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ways a lot of business to be done.
Doctor Jenkins, Doctor Lancaster
Is in no condition to attend to busi
ness,” said Joan. “What is the mat
ter with him?”
The doctoir looked right and left,
if trying to find some refuge. But
the girl was standing in front of him,
and he could not enter the buggy with
out pushing her away.
“Miss Wentworth, please don’t ask
me about the doctor,” he said. “I do
my best for him. It Isn’t In my power
to do more than I am doing.”
"It is in your power to help him to
be master of himself. How can the
most famous surgeon' in the South
come here and be at the mercy of a
man like Myers?”
V.- “Why, Miss Wentworth, you’ve got
that wrong,” protested Jenkins. “Mr.
Myers is only the secretary. Mr. My
ers does all he cun for the doctor.
We’ve got to keep the Institute to
gether, Miss Wentworth, and we’re
each doing onr best. You see, the
trust fund wasn’t made over to the
doctor. He was only in charge of it,
and when the money was missing it
worried him. And—and—” ,
He stopped, as If he had caught
himself babbling about something tha!
should not have been mentioned,
Then, as Joan stood aside, he leaped
into the vehicle. “Good morning,” he
muttered, raising his bat, and drove
away furiously.
Joan remained where the buggy had
been. She realized that for the pres
ent she could get no help from Jenkins.
He had seemed afraid, not for him
self, but for Lancaster. What had
Lancaster done, then, that he should
be in the power of Myers? Had he
embezzled the funds of the Institute?
The question was an absurd one. It
was unbelievable that Lancaster
should be a thief; besides, the expla
nation would not solve the problem
at all.
She went hack to the verandah.
was resolved to reach the bottom of
the mystery, for Lancaster's sake; to
prove her loyalty although he had
withdrawn his demand on her.
As she reached the front door she
was startled to hear her name spoken
In the matron's room. The speaker
was Myers.
She knows a good deal too much,”
Fraser was saying.
“But she knows nothing at all,” Mrs
Myers answered. “What do you sup
pose the doctor brought her here for,
if not to try to publish his shame to
the world?”
*• Aye, his shame,” repeated the
ma
tron bitterly, lt's hard work for
three people to try to hold up one
man, without a fourth coming In.”
“Well, is that his game?” demanded
the secretary. Is it or isn’t It?”
“We want a nurse. You know we’ve
often tried to get one, Mr. Myers, but
they won't stay here. It's hard work
taking care of the patients sometimes,
when there’s a rush.”
“Rush!” repeated Myers scornfully.
“Who’d rusn to this old place with the
doctor’s reputation?”
They do corner nd the people trust
him,” said Mrs. Fraser, half crying.
44 Yes,” scoffed the other. And the
doctor still has his grandiose Ideas
about building up the Institution—him
that wrecked it.”
4 < Well, that girl knows nothing,
any
way. n
“I tell you she means to help the
doctor In his crazy plan of notoriety.
8hp means to undo all onr work In
his own Interests,” cried Myers vehe
mently.
Joan walked away. She had over
heard unwillingly, and enough to con
vince her tuat there was a mystery,
with Myers at the bottom of It, arid
she had rightly sensed an enemy in
him, and he In, her. Now her mind
was resolute to remain and fight for
Lancaster. It was as If her decision,
suddenly crystallized, had suddenly
grown crystal-clear.
But slip had not passed the en
trance when the matron’s door swung
open violently and Myers came out.
He stood confronting Joan with his
Insulting leer.
"Miss Wentworth," he began, “when
you and 1 had our talk this morning
you hadn’t seed®' the doctor. You
didn’t know how things were situated,
and I don’t blame you. Now you’ve
seen that the doctor needs a guardian.
Well, I’m his guardian.”
“I do not think that Doctor Lancas
ter needs a guardian;' Mr. Myers,” an
swered Joan, facing 1dm steadily.
“See here, now, Miss Wentworth,”
said Myers, swallowing hard. “You
don’t get the drift of things, just ns
I thought. You think I’m trying to
stand In the way of your work, when
I’m only trying to reach a sort of
working agreement to keep things In
running, order. That’s my aim. Am
I right?”
“I don’t know whether you are
right. I think you are extremely un
civil. Take off your, hat!” flashed
Joan.
