Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-01-11

A Short Story
CARoLYN out check payable to Walter Stone D.
~ for hundred and twenty dollars and threw her check
book into the wasebasket The banks would
take of the balance and all the crisp untouched checks
in the book not worth the paper they printed on
She looked out the window of her saw snow falling
steadily into the courtyard Her warm but she
sneezed from pure suggestion Snow and Sinus both begin
with s.. Stone, too she thought sadly, and sadly
his name and address envelope
Carolyn ColebGook mathematical wizard but she
realized fully that it impractical than that
was impossible for young to have forty dollars
worth OF sinus week salary of fortyfve dollars She
didn't blame Dr. Walter Stone but she regretted him with
all her heart He terribly attractive SO big and so
gentle young and serious She'd him only six times
in her life at twenty dollars look speak and each
occasion was distinct and separate in her memory.
Mrs Arkwight who'd been friend of her mothers had
sent her to him. Such nice young man, Carolyn know
you'll like him He'd been assistant Dr. Marquand before
he went into practice for himself and Mrs Arkwrght thought
he was bit good the elder specialist if better
III call hun and tell him you're coming in, she'd added
Now, when too late Carolyn realized should
have said Tel him I'm working girl" She could almost
hear what Mrs Akwght had told Dr. Walter Stone Such
charming GIRL doctor Her mother Leonie Isham and
her father was one of the Pittsburgh Colebrooks -
HE first appointment had been Saturday afternoon
1t had been showing then too As Carolyn walked through
the back hall of Peggy Latmers Park Avenue apartment
from the small maids which Peggy and Ivan rented
her for five dollars week. Peggy had come in rosy from the
cold bright eyed and glowing in her black Persian lamb and
Russian Cossack hat
Carolyn! You're not going out in that thin coatr she'd
protested. The check which she'd just made to
Walter Stone. Md. to have paid for coat3
'I'u take taxi" Carolyn said.
You'll wear of my fur coats Peggy oontradcted her.
She and Carolyn had always anothers clothes in
boarding school, Take the mink honey 1t has rip
sleeve but it's 50 becoming to you''
So Carolyn Colebrook, with Park Avenue address,
appeared first in Dr. Stones view wrapped mink gossier
than her curly brown hair looking pretter than any
suffering patient had any right to look.
You'd better back Tuesday, he told her. after
he had written down her and address, her age twenty
one and the hod details of her sinuses Say ocloc
"Oh. couldn'tr' said Carolyn. you see"
"Five-hfteen," said Dr. Stone He grinned. You can
gather that am not yet overbdened with practice
How long have you had your Officer" she asked.
Two months
1T must be exciting to start in for yourself
Exciting or brash, he said. I'm not sure, yet"
She remembered that, that first visit she hadn't
wanted to leave There patients waiting and they'd
sat and talked for than half an hour.
Tuesday sunny, and her own tweed coat
enough 1t had been good coat in its day. when she
boarding school, and it showed it. Before she left the Office
where she worked secretary she combed her cls and
applied the pstck which Dr. Stone would tell her remove