as an excellent story of pathos, and the following may be examined
as a portrayal of childish loyalty:

| =SILENT ABOUT BULLET IN BRAIN= |
| |
|A tragedy of childhood featuring the loyalty of |
|10-year-old Stephen Stec to his three years younger |
|brother Albert, even when he felt death near, was |
|brought out at Kenosha hospital to-day. X-ray |
|pictures showed that the older boy had a bullet from|
|a revolver embedded to a distance of three inches in|
|the brain matter. |
| |
|The boy was shot by his younger brother Sunday |
|afternoon, but after they had agreed to keep secret |
|the story of the shooting, Stephen, with the |
|stoicism of a Spartan, had refused to tell the |
|story. When the X-ray picture revealed his secret he|
|sobbed out, "He didn't mean to do it." Then he told |
|the story. |
| |
| ="Just Tired Out," He Says= |
| |
|The two boys had been left at home alone on Sunday |
|afternoon. Their father, Albert Stec, a prosperous |
|market man, had warned them never to touch a |
|revolver which lay in a drawer. Little Albert, not |
|yet 6 years old, got the weapon, pointed it at the |
|brother, and pulled the trigger. The bullet entered |
|the back of the other boy's head. The mother, on her|
|return home, found the boy on the floor with his |
|little brother keeping a vigil. |
| |
|"I'm just tired out," the boy told his mother. She |
|put him to bed and tucked him away under the covers.|
|With the little brother playing about the bed he |
|went off to sleep. |
| |
| =Physician Stumbles Onto Secret= |
| |
|Monday morning he appeared sick and remained at home|
|from school. In the afternoon his mother became |
|worried when he failed to recover from drowsine