Myers removed the hard hat from
ills head and stared at her in aston
ishment. He could not understand
her sudden initiation of hostilities.
a Well, I reckon that’s my nature,
and I’m sorry,” he said. H§ was try- J
big to be conciliatory now. “I’m sorry
if I get on your nerves, Miss Went
worth," he persisted, “b.nt I wasn’t
brought np to be a ladles’ man. How
ever, I know my job, and I reckon you
know yours. If you think I’m trying
to stand between the doctor and you,
come and see him right now. I
“I have no complaint t» make, and
I have made none," said Joan.
«« Come and see him,” persisted My
ers. You’re the nurse, and I guess
it’s up to you.”
She looked at him, dismayed by his
expression. “Is Doctor Lancaster
worse?” she asked.
Well, nothing that I didn't expect,
but he might be better,” said Myers,
sneering.
He walked toward the door of Lan
caster’s room and opened It. Through
the aperture Joan saw Lancaster
stretched out In a large chair, his
head bent forward on his breast, his
limbs immobile. She hnrrled Into the
room.
But Myers preceded her to Lanens
ter's side. He raised the limp arm
and turned up the sleeve. Joan saw
that the skin was densely scarred with
tiny punctures. Lancaster was breath
ing heavily, and beside him, upon A
little table, was a syringe, and near
that a little bottle containing a few
drops of a pale fluid. Joan drew In
her breath quickly. It was what she
had feared.
44 Morphine,” said Myers, 'He al
ways does this when he comes home.
Now yon understand what I was try
ing to get at this morning, Miss Went
worth. I’m responsible for him. It’s
my job to keep him straight if I can.
When I can’t, I try. Now you see,
perhaps, why he’s lost his will power.
and why I have to keep after him like
a dog following his master. And I
guess you won’t think I’m trying to
set him against yon.
The bully in the man was coming
to the surface again. He thrust out
his head toward Joan.
"Because, if yon do, I may as well
say. Miss Wentworth, I’m the boss
here. Understand that?” he continued,
with a blustering air. “The doctor
hires ail sorts of people when he’s like
this, and It doesn't mean nothing. He
can't pay out no salaries unless my
O. K.’s oq the vouchers. We want a
nurse, and If you like to stay on you
can. But if yon stay yon help me so
far as the doctor's concerned, and you
do what I tell you. That’s straight.
Is It clear or Isn't it?"
Joan looked at him indifferently.
"Help me put Doctor Lancaster on the
bed,” she said, “and then run and
get me a hot-water bottle.
He scowled furiously, hut he obeyed
her. And all the while Joan sat at
Lancaster's side watching him, her
mind ran over the questions that were
puzzling her.
Why had Myers spoken of Lancaster
as coming home, when he lived In
Avonmouth ?
Who had hired him to be the doc
tor’s keeper?
And with whom had Doctor Lan
caster been speaking so bitterly In his
consulting room that evening when
Joan called at the house?
Chapter VI
She sat for hours beside the sick
man, conscious sometimes that Myers
had come In and spoken to her. But
she never answered 1dm. As the pulse
strengthened she let her mind work
upon the problem again. Lancaster
had taken an Immense overdose, one
inconceivable In the ordinary morphine
habitue. And he must have taken It
during the brief period when Myers
was with him; he must have taken It
as soon as he got hack to his room.
Why had Myers permitted It?
At last. Lancaster opened Ijis eyes.
His gaze fell upon Joan's face, at first
without recognition, then with wonder.
“Water! lie gasped, after a few lu
effectual attempts (o speak.
Joan drew a glassful and gave It
to him, and then another. Lancaster
gulped down the liquid greedily. Pres
ently he sat up, stood on his feet, und
groped his way to the chair.
“I’m sorry," he said, looking at Joan
with a whimsical expression, “I
should have told you.”
“Doctor Lancaster. I am ashamed
of you," said Joan.
“God knows I’m ashamed of my
self," he burst out fretfully. “Miss
Wentworth, In the third drawer of
that desk, beneath a pile of letters,
you'll find a bottle—”
“No,” said Joan decisively. I
She knew by the wholly unneces
sary secrecy In the eoneealment,
characteristic of the drug habitue,, that 1
Lancaster had gone a long way down
the declivity.
