The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-11-07

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stctr5eal case taken longer than hs
had expected Had he been called
somewhere tlsef Was the SNOW
much heavier out In tho country
so that he should have taken n bug
Ky. or even 4 cutter. instead Of tn,
carr Here IN town II had melted a
lot. but still
A honklng. = shout. tho motor en-
CINE raced before II was shut OFF.
She hurried TO the window. The
car was moqatcr at rest after furi
GUS adventures. The headlights
biaxed on the cis,s Of Ice IN the road
30 that the uniest Jumps gave noun
famous shadows. and the taililgh'
cast circle OF ruby on the snow
behind. Kennicott Was opening the
door. crying. Here we are. old girl
Got stuck couple times. but we made
Il. by goity. We made II. and here
We bel Come on, Food Eatin's,'
She rushed 20 him. pattsd his fur
coat. the long hairs smooth but chill
iy to her fingers She joyousiy sum
moncd BeA. IAN right He's here
Wen sit right DOWN.
Nv
Tnere werA 10 inform the doctors
wife Of his successes. no ciapping
audiences nor book.revfews nor hon
orary degrees But there was . let
ter written BY . German farmer re.
Gently moved from Minnesota &c
Saskatchewan:
Dear sor. ~ you hal bin trsadins
me for . fue wcaks dis somer and
seen wat In rong wit nee 30 IN Re
garding 10 dat wont 20 tank you.
the Doctor heir say wat shot bee
rong wit NEE and day give mo som
Msdsin but II often haip NEE like
wat you dit Now day CLAIM dat |
wotcn Meet aney Madsin ad an wat
you s.nks
Wei 7 haven been lacking anry
ting for about on. az Mont but ]
don't get better 10 like TO heir Wa,
you tink about II feel like dis DIS.
confebii feeling around the stomac
after eating and dat Pain around
Heard and down the arm and about
: TO \ Hour after Eating feel
wceak like and dissy and a dull
Hadig. Now you gust lett NEE know
Wat You unk about NEE. do Wat
you say.
she encountered Guy Pollock At
the drug store. He looked at her
az tho he had = right to: he spoke
softly. 7 haven't see you. the last
few days
mo. rye been out m the coun.
try with WIN several times. He's
So TO you know that people like
you and me can never understand
people Ike him, We're a pair Of
hypcrcriticai ioafers. you and 7.
while he quietly goes and does
things.-
She nodded ara smiled and WINS
very busy about purchasing boric
acid. He stared after her. and
slipped away.
When she found shat he was gone
she was slightly disconnected
VI
she could--at umes--agree with
Kennicoft that the shaving and cor.
sets familiarity OF married life was
not dreary vuignrity but whole
some frankness: that artificial rcti.
cences might merely be Irritating.
She was not much disturbed when
for hours he sat about the living.
room In his hon1t socks. But she
would not listen TO his theory that
"ail this romance stuff is simply
moonshine - elegant when you're
counting. but no use busting yourself
keeping II up all your life"
She thought OF surprises. games.
20 vnry the Sdays. sfse knitted an
astounding purple scarf. which she
hid under his supper plato. Whcn
he discovered II he looked embar.
missed. and gasped. as today an
anniversary or something7 Gosh.
ia forgotten itT0
Once she filled q thermos bottle
with hot coffee. corn flakes box
with cookies just baked by Bca, and
hustled 70 his office at three In the
afternoon. She hid her bundles In
the han and peepod In.
The office was shabby. Kenni.
colt had inherited II from a medical
predecessor, and changed II only by
adding n white enameled operating
table. a sterilizcr. a Roentgen.ray
apparatus. and q small portable
typewriter. II was n suite OF two
rooms: a waiting-room with straight
chairs, shaIy pine table. and those
coverIess and unknown magazines
which are found only IN the offices
of dentists and doctors. The room
beyond. looking on Main Street. was
business-officc. consultlngroom, or
erating room. and. IN an a1covc, bac-
THEOLOGICAL and chemical laboratory.
The wooden floors Of both rooms
were bare: the furniture was brown
and scaly.
Waiting for the doctor were two
women. as stiIl as tho they were
paraiyzed, and n man IN a railroad
brakcman's uniform. holding his
bandared right hand with his tanned
left. They stared Mt Carol. She sat
rnodestiy in stiff chair. feeling
frivolous and out of place.
Kennicott appeared at the inner
dosr. ust ping r-v>>a bleached man