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1934.

BEACH CLUB GIRL

CHAPTER XXV.

"She can have a nurse," the dark young man stated coldly and with Brmness. "Get ofic. Twenty-four hour duty 7"

By MABEL McELLIOTT

his thin, nervous, long-fingered brown and laid over her small white one.

"Yes, do you mind?" Her eyes were closed now and two big tears slipped unheeded from be mooth her lashes. Her voice was very faint.

"How-how did you happen to be hero? Oh, I'm no terribly con- fused

•

•

Boot slept under their combined scrutiny. She looked thin. The fine "She's a very sick girl," the doctor bones of her small face stood out said to the dark young man, braced sharply in the rock-gray dimness of against tho distempered wall of, Mrs. the room. A shaded bulb burned; Mooney's sitting room. "Sho ought dimly over the table. to have

nurre

I don't The dark young man followed the know

doctor out into the ball.

That was a

close shave.", the older man said affably, shrugging big, shoulders into his cont. She had a

Ho He began to explain quickly and peduliarly virulent type "1 know a good girl. She worked went on, discoursing learnedly of the gently, in a low voice. He had got under me on a case like this last habits and curiosities of influenza and back to New York just a week ago,. winter," the gray, plump professional the dark young man listened, nodding he said. His friends, whose apart. inent in Washington Square ho ex- man told him. You're her-her occasionally, utsmiling, brother?"

"Well, well, I'll lask in to-morrow, pected to lease in their absence, wore my not ready to vacate it not for at She's coming along splendidly, boy. Lucky girl to have such a friend least 10 days. So he had come to standing by" You could

Ree ho Mrs. Mooney's, his old room, he waited for, expected a burst of con-amplified with a smile. He had lived. ndence but none was forthcoming and worked in that very room when Now York fresh from he'd come he went out briskly.

college. Everyone in Greenwich Vill

Just a friend," said the dark young nun. "I know her family. I only discovered last night we were living In the same house."

"Ah, I see." The doctor, drawing on his big driving gloves, eyed the younger man with interest.

"You'll have the nurse come right over then?"

"Within an hour. May I use this telephone 7

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In the dim, untidy room Boots slept

in a stupor. Her skin burned with

Church bella awoke Boota from her age knew Mrs. Mooney.

When you fainted Monday night deep slumbers. She opened her eyears. Mooney sailed me," he went on. reluctantly, drewally as a child does. We saw the wire, everything Sunday' Why, it couldn't be an hun been done.” day! She frowned, remembering. That gray Monday and the customer who had lost the money.

"Want anything, child?”

Her in a quavering voice,

He nodded.

"And you got the nurse-you'va

heen looking after me?"

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a giri with red ing at the wide windows and October; curis and a nurse's cap was smiling roses blooming just beneath them. down at her.. But when she came back to con sciousness, which was only occasional- ly, she saw the outlines of the sagging painted bureau and the gray square of window beyond it. Trucks jolled over the cobblestones and urchins cried in the streets bolaw and taxi horns honked, honked incessantly, Heyond, in the narrow streets edging the river, fog horns boonted with Boots' eyes filled. She was sples-time. I went up to the store. Mra.. dreary regularity.

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It's all fixed." There was something-she couldn't lay stillest in death. What was it the worked in and I saw the fellow, Bliss. remember Just now that troubled wire had anid?

tired.

"I have to send a telegram."

and raid in a The nurse amiled

Th voice faint and soothing voice, "Later, perhaps. Just story of the lost money at Lacy's camo now you have nothing to do but to lietung out in here and get well,'

"Don't worry about that. It's all "How long have I been ill?"

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Every-he said gravely. He went away. People came and went in this dream, friend has seen to all of it.

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Tears trickled again from beneath: mi Insar-square over the thin blankets, ekoted Tumbler and spoon-everything shine think there's someone waiting to see her closed lids. She was too weak to suake plans now, God had been good ity. Tumbled clothes hung behind you," she said,

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