The Great Reliever: A Four-ACT Play (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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It is a very dismal rainy day, and there are occasional peals of thunder and faint flashes of lightning.

Miss Williams, a very plump student-nurse in a blue ging ham dress, white shoulder-apron, white cap and black shoes, enters from the hall, carrying linens, small cloths and a pitcher of ice water. After resting the pitcher and small cloths on the white iron table, she places covers on the dresser and on the table in the alcove. Then she covers the green cushions of the Morris chair with fresh slips of flowered creton.

A rolling noise is heard in the hall. Miss Williams opens the door wide to guide a white iron bed which is being shoved into the room headforemost. Karl Lindenfels, still under the influence of ether, lies in the bed on the flat of his back. His blonde hair is plainly visible on the pillow; there is a greenish cast to his thin face. He still wears the long white shirt from the operating-room and is covered with a sheet from the chest down. A chart for recording pulse, temperature, etc. Lies on the foot of the bed. Constance Wakefield, a trained nurse in the usual immaculately white uniform, white cap and white shoes, is pushing the bed from the foot. With Miss William's assistance, she rolls the bed across the floor to its position directly above the cot, the bed being the usual high kind found in hospitals. Miss Williams then leaves the room.

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