Evening star., 1915-02-15

and Barbara thought she had never
looked into pair of blue eyes that were
quite SO pleasantly good-looking-
On the way he drove slowly that he
| before the red-roofed house Of her moth
er at the edge of Traffordsville was
reached-to Barbara strangely happy
half hour. Franklin had told her that
until spring and had asked her if he
might not sometines take her out riding.
When l am not too busy" she had
said. When hS finds out I'm doc
tor she said TO herself, ruefully. he
won't come He looks the old d-fashioned
kind that doesn't like woman Doctors
Franklin had not been in the town a
week before his reputed wealth had set
agog. Mrs. Naomi Leece. at Frankln's S
hotel. was profoundly impressed. Hes
only forty-five or So, she told her
daughter. "and think of the money.
Caltha,"
The evening of the day that Robert
Fra nklin had taken Barbara home in his
car he sat talking to Caltha-pretty,
blonde and mercenary.
Il met A Miss Field today" he re-
marked "A delightful young lady, is she
not
Miss F'ieid?'' Calths looked puzzled
oh, YOU mean DIR. Barbara
n doctor-a woman doctor exclaimed
Franklin, blankly. she doesn't look it.
Has she large Practice
II suppose so She drives all day
and often at niGht-Soes alone any
shrugged her pretty shoulders. encour-
I aged by his shocked face. She's going
! to get auto soon and run il herself,
| she says
Far into the night Fra nklin sat think
| ing. ~ doctor-a woman doctor-and
| thought her a lovely little soul doing a
neishborly turn of sitting up with the
sick he said.
f. i,f.. ..IJ f..gl.f
/ but one suitable place for = woman
the homeland the woman who delib-
erately chose physician's hard life must
be unwonanly in her tastes and in
clination. And Miss Field had seemed
50 tender and gentle. so sirlishly sweet
| and modest. "Pshaw.'
| Almost daily after that Dr Barbara
met Franklin on the roads with Caltha
| I.eece. her pretty fair hair blowing from
underneath her pale blue auto hood, her
merry laugh ringing out.
Barbara Field. YOU were fool 10
| think he would think Of YOU again after
they told him. lie thinks you're mas
culine and Independent and coarse II
something would only happen to make
him see that you-that you-'' A
tear was on her check She stiffened
herself. barbara Field, I forbid you to
| give that man another thought she
muttered.
/ The winter passed. Despite Barbara's
struggles she could not force her
!
1 of Franklin the germs OF love she had
tried Ito crush revived Green and
strong.
You're workin' too hard. DR.. Bar
bry," Mrs. Fredonia Gillespie said tc
her. There's no use in anybory git
tin as thin and white as you air. A
goin' night and day. a runnin that aut'
mobile and tendin' TO it yourself.
| tell you. you're burnin' the candle a.
both ends"
Hello folks" cried Bentley HoI
brook. did YOU see that fellow Frank
lin goin' by by himself? Seems like he.
lost this last week since Caltha Leece'
been gone Guess he'll meet her at tn,
midnight train at Cressilus tonight
Queer how man OF his age. once h,
gets a marryin' notion, will take
helpless chit that never did do a thing
in her life but look pretty"
That evening near II DIR. Field, driv
ing her car in the direction OF he
her The machine passed her at break
neck speed. Then came the roads sud
deut turn and an accident Whei
| barbara. with her heart at stand
stun bcsought the wildly screauin;
girl who stood by the wrecked car I,
help lift the man lying partly under
she only wrung her hands.
oh. can't she moened. Its crue
afraid. ] might have been killed oh
Ict him alone and take me home"
| Franklin. bruised and his ribs brok
on. was yet conscious. lie Eroaned an,
the sweat came on his forehead a
Barbara tried desperately to extricat
him. while Caltha continued to be;
to be taken home.
Leave me" he implorcd. land TAX
that screaming thing to town. J cal
stand --it-untIl YOU send-help.'
| How Barbara ever managed TO shift
the heavy machine and lift Frankli,
to her own car only the stars coui,
tell "GeEan and help hold him-hc'