The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1936-07-17

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chair. Tipped it back, had Mrs. Dough-
erty: the practical nurse, give her a
whiff 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. It was the removal Of an
appendix, and he had performed it on
a 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 a hospital" he said.
1.-THE nearest one is at Marysville.
That's SIS miles. And in an emergency
SIS miles is a bad as 500. If I only had
the money"
If 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"
1T 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
"a " oStACAAA6 L. 4NC" 4O4h.
Bill could fix the car in an after
"Bill Haight," Ella murmured. "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 Mfr. 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-
"Yes2" Ellen's voice dripped sar-
start feeling sorry for the whole coun-
L is: you are covering half of it as
Ed struthers at g. was one of the
most brilliant and successful lawyers
in the state. He was lean, bulbous-
nosed,. sardonic, disillusioned and
eos e f geneff tSe she shock Rae Of n his first lst
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 a really fine home
atmosphere and a 9 or less shell.
tered college career. His favorite boast
was that he and DR.. 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
"They show me their greed, their
neriness when they 60 to law" he'd
say: But Doc Donelson knows their
little personal dirtinesses, their MUIR
derouS lusts, their cruelties and their
hypocrisies. He'll, if he and I got to-
gether and told all We knew Glenville's
most respected men and women would
break down the church doors in their
rush to get out Of town"
In his first contacts with the world
as it is he had found in drink al
cushion which softened the murder of
n ideal after another. BY the time
all OF them were dead he was a period
ical drunkard, averaging two weeks out
OF every three months in getting on and
Oh a spree as regularly as the seasons.
Doc. he said when DR.. Donelson
do If you had 500, 000?"
Pr II 91nelson peered sharply at him.
mo, I'm not drunk. Not due for a ]
month yet. I'll put the question another
way: Did you have on uncle, GEORGE
Haviland, who died in Los Angeles two
months ago?"
Eyes" DR.. Donelson said. HE was
my mothers brother end a fine man
until he made a fortune in real estate.
It ruined him. He was an old devil. He
never liked me or Ella"
Maybe that explains it," Struthers
grtnned. my firms Los Angeles cor
respondent has wired me that he left
you a lot OF money. Exactly he
glanced at a sheet of paper on his
desk, NINETY thousand dollars when
the inheritance tax and my fee are de-
Quoted"
Under a spurious calm. Ella was be-
side herself with greed and ambition.
Her long face was pallid, and her
cheeks hectic. Her tongue darted out
to moisten her tight, scorched lips.
She sat stiff1y in q chair in Bill Haight's
office and spoke in a low. strident tone.
I'm asking you to give Pat up" she
was saying, because I know you
wouldn't want to smash her life. I'm
taking her to Hollywood, where her
beauty and her talent and our money
Deh1nd her are sure to make her a great
star. You knew she had already won a
beauty contest which had entitled her
TO. q screen test. We couldn't afford t0l
allow her to 60 before we got the
legacy. But now w can. It will give
IAN rigk.,. Bill said. $50 WHAT"
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