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"Do you really think they sent her away for talking to you? How do you suppose they found out?" "I waited for her last night when she left the hospital, and I suppose Mrs. Ogan or one of the doctors saw us. It was thoughtless of me," Amherst exclaimed with compunction. "I wish I had seen her poor Justine! We were the greatest friends at the convent.
It was clear enough that Dillon, still sunk in a torpor broken by feverish tossings, was making no perceptible progress toward recovery; and Mrs. Ogan was reduced to murmuring some technical explanation about the state of the wound while Bessy hung above him with reassuring murmurs as to his wife's fate, and promises that the children should be cared for.
Ogan 'feels it to be such a beautiful dispensation, my dear, that, owing to a death that very morning in the surgical ward, we happened to have a bed ready for the poor man within three hours of the accident." She had exchanged her deep throat-tones for a high reedy note which perfectly simulated the matron's lady-like inflections.
"No: I happened to be staying at Hanaford, and hearing that they were in want of a surgical nurse, I offered my help." Amherst nodded. "So much the better. Is there any place where I can say two words to you?" "I could hardly leave the ward now, unless Mrs. Ogan comes back." "I don't care to have you call Mrs. Ogan," he interposed quickly. "When do you go off duty?" She looked at him in surprise.
The official cousins hold only a few shares apiece." "Perhaps, then, her visit will open her eyes. Who knows but poor Dillon's case may help others prove a beautiful dispensation, as Mrs. Ogan would say?" "It does come terribly pat as an illustration of some of the abuses I want to have remedied. The difficulty will be to get the lady's ear. That's her house we're coming to, by the way."
"You don't have to do no fightin', 'Ogan," explained Galton, "you simply stand by and 'old up for your man, an' 'elp fan 'im 'twixt rounds." "Rounds!" exclaimed the disgusted Irishman. "I thought they were choosin' sides for a free-for-all." Caradoc began methodically stripping to the waist and Greer followed suit. The Englishman presented his watch to Madden with a slight bow.
For a moment or two they walked on silently through the quiet street; then she said, in a voice still stirred with feeling: "As I told you this afternoon, Dr. Disbrow has said nothing in my hearing." "And Mrs. Ogan?" "Oh, Mrs. Ogan " Her voice broke in a ripple of irony. "Mrs.
Amherst's eyes exclaimed; "I see they have sent her away because she told you," Bessy's flashed back in wrath, and his answering look did not deny her inference. "Do you know where she has gone?" Amherst enquired; but Mrs. Ogan, permitting her brows a faint lift of surprise, replied that she had no idea of Miss Brent's movements, beyond having heard that she was to leave Hanaford immediately
Amherst had noticed, on entering, that a new nurse a gaping young woman instantly lost in the study of Mrs. Westmore's toilet had replaced the dark-eyed attendant of the day before; and supposing that the latter was temporarily off duty, he asked Mrs. Ogan if she might be seen. The matron's face was a picture of genteel perplexity. "The other nurse?
In the carriage Bessy exclaimed: "It was the nurse, of course if we could only find her! Brent did Mrs. Ogan say her name was Brent?" "Do you know the name?" "Yes at least but it couldn't, of course, be the girl I knew " "Miss Brent saw you the night you arrived, and thought she recognized you. She said you and she had been at some school or convent together." "The Sacred Heart?
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