Mary Lee the Red Cross Girl

Writes

scious form of the man against the tree so that the branches wou

rching the road for Mary Lee's return, Mrs. Quinn saw the girl run

at has happened?" she

d had an attack of sunstroke. She calmed the excited girl and immediat

re meetings. From it she learned that mustard on the nape of the neck or the forehead would help

and Mary Lee with the mustard, hurried to the unconscious man,

both watched anxiously for signs of a return to consciousness. It seemed hours before there was a flicker of returning life; as a matter of fa

o the Sanitarium," said Mary Lee,

ear seat holding the man's head and applying the ice. The drive was over two miles and during almo

sorry to give you all this trouble, young lady. It is a misfortune for me as well as for all of

ent inside to speak to the proper authorities. "Could you come and see me in the morning? I must have something attended to

lease do not worry. I am sure that it will be bu

rried the sick man into the emergency ward but would not allow either Mr. Quinn or Mary

it any visitors. She was not allowed to see him until the fourth day. It worried her because of her promise and the man's evident anxiety to have the "something" attend

the surcharged eagerness of the man

or at least another week. He claims it is under-no

ome of my mother and father and of my early youth seemed to be calling to me in a way I could not resist. I had been away from it for over fifteen years and not once befor

out of it and we have found it a difficult matter even to exist. My partner is an Indian but he would shame many whi

we scraped up enough money to bring me back about half the distance. I wrote home, the first letter I had written, I am as

was watching the girl. He

, not from my mother. I learned that father had died three years ago and that my mother was very sick. She had been overjoyed at

as slow and yet I could not stop to earn the money to travel any other way. I have had very l

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these years is crowded into the present. I had figured on cutting through to the river and stowing myself in one of

t staying too long; if the man were not going past his str

se write my cousin? Tell him that I am very near and that I shall soon be well enough, but that he must n

think I am still too weak. I wanted this letter written four days a

Lee. "I am going to ask your cousin to te

. He handed Mary Lee a crumpled slip of paper