Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-05-06
c0RDEu|A'S CASE By DOROTHY DOUGLAS.

wish we could fix him up with wife as we'll as temporary practice. He !is getting registered today and can come down to act as my locum tenens for as long as we want to be away
 "Oh, isn't that fne!' his wife cried joyfully. She knew just how desper- ately her husband needed a few weeks change. He labored day and night among his many and widespread pa tients and he was tired. "Yes, I do wish Alex was married. Professional people command far greater respect when they are properly married" She smiled softly. "Whom could we fling across Doctor Nevins path-while he Is hereY
 "Cordelia Mayborn is the only girl round here-but she's always so con- foundedly healthy. She hasn't called in doctor for ten years. She's just the girl for Nevin.'
 Couldn't we put her up to calling him in while he's here. She could pre- tend fainting fits or melancholia. Eith- CT would serve to get them acquainted without any suspicion. She would do It just for lark, not knowing our req sons." Mrs. Fraser flushed excitedly and was ready to dash off at once to Cordelia and put the ruse before her.
 'Women are born matchmakers," Doctor Fraser laughed, like most hus- bands, putting the entire blame on his wife.
 Cordelia Mayborn jumped into the net as she jumped into anything that promised interest. She cast a swift, dry glance at her gloriously healthy color and fine, vigorous body, and won- aered just what complaint she could summon that would demand an imme- diate call from young Doctor Nevin. It did not for moment occur to her that Alice Fraser was planning matri- nominal byways for her.
 However, Doctor and Mrs. Fraser were soon safely away on their much needed holiday with the secret safely tucked between them.
 Cordelia had decided upon some
  thing that prevented her from putting her foot to the ground. She called up Doctor Nevin during the afternoon of his third day as Doctor Fraser's Locum tenens.
 When she peered cautiously through the curtains upon hearing the small motor panting at the curb, Cordelia was looking like nothing so much as glowing, fragrant, healthy rose when Doctor Nevin entered. She was propped up in most charming assort- ment of cushions.
 Doctor Nevin began questioning her. To say that he was puzzled by the pe- culiar malady with which she seemed afflicted was putting it mildly. He felt convinced that she was suffering from complaint unique in the world ,f medicine.
 Shall drop in again this evening?" he doctor asked. Her wistful smile ,f patient martyrdom answered him md he went away with her image strongly imprinted in his mind.
 His visit that evening was fraught with precautionary warnings. Cor leila had tried to stand up and move across the room, but had ended by hav- ng Doctor Nevin's arm flung swiftly about her. Cordelia had been so star led by the sensation that the touch of his arms caused her that she very nearly forgot her malady. As for the young doctor, he. helped her almost roughly back to her seat.
 Don't do that again." he command ed swiftly. Cordelia delighted at the fash in his eyes and the tightly closed jaw. Her malady was proving more exciting than she had anticipated. She xnew that a love affair had begun suddenly and unexpectedly. She hoped Doctor Nevin felt as she did.
 It was two days after this experi- ence that the doctor, calling upon the aext door neighbor of Cordelia, rubbed his eyes as if he were dreaming. Only the previous evening he had called pro- fessionally on Cordelia and she had been unable even to stand upon the af- aicted foot.
 Cordelia had the grace to blush and flashing about like mad thing in pur- suit of a great golden-winged butter dy.
 The doctor lost no time in advanc- Ing upon his patient.
 Cordelia, in her own garden, was blush gloriously when she looked up to see the doctor standing at the en- trance of the garden.
 "Oh, thought this was your day at the hospital!" She flashed swift smile at him. The game was up she know. She trembled inwardly, won- dering how he would accept her ac- ton.
 A slow smile dawned in his eyes, and he kept them steadily on Cor della.
 "I suppose you hate mel" she ques- ti0ned wistfully.
 "Not exactly" Doctor Nevin told her.