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You continued to convalesce and I kept on thinking. "This impersonal opposition well, there had been something of the same sort once or twice before. You remember, in particular, the affair of the private letter-box. A devilish intelligence had been at work there, and some day, as I told you, the mystery would be cleared up. "Then did we ever know who Mr. Aram Balencourt really was?
The caller idled outside the railing, absently regarding stills of past Buckeye atrocities that had been hung upon the walls of the office by someone with primitive tastes in decoration. He was debating a direct challenge of the young woman's veracity. What would she say if told that the caller meant to wait right there until Mr. Baird should convalesce?
She seemed malignant, too, driving her chin like a knife into the nuque of one of the small boys, who kicked her shins justifiably. However, they all went away to convalesce elsewhere, as soon as their guardian the ogress had transplanted from a side-table a complete tea-possibility; a tray that might be likened to Minerva, springing fully armed from the head of Jove.
After a six weeks' doubtful struggle with the disease Tommy began to convalesce, and with returning strength revived his invincible love of mischief, which he gratified in provoking the soul of Orderly Ben Fallows, notwithstanding that the two had become firm friends during the tedious course of Tommy's sickness.
It wasn't the merriest place to convalesce in, but I was as hard as nails at the time and by the third day I was beginning to sit up and be bored. I read all my English papers twice and a big stack of German ones which I used to have sent up by a friend in the G.H.Q. Intelligence, who knew I liked to follow what the Boche was saying.
"Indeed, I have none; I used the last drop yesterday." "Then I beg that you will allow me to remove you to the Home till you are recovered. There, under Dr. Gibbs's kind care, you may convalesce rapidly. Here, you are suffering for every comfort, and cannot hope to recover soon. I beg you to go."
If it is hard to be ill and to loathe food, oh, how pleasant to be getting well and to be feeling hungry how hungry! Alas, the joys of convalescence become feebler with increasing years, as other joys do and then and then comes that illness when one does not convalesce at all. On the day of this happy event, too, came another arrival in Lambcourt.
"You are talking too much!" flashed Diane with sudden color. "The wound is slight, but you bled a lot; and the doctor made particular reference to rest and quiet." "Good Lord!" said Philip in deep disgust. "There's your pretty physician for you! 'Rest and quiet' for a knife scratch. Like as not he'll want me to take a year off to convalesce!"
When I had telephoned to the hospital the next morning, I went to the office and found a message on my desk. It read: "Have everything possible done. Send all bills to me. He must come here to convalesce." It was headed Morrisville, and was signed, "W. D. Van Voast." That same day Blister was taken to a big, airy, private room with two nurses in attendance. For a time it seemed hopeless.
For three long weeks Eileen lay ill with burning fever, and always there were fresh red roses, but he himself did not come until Eileen began to convalesce. And one day he came and stood by her couch, and looked down, at her. He saw that she was paler, but the lips were still as scarlet as the petals of the American Beauties on the table by her side.
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