder.
"Water!" he gasped, after a few
attempts to speak,
Joan drew a glassful and
to him, and then another
gulped down the liquid greedily.
ently he sat up, stood on
groped his way to the chalr
“I'm sorry,” he said, looking at
whimsical expression
should have told you.”
“Doctor Lancaster. 1
youn." said Joan
"God knows I'm
self.” he burst out fretfully,
in the third drawer
desk, beneath a of
you'll find a hottle--"
“No.” sald
She knew
ROCrecy
Pres.
his feet, and
“I
am
of
of
ashamed
pile letters,
Joan decixively,
by the wholly
In the concealment,
Lancaster had
the declivity
“Miss Wentworth
It's an
gone a long way oe
vou misn
me antidote for
nlka-
with a new drug
astounded It
the man's
bearable
In
was the wre
that
intent
if the
the
moral natore
She saw the
and It
the
WHR un-
him, WHS as needless
morp!
lips
of
spoke through
aster
Was voice
his
Land lonked distressed
had
Avon
sald "
you here
you hetter leave
and go hack to
ning than.” he
to have hrought
mith on the eve.
ought nes
It was pure
Mizs Went.
Go away now,
re
ness on my part
worth please dant ory
talk it over hel
the station”
“If 1 go
take anotl
“1 pledg
sald Lanes
candor,
Aawny,
er hyp
e you my
Jonn,
dermie™
! of hon .
most Ingenaous
not
wor: ir no,
ster, with a
accustomed
to '} thing: that Is
1 have been suffer.
and I tried a
you know,
insomnia,
alkaloid-—not morph but
my
The words
that
Joan was
aie
had not
would have | }
Sr
Khe
of
Any
different hesitated
fon
turned
lie heen
had
but
She no leaving
she
intent the
root.
Lancaster misunderstood |
With
her action,
his hand
fe
incredible swiftness
out toward
uncorked it and pl
3
i
the gir
the littie bottle
had
hefore could
it away
“Your
He leaned
sald Joan
in his chair
ent
word of honor!”
back
with amusen
“Miss Wentworth,” he said,
rely are aware that
not to be trusted, that my
worthless? That |
essentially devold of honesty and
Don't know that this
“you
you
dew
yon ac
robs men of thelr honor and
and lowers them
bottle"
the beasts?”
there
smile
: wns
of a whimsical
which twitched,
pain.
“That
his lips,
about i
does not refer to you'
swered Jomn. “You asked me to help
you In the biggest fight of your life
Well, 1 am going to help you In that
fight.”
“It is too late” sald Lancaster
“Never” replied Joan valiantly,
“You don't understand, Miss Went.
worth.
make in trying to eure us. Don’t
comes a victim to a drug
sleeplessness, or physical pain,
der stress of mental anguish?
could cure me the old trouble
still be there,
again. Life Is worthless to me, Miss
Wentworth,” he ended, quite simply,
or une
If yon
The truth is out at last. The
morphine habit ls hard te cure.
Will Joan succeed?
(TO BE CONTINUED)
Many Legends Treat
of Woman's Creation
Woman's first appearance has been
a popular subject of legends. The
Phoenician myth of creation is found
ed on the story of Pygmalion and
Galatea, There the first woman was
carved out of ivory by the first man,
and then endowed with life by Aphro-
dite, says the Kansas City Star.
The Greek theory of the creation of
woman, according to Heslod, was that
Zeus, as a cruel jest, ordered Vulcan
to make woman out of clay, and then
induce the various gods and goddesses
to invest the clay doll with all their
worst qualities, the result being a
lovely thing.
The Scandinavians say that as Odin,
Vill and Ve, the three sons of Bor,
were walking along the beach they
found two sticks of wood, one of ash
and one of elm. Sitting down, the
gods shaped man and woman out of
these sticks, whittling the womas
from the elm sad Called hor Krols.
