The Glenwood post., 1923-11-08

the courts, but he came home and told
his wife about it.
He wrote briefs as lmpassioned and
as full of imagination as any see
mario and then acted his own conti-
nuities with fiery enthusiasm. His
cases often took him to distant cities
and it was not always convenient for
Peachblow to go with him.
There was such strain upon her
natural jealousy that she had to con-
suit a physician, Dr. S. Q. Lapius,
who had charming bedside manner
and soothed her by suggestion rather
than by knife or nostrum.
After one notorious lawsuit In
which Elphinstone wore himself al
most to a wreck by his defense of
wayward lady who had bankrupted
her husband and then sued him for
alienation of her affections, Elphin-
stone came home to find his mother
and father-in-law and the physician
trying to restrain Peachblow's hys-
terics. When Elphinstone approached
her solicitously she covered into the
bosom of the doctor and screamed:
go away; you are no longer hus-
band of mine; in fact, you never
were"
Elphinstone was seized as by invis-
ible hands and hailed backward to
his own office where he awoke with a
splitting headache and strange gap
in his memory.
Peachblow, once more miraculously
restored to maidenhood, said:
after all. a doctor is the worlds
most useful citizen. I believe l should
enjoy being a wife to one"
"'Barkis is willin'," said the physi-
clan, who was unusually well read for
doctor. He persuaded another physi-
clan to take care of his patients and
went away on a bridal tour of all
imaginable bliss,
When he came back Doctor Lapius
found that his overworked substitute
had let his patients get well, and he
had to buckle down to the task of
restoring them to state of profitable
disorder.
He had his office In the parlor of
the home and this made it necessary
for Mrs. Peachblow Lapius to enter
tain her friends in the upstairs living
room.
The acoustics were such that she
could hear what went on in the
office. The halest and heartiest
women constantly entered the parlor
in state of acute distress and after
long murmurous consultations went
away so much better that Peachblow
| grew frantic with suspicion. She re-
membered all too vividly how gentle
and soothing her husband had been
with her when she was another mans
wife. And she wondered till her Won
| derment grew to be bitter convic-
| ton.
Worse yet, he was the slave of the
telephone. AT no hour of the day or
night was he safe from the hateful
summons to hurry to the rescue of
some distressful patient. In nine cases
out of ten it was n woman, and in no
cases out of ten was Peachblow ever
urged to come along.
She so lost her taste for material
medicaments that she longed for spir-
itual help, and went to her rector,
dear DIR. Clarence Yost, to confess her
misery.
She was set upon divorce, but he
was Mortified at the thought.
"Now an annulment would not he
so bad" he urged.
"All right, it's annulled," said
Peachblow grimly.
And Doctor Laplus found himself
back in bachelorhood. But Peachblow
had come to depend upon Doctor YOst.
He lived in such an exalted sphere
and such comfortable parsonage
that she decided to share both with
him.
To her intense confusion Peach
blow discovered that the feminine por-
ton of the congregation took her mar
riage to their dear rector as per-
sonal invasion of their rights.
For time the attendance fell off
notlceably. But gradually the lonely
women returned to their pews. Next
they resumed their habits of bringing
their woes to their spiritual adviser.
These were genuine woes beyond
the reach of scalpel or tonic but
Peachblow could not regard them MS
anything but hypocritlcal excuse for
weeping on her husbands shoulder
and clinging to his rescung hands.
Whether or not she did the women
cruel injustice, the effect on her
nerves was manifest. At last in a
crisis of unhappiness, she stormed:
'Pm sick of all the professions. I'm
going into trade"
She unwished herself from Doctor
Yost and he once more assumed all
the charms of an unwedded clergy.
man, eligible and available.
A merchant was Peachblows next
first husband; handsome Junior mem
ber of the firm Of Wanafield & Son, al
| whose preof dano rtmapt ctora cba bof r