Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-11-26
I don,t .do much hack-hitine b,

I don't do much ba%ck-biting, but
same time I'll tell you, Carrie:
I've never got over being sore at
Westlake for the way he treated Mrs.
Jonderquist. Nothing The matter
with her, what she really needed was
her and calling on her for weeks
almost every day, and he sent her a,
good big fat bill, too, you can bet!
l did forgive him for that. Nice
decent hard-working people like the
Jonderquists!"
In her batiste nightgown she was
standing at the bureau engaged in the
invariable rites of wishing that she
had a real dressing-table with a triple
mirror, of bending toward the streaky
glass and raising her chin to inspect
a pin-head mole o. her throat, and
finally of. brushing her hair. In
| rhythm to the strokes She went IN:
, but, VIII, there isn't any OF what
YOU might call financial rivalry be-
tween o and the partners-West-
lake and McGanum-ts there ?"
He Tipped into bed with 4 solemn
back-somersault n a ludicrous kick
Of his heels as he tucked his legs un-
der the blankets. He snorted. Lord
no! begrudge any man a,
nickel he can get away from me-
fairly,
But is westlake fair? Isn't he
sly is the word He's a. fox. thai:
She saw Guy Pollock's grin in the
mirror. She flushed.
Kennicott, with his arms behind his
head. was yawning:
"Yump. He's smooth, too smooth.
But l bet I make pretty near as much
as Westlake and McGanum both to-
gether, Though I've never wanted to
grab more than my just share. If
anybody ant to go to the partners
instead of to me, that's his bust
ness. Though l must say it makes
me tired when Westlake gets hold Of
the Dawsons. Here Luke Dawson
had been Coming to me for verytoe
ache and headache and lot of little
things that just wasted my time, and
! then when his grandchild was here
plant, I suppose, or something like
that, probably-you know, the time
you and. / drove up to Lac-qui-Meurt
why, Wsstlake got hold of Ma Daw-
son. and stared here5ato death, and
made her think tho kid lac appended
tbs. and. by golly, If he and Mccain
UNI didn't operate. and holler their
heads of about the terrible adhesions
they found, and what a regular Char
ley and Will Mayo they were for
classy surgery. They let ON that If
they'd waited two hours more the
&c would have developed peritonitis.
and God knoNs what all; and then
they collected 4 nice fat hundred and
fifty dollars. And probably they'd
hadn't been afraid Of met! I'm no
hog, but I certainly do hate Is give
old Luke ten dollars worth of advice
for q dollar and q half, and then zee
a hundred and fifty go glimmerng.
And If I can't do q better pendectomy
than either Westlake or McGanun,
Ill eat my haiti"
AS she erept into bed she was dag
zled by Guys blazing grin. she
experimental:
But Westiake Is cleverer than his
son-in.law, don't you Think,
Yes. Westlakeg may be old fash
Toned and all that, but he's got a GER
tain amount OF intuition. while Nc
oAnum goes into everything buli-
headed. and butts his way throaish
que his patients into having, whateyer
he diagnoses them az having! About
the best thing Mac can do is to stick
to baby-snatching. He's Just about
on a par with this Corresponding
ch~iropractor female, Mrs. Matte
MIS. WeStlake ana MIS-. McGan
UNI, though-they're nice. They've
been awfully cordial to me"
Well, no reason why they
shouldn't be. IL there? Oh, they're
nice enough-though you a bet
your bottom dollar they're both
plugging for their husbendS III the
time, trying to get the ~business.sAnd
don't know % I cnll It 40 damn COR
dial In Mrs. McGanum when / h0fier
at her on the street and she mods back
like she had "a sore neck. SIN. shs,a
all right. It's NA Westlake thns
makes the mischief, pussyfooting
around all the time. But / wouldn't
ytrust any Westlake out or the whole
lot, and while Mrs. McCianum seems
square enough, you don't never want
70 forxet that she's westlake's daugh-
ter. You bet!sa
What aboutsD r ciouid7 Don't you
4 think he's Wprse than either west
dake or McCfknrm7 He's 80 cheap--
drinking, ard playing pool.., and ali
ways smoking cigars In snch 4 cocky,
4 Way
That's all right now. Terry dould
is a good deal OF a. finhorn snort. bifts
he knows a lot about meAicins and