The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-09
The Country Doctor
 Dorothy Pdason June Lone Mtnd Wkdm and Sin SummrMe
THE STORY so FAR


 tor in the little north woods set- tIement of MoosetOwn, goes to Montreal to appeal to company officials to give MOOsetOwn hos pltaL
 His nephew, TONY, who flew to MOosetOwn with antltoxin during . dIphtherla epidemic, remains there, much interested In MARY MACKENZIE, daughter of the lumber company manager. The two admit their love for each other, but MACKENZIE, determin- cd to end the romance, forces Tony into a fight, later Obllglng him tO leave MO0setown.
 In Montreal, Dr. Luke's appeal is refused. He returns home, learns young DIR. WILSON has been set to replace him. It k discovered that Dr.. Luke has nev- CT received . license tO practice and he Is threatened with arrest.
 There seems nothing to do but leave. Dr. Luke Is on the boat, about to depart, when ASA WY ATT appears, begging the doctor to come to his home. Dr. Luke goes and MRS. WYATT gives birth to quintuplets.
 UOggedly DIR. Luke and NURSE KENNEDY work to keep the inc fants alive. Wyatt reports the birth of the Ave babies to the lo- cal newspaper.
 CHAPTER XIII
 Before nine o'clock, Dr. Luke was on his way back to Asa Wyatts house. You learn to do with but lit- tle sleep when you are a country doctor, and besides that, there was no sleeping anyway. The telephone rang continually. Long-distance calls from Montreal, from Detroit, New York, Chicago, Cleveland. What was needed? What could be sent the babies? How did 1t all happen, Doctor? He had already told his story five times over the telephone, outlined the babies desperate needs if they were to live, appealed for any and all help that could be given.
 But beyond all this hubbub, there were five little living things in a basket out at the Asa Wyatts'. He felt as though he could hear their feeble cries as he backed his car out of the yard and started for the rocky little farm on the edge of the woods.
 Picking up another nurse to. re- lieve Miss Kennedy, the doctor set out again for the Wyatt place, fearful of what he might find there when he arrived.
 Quintupletsl
 After all, no such five babies had ever lived more than a few hoursl His head whirled with the possibility, the bare possibility, that these babies might be pulled through. The rugged people of the with their large families! The clean pinewoods air, compara- lively free from bacteria. The Wy ats other six husky little children. By love, yesl There might be chancel He'd fight 1t outl
 Such thoughts filled the doctors mind on the rough ride to the Wy att house, and he was silent. Park ing his car in the front yard, he strode to the door of the house, the new nurse at his heels.
 Weary to exhaustion, Nurse Kennedy had the situation in hand. Mrs. Wyatt was 50 much better that 1t was plain that, 50 far as she was concerned, the crisis was past. The babies, too had seemed to take their warm water ration a little more enthusiastically, as much as 14 drops from the Indispensable eye dropper.
 Nurse Kennedy made a bed for herself on an old sofa, and lay down to rest. She was 50 utterly weary that at first she could not sleep. Her tired eyes followed the new nurse about the room as she took up the fight.
 Asa, too, having at last recov- cred himself enough to fetch a large supply of wood, went to bed in the loft and Constable Jim .Og- den went back to town. The doc- tor and nurse were left alone to carry on the fight.
 If we only had an incubatorl" repeated Dr. Luke again and again as the constant strain of keeping a stream of warm blankets moving from stove to basket and back again began to tell. The flame of life in the tiny babies fiickered 50 that 1t could not warm them without outside help.
 Gradually the doctor developed a design for living in the tiny Wyatt home. As Mrs. Wyatt gained strength, she was moved to another room, and the little alcove where cause MT. Newton D. Baker, a lead ing corporation lawyer. is chair