The Glenwood post., 1922-07-20
The Doctor Finds
His Suit
BY JANE OSBORN
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g. 1922. by Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate.
DR.. Godfrey Smith, commonly and
affectionately known in Tilton as Doc
tor Godfrey, was counted among the
men in that town who really needed
wife. His sister, Priscilla, lived with
him under protest. 1t was only be-
cause she usually happened to select
good servants that the doctor Jared as
well as he did.
She was always showing signs of
carelessness and heedlessness of his
requests. For Instance one morning
at breakfast he spoke of the fact that
as spring was well spent and summer
was coming it would be good idea if
Priscilla would see to it that Myra,
the second maid, would brush his win
ter overcoat and suit and put them
away in the cedar chest.
"They are hanging in my large
closet" he said to Priscilla, who was
deep In the morning paper "And by
the way" he added, 81 stopped at the
Dobbinses last night. l had on my
new gray suit. think the Dobbinses
have scarlet fever. So hung it on the
balcony Off my room. Get james to
take 1t to the hospital to be fumigated
when he's finished cutting the lawn"
That night Priscilla pounced upon
her brother when he came in the liv-
ing room from the wing of the house
where he had his Office. "We've had
cards to the Blodgets for tea tomor-
row afternoon" she said. "You know
that very charming Hilda. their cousin
from the South. is to be here. You re-
member how you admired her last
autumn. l shouldn't in the least Won
der If this tea party is being given for
the express purpose of giving you
chance to meet Hilda again. You were
very foolish not TO have rushed her
harder when she was here before. It's
so seldom you see a girl that in any
way appeals to you"
II can't say that she especially ap-
pealed to me-" said Doctor Godfrey.
He did not say, as he might had he
been in the mood for confessions, that
the only woman who did appeal to
him was young Mrs. Blodget herself.
She was no older than Doctor God
frey but, following her husbands
death three years before, she had led
SO secluded an existence that few peo-
pie in Tilton had thought of her as in
any mood for marrying. Besides, she
had two sons and a fortune-both of
which might have stood in the way
of Doctor Godfrey if he had not been
so devoted an admirer.
"Be sure to look your best" went
on Priscilla, thinking of the gushing
cousin from the South as a possible
sister-in-law, while Doctor Godfrey
thought only of Mrs. Blodget, reserved
and tantalizing.
Doctor Godfrey was sufficiently
eager to follow out his sisters injunc-
tions to look his best to go to the hos
pital early the next afternoon to get
the gray suit. 1t had disappeared
from the clothes bars on the veranda
of his bedroom, so he assumed that it
was at the hospital. But no one In the
hospital had heard of it. "Well, it
doesn't matter" smiled Doctor God
frey, because the Dobbins children
didn't have scarlet fever after all. But
had asked my sister to have my man
bring it over, so l thought maybe 1t
was here"
When Doctor Godfrey returned
home his sister had already left the
house for round of calls to be paid
before she arrived at the Blodget tea
party.
"Do you know anything about that
suit?" Doctor Godfrey asked the maid
with his usual patience.
Indeed, l do" said the maid. Miss
Priscilla and | looked the things over
The OvercOat and one of the suits we
packed in cedar. but couple of the
suits Miss Priscilla had me take to
the new secondhand store"
THE secondhand store?' said Doc
tor Godfrey in amazement.
Don't get disturbed" assured the
maid. "All the best people In Tilton
are doing it. There is n new store
just opened. It's a secondhand de-
partment store-shoes, suits. books,
furniture, pans, everything The rich
sell their things to make a few dol
lars now and then. and the poor folks
profit by it. Miss Priscilla said she'd
been dying to sell some things there.
All her friends were doing II as a
lark So she sold that old black suit
and the gray"
'"The gray suit out on the bars?"
The maid nodded. "She said you
said something about putting that
away In the cedar chest, but as she
didn't remember the suit, she sup
posed 1t must be awfully old, and If
you weren't wearing 1t she might as
well sell it."
Doctor Godfrey did not wait for fur
ther explanation. where's that
store?" he called, and while the maid
was still calling out directions he was
making tracks for the front door.
1t seemed imperative to Doctor
Godfrey now that he should wear the
gray suit to Mrs. Blodget's tea party.
lie I'd been foolish enough to let his
supply Of clothes run down. With his
winter suits discarded he had only