The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-09
THE EVENING STORY
In the. Danger Zone.
lBy Louise Oiney.)


When the afternoon office hours
We're over, DR.. Henry Forester went
INTO MS private room and began to |
pack what medical books and instru- |
menus ne would need. He wiped the
persp1ration from his face and sighed, |
not so much by reason of the August
neat, which he did not particularly
mind, as because he did not wish to
take his vacation until a full month
later. IN his heart he was politely an
aInemalizlng all women, when Sadie
Wetherby walked in on him, cool,
iinen-clad, with the rosy assured air
OF the happy young matron.
The sight of his sister was an Of
tense to the young man just at that
time, but he brought her a fan and a
chair and continued with his work,
wishing he had remembered to lock
the outer door.
What on earth are you up to.
Harry" Sadie indicated his half
filled grips with a white-gloved gest-
ure. He concluded to be frank
Il am packing to leave at tonight
for Keystone, where / shall stay for
months vacation and study at Pc
to my practice. I hope I make my
self clear, Sadie?''
you don't-you know perfectly
well there is my dinner for Florence
Myeriy and my house party begin
ming next week! And you know it's
next to impossible to get desirable men
in this dead place at this season she
walled. "You said your vacation
wouldn't come until September" She
used the injured voice which usually
brought him to terms.
Now look here, Sadie, I am going
| to tell you the straight of it. I am
twenty-seven years old, and you are
year and a half older-you can't deny
take advantage of your years and mar
ried estate to boss me unmitigatedly!
And you are the worst matchmaker l
ever saw! I am fairly good looking
admit it-have a decent bunch OF
money, and am just starting success
fully in my profession which is my
main. in fact my only, real interest, in
| life just now. I am doing some re-
| search work that I intend to pursue
| till it lands me among the big names.
won't be lured or driven into chasing
any faxen-topped bundle of ruffies
about whole month. even for you!
Just get it out of your head that 1
am eligible for the girls you want to
marry off: and you will save yourself
| "How vulgar of you, Henry Forest
er-as if I were a common match
maker! I'm sure 1 never in my
| He interrupted her. 81 beg your
pardon! So sorry the truth is vulgar
and I change the wording of my
statement You are the best, not the
worst, the most uncommonly success
! full matchmaker I ever came across!
watched you steer poor old jackson,
hate to say how many other good men,
into matrinomy before their times!
And most of 'em did not know their
heads were off till they sneezed-
when it was too late. Now am slmp-
ly taking myself out of the danger
zone. When you have bundled your
pretty dolly back to her home, or
| found somebody else to marry her, III
| come back to my business-nol pc
fore" He snapped the last case shut
and reached for his coat AS sadie
did not, for a wonder, reply TO his
TRADE. he continued: - 30 :.
| ST don't intend to marry for at
least five years. if at all, and when 1
do you can bank on this-l snail
choose a girl with some sense and
some heart, who will be a help to me,
not a pretty nothing that has run all
to yellow curls and helpless airs ana
graces. Your Miss Florence Myerly
gets on my nerves-this past TWO
spend my life picking up lace hand.
kerchiefs and soothing overwrought
nerves-a doctor gets enough OF that
away from home"
"Poor boy" his sister laughed out
ing? was his little temper ruffied by
the heat? Well-so he should take
his vacation and get out of the dam
| ger zone'-poOr mistaken BOY! she
| rose and began preening her plumage
as women do before starting out on
| the street.
| "Come on home to dinner. Harry;
you'll have time to catch your train
after that, all right. and I have no
one to take your place. And let me
tell you that for once you are all
A inf
you are so impressed by Florence,
dear girl, that you are afraid of her.
I suppose you had really better go for
your own peace!"
the girl, tell you, but you that I am
escaping. I am not cad enough nor
conceited enough to think every
woman that's civil is smittea with my
charms-but I do know you'll He
paused for breath as he closed the
| windows preparatory to leaving with
her She swathed her big hat with
an alluring veil and went with her
brother down the stairs to the street,
where she took the wheel of her little
runabout. AS they got down at the
door of her pretty country house she
detained him a moment.
Harry, I really have no business to
| tell you, but to prove my Innocence 1
chiId's secret. She has not said SO di-
rectly, but I am sure she came to me
because she was beginning to care too
much for a man at home. I believe
you know him-Dr. Turner. 1t seems
| he does not care for her especially,
| though he showed signs of interest. I
suppose I will have to manage to get
| him down here now you are going,
though wish she cared for some one
| q bit more human than that machine
of biologist" She hurried away and
| left him staring and indignant.
He went upstairs. and as he bathed
and dressed he thought it over. Tur-
ner, one of the first men in the pro-
fession doing original work that no.
body else had touched-bound for big
| things, If left to himselfi His blood
boiled with protective zeal for his
| friend. Let a pack of continuing
women divert a mind like that from
| its goal? AS he finished very per-
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