so suitable!
Now Molly, you are my best nurse, and a good reliable aid in times like
this. I gave you instructions an hour ago. I'll add this to them. YOU
ARE ON THE HARVESTER'S SIDE. Do you understand? In this, and the days to
come, you'll have a thousand chances to put in a lick with a sick woman.
Put them in as I tell you."

"Yes, Doctor Carey."

"And Molly! You are something besides my best nurse. You're a smashing
pretty girl, and your occupation should make you especially attractive
to a young doctor. I'm sure this fellow is all right, so while you are
doing your best with your patient for the Harvester, why not have a
try for yourself with the doctor? It couldn't do any harm, and it might
straighten out matters. Anyway, you think it over."

The nurse studied his face silently for a time, and then she began to
laugh softly.

"He is up there doing his best with her," she said.

The doctor threw out his hands in a gesture of disdain, and the nurse
laughed again; but her cheeks were pink and her eyes flashing as she
returned to duty.

"Random shot, but it might hit something, you never can tell," commented
the doctor.

The Harvester entered the Girl's room and stood still. She was fretting
and raising her temperature rapidly. Before he reached the door his
heart gave one great leap at the sound of her voice calling his name. He
knew what to do, but he hesitated.

"She seems to have become accustomed to you, and at times does not
remember me," said Doctor Harmon. "I think you had better take her again
until she grows quiet."

The Harvester stepped to the bed and looked the doctor in the eye.

"I am afraid I left out one important feature in our little talk on the
bridge," he said. "I neglected to tell you that in your fight for this
woman's life and love you have a rival. I am he. She is my wife, and
with the last fibre of my being I adore her. If you win, and she wants
you to take her away, I will help you; but my heart goes with her
forever. If by any chance it should occur that I have been mistaken or
misinterpreted her delirium or that she has been deceived and finds
she prefers me and Medicine Woods, to you and Chicago, when she has had
opportunity to measure us man against man, you must understand that
I claim her. So I say to you frankly, take her if you can, but don't
imagine that I am passive. I'll help you if I know she wants you, but I
fight you every inch of the way. Only it has got to be squa