IN FORM
spicuous ‘n Daintiest
Evening Attire.
and dance
both matron and
thelr spell, for
alluring, so
dres
thited
can with
1+ fushion
Fyening, dinne
ire of interest,
outing under
something
there is
Ki)
ahout which
part of
itaund thew,
writer in the
Deuler,
these NEN
belong
he electric Hyg the
hut few
Cleveland
to
in for
our attention
Velvetls both in
unre
Perhaps It Is hest scrutinize
materials vogue evening before
we turn 1a the varied
odes Hite
and
VEN,
alors especially good
nay be plain chiffon wea
dvet bra
Neodid oe
ur gor
COOUS nded chiffons and
KeOorgettes dored ane haded
hiffons are especially vouthiful
sil} hiro hiffons
nded {
und gilver are part
also sn
too, plays an important part
reds
CH%
pink
thos:
n evening attire The loveliest
wre used, flame,
Han
glowing
nnd
fyecracker
with rose, coral and shell
is for
=n
and
a ho cun wear
Bouffant Frock, Embroidered and
Lace Trimmed Back and Paniers
ters nurale
} i
i several tones
if green
The
featnred
ittractive such
color touch
“Ary
ESOUR ost
scarfs
n desig:
After one has a gene
color
mode
}
be fashioned,
by =n
even when bus
type In
matters to
material
HE nade
Indeed,
ing a garment of any the store
it facilitates have
and col
some
the or de
idea to
sired
full skirted
This f
straight
or by
For the young girl, a
always hecoming
be achi by a
skirt, a circular
of godets A
mole is
ness may ieved
ered one,
nse
“This coat is too gorgeous for words,
get
owner
door of
new
over it!”
of a new coat opened
the in the hall,
treasure was to hang.
aunt rose and
I esn't
the
the
where her
But her practical
peered into the closet
even thrusting in an exploring hand
“My dear child” she ejaculated,
‘you mustn't dream of keeping
roat in that hot cleset! Why,
pipes go right up through it, and the
alr In there Is superheated.
not do at all. Furs, you know, are
cold weather affairs, and were never
intended for tropical
Furs that are overheated lose their
rispness and luster just as feathers
that are rained on lose their fluffiness
and sheen,
ferent a dog's cont looks in winter? In
summer it i= limp and dull In appear.
ance, but in midwinter, when the air
Is snappy cold, the hair stands out
from his body full of life and shiny
with vigor.
“Your fur coat is subject to the
ame changes. Warmth and lack of
fresh alr will take all of the ‘pep’ out
of fur that should be bristling with
life and sheen, It really should hang
out of doors, 1 suppose; but lacking
that we can surely find a cold closed
somewhere-«the icler the better. Why
not that chilly storeroom off the pan
try? You can arrange a clean corner
for it, and 1 assure you it will look
hundred times better than if it hung
in this furnacedike closet.”
The experts say that the reason far
I so warm Is that It forms alr spaces
which keep out the cold. Fur that is |
crisp and live has many more of these
fur
clowet
AL FROCKS
| White for Spring Wear
taiiorec
for
is shown a
black and white
spring wear. It
throat and is one of the m
of present.day styles.
trimiy
sweater
26t popular
tangerine-col
ight bod
circuiat
diam
entire
| Knitted Dress Durable,
Comfortable and Warm
ni perfe
» knit periect
sass the
of
made
antages the
well
comfortable
t nd Hl
’
freedom of
nitted
fabri
dress
and
te
knit,
it is qui
and wesr
wore than
material
Secure »
and ontinued
is particu
the
dress,
stretch
select
knit
s8O0ON
be
BCCes
must
or
(The Kitchen
Cabinet
Western
te cwespaper Union.)
To talk with Ged,
Talk on!
To walk with
lost;
Walk on!
To walt on God,
Walt on!
To work with
found,
on!
no breath is lost;
God, no strength is
no time is 1
God, the Truth ig
Wark
— AON
DISHES FOR OCCASIONS
children’s party
he enjoyed
Come - Agains
two cupfuls of flour =»
one-half teaspoonful
salt, two 1
baking po
Vor
‘hikes
these jiitle
Sift
ith
of
easpoonfuls of
vder. Add one
hopped raisins
mixed In
and one cup
ul of «
small
king
vin
hot
or
Children's Cake.
