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room behind him, that Dr. Edwards simply nodded. "All right, Dan. I'll leave it to you. And don't be afraid there'll be nobody to state your position. I'll be there." Dan put his hand briefly on the older man's shoulder, and went back into Herbert's room. Mrs. Irwin was gathering up her purse and gloves. She whispered that Herbert was asleep again, and she was going to run out for a few moments while she could. Dan scarcely noted her going. The night was taking on a dreamlike quality because he was so very tired. Herbert stirred and called him weakly. Dan was alarmed into alertness. He found the pulse, and his heart tightened. Almost over now. Where was that woman? She'd better get back . . . but Herbert seemed to be laughing behind his bandages. Dan bent over. "Told Mother . . . about Dad. He'd have been ashamed. What she wanted with her money for the hospital." The voice trailed off, strengthened. "Told her another . . . know what I said? If she'd had her way, John couldn't have come here. John Pulaski. Had to die in the street, not good enough for mother's hospital. I told her. Should've done it long. . . ." That was the last time he spoke. It was almost eleven when Dan got home. He wasn't like Dan at all — so fearfully drained and still that I was really frightened. He told me about Herbert. We were just about to go upstair s~— I had my hand on the wall switch to turn off the downstairs lights — when I thought I heard steps on the porch. I glanced at my 'watch. Almost twelve. "Who on earth?" Dan said, and came from behind me to open the front door. "Edwards?" he said into the darkness out there. My heart began to hammer. Dr. Edwards, coming here from the meeting? Like Paul Revere, I thought rather wildly. Bringing the news, to sound the alarm. "Fine hours you keep." Dr Edwards stepped into the hallway, and gave us both one of those dry, unreadable looks he was so good at. Poker-faced, Dan had once called him. I'd never minded it before. "Fine hours you pick to go walking," Dan said in a tight voice that wasn't his at all. "Well, I thought I'd get the smoke and talk out of my hair. And it's a nice night — pleasure to see a street absolutely empty of people. Sometimes I think people are the most — " He sighed. "But that's not what I came over for. I was thinking, Doctor, that I'd like to start rounds at the hospital a bit earlier than we've been doing. Gives us a longer day. Think you could make it, say, at eight-thirty? Starting tomorrow?" I gasped and sat down suddenly on the bottom step. Dan made a strangled sound. Dr. Edwards said briskly, "Well, of course, if you don't want the details — " "I can't believe it," Dan said. He pushed his hand through his rumpled hair. "You mean I'm — not out? They didn't — " "No, they didn't. They had sense enough for that. A rousing vote of confidence, Dan, that's what you got. By majority decision, you were right to take a stand against intolerance and bigotry coming into the hospital, and Sanders — by implication, of course — was wrong to consider allowing it." "It's your doing, Dr. Edwards," Dan said slowly. "If they understood my position well enough to see it, it's because of what you told them." "That's where you're wrong. Not me, Dan. Mrs. Irwin, not me. She told them." "Mrs. Irwin!" The tears I'd been choking on were surprised right out of me. "What— how? What did she do?" I guess Dr. Edwards in his own way was working off a little of the strain he'd been under. He seemed to take a sly pleas ure in drawing it out . . . but when he was finished we had a clear and meaningful enough picture of what had taken place. Mrs. Irwin had been down at the meeting all right. With all her formidable guns. Dr. Edwards said she was magnificent. They all knew her son was upstairs, dying, and so did she. She said they would understand by the fact that she could leave her son at such a time just how important she thought it was for her to speak to them. And she had made a clear statement of apology for the way in which she had made her original offer. She hadn't said her own opinions were changed. But she had come to realize, through the implacable stand Dan had taken, that her opinions had no place in the hospital. "Dr. Palmer's integrity and character are such that I can no longer doubt the justice of his stand," she said. "I make no stipulations, no regulations, no rules. I am merely coming here to tell you that I intend to reopen my offer to Stanton General Hospital of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, to be used in any way best judged by all of you to do the most good for the hospital and the community." She had spoken standing, and she picked up her purse and started to leave. "There is just one word I might add," she said. "You all know where Dr. Palmer is at this moment, and why he has refused to desert his post even if it means the loss of his chance to defend himself here. I leave it to you gentlemen whether this is the action of a man who could be called irresponsible in any sense of the word." "She was sweeping," Dr. Edwards said with admiration. "Bernhardt couldn't have improved on it. And of course she wasn't acting. So — that's that. After she left there was nothing to do but collect the votes, shake hands and go home. You're back in, Dan '1 my boy." Stunned, lost in a picture of the scene he'd drawn so vividly, Dan and I had to shake ourselves back into the present to remember to thank him as warmly as he deserved for bringing the news right over. After he left we weren't sleepy any more. We stood on the porch, hand in hand, watching him stride off down the quiet street, his footsteps fading away into silence. Dan spoke quietly. "It's heartbreaking, Julie. She didn't do it for me. She did it for Herbert — to coax back his love. To make herself fit into the new standard he suddenly found for himself. And she did it too late. He never knew." "Don't be too sure of that, Dan." I tightened my fingers in his. "Why ever she did it, it's done. The good it will do goes on." I took a deep, relaxing breath in the night. "It will make it easier for her," I said, out of a knowledge that had come to me from I didn't know where. "She wanted a memorial— an Irwin Memorial to her husband. That one was all wrong; she would have been ashamed of it in the end. But this one is real. Don't you see? A memorial to Herbert, Dan, the way he would want it now. The way the man he could have been would have wanted it to be." Dan put his arm around me. "I'd be glad if I thought there was any way of making it easier for her," he said, troubled. "She's made everything easier for us — to say the least." "She has ... or Herbert has ... or maybe you have to go back and say it was Mr. Pulaski. 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