Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1935-01-10
II-Continued

For the next four years Lanny did
not see her boy, but he wrote her and
remembered tey at Christmas and on
her birthdays. He was an honor grad
uate from the Leland Stanford Junior
Medical school and was Immediately
given an Inrerneshlp at the University
hospital In San Francisco. Inasmuch
as Lanny frequently had patients AT
that hospital. they met several times o
year. Lanny kept her ear to the
ground. hardening to reports OF his
progress from worthwhile sources. and
learned that he was regarded as a
young doctor of distinct promise.
One day, after he had been two
years an inferno, they met In the cor
ridor. "Ive been wanting to see you.
Stevie." Lanny began without any pre-
liminary fencing. It's time for your
postgraduate curse In Europe"
Impossible, Lanny. My father has
had a frightful reversal Of fortune
He's done a fathers full duty by me
and I'm not going to graft off him and
perhaps sacrifice him In his old age
I'm self-supporting now and even say
Ing a little from my salary. In a few
years | shall be able to afford a modes,
office and go In for general practice"
you've followed my program thus
far and you'll continue until it's fin
ished." Lanny announced. I'll loan
you the money. The five thousand dol
lars your father gave me has grown to
se%venty-five hundred dollars-and I've
saved two thousand more. so I'm going
ia bank you. and you shall pay me six
per cent on the money you borrow, and
secure me by life insurance" She was
thoughtful for a few moments. "Well
perhaps three years abroad will benefit
you more than four years would an or
binary man. SO we'll cut the program
to three years. After all. you must
have some comforts; you've got to live
like a gentleman. You will resign here
today and I'll have the money for you
tomorrow"
"Oh, Lanny. you dear old sport,
can't do that"
.Thereupon Lanny struck him In q
vital spot. Her stern and lonely soul
was touched. Not often did she in
dulge herself In the weakness of tears.
but they flooded her eyes now and her
breast heaved.
He was always touched at the sight
of suffering; the vast underlying sym
patty In his nature would never have
1t otherwise. Abruptly she left him
She knew he would seek her out later
to protest at greater length, to avow
himself her eternal debtor for the
offer and again decline 1t.
He called up0n her at her lodgings
that highland Lanny won. II was a
hard battle, but when Lanny. so to
speak. lowered her head and went In to
win, usually she succeeded. :.
Well, she had her way. and when he
returned from Europe she had an office
ready for him. She would be forty
years old on her next birthday. and
after eighteen years of the drudgery of
private nursing she looked forward to
her position In Stephen Burt's office
with ~pleasurable anticipation.
She met him at the ferry depot, and
he took her to his heart and kissed
her five times-twice on each cheek
and once on the lips. well. old pal"
he said almost Immediately. I'm a
specialist Neurologist and psychi
artist. and you're to be my first pa
tient. | must go ove you thoroughly
and see what makes you act the way
you do"
Success was Stephens. Modest at
first, Of course. but Of rapid growth,
and Lanny knew why. His patients fell
In love with him and advertised him
to their friends.
In two years Stephen Burt had re-
paid Lanny with interest the third
year he moved into new, sunny. roomy
and beautifully furnished offices. with
a waiting room as large as all of his
previous offices had been. He Joined
the best club In town; he Joined a
country club. and resolutely Lanny
drove him out of the office on Wednes-
day and Saturday afternoons to play
golf. She denied him the privilege of
naming his own fees because she knew
they would be too modest she kept
his free list to a minimum; knowing
ell his friends. she supervised his social
duties; she kept his books and was q
very devil Of a collector; she wrote all
his business letters and signed them
for him; she invested his money for
him. and since she was no mean psy.
c~hologist. she could read a woman pa.
tient as she would a book. She was
his Admirable Crichton. and he re-
warded her with his confidence. his
arectionate friendship and a perfectly
dazzling salary raise each Christmas.
He always kissed her at six O'Clock
on the twenty-fourth day Of Deem.
Der In each year for the five years
preceding the late winter afternoon
when Mr.. Daniel Mcnamara called In
behalf Of the ~strangest patient Lanny'i
boy had ever been asked to accept.
II had been a lenz. hard day. Doc
COR Burt was tired, lad q Mrs. Regi
nal6 Merton, who Val rich and idle
~ very Intelligent and hence neuras