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In less than two minutes Major Woodruff and Lieutenant Kline were on the platform deck of the "Spitfire." "This is the first one of your craft we've seen," declared the major, as Eph cast off the bow line, and the tug backed water. "Will you show us over?" This the submarine boys gladly did, as the Army shares with the Navy in the defense of the country.
As soon as the door was opened a man came in hurriedly and handed him, a slip of paper on which were written these few words: "An artery has commenced bleeding. Come quickly! Doctor Hillhouse started to his feet and gave a quick order for his carriage. As it drove up to the office-door soon after, he sprang in, accompanied by Doctor Kline.
No, doctor, I will not trust the hand of Doctor Kline, skillful as it may be, to do this work; for I cannot be sure that a glass too much may not have been taken to steady the nerves a night's excess of wine may have left unstrung." Doctor Hillhouse sat with closely knit brows for some time after Mr. Carlton ceased speaking.
When he heard my voice, Fish raised himself on his elbow and said: 'I am wounded; I am wounded. That was the last I saw of him in life. He was very brave and was very popular among the men of the troops. "Sergeant Joe Kline, of Troop L, was wounded early that day, and was ordered to the rear with several other wounded men.
Voss were the ones that drew so largely on my time this morning, and helped to disturb me so much, and both were in consequence of Mr. Birtwell's party." "They might have an indirect connection with the party," returned Doctor Kline, "but can hardly be called legitimate consequences." "They are legitimate consequences of the free wine and brandy dispensed at Mr. Birtwell's," said Doctor Hillhouse.
The fact that I feel so averse to operating myself comes almost as a warning; and if no change should occur in my feelings, I shall, with the consent of the family, transfer the knife to Doctor Kline."
"I'm Kline of the secret service," he said gravely. "I'm sorry, Sammy, but I want you for that little job in Washington at the bureau before you left on sick leave!" Sammy Matthews struggled away from his mother's arms, pulled himself forward in his chair and his tongue licked dry lips. "What what job?" he whispered thickly. "You know, don't you?" the other answered steadily.
"Some men, as you know, doctor, cannot use wine without a steady increase of the appetite until it finally gets the mastery, and I am afraid Doctor Kline is one of them." "I am greatly astonished to hear you say this," replied Dr. Hillhouse, "and I cannot but hold you mistaken." "Have you ever met him at a public dinner, at the club or at a private entertainment where there was plenty of wine?"
But so troubled and uncertain did he become as the necessity for fixing an early day for the removal of this tumor became more and more apparent that he at last referred the whole matter to Mr. Carlton, and proposed that Doctor Kline, whose high reputation for surgical skill he knew, should be entrusted with the operation. To this he received an emphatic "No!"
None too gently, a policeman caught Jimmie Dale by the shoulder and shook him vigorously again Jimmie Dale, once the other let go his hold, fell back limply on the bed, breathing in that same, slightly slowed way. "Larry the Bat, eh?" grunted Kline; then, to the officer who had volunteered the information: "Who's Larry the Bat? What is he? And how long have you known him?"
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