The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-08-03
Chapter r / LovELock AGAIN

" -. VXYHEN Georgie got home she went " straight to the kitchen to tell Mrs. Lovelock the result of her trip to London. But the kitchen was deserted, and dark save for the red glow of a well-banked-up fire. !. q wonder if any house in the world is as lonely as ours? Georgie sighed as she turned away and went up to her I. om.
 She felt depressed; 1t seemed SC useless having adventures if there was nobody to whom one could re late them; she threw her hat down on the bed, and at the same moment she heard her name called by Mrs Lovelock from across the landing.
 Something was the matter! The girls heart missed beat as she ran to obey that call which had sounded somehow weak and pathetic.
 "I thought you must be out. Georgie said breathlessly. and then "Oh. are you ill?"
 Mrs. Lovelock lay flat on her back still wearing the faded cotton frock of the early morning, and her face was drawn and pinched with pain.
 "It's here." she gasped. her hand on her side.
 "I'll get some brandy" Georgie said. She flew down the stairs and brought a tumbler from the kitchen She raced up the stairs again, spill Ing the brandy as she went. Ther she slipped al arm beneath Mrs Lovelock's head and made her swal low few drops
 How long have you had the pain?" she asked.
 A wry .mile crossed the white face.
 How long? Before you went away"
 Have you been alone all after noon" Georgie asked.
 ''Yes. Who dyou think would be here?"
 She move, restlessly as if in acute pain.
 "I'll get the doctor" Georgie said
 Mrs. Lovelock's thin lips moye8 ir protest.
 What's the good of doctor?" she asked.
 What's the good o. having a pain when it might be cured" Georgie answered practically.
 She went out into the road hatless land ran the short distance to the house of Ire village doctor. But he doctor was out and Georgie's heart fell. #
 "Rlt l want him." she said, as i that remark helped matters: Mrs Lovelock is Fl. and l want him a ,onae."
 "The doctor is not at home" wa. tall the satisfaction she received, ant linen seeing the distress in the girl'i teyes, Maybe you'd catch him at tht Boar's Head" x
 "Oh. thank you" Georgie fled or iagain. and gave little sigh of thank fulness when she saw that his cal was still drawn up at the Inn door
 The doctor was in Mrs. Spear sitting-room; Georgie could hear hil voice mingled with the landfady'l loud. cheery laugh.
 She burs. iE upon them uncere moniously.
 .MRs. LovELoCKs ill.," she an 1yA nounced.
 The doctor, who possessed tn, somewhat unfortunate name Q Dudd, turned round quickly. E. He knew Georgie we'll, and wa .one of the very few people in thu neighborhood who understood tn, dreariness of her life and pitied her
 "Ill come at once" he said.
 As she went out she cast quicl look towards the staircase thai twisted away in spiral fashion to ths room above where she knew Nicho las must be. Two people i'll in ont day! Mrs. Lovelock always said tha' things happened in threes. She won dered who the next victim would be
 "She seems very ill.," she said "She's got bad pain"
 Indigestion I expect" Dr. Dudi said absently; he seldom had any aA.ng more serious to diagnose fol people like Mrs. Lovelock. Doctors were not very sympa thetic she thought, or perhaps they were so fed up with other peoples pains that they no longer cared. She rather liked pr. Dndd; he had .t~Aol- nf ~rh,fo hair ovap hfa favo