The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-21
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CHAPTER xXIIT

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 CHAPTER xxIIr
 GLORIA came back. She re- " ported from the doorway that Doctor Thompson had answered the telephone he would come at once.
 .e It was a long IS minutes. Once, he was there, competent, cool, things fell rapidly into place. Ambulance for Timmy, arrange nnents made at the Hospital for Communicable Diseases. The health authorities notified. Quarantine for { the other children, notification of the city health nurses. Mrs. Reman and her approaching confinement constituted a complication. But that, too, would be dealt with, prop .erly.
 Lunch hour. Emily drove home with Jim, went up the back stairs , to scrub and change. Ellen cluck- ing with commiseration, served them lunch on the screen porch. Nancy and Millicent were out, and Doctor Hall hadn't come in yet.
 "In. . city of this size," said Emily furiously, land with the money we have had to spend. con- ditions such as those in which we found the Romans are intolerable and unnecessary"
 He said, mildly:
 ''The crusading spirit"
 T know I can't help 1t. Can youY'
 No" He added after a moment, "I'm attending a board of health meeting, it's a conference, really, of the board and the Cranberry : doctors. Your father insists on taking me along. There'll be 8 fight on our hands. Conditions in the mill quarters, conditions in the section where the polio started. They'll say nothing can be done for the duration. It should be a good fight"
 She said somberly:
 ''You'll run into snags when 1t comes to the mill section. Carter will win hands down.
 Seems to me as if Frank Ed- gar" he began.
 Don't blame Frank" she said, The does what he can. But he hasn't authority. Carter won't give it to him.
 T thought Mrs. Edgar ran things since the old mans stroke"
 ';She does in way. Carter makes point of consulting her, but not in matters like this. Car ter" added Emily, ''is welded to the stockholders. The mills have always paid dividends. Car ter isn't spending cent on houses if he can avoid it."
 Jim said, admiringly:
 T like to see you when you're angry, Emily. Your eyes turn al- most black and your cheeks"
 Skip it. she said, T keep thinking about Timmy. What are his chances?"
 Out of our hands now" he said soberly, but good, think. Lucky for Timmy that the hospital is well equipped, he'll have every thing they can do for him :"
 And the other children" she said, it will be a miracle if they escape"
 "A miracle" he agreed.
 Emily looked at her watch. She said, i've got to run. I'll get my calls here and go."
 You're tired" he said with com- miseration, you look about all in."
 I'm all right she said, and rose and smiled at them. Thanks HAF aAvratNay hn eafI A{lxSbk dare leave. I didn't know what that woman would do. couldn't ask Gloria to call City Welfare for . doctor, she might have nuddled it and delayed things. There wasn't soul I could ask. Mrs. Reman was nervously shot, the nearest neighbors were away did the first thing that came into my head
 which he said comfortingly, was the right thing as usual" He took her hand and held 1t. He said. You're grand girl. Emily" THE next morning Emily sat II with Miss Ansing in her small ofiice while Miss Ansing, listen- ing to her report, drew doodle bugs on square pad. She said finally:
 DO you know who owns the houses on Elderberry street?"
 No said Emily astonished. it isn't much of street, really, most ly vacant lots, and four or five scattered shacks."
 The Edgars own all that prop erty," Miss Ansing said. You haven't had occasion to go there much, it's out of your district, naturally you wouldn't inquire" T was walking through, taking a short cut.' Emily said, when Mrs. Rennan came out of her house. don't think I've been on that particular street a dozen times. My district ends at Ham, rnond, which cuts across it. I knew. of course. that the Edgars had big property holdings out of the mill district"
 "It's the location said Miss An- sing carefully, which is being
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