Melt one
3
juarters of
ges, well
and one
team
make au
Have
t the
the
eves of the with the
Intter
Se € On An «
n
Or ange Ice Cream.
hile spoonful
spoonfuls or
twee
Aarsiey
lespoon
and
3 vill most
r apparel are jer
ollette and k
cOoptings
of ki
finishes
the
carefully
shrunk,
their getting
a minimum
igs are
stretehed and
possibilities of
of shape will be
i wep of
back
surface,
Sometimes you will goods
made with a knitted
: ground heavy, napped
Or. you may knit goo
the i made of one kind of fiber,
and the back of another—the “plated”
The term is applied
fabric of
of color
this type
and a
ta ir
+8 in
wee
fn oy
materials, same
knitted
and back
with face
another
{to a
Color
| alr spaces, rtificially heated
ur droops and grows nn. preventing
the circulat of the alr Warmed
fur. neither looks as well nor keeps you
ns as cold fur, You can bring
in your coat and warm It slightly be
fore going out in it, if you wish, but
{it should be kept in a cold place the
rest of the time Kansas City Star.
Stones in All Colors
The synthetic stones in all the colors
of precious stones shown in the chok
| ers are go large as to be burdensome
| but they are having a great vogue, anc
| almost every woman one sees is decked
i out In glass of some sort. The newest
things In crystal quartz beads alter
nating with smaller beads or disks of
bright glass, green, blue or coral, are
{ becoming to almost ev eryone,
Seen © on “Newest Wiaps
Honeycomb, an old form of English
embroidery, now Is employed on the
newest and most delectable of evening
wraps. One such covering is of chit
fon velvet of the true honey shade,
cut with a long cross-over front but
sleeveless, a deep cape taking the
place of sleeves. This Is honeycombed
around the shoulders and hem in half
foot deep bands,
whereas
ion
warm
For . Bobbed Coiffure
Ingenious and varied have been the
devices for keeping bobbed locks de
murely dignified for formal evening
dances. The latest iden Is a bandeau
| of fine silver wire, studded with crys
tals and worn low across the ends of
| the hair from ear to ear.
the year richer
are enjoyed
Suet Pudding
Take one
of
cup
suet,
no
sour
TW
ful each
fine,
and
Bent
io
milk, mix
suet and n
and add three and
uls of flour,
cupful
mixed and
mt hours Serve with
Egg Sauce.—Beat the white of an
egy until stiff, add the yolk and beat
one cupful of powdered sugar,
sn pinch of salt, one teaspoonful of
vanilla, and just before serving a cup
ful of rich hot milk.
Prune Pudding.
the xtones after cooking from
pound of prunes, Cut up, add one pint
of coarse hread crumbs, one cupfu! of
sugar, one-half cupful of butter, one
fourth cupful of molasses, three eggs,
one teaspoonful of cinnamon, one-half
teaspoonful of cloves, one-half tea:
spoonful of soda dissolved in one
tablespoonful of milk, Mix and steam
three hours,
Prune Pudding.—Take one cupful of
choice prunes, soak overnight, mince
fine, add three stiffly beaten egg
whites, one cupful of sugar; pile inte
a well-buttered baking dish and bake
in an slow oven. Serve at once with
cream,
Baked Indian Pudding. Moisten
one cupiul of corn mes! with one cup-
ful of sweet milk and stir Into one
quart of scalding milk with one tea.
spoonful of salt. Cook ten minutes,
then add one cupfu! of suet, one-half
cupfuo! of brown sugar, one-fourth cup
ful of molasses, two eggs and a cap
ful of raising. Add another quart of
milk and pour into a deep earthen
dish and bake for four hours Stir
well every fifteen minutes for the first
hour, then sprinkle the top of the pud-
ding with flour to form a brown crust
with the suet and continue baking un-
til thoroughly browned. This pudding
may be rehented and served to the
inst tablespoonful and will be good
as loug as it lasts. Sorve hot with
hard sauce,
$
chopped
Nes
the
with
lasses
one teaspoon
and
taste
of raisins
to
sevin, one
Hunts spices
wo
again,
Soak and remove
one