Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1932-05-05

touched IL: and her headache had
positively disappeared! The fun tide
Of life swept up in her veins and
flooded into her triumphant heart.
How right she had been not to be
put out OF her stride by Eddie's mis-
hap Her marriage and her job-she
would have both. she would fight
io5 both until she dropped
Ihere was a sound at the outer
door and the bell rang
she was still humming as she went
to open il. Probably II was the sup
e~rinten0ent. Gill. n hoped IL was,
she had decided 20 take him into her
confidence. She would have to make
discretion worth his while. OF course,
nut II would pay IN h end.
she opened the door ana faced a
man whom she did not Immediately
recognize. Then be- spoke and she re-
membered. He was the doctor who
had given first aid TO Edule and ac-
companied him and Jenny to the hos
pital.
Mrs. Townsend" he asked.
Georgia caught her breath and a
dozen evasions went whirling thru
her brain. But she voiced none OF
them-yet. She stood aside and gest-
ured him into the sitting-room. She
teit quite cool. quite steady. Find out
what he wants, whispered part of her
BRAIN. and then handle him boldly.
so old Grafton Matching had taught
her 10 handle men.
She took a LONG lo0k at him while
she gave him a chair ana offered a
cocktail. Vaguely she did o like
his face. When he smiled it was at
tractive but in response there was
something mean o IL; the eyes
We're too closely sci. the lips too thin.
You asked for Mrs. Townsend,
Az a.
she remarked pleasantly. Il hope IL
was Eddie himself who told you hat
there was such a person. Because
that would mean that he's we'll en-
ough to sit up and brag about having
got married,,"
The doctor echoed her laugh but
she noticed and resented the way his
glance o stock of her.
mo, to be quite honest, Townsend
hasn't given any information. But,
you see, it's all over town that he
had only Just got married when he
hit that bus and that his newly
welded wife was sitting in the back.
And tonight's Record gave some de-
tails-your name and so on
George laughed. 1t was a quite
spontaneous laugh. in a sense, be-
cause there rcally was something
iaughable in the way fate was strik-
ing the song OF triumph from her
lips. Then she realized that none
could be sure which of the two girls
in the car had been the bride. Ana
so long as people weren't sure
Il suppose someone from the City
Hall g~ossiped,' She said and was
proud of the Indifference in her voice.
probably. But what | really came
about, Mrs. Townsend. was to have
a chat about your husband. About
his health. I'm afraid he's going to
be a bit of an invalid for a while
Georgia lit a cigarette. She leaned
rather heavily against the back of a
chair-the deep leather chair hat she
had bought for Eddie. She watched
spiral of smoke as il curled up to
the ceiling.
Please go on. she requested.
What is the matter with poor old
Eddie, beyond his cuts ana bruises
"A good deal. First Of all, accord
ing to Dalling-the hospital doctor
,Townsends nerves are in a pretty
bad way"
How d'you mean-nerves? I've
thot he had any"
That's a mistake commonly made
men of Townsend's temporal
ment. They themselves will tell you
h a they've no nerves, when what
they really mean is that they've no
So long as they're all
right, they always win be all right.
they think. They feel sure of them
Once they've crashed, their
whole nervous system is affected
But Eddie never has crashed
He crashed this morning. In that
George sat down on the arm of the
leather chair. A very slippery chair;
I required an effort not to sink right
into it.
AS soon as he'G recovered con-
seriousness and had been patched up a
he said he must get back to his
Wifes apartment. The nurses couldn't
keep him against his will, of course.
SO they got a taxi and put him into
Z. He-well, to get to the bare bones
IF it, Mrs. Townsend, his nerve has
completely gone. Only temporarily,
ion't doubt, but just for a bit he'll
AVE to have a holiday from flying
"What-what happened"