All-Story Weekly, March 1, 1919 — page 100: what you’re looking at

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ALL-STORY WEEKLY. ___ both, there was something worse, something value. It will. make the man a sober citi- _- more wholly despicable! There was him- zen:and send him out to tell others—mod-_ = self; | erate drinkers, as they call themselves—the _ Alone in his private office in the deserted truth about the greatest destructive agent building, Jefferson worked through the in the world!” hight arranging his affairs so that Helen —To give the stricken man every possible and Junior should not suffer financially. chance for his life, Dr. Stanton ordered an _ At dawn he left the building and ordered assistant nurse to be assigned to his bed- - the waiting taxi to take him to the Grand side day and night. A newly arrived ap- Central Station. prentice—a soft, gray-eyed girl with a trim The French maid brought Helen a note little figure—was one of the three to be as early in the morning—brought it to the signed to this duty. roe _ locked door of her boudoir, and explained When she first looked at the patient, rav- it had just been brought by hand from Mr. ing in his delirium, she recognized him! ___Lee’s office. Helen unlocked the door and John Logan? Not he. But she kept her took it from the maid. It was from Jeffer- own counsel. = son. : Helen moved back to the suburbs; back - »“T am going away to fight—myself,” it . to the little cottage where Junior was born. read. ‘If I win, I will come back to you, She took a long-time lease on it, with an a man, to ask your forgiveness.” option to purchase. No word had come from Jefferson. Ju- . nior believed his daddy was fighting. His CHAPTER VI. mother had told him so—fighting bravely, too! : ny ee ee ene | Still, they didn’t have one of those ser- N a little Connecticut town, Jefferson pre- vice flags in their window—like other sented himself before a-recruiting ser- houses had—and Junior couldn’t under- geant. In short order he was examined stand the reason, no matter how hard his and accepted—as: John Logan. _ mother tried to explain! ~ At the end of a week he had his fir Colonel Gray and his regiment were in taste of guard duty. It was raining hard, the cantonment not far distant. from the a cold, night rain. In the morning he was’ suburban town in which Helen reestab- _ ill, They took him to the field hospital. lished her home. Gray had helped her in Within an hour he was delirious. her negotiations with the rental agent. Oc- ____- John Logan’s case was pronounced hope-_ casionally he called. less—double pneumonia in its worst form. Dr. Stanton saved John Logan’s life. To But attached to this especial field hospital him was all the credit. How much of it was Henry Stanton, one of the country’s was rightly Mary Lawrence’s is not to be greatest specialists in the treatment of al- computed accurately, but Jefferson knew a _ chol and drug addicts. large share of his successful fight against Inspired by a knowledge that the.per- death was due to her quiet and devoted centage of fatalities in cases of pneumonia ministrations. among entrants in the National army was He had recognized her soon after he -_ unreasonably large, Dr. Stanton determined came out of the delirium. With the recog- to take personal charge of this especially nition came a blinding impulse to throttle difficult case. 3 her—the tause of his disgrace! But, final- - “ An exceptionally fine instance;” he told ly, in reply to his agonized question, she --. a colleague after an exhaustive examination told him why she had done this monstrous - of John Logan, “ of the ravaging effects of wrong. oe ees alcohol on a system that gave no outward And he realized the pity of it and the _ evidences of it up to the time of the expo- aching sorrow in the breast of this poor lit- ‘sure to unaccustomed physical hardship. tle creature who fed on romance. And she, “A cure in this case will have a twofold in turn, slowly sensed her own distorted