44 Miss Wentworth, yojL ijjisuniJer-
GRIFFIN DAILY NEWS
stand me. It’s an antidote N>r~alka
loldal poisoning. I Was experimenting
with a new drug.” m
Joan fonnd herself sobbing, and she
was astounded. It was the wreck of
the man’s moral nature that was un
bearable. She saw the latent fineness
in him, and It was as If the needless
lie was the voice of the morphine
devil that spoke through his lips.
Lancaster looked distressed. “Miss
Wentworth, you had better leave me
and go back to Avonmouth on the eve
ning train,” he said. <4 I ought never
to have brought you here. It was pure
selfishness on my part. Miss Went
worth. please don’t cry. Go away now,
and we’ll talk it over before you start
for the station.”
<( If I go away,” wept Joan, “you’ll
take another hypodermic, ■
‘‘I pledge you my word of honor no,”
said Lancaster, with almost Ingenuous
candor. “I nm really not accustomed
to such a thing; that is why It
knocked me out. I have been suffer
ing from Insomnia, and I tried a new
alkaloid—not morphine, you know, but
a derivative—for the benefit of my
patients.”
The words came from Ids lips so
glibly that Joan was almost con
vinced—would have been, had not the
first lie been different. She hesitated.
She had no intention of leaving the
room, but she turned away. '
Lancaster misunderstood her action.
With Incredible swiftness his hand
shot out toward the little bottle. He
had uncorked It and plunged In the
syringe before the girl could snatch
it away.
“Your word of honor!” said Joan.
He leaned back In his chair and
looked at her with amusement.
Miss Wentworth," he said, “you are
a nurse. Surely you are aware that
I am not to be trusted, that my ward
of honor Is worthless? That I am
essentially devoid of honesty and de
cency? Don’t you know that this ac
cursed thing”—he pointed toward the
bottle—“robs men of their honor and
self-respect, and lowers them beneath
Die beasts? n
He spoke as If at a clinic, and quite
Impersonally; there was the shadow
of a whimsical smile about hit lips,
which twitched, nevertheless, with
pain.
“That does not refer to you, K an
swered Joan. “You asked me to help
you In the biggest fight of your life.
Well, I am going to help you la that
fight.”
“It Is too late,” said Lancaster.
“Never!” replied Joan valiantly.
“You don’t understand, Miss Went
worth. That’s tfie mistake all people
make In trying to cure us. Don’t you
know that a man or woman never be
comes a victim to a drug except from
sleeplessness, or physical pain, or un
der stress of mental anguish? If you
could cure me the old trouble would
still be there. I should fall a victim
again. Life Is worthless to me, Miss
Wentworth,” he ended, quite simply.
"For happiness?- perhaps—I don’t
know. But not for duty. Your life
is to be used, Doctor Lancaster. fOT
the sake of the people, and I am going
to help you use Your wonderful
skill—”
He groaned at the words. Joan saw
that, though he was differing physi
cally. there was some mental trouble
which her words had evoked.
“Doctor Lancaster,” she said, “the
first thing you have to do is to use
your will. And I am going to give you
your first test, a little one only. It
will last thirty seconds. Can you put
forth your will for just that length of
time?
He fixed his eyes anxiously on hers
and nodded. Yet she saw them waver
toward the bottle.
“I am going to cross the room,” she
said. "Don’t stir a finger till I re
turn.
She heard Myers In the hall, and.
going to the door, she turned the key.
She heard Myers halt near her door.
But she had no time to think of him
She went back to Lancaster, whose
hands were strained hard against the
arms of the chair.
“Well done!” she said.
“Miss Wentworth, I must have that
hypodermic now. M
“I want you to wait Walt half an
hour, Doctor Lacaster.
“I can’t!” he cried, starting up. 1
tell you I must have it. After an over
dose one must have a smaller one. It
will set me up nicely. Just half the
quantity, Miss. Wentworth.”
“In half an hour,” said Joan.
He sprang to his feet, shaking and
furious. “Give me that bottle at
once!” he cried.
“In half an hour.”
Lancaster sat down. 44 Confound
you, why ever did you come here?"
he asked, Suppose that I discharge
you?”
“I shall not go, Doctor Lancaster.
