Luke's the first of October."
For a moment there was silence in the little army parlor. Field's hands
were trembling, his face was filled with trouble. She knew he would
speak his heart to her at last, and speak he did:--
"All these months that she has been studying I've been begging and
pleading, Mrs. Ray. _You_ know what I went for last winter,--all to no
purpose. I'm going again now, if I have to stay a patient at St. Luke's
to coax her out of it."
But not until Christmas came the welcome "wire:"
Patient discharged. Nurse finally accepts new engagement.
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