New Britain herald., 1922-07-29
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 From somewhere l summoned ths poise to bid Dr Petit a calm gooe morning, and in another minute there was good mile between his tense But we traveled another mile before the man at my side spoke l guessed that the encounter had touched him more nearly than he wished me tc know, and that he was battling to re- cover his usual insouciant demeanor
 Pleasant lad, Herhie," he drawled at last. Something about him taking to the eye, 90 endearing, don't you know. Is he still writing sonnets to your eyebrows and emitting furnace like sighs when you are around?"
 T was not aware that he ever-' I began frigidly when Mir. Under wood cut short my protest with an incredulous laugh, just triAe too loud and too eare-free to be wholly convincing as to it's genuineness.
 This Breaks the Record"
 Don't try to draw any wool over your Uncle Dudley's eyes" he said, for he wasn't born yesterday or even the day before. I can remember only too well when the poor old sawbones had any moon-struck calf of twenty backed off the boards. Many's the time I've retrained from kicking him only because I did so hate to distur b . good toepolish And so he's sti.l pursuing you Now if he were only a villain like. me ', It's all according to Hoye to have villain pursue you, but when it comes to having pie faced--'
 Do stop talking such utter non- sense .' I exclaimed. 'Dr Petit is madly in love with an attractive young western girl named Claire Foster. They were engaged, I think, but something do not know what, hap pened."
 Probably Claire came out from the ether" MT Underwood interjected.
 But I paid no attention, and fn- ished my sentence-"and he has been very down hearted ever since"
 Well I though my opinion of him was as low as my mental ther- mometer could possibly register" he rejoined. but this simply breaks the record He breathed the same air that you did, and then-he fell in love with western girl .'
 I had hard work to keep back a laugh, and then I contemptuously forced something else back also-an undeniable thrill of vanity at some thing in his voice beneath the extrava- gance.
 An Attempt At Flattery
 we are coming into Bridgehamp- ton," I said hurriedly "One of my errands is com pleted, thanks to our meeting Dr. Petit But l have three others. Mir smythe- Hopkins wishes a garage mechanic sent back to his car, his butler notified to send another car down to the farm for the family and a telegram dispatched to Dr. '. at this address
 I took my right hand from the wheel and extracted from the pocket of my motor coat the scribhled paper MT. Smythe- Hopkins had given me, This I held out to Mr. Underwood. When he took it he enfolded my hand also in his, as ii by accident, and laughed shortly as I hurriedly re- moved it.
 I'm still bad medicine, I see" he said with a note of bitterness.
 T do not remember that I permit ted you to hold my hand when you were good medicine" I replied spirit edly.
 Sure you never wanted me to-" he asked teasingly. and I saw that he was in one of his old reckless moods But it changed on the moment, much to my relief.
 Sorry, he said contritely. T won't tease any more. Now about these messa ges. We pass a garage in the next block which will do as we'll as any other, and I hope they sock it good to the Smythe- Hopkins pocket book AS for the other messa ges- they can wait until we get to the house I'll have the butler get Dr. Y. on the telephone, that will be quicker than a telegram, and he can also send the car out. So we'll save time all around. Here's the gara ge. You'd better talk to the man I don't want to use this accent any more than have to. It twists my tongue all out of shape"
 We drew up at the garage, and gave the owner directions for finding