. St. Nicholas [serial] . ck for her empty glass. If she felt anysurprise that it was empty, she concealed it. At one oclock the story was repeated, onlythis time it was fully twenty minutes beforeJane could bring herself to make the attack. To-night I 11 have to take it at once orI never can, she decided. But when night came, it was as hard as ever,and she had barely swallowed the offendingdose when Miss Mahoney came in, followed byDr. Ames. Stiffly Janes hand came to salute. Your report, please, Private Thomas. Three pickets of the enemy taken, sir; butoh. Dr. Ames, it s just awful! she fini
. St. Nicholas [serial] . ck for her empty glass. If she felt anysurprise that it was empty, she concealed it. At one oclock the story was repeated, onlythis time it was fully twenty minutes beforeJane could bring herself to make the attack. To-night I 11 have to take it at once orI never can, she decided. But when night came, it was as hard as ever,and she had barely swallowed the offendingdose when Miss Mahoney came in, followed byDr. Ames. Stiffly Janes hand came to salute. Your report, please, Private Thomas. Three pickets of the enemy taken, sir; butoh. Dr. Ames, it s just awful! she finishedlimply, and Dr. Ames laughed in very unmili-tary fashion as he pulled his chair to the bed. I m going to be very proud of my scout,he said, and thereafter made no allusion to thesubject. For over an hour they talked; some-times Jane asked questions that set Dr. Amesto chuckling; again he told stories that madeJanes side hurt from laughter. It was a longtime since she had laughed so heartily. Then JANE WINS HER STRIPES. PROMPTLY AT NINE, mSS MAHONEY ENTERED, BEAKINO A TALL GLASS ON A TRAY all at once the strength in her seemed to snap, and weariness that came stealing over her face,the laughter died away, and Dr. Ames noted But he only said, I m off, now, to a regularwith concealed alarm the pallor of weakness bore of a confab; good night, comrade. 790 JANE WINS HER STRIPES [July, Good night, sir, she responded wearily,closing her eyes. Once outside the door. Dr. Ames soughtMiss Mahoney. I in going to start hypodermics of so-dium cacodylate to-morrow . ^ ou say theytried them once before? Only one, Dr. Ames; but she was so ner-vous, they did nt go on with the series. It has to be done; we cant afford to missthe stimulating eftect they will have. Dr. Ames, of course I 11 do anything yousay, but you dont really believe you re go-ing to be able to carry this thing through, doyou ? You know, almost everything was triedseveral weeks before you came back. If I did nt believe it, I
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