Night Call

The telephone woke Surgeon Marvin Hall in Vice President Curtis' hometown, Topeka, Kan. one night last week. Grantville six miles away was calling. Would Dr. Hall please come out right away? A baby was very sick. Dr. Hall advised the caller to get hold of Dr. Belknap, a baby specialist. It was 2:00 a. m.

Dr. Paul Edward Belknap, dashing out on the urgent night call, ran his motor car over a railroad embankment. He was thrown onto the tracks, lay unconscious. Along came a passenger train, ran over his legs, shocked him back to consciousness.

Dr. Belknap crawled to his wrecked machine where he groped in the mangled interior for his medical satchel. There was only enough bandage to form a tourniquet for one leg. For the other leg he ripped up his shirt. Then he propped himself against a tree until dawn and aid came.

After surgeons last week had amputated both of Dr. Belknap's legs and he had come out of the anesthetic, he learned that no, child in Grantville was known to be seriously ill that night, that the call was apparently a ruse to get him, in lieu of Dr. Hall, out into the night--perhaps to become the victim of footpads or kidnappers.

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