te said the Big Bull Moose was a suffragist and that was one of
the big planks of his party and the colonel laughed and said of course
he believed in it.

When the party left for Chicago Dr. R. G. Sayle took with his
antisepticized surgeon's gloves, surgical dressing and instruments to
be used in case of hemorrhage before Chicago was reached.

Not a souvenir of the ex-President's visit remains in the hospital. His
shirt was turned over to the police, and a blood-soaked handkerchief
which was bound upon the wound, and which was picked up by one of the
nurses, was found to have an "S" in the corner, so it was evident that
it either did not belong to the ex-President or he had not always owned
it, and this was discarded.

The Mercy Hospital nurses were appreciative of Col. Roosevelt.

"He was the best patient I ever had," said Miss Welter, and the
sentiment was endorsed by Miss Fitzgerald.

"He was consideration itself. He never had a word of complaint all the
time he was at the hospital, and his chief worry seemed to be that we
were not comfortable. We had expected to find him 'strenuous' and
possibly disagreeable. On the contrary, we found him most docile. He
chafed at being kept in bed, but he tried not to show it, and he never
was ill-humored or peevish, as many patients in a similar position are."

CHAPTER V.

ARRIVAL AT MERCY HOSPITAL.

Arriving at Mercy Hospital, Chicago, Col. Roosevelt was given further
examination on October 15. Several bulletins of his condition were
issued. The last official bulletin given out by his staff physicians,
J. B. Murphy, A. D. Bevan and Scurry L. Terrell, showed a most
favorable condition.

Mrs. Roosevelt reached Chicago with her son Theodore and her daughter
Ethel, was driven directly to Mercy Hospital and took charge of her
husband as soon as she had greeted him. She was quite composed on her
arrival and placidly directed affairs all through. As a result of her
presence, the colonel's visiting list was materially cut down, he
devoted less time to reading telegrams, and discussed the campaign very
little.

Part of the morning he spent in reading cablegrams of sympathy and
congratulation on his escape from Emperor William, King George, the
President of France, the King of Italy, the King of Spain, the
President of Portugal and the Crown Prince and Princess of Germany.

Among his few callers were Col. Cecil Lyon, Medill McCormick, Dr.
Alexander Lambert, his family