Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1936-07-11

chair Tipped 1t back, had Mrs Dough-
erty, the practical nurse, give her a
Whit Of ether and shipped them out.
Nice, clean job"
His father recognized the thrill Dick
got out Of this first operation per-
formed under primitive conditions. He
remembered his own first experience
in Chenille. 1t was the removal of an
appendix, and he had performed 1t on
kitchen table. A kitchen table had
been his most frequent work bench
IN his long practice. On a succession
OF them he had removed appendices,
gall stones, tumors, bullets and gun
shot. He had delivered babies and am
putated fingers, toes, arms, legs, and,
once or twice, an ear.
"Glenville needs hospital" he said.
The nearest one is at Marysville
That's SIS miles. And in an emergency
SIS miles is as bad as 500. If only had
the money"
eff we should happen to get any"
Dick suggested, wed better spend It
on the car. She needs medical atten-
ton as badly as any patient"
ut won't get it," Ella snapped. be
cause your father is too soft-hearted
to collect the money due him. That's
why you're in this backwater instead
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"Bill could fix the car in an after
noon," Pat said.
Bill Haight," Ella murmwed "a
small town mechanic and my future
son-in-law"
The maid, Hilda, averted the storm
which was already gathering in Pats,
eyes when she announced that Mr.. Ed
Struthers, the lawyer, had telephoned
TO tell DR.. Donelson TO come TO his
office that afternoon. It was important /
DR.. Donelson audibly wondered what
Ed wanted. Maybe it was to testify in |
an accident case. That meant money.
The court paid you the day you testi-
fled.
"Yes?" ElIens voice dripped sar-
caSn. well, be sure you collect it. Don't
start feeling sorry for the whole coun- |
". You are covering half OF it as !
Ed struthers at 81 was one of the
most brilliant and successful lawyers
in the state. He was lean, bulbous-
noSed, sardonic, distlluSioned and
sneakily generous. BE had never re-
covered from the shock of his first
contacts with human nature as it Is
after the ideal conception Of it he had
absorbed in his youth from copybook
maxims, Sunday school tracts and the
Bible as translated for him by the
father and mother In really fine home
atmosphere and a more or less shell
tered college career. His favorite boast
was that he and DIR. Donelson, be-
tween them, knew more about the real
5000 people who inhabited Chenille
and the surrounding countryside In a
radius OF 10 miles than anybody else
but God.
They show me their greed, their
crookedness and their all-around or
neriness when they go to law" he'd
say. But Doc Donelson knows their
little personal dirtinesses, their muir
1erouS lusts, their crueltieS and their
HELL IL he and got to-
yether and told all we knew Glenville's
most respected men and women would
break down the church doors in their
-ush to get out of town"
In his first contacts with the world
Is 1t Is he had found in drink a
cushion which softened the murder of
me ideal after another. BY the time
III OF them were dead he was a period
cal drunkard, averaging two weeks out
Il every three months in getting on and
Ut spree as regularly as the seasons.
7e was bachelor.
Doc" he said when DR.. DoneIson
Irrived In his office, what would you
10 if you had 800, OO0?"
Dr.. Donelson peered sharply at him,
no I'D iaugneQ.
mo, I'm not drunk. Not due for a
month yet. III put the question another
yay. Did you have on uncle, George
iaviland, who died in Los Angeles two
lonths ago2"
Eyes" DR.. Donelson said. HE was
~ mothers brother end fine man
nth he made a fortune in real estate.
ruined him. He was an old devil He
ever liked me or Ella"
Maybe that explains t." Struthers
rinned. my firms Los Angeles COR
has wired me that he left
on q lot Of money. Exactly" he
lanced at a sheet Of paper on his
esk, ninety thousand dollars when
ne inheritance tax and my fee are de-
ucted"
Under a spurious calm. Ella was be-
de herself with greed and ambition.
Ter long face was pallid, and her
1eeks hectic. Her tongue darted out
} moisten her tight, scorched lips.
he sat stiffly In chair In Bill Haights
flee and spoke in q low. strident tone.
I'm asking you 70 give Pat up" she
as saying, because know you
ouldnt want to smash her life. I'm
king her TO Hollywood, where her
sauty and her talent and our money
shind her are sure TO make her a great
ar. You knew she had already won
sauty contest which had entitled her
screen test. We couldn't afford TO
low her TO go before we got the
gacy. But now we can. It VIII give
X her entree."
sAn right Bin said. $50 what?"
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