i can t do a better than either or eat my hat as she crept into bed she was dazzled by s blazing grin she but is than his son in law don t you think yes may be old fashioned and all that but he s got a certain amount of while goes into everything bull headed and his way through like i main street a damn and tries to argue his into having whatever he them as having i about the best thing can do is to stick to baby he s just about on a par with this bone female mrs mrs and mrs though � they re nice they ve been awfully cordial to me well no reason why they shouldn t be is there oh they re nice enough � though you can bet your bottom dollar they re both for their husbands all the time trying to get the business and i don t know as i call it so cordial in mrs when i at her on the street and she back like she had a sore neck still she s all right it s ma that makes the mischief around all the time but i wouldn t trust any out of the whole lot and while mrs seems square enough you don t never want to forget that she s s daughter you bet i what about dr don t you think he s worse than either or he s so cheap � drinking and playing pool and always smoking cigars in such a way that s all right is a good deal of a sport but he knows a lot about medicine and don t you forget it for one second she stared down s grin and asked more cheerfully is he honest too i m sleepy he beneath the in a luxurious stretch and came up like a shaking his head as he complained how s that who honest don t start me laughing � i m too nice and sleepy i didn t say he was honest i said he had enough to find the index in gray s which is more than can do but i didn t say anything about his being honest he isn t is crooked as a dog s hind leg he s done me more than one dirty trick he told mrs seventeen miles out that i wasn t up to date in fat lot of good it did him she came right in and told me and s la y he d let a patient choke rather than interrupt a game oh no i can t believe well now i m telling you main street does he play much dr told me that dr wanted him to play told you what where d you meet he s just come to town he and his wife were at mr s tonight say what d you think of them didn t strike you as pretty light why no he seemed intelligent i m sure he s much more wide awake than our well now the old man is a good he knows his business and i wouldn t up to the too close if i were you all right for and that s none of our business but we i think i d just give the the glad hand and pass em up but why he isn t a rival that s � all � right was awake now hell work right in with and matter of fact i suspect they were largely responsible for his here they ll be sending him and he ll send all that he can get hold of to them i don t trust anybody that s too much hand in glove with you give a shot at some fellow that s just bought a farm here and into town to get his teeth looked at and after gets through with him you ll see him around to and every time reached for her which hung on a chair by the bed she draped it about her shoulders and sat up studying her chin in her hands in the gray light from the small electric down the hall she could see that he was frowning will this is � i must get this straight some one said to me the other day that in towns like this even more than in cities all the doctors hate each other because of the money who said that it doesn t matter bet a hat it was your she s a woman but she d be a damn sight if she kept her mouth shut and didn t let so much of her brains out that way will o will that s horrible aside from the vulgarity some ways is my best friend even if i main street she had said it which as a matter of fact she didn t he reared up his thick shoulders in absurd pink and green he sat straight and snapped his fingers and growled well if she didn t say it let s forget her doesn t make any difference who said it anyway the point is that you believe it god to think you don t understand me any better than that money this is the first real quarrel we ve ever had she was he thrust out his long arm and snatched his from a chair he took out a cigar a match he tossed the on the floor he lighted the cigar and puffed savagely he broke up the match and snapped the fragments at the she suddenly saw the foot board of the bed as the of the grave of love the room was colored and ill � did not believe in opening the windows so wide that you heat all the stale air seemed never to change in the light from the hall they were two of with shoulders and 