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CHAPTER IX
“You need your glasses, It rang
three quite—long time ago. Yen
ought to go to bed.” •
“I’m all right. Don’t -talk!”
“But please go to bed, Dad—You
need your rest—”
Parrish came over and took a seat
on a cliair at the side of the bed. He
laid his steady fingers on Maury's
wrist.
“I’ll stay with you a little while
yet. Want to beat this thing—right
at the start. It’s -the easier way.”
“Sure, it’s easy—“ muttered the
sick man. “She says—all you got
io do—”
“Be quiet, Maury!”
“Clean up—clean out—Keep clean
—Simple, isn’t it?”
“What’s that?" demanded the
other sharply, forgetting his warn
ing for a moment.
“That’s what she does—Serenity,
you know. You should have" seen
her at work—seen me—That was a
laugh—Woman and giih in one bed
and me—”
Parrish laid a forbidding finger on
the mumbling mouth.
“You must not talk. I forbid it.
You are going to need all your
strength.”
'“Pretty badly shot, am I, Dad?”
“Nothing to worry about,” Iris
father told him. “Don’t get that
idea in your head. I’ve wired Mac
Donald to come and have a look at
you. He should be here this morn
ing,”
“Bad as that?”
“Nonsense. I’m not worried. But
—when it’s you—I want the best.
That’s all.”
Maury reached out his hand and
laid it on his father’s knee.
“I’ve got the best.”
Parrish got to his feet and stalk
ed away into the dimness of the
room. For a long moment he stood
staring out through the open win
dow. When he came back to the
bed, his voice was as cold
cisive as ever.
“My watch must have
It’s getting light in the east
Try and sleep a little.”
““All right, D'ad. Kewps all right?”
“I imagine so.”
“Bring him in and let me see him
in the morning. Will you?”
“If you like, Yqu must be quiet
i “Of course I won’t leave that boy!”
| “Then there is nothing', more to
I do for the present."
“He’s-—he’s had, isn’t he?"
“Any sickness is dangerous.’
'Squaring Her lean shoulders, My
ra summoned all the years of special
privileges to aid her in one supreme : Parrish he ought
venture. Her eyes, all unafraid
now, sought the questioning ones of
her employer.
“Yau know, Dr, Parrish, every
body says—”
“Well?"
“You know as well as me!" she’ burst out desperately, “.That lady1
doctor down in the village is curin’ ever could.”
almost everybody that
“I’d think—”
(She quailed before
in the doctor's face.
“Be good enough to
with my son,” he said quietly,
buttered his second slice of
with steady fingers.
“Doctor Parrish -sent up to the
city for a big man to come down
here and see Maury. But he isn’t
goin’ to."
“Do you happen -to know if it was
Doctor MacDonald he sent for?”
“That’s him. Then I told Doctor
to get you. I
know you’ve cured mighty near all
the sick folk that hired you, and he
knows it as well >as I do.”
“What did he say?” gasped Ser-,
enity.
“Tbld me to shut my big mouth—
leastwise, that’s what he meant. You
can’t argue with that man. Nobody
and in-
stopptd
I think.
•Good night, Dad!”
two hours after his usual
time when Parrish appear-
scalds for her.
the cold fury
go Tip and sit
He
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That same evening found Seren
ity keeping office hours for the first
time in several weeks. She was alone
at her desk, trying hard to relax
from tihe long strain and to keep her
eyes from the strangely-quiet
phone. All of her
better now,
In spite of all she
of them had slipped
at the height of the epidemic and
tiheir passing
anguish.. It w’as reflected in her
face now; she appeared older and
there was a sweet new dignity in her
face, not due wholly to the weari
ness that had crept into her eyes.
Her l’ast call in the .'afternoon had
been at the Johnsons’. jA'U three pa
tients were convalecing in a satisfac
tory manner, the white-aproned
nurse reported. There was no. danger
there now.
Pete and his wife h'ad talked
eagerly of “that nice Mr. Maury.”
“How is he? He’ll' get well—
won’t her, Doctor?"
“Oh, yes. Why, he’s right at
home where his father can take
care of him.’
“Just the same,” Johnson grumb
led, “I wish you was lookin’ after
him, your self. If he’s got what I
had, you’d make him well same as
you did me.”
“I’m sure he’fe all right, Pete,”
Serenity would have given her.
whole world to know that she was
right. To know that success was
being 'attained by her competitor in
his grim fight back of the pine trees.
If only she could help,
ed her—Nobody could
much as she, now—It
cruel.
She bowed her face
arms and sat motionless for a long too.
time, until la hurried step on the I you ain’t got a chance to do a lot of
wooden walk outside the office figurin’.
brought her head up to startled at
tention. She dashed the back of her
hand across her eyes, just in time.
