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THE ICELANDIC CANADIAN
June 1945
DR. L. A. SIGURDSON
116 MEDICAL ARTS BLDG.
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Office Ph. 94 762 Res. Ph. 72 409
DR. A. V. JOHNSON
DENTIST
506 SOMERSET BLDG.
Phone 97 932 Res. Phone 202 398
DR. A. BLONDAL
602 MEDICAL ARTS BLDG.
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Phone 93 996
ANDREWS, ANDREWS,
THORVALDSON &
EGCERTSON
Attorneys
Bank of Nova Scotia Bldg.
Portage at Garry St.
Phone 98 291
doctors cared for the victims of the
plague.
The building was in darkness. She
walked through the long corridors aware
of the silent figures on the long row
of cots though she could not see them.
She passed the native nurses and the
orderlies as silently as a shadow, on
through the back door, across the court-
yard and to the stables. In the darkness,
she could hear the movement of cattle,
the stamping of a horse, there was the
smell of hay and manure. She groped
her way along the wall until she saw
a thin thread of light coming from a
crack in the floor at the far corner.
Silently she crept along; she felt for
the latch, the door opened noiselessly
and she slipped in. The end where she
stood was in darkness. At the other
end, an acetylene lantern brightly illu-
minated the group bending over a
figure on the table. Bob stood facing
her, his hair rumpled, his face serious
and intent. She had seen him that way
many times bending over his books
or working in the laboratory.
The room was in absolute silence, as
if a spell had been laid upon them all.
Ruth felt the strange influence of the
place, she tried to speak, but she couldn’t
move her lips and no sound came from
her throat. She tried to step forward,
to raise her arm, anything to attract
Bob’s attention but it was as if she
were tied.
Suddenly she saw a long black arm
reach out of the darkness behind her
husband’s back, then there was a hand
and in the hand a long gleaming knife
COMPLIMENTS OF
Mforris Fisheries Inc.
723 FULTON MARKET, CHICAGO, ILL.
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Wm. Lippman, President Phone: Andover 1060