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"That's nothing," said Dr. R. G. Sayle, "she's been bossing us doctors for the past twenty years!"
"Oh, please—not quite that long——" began Miss White.
"Well, we'll knock off two and make it eighteen," the colonel interposed.
When the wound was dressed doctors and nurses tried to persuade the patient to remain over night, but without success.
"I know if Mrs. Roosevelt were here she would insist upon your staying," Miss White said.
"Young woman, if Mrs. Roosevelt were here I am certain she would insist upon my leaving immediately," her husband made reply, and gazed at the four pretty nurses surrounding him.
When the patient was brought up the elevator and led into the "preparation" room, the first thing to do was to prepare him for care of his wound. Miss White took his eye glasses. The Colonel objected and said he did not want those out of his sight. But when Miss White assured him she would give the glasses her personal attention he seemed content with the arrangement.
One of the physicians asked for a chair for Col. Roosevelt. Miss White said the operating table was ready, and the colonel immediately acquiesced and laid down on the carefully scrubbed pine slab on an iron frame, which has carried the weight of tramps, laborers and other unfortunates picked up in the street, but never before that of an ex-President of the United States.