Produced by Roger Frank and Sue Clark from page images digitized by the Google Books Library Project (https://books.google.com) and generously made available by HathiTrust Digital Library (https://www.hathitrust.org/) [Illustration: “I saw her lift her little arms, and I saw the mother stoop and gather her to her bosom”] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ THE SHADOWY THIRD AND OTHER STORIES BY ELLEN GLASGOW FRONTISPIECE BY ELENORE PLAISTED ABBOTT GARDEN CITY — NEW YORK DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY ------------------------------------------------------------------------ COPYRIGHT 1899, 1916, 1917, 1920, 1922, 1923 BY DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING THAT OF TRANSLATION INTO FOREIGN LANGUAGES, INCLUDING THE SCANDINAVIAN PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES AT THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS, GARDEN CITY, N. Y. First Edition ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CONTENTS The Shadowy Third Dare’s Gift The Past Whispering Leaves A Point in Morals The Difference Jordan’s End ------------------------------------------------------------------------ THE SHADOWY THIRD THE SHADOWY THIRD When the call came I remember that I turned from the telephone in a romantic flutter. Though I had spoken only once to the great surgeon, Roland Maradick, I felt on that December afternoon that to speak to him only once—to watch him in the operating-room for a single hour—was an adventure which drained the colour and the excitement from the rest of life. After all these years of work on typhoid and pneumonia cases, I can still feel the delicious tremor of my young pulses; I can still see the winter sunshine slanting through the hospital windows over the white uniforms of the nurses. “He didn’t mention me by name. Can there be a mistake?” I stood, incredulous yet ecstatic, before the superintendent of the hospital.