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Updated: May 23, 2025
Half an hour later, smeared with dust and blood, he crawled up the steps of the Tyee Lumber Company's hospital on his hands and knees and rapped feebly on the front door. The night nurse came out and looked him over. "I'm Dirty Dan O'Leary," he wheezed; "I've been fightin' agin." The nurse called the doctor and two orderlies, and they carried him into the operating-room.
It meant so much, this operating at a country house, she explained to Ellen. It meant the working out of all manner of difficult details, that the final conditions might as closely as possible resemble those which were to be had, ready to hand, in the operating-room of any hospital. "It's a serious handicap to a surgeon's best work," she asserted, "when he has to do it at a home.
I found myself to be seated upon a heavy wooden bench set flat against a wall, which was covered with a kind of straw matting. My hands were firmly tied behind me. In the first agony of that reawakening I became aware of two things. I was in an operating-room, for the most conspicuous item of its furniture was an operating-table!
They are tulle, you know, and quite stiff, and it was the most erratic-looking thing the next day!" It was then that the door across the street closed. Sidney did not hear it, but K. bent forward. There was a part of his brain always automatically on watch. "I shall get my operating-room training, too," she went on. "That is the real romance of the hospital.
Half the building belonged to us, the remaining half being used by the officers of the battery. Nikitin had arranged a large room, that must I think have been a dining-room in happier days, with beds; to the right was the operating-room, overhead were our bedrooms and the room where originally I had sat with Marie Ivanovna was a general meeting place.
For her blue uniform, kerchief, and cap she exchanged the hideous operating-room garb: long, straight white gown with short sleeves and mob-cap, gray-white from many sterilizations. But the ugly costume seemed to emphasize her beauty, as the habit of a nun often brings out the placid saintliness of her face.
It was a page torn out of an order book, and it read: "Sigsbee may have light diet; Rosenfeld massage." Underneath was written, very small: "You are the most beautiful person in the world." Two reasons had prompted Wilson to request to have Sidney in the operating-room.
A capable, fair-complexioned nurse took possession of us; and my study, because it has the best light, was transfigured into an admirable operating-room. All its furnishings were sent away, every cloth and curtain, and the walls and floor were covered with white sterilized sheets.
There are girls like that. "Look here," she said, "you must not sit in that room and worry. Run up to the operating-room and help to clear away." She was very wise, the First Assistant. For Jane Brown went, and washed away some of the ache with the stains of Johnny's operation. Here, all about her, were the tangible evidences of her triumph, which was also a defeat.
It was the night nurse who told Twenty-two that Jane Brown was in the operating-room. He was still up and dressed at midnight, but the sheets of to-morrow's editorial lay blank on his table. The night nurse glanced at her watch to see if it was time for the twelve o'clock medicines. "There's a rumour going about," she said, "that the quarantine's to be lifted to-morrow. I'll be rather sorry.
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