The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-26
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 The Doctors Daughters f = "A SERIAL STORY Eo: R.1
By Faith Baldwin
The ReoI-Life
 Experiences of a Visiting Nurse
CHAPTER T.

A year ago Nancy Hall sat on the steps of the Hall house with her pointed chin in her hand and told herself savagely that she was bored to death, that she might as well be dead as live in Cranberry for the rest of her life.
 The old Hall house is on Atlantic street, which as everyone who has ever been to Cranberry knows is THE street. Every three years Doc- tor Hall has the house repainted. It shone, white and gracious, in its setting of ancient, tended trees, and velvet green lawn. It was June, the roses were out, and the garden, which was the doctors love and re- taxation, was towering into delicate sturdy beauty, delphinium, fox glove shasta daisy and verbena, lupine and sweet William
 Cranberry Is picturesque. Long wharfs on the Bay. Mud flats shin- ing with oily rainbow colors at low tide, blue water, blue sky, nets dry- ing and the smell of fish. Cottages, enveloped in rambler roses in due season.
 Cranberry is prosperous. The fish- cries are still second only to Glou- cester, though the Navy has claimed a good part of the fishing fleet; the woolen and stocking mills are on Army time now, and the shoe fac- tories hum with activity. In addi- tion, there's new cartridge clip plant and . new munitions arsenal that has added many defense workers to Cranberry,s 30,000 New Englanders born and bred. Once upon time, Cranberry struck a telling blow for liberty. In different way, she is doing so again.
 Cranberry is typical American town, progressive and proud, car- rying her share of the burden to- ward Victory.
 A year ago Nancy Hall was not impressed.
 NANCY was A. She had acquired a veneer of sophistication from the two years she had travelled on the Continent - 8 continent now ravaged and blood-stained = with her mothers widowed, childless sis- ter, Martha Roberts. The first two yeaHs that she had been out of school.
 Martha was rich, cratic, gener- ous, and grasping. She was also TAgtNagS "hAYH hA A~ Nancy was through with the Semi- nary and completely uninterested in going on to college or on to a career, she was delighted. She had never forgiven her sister for marrying David Hall Goes to Cranberry for the summer, falls in love with a boy just out of medical school and buries herself for the rest of her life," she would say scornfully .. "She could have had anyone .. she was the prettiest thing ever saw, men were mad about her :" No, she had not forgiven Nancy's mother for her marriage nor for Doctor Halls insistence that the Halls were not objects of charity. When Martha married a man with a thick neck and a thicker bank book she had relented toward Millicent, a little. It pleased her to play Lady Bountiful. But Da- vid Hall would have none of it, so she was cheated of a small, mean triumph. But latterly she had an ally in Nancy. When it was proposed that Nancy become her aunts un- paid = but fed and clothed = com- panion. Doctor Hall had been very much against it. In the end his wife. his wife's sister and his younger daughter had defeated him. They had wept. shouted, argued and pied him down.
 Nancy had been vastly entertain ed by the world her aunt had re- vealed to her. When international circumstances beyond Aunt Mar tha's impatient control had turned Europe from a playground to a bat