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THE MAN IN BED FOURTEEN. BY J. B. KAYE XJa nallarl Vict TVTica Mifram nl- m though everybody knew that Nurse Mitram had been married. But no body knew it until she put on her wedding ring, and that was not until the senior surgeon bad showed un mistakably that his interest in Eliza beth Mitram was more than a purely professional one. Mr. Carruthers went about his work hke a man who had received a stunning blow after that. I knew he would unburden himself to me, because we had seen each other about about every day since we left the Medical school. Sure enough, he did so. I had just come off duty and was dog-tired when he knocked at the door of my little office bedroom. "Jack," he said, "I'm in a good deal of trouble, and you're the only friend I have to whom I want to tell it It's about Miss Mitram. "You see, Jack," he continued, 'I've been clean daffy over her ever since she came here. Why every body else isn't I can't pretend to un derstand. Shocking bad taste, it seems to me. but of course I'm not worrying over it. However, you ' now she is married, of course?" "Was?" I hazarded. "Is," he answered with a groan. 'Brute of a fellow, too. Married eight years ago, when she was a girl of seventeen. It was a runaway match, and he had been a jailbird then, although he posed as a gen tleman. He was a valet, I believe, and learned the manners of gentle folks in that way. Well, he thought she had money, and a month after the marriage when T1 ronn7 she hadn't, he abandoned her. She hadn't much 'ove 1p" oi him bv then, o it was the kinrV-f 'hinsc V could ave done. But though she loves le she won t get a divorce. Doesn't believe in divorce. So there you are. What am I to do?" "I don't know, Fred," I answered frankly. "You're asking me to solve the oldest unsolved problem on earth. You must decide for yourself, old man you and Nurse Mitram." He agreed with me that it was up to him, and a few days later he told me lie had talked it over with her and had decided to take a post in Texas which had been offered him. That seemed the only thing possible. He could not shake Miss Mitram's prin- Nurse Mitram Was Standing Beside Johnson. ciples, and his presence there had be come impossible, i It must have been a week before Carruthers' projected departure that a patient was carried into the hos pital frdrava cab. It was a bad case of alcoholism, but the man had fallen and injured himself internally while in his delirium. We put him in the general ward, where Miss Mitram was night nurse. I was acting Jhouse surgeon at that time, and I was going the rounds when Carruthers came up to me, aa white'us.a sheet. i&a. .