The Press., 1922-10-26
The Doctor inds
 His Suit
By JANE OSBORN
@. 1922 by Mcclure Newspaper syndicate

wife. His sister, Priscilla, lived with him under protest. It was only be- cause she usually happened to select good servants that the doctor fared as we'll 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 1t would be a good idea if Priscilla would see to 1t 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, "I stopped at the Dobbinses last night. I had on my new gray suit. I 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 bounced 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. I shouldn't in the least won der if this tea party is being given for the express purpose of giving you a 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"
 '1 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 hut, following her husbands death three years before, she had led so secluded an existence that few peO- pie in Triton had thought of her as in any mood for marrying. Besides, she had two sons and a fortune-bOth of
 
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 Be sure to look your best" went on Priscilla, thinking of the gushing cousin from the South as & 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. It 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 I had asked my sister to have my man bring it over, so I thought maybe 1t was here"
 When Doctor Godfrey returned home his sister had already left the house for q 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, I do," said the maid Miss Priscilla and l looked the things over. Tie OvercOat and one of the suits we packed in cedar but a couple of the suits Miss Priscilla had me take to the new secondhand store"
 ''The secondhand stOre?" said Doc tor Godfrey in amaZement. T
 "DOn't get disturbed" assured the maid. "All the best people in Hilton are doing it. There is a new store just opened. It'sI 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 1t. Miss Priscilla said she'd been dying to sell some things there. All her friends were doing it 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 it must be awfully old, and if you weren't wearing it she might as well sell it.
 Doctor Godfrey did not wait for fur ther explanation. "Where's that storey he called and while the maid was still calling out directions he was making tracks for the front door.
 It seemed imperative 10 Doctor Godfrey now that he should wear the gray suit to Mrs. Blodgets tea party. He had been foolish enough to let his supply of clothes run down. With his winter suits discarded he had only 1 the shabby $Hit he had on and the new gray one. He could never make love to Mrs. BlOdget in the shabby suit and he had made up his mind that consideration for the departed Mr. bIndget could not possibly require that he keep the secret of his love any longer from the adorable widow.
 He made explanations in the mems nthing department of the new sec "nd-hand store. in very short order. ''Thr suit was inst sold said the salesman. "A lady came to buy some things for the poor and carried it off with her. Much as an hour ago. She said 1t was very decent for the price we asked"
 Dr. Godfrey Smith left the second hand store in some dejection. He def nitely wouldn't go to the tea party in the old suit. He couldn't buy a ready-made suit and wear that, be- cause ready-made suits did not fit him. He bOasted to himself that he did not have ready-made build.
 Thoroughly disgusted and feeling much out of patience with his sister, he made his way to the hospital. He had planned to take the rest of the nR4o..,oo-. Aaa L..A :. --..--na -...n-.