Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-11-29
EVENING EDITION.

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no sou know that people like, y6a
I and me can never understand peSp,s
L like him !? We're d pair OF hyper
critical E~loafers you and L, while. he
quietly goes and does things" S
She nodded ands smiled and was
very busy about. purchasing bofic
add. He stared after her, and slipped
when, she found that he was gone
she was slightly lisconce tied. t,s
@ VI.
Kennicott that the neutrality-suspicious..
sets familiarity Of married life was
not. dreary vulgarity but a wholesome
frankness; that artificial ~Eeticences
might merely be irritating She, was
not much. disturbed when for hours
he sat about the living-room IN his
honest socks. But h would
listen to his theory that '.ail this ro-
nance stun is simply moonshine-
elegant when you're courdng, but. no
use busting yourself keeping it up aIks
your life.'' Y III
She thought OF surprises, games, to
VARY the days. She knitted an az;
under his supper plate. when he
discovered it he looked embarrassed,
I and gasped, us today an anniversary
or something? Gosh, I'd forgotten
it!") i
cookies just baked by Bea, n bust
led to his Office at three in the after
noon. She hid her bundles in, thSfs'
hall and peeped in.
The office was shabby. kennicott
had inherited it from. a medical pre-
decessor. and changed it only by add
ing a white enamelcd, operating table,
I, otor;li1or a R0entGen.raV ar,poro
tus, and a small portable typewriter.
1t was a suite of two rooms: a waiting
room with straight chairs, shaky"pine
table, and those coverless and sun
known magazines which are found
on'y in the offices Of dentists and doc
tors. The room beyond, looking on
Main Street, was business-office. cons
sulting-room. opera.lng-roon1, and, in
an alcove, meteorological and chemi-
cal laboratory. The wooden floors of
both rooms were bare; the furniture
was brown and scaly.
Waiting for the doctor were two
women, as still as though they were
paralyzed. and a man in a railroad
brakeman's uniform, holding his
bandaged right land with his tanned
left. They stared at Carol She sat
modestly in a stiff chair, feeling friv-
olous and out of place.
Kennicott appeared at the inner
uOOI, uSIlC lIl6 VI H. llIdl
] with a trickle of wan beard, and con-
soling him, All right, Dad. Be care
full about the sugar, and rnind the diet
gave you. Get the, prescription
filled, and come in and see HE next
week. Say, uh, better, uh, better not
drink too much beer. All right.
. Dad"
His voice was artificially hearty.
He looked absently at Carol. He was
a. medical machine, now, not a, domes-
tic machine. What is 1t, Carried,
; he droned. .
NO hurry. Just wanted t o say
hell ;,;
Self-pity because he did not. divine
e that this was a surprise party render.
e ed her sad and interesting to herself,
n and she had the pleasure of the mar.
l. tyrs in saying brave'y to him IT'S
c nothing special. If. you're busy long
It T. trot honle."
nj While she waited she ceased to pity
e and began to mock herself. For the
a first time she observed the waiting
d room. oh yes. tho doctors family
k had to have obi panels and a wiia
n couch and an electric percolator. but
r. n hole was good enough for sick.
- tired common people who iwere MOTH
ing but the one means and excuse for
d the doctors existing!! No. She couldn't
. blame Kennicott: He wasosatisfied
y by the shabby chairs. He put up, with
/ them as his patients lid. IT vas her
e neglected province-she who had
g been going about talking Of rebuild
d ing the whole town:
When the patients were gones she
brought in, her bundles.
What's those 2" wondered Kenni-
colt.
Turn your back! Look out Of the
Eindow!"
:, He obeyed-not very much bored.
, When she cried "Now!" a feast OF
p cookies and small hard candies and
hot coffee was spread on the roll-top
.o desk in the inner r oom.
His broad face li%ghtencd. That's
% Il new one Of me! Never was more
surprised in my life! And, by gplly,
y ] believe l am hungry. Say, this il
:, fine ~, s. Z.
" When the first ex%l,ilaration off the
= surprise had declined she demanSled,
v within going to refurnish -Four
- waiting-room!"f' -
What's the matter with it? It's
- all right
1T is not! It's hideous. We car
afford to give your patients n bette.
w place. And it would be good bust
" ness She felt tremendously poll.
= tic.
Continued Tomorrow Evenine.