We have covered that point in our
conversation already. ••
Then, seeing his distress, she went
on rapidly: Listen to me, Doctor
Lancaster. You Xjught me here
upon an Impulse, because you had no
one whom you could trust, You
wanted to fight and you wanted me to
fight with you. Well, I am going to
do It, and we are going to win. She
took out her watch and laid it on the
table. In twenty-five minutes you
shall have half a dose. Then we shall
have won. the first skirmish, G, Doc
tor Lancaster, fight like a man and
help us win!”
She spoke with so much earnestness
that she kindled his enthusiasm. “Yes,
we’ll make the fight!” he cried, with
blazing ^yes. "If only I had had you
long ago!”
He was In the full reactlop from his
despondency. He struck his fist em
phatically upon the nrm of the chair.
"I’ll be a man again!” he cried. "If
(To Be Contimwd)
WILLIAMSON NEWS
The Ladies’ Aid Society of Beth
any church met at£ the home of
Mrs. W. W. Shannon Thursday af
ternoon. An interesting program
on “The Sowers” was rendered af
ter which a delicious salad course
was served.
Among those shopping in Griffin
Friday were Mrsji Edward Ridley,
Misses Tommie and Sarah Reynolds 3 .
Dr. J. C. Beauchamp left Frida ^
morning for Atlanta.
Mrs. Jesse Gill spirit Thursday
in Atlanta.
Mr. and Mrs. J. B. McClurd and
family will spend this week end in
Columbus with relatives.
The Harmony Four, of Griffin, will
give a program at Hollonville,
church October 7 at 8 o’clock. Ad
mission 10 and 20 cents. ' o
B. A. Ridley left Wednesday night
for Asheville, N. C. He will be
away for two or three months.
F. S. Drewry spent Friday in
Griffin.
School opened at Dunbar school
house Monday, Sept. 29 with Miss
Lucille Eppenger as teacher.
Paul Beauchamp, Tebe Dickinson,
Bill Cole, Charles Farrar, Bill Fill
yaw, Glen and Carl Shivers attend
ed the football game played by
Locust Grove and Griffin high school
Friday afternoon.
Charles Farrar, Horace Pitts,
Misses Susie and Evelyn Blanton
who are attending other schols, are
at home for the week-end.
Mrs. Newton Allen, Mrs. D. Coch
ran, Mrs. Z. Scott went as delegates
to the Woman’s Club convention held
in Jackson Friday.
News from Our
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IN’ BA IN BRIDGE, GA.
Mrs. Gordon Chason, of Bain
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Georgia Federation of Women’s
Clubs, makes the following interest
ing report for the year:
The work of the civic division has
flourished during the past year as
never before. The same line of work
has been pursued on a broader s^ale,
more school grounds, parks, ceme
^eries been and railroad stations having
improved and beautified than
ever before; more trees, shrubs, flow
ers of^all kinds, including bulbs of
every variety having been planted,
and more tree planting and flower
planting along the highway than any
previous year during my chairman
ship.—Atlanta Constitution.
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REAL ESTATE AND
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HAISTEN BROS.
FUNERAL DIRECTORS
AND EMBALMERS
Griffin and Senoia, Georgia
Office Phone 575. Res. Phone 68
FRANK S. PITTMAN
Funeral Director
and Embalmer
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Lodge Directory
WARREN LODGE
No. 20, I. 0. 0. F., meets ewy
Monday night at 7:80 at Warren
Lodge Hall. Visiting brothers eor
dially invited.
R. A. PEEL, Secretary.
W. T. ATKINSON, N. G
MERIDIAN SUN LODGE
No. 26, F. & A. M.
Regular meeting Tuesday night,
October 7th, 7 o’clock. Note cha&ge
in hour. Visitors welcome. ,
C. H : Scales, W. M. Bill Wells, Gee.
W. 0. w.
Meets every Thursday, 7:36 p. m.
Sovereigns, your camp needs your
presence. You will find your Clerk
all times at Slaton Powell Clo. Co.
Visiting Sovereigns Welcome. Come.
L. J. SAULEY, C. C.
C. C. STANLEY, Clerk.
Pythagoras Chapter,
No. 10, R. A. M.
Regular meeting, Second and Fourth
Thursday, 7:30 p. m. Visitors wel
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BILL WELLS, Secretary.
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Arrival and Departure of Passenger
Trains at Griffin, Ga.
The schedules are published as infor
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