Aunt Jane

It was the door of Room 24 leading into the Men's Ward. Aunt Jane had been standing there for five minutes, gazing intently before her into space. The serene face framed in the...

Aunt Jane always went by Suite A with her head a little in the air and her nose a trifle raised. And woe to the man or woman who occupied Suite A. For a week or ten days he was...

Aunt Jane glanced toward him with reassurance in her look--"I shall take them all-- You don't need to worry. You won't be bothered. You go get the wheel-tray, Preston, and we'll...

The chauffeur returned to his car, standing immovable, and the master of the car waited on the steps.... There had been a dozen things to do. Aunt Jane had insisted on his seein...

"She sent those--" He motioned to the flowers, "to Herman Medfield's money! She began on the boy," he said scornfully. "She's a dozen years older than Julian and twice as clever...

"Who are you?" he said abruptly, as he put up his hand to help her from the car. "I don't know you! I thought I did--but you are somebody else!" He was looking at her keenly.

She nodded. "That wasn't what I meant--but it will do. Whatever you're insured for--you're worth it, I guess." She paused and regarded him doubtfully.... "You're probably worth...

In Herman Medfield's room, the night-light was carefully shaded. Through the dimness one guessed rather than saw the figure lying straight on the high bed, motionless under the...

"Your head aches, does it?" That was the outside question; and inside, all the little therapeutic fibres in Dr. Carmon's stubby figure were saying to him: "His head is as good a...

He watched her go, and looked out of the window, and fell to thinking of the things life was bringing him.... Everything seemed coming to him out of this great, comfortable hosp...

Their faces grew still and alert till she should move her hands a tiny crack and they could shout again: "Billy-goat!" "The little red hen!" "The lady that runned away!"

"It doesn't matter how I look, does it?" She straightened the clothes a little and shook out his pillows. "Can I get you something, sir? I'm sorry you had to wait."

She turned and looked up at him then, her face quivering in little lights. "Well--I guess it's all right--the way I feel! It's the way the Lord made me, anyhow! _I_ don't want t...