The door was swinging open without
the formality of a knock.
A tall, gaunt woman with a shawl
over her he'ad closed the door care
fully, walked over to the desk and
stood looking intently at Serenity.
“You’re that doctor!” It was
partly a question, but rather more
cf a challenge.
I’m Dr.
down?”
“Much
I’m Miss
house, you know."
“Of course. I remember you.
I’m very glad to see you. I was
wishing I might hear directly from
Mr. Parrish—young Mr. Parrish, I
mean. How is he?”
“Bad! Terribly bad!”
“Do you mean he’s—dangerously
ill?”
“Yep,” was
retort.
“Oh!” cried
“That’s why-
on relentlessly,
what what you’re goin’ to do about
it.”
“I? But Myra—Miss Sanders—”
“Myra’s plenty good. You got
him into this mess, didn’t you?”
“Yes,
perhaps,
take care of those sick people,
there didn’t seem to be
else—”
“Well,
about it
canary,
somethin’
“What
i patients
tele-
were
threecould do
awtay from her
hand. You
most no
the girl in
you really
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“Okay!
It was
breakfast
ed in the dining room, shaven and
immaculate as was his wont. ’
“Any calls for me, this morning?”
he inquired, as Myra placed his dry
toast a-t his elbow.
“Lot of ’em. Frank Ellis and
Mrs. Krutch seemed to be the m-ost
excited. I told ’em you’d be 'around
later, maybe. And there w,as—■”
“Well?”
“■This telegram come a few1 min-
n-tes ago from the depot.”
She fumbled a yeiiow envelope
from the . pocket of her apron and
held it out fearfully. Parrish almost
snatched it from her hand and tore
it open. Her eyes were glued anx
iously to his impassive face as he
took in the contents of the message.
The blurred words of the still
damp paper read:
“Regret unable to come. Sug
gest you consult Dale. Uses
treatment I favor. Understand
very successful.
John MacDonald
Parrish folded the missive slowly
and carefully. Then his strong fin
gers -tore the paper in small frag
ments and dropped them beside his
plate. With no change of expression
in his face, .'he took the cover from
the toast dish and selected a brownea
slice. Myra caught her bre'ath with :
a premonition -of disaster.
“Say— Isn’t that doctor from
the city going to come and see Maury
“No.”
“How is he this morning?”
Parrish buttered “his toast delib-
“Holding his own,” he ob- ’
“It may be
—or longer-
whispered
erately.
served calmly,
eight hours yet-
“Then what?” she
sharply.
“I can’t tell you.” He
level stare.
“What?”
“It’s largely a matter
I shall m'ake my most
calls and no others. I
word all the time where
reached. In the meantime, Maury
must not be left alone.”
forty-
>>
gave her a
of nursing,
important
will leave
I can be
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“Well?”
“Well, he tore the telegraph up,
Maybe I shouldn’t have done jt, but
I stuck all the pieces together and
read it. That city doctor thinks
just the way I do. He says we should
hire you.”
“But, Myra, I can’t! Don’t you see
I e’an’t?”
“I don’t see nothin’ of the kind.
Here^you go ’round curin’ everybody
that asks you and when it comes to
our boy, you won’t lift a
ceuld make Hiim well in
time.”
A little sob broke from
spite of herself. “Oh, do
believe that, Myra?”
“Believe it? I know it. I ain’t
exactly dumb, I’ve took care of that
had (brought untold ‘ boy all his life most. He never had
■ a mother—I mean, he can’t remem
ber anything what she was like.
And he loves you.”
“Myra!”
“<Oh, yes
I’m talkin’
at his side
him. 'Sometimes, __
quite^clear naturally. And sometimes
fit’s as goo'd as yours or mine. No I matter Which it is, he talks about
you—to me, that is. Well, wh’at
you. thinly you’re going to do about
it?”
“What can I do?” groaned the
girl.
“You mean you don’t love him
back?”
(Serenity litfed her head defiant
ly. “I love
'and with all
give m'y life
have been a
“Then, in
age. I would.”
Myra turned and stalked over to
the door. With her h'and on the latch
she turned to s.ay:
“Well, what you goin’ to do?”
“I’ll 'do—something—anything!”
“You ain’t got so much time. Doc-
he does. I know what
about. I’ve been sitting
by the hour listenin’ to
his mind ain't
him with all my heart
my soul. And I would
•to save him.”' It might
litany.
that case, you’ll man-
Maury need
help him as
was cruel— (tor says the crisis, or whatever you
call it, is coinin’ about this time to
on her two , morrow—maybe sooner. He’s scared,
I can tell. What I mean is,
Dale, yes. Won’t you sit
obliged, but I guess not.