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Updated: May 31, 2025
There were medicine-closets with orderly rows of labeled bottles, linen-rooms with great stacks of sheets and towels, long vistas of shining floors and lines of beds. There were brisk internes with duck clothes and brass buttons, who eyed her with friendly, patronizing glances.
To escort young ladies, internes of the Convent, when granted permission to go out into the city, was a favorite pastime, truly a labor of love, of the young gallants of that day, an occupation, if very idle, at least very agreeable to those participating in these stolen promenades, and which have not, perhaps, been altogether discontinued in Quebec even to the present day.
They received with great contentment the military salutes of the officers of their acquaintance, which they acknowledged with the courtesy of well-trained internes, slightly exaggerated by provoking smiles and mischievous glances which had formed no part of the lessons in politeness taught them by the nuns.
You can joke all you want to about the flirty young Internes. They're nothing but fellows. But it isn't it isn't respectful for you to talk like that about the Senior Surgeon. He's too too terrifying!" she finished in an utter panic of consternation. "Oh, now I know it was the Senior Surgeon that made you jilt your country beau!" taunted Zillah Forsyth with soft alto sarcasm.
The ambulance came out into the courtyard, and an interne, in white ducks, came out to it, carrying a surgical bag. He looked over at her and waved his hand. "Big railroad wreck!" he called cheerfully. "Got 'em coming in bunches." He crawled into the ambulance, where the driver, trained to many internes, gave him time to light a cigarette; then out into the dusk, with the gong beating madly.
No hospital with which he had to deal was unmarked by his personality. Neglect and indifference were fatal attributes for internes and nurses. "Give the youngsters sleep enough, food and relaxation enough," he would say to the superintendents, "but after that expect and get faithful, conscientious service with as much humanity as possible thrown in."
The bell was not broken. She could hear it distinctly. This was an outrage! She would report it to the superintendent. She had been ringing for ten minutes. That little minx of a nurse was flirting somewhere with one of the internes. Jane angrily flung the covers back and got out on her small bare feet.
During her four years at the hospital the memory of Mac Clarke had grown fainter and fainter like the perfume of a fading flower. But the memory of Dan was like a thorn in her flesh, buried deep, but never forgotten. To herself, her fellow-nurses, the young internes who invariably fell in love with her, she declared gaily that she was "through with men forever."
"Yes, it was!" sweated the Senior Surgeon. "I suffered keenly, too!" Distractedly he glanced back at the open door. An extraordinarily large number of nurses, internes, orderlies, seemed to be having errands up and down the corridor that allowed them a peculiarly generous length of neck to stretch into the Superintendent's office. "Great Heavens!" snapped the Senior Surgeon.
He could see The Spider standing beside his bed supported by two internes, dying on his feet, fighting for breath as he told Pete to "see that party in the letter" and "that some one had trailed him too close." And "close the cases," The Spider had said. The game was ended. When Doris came in again Pete was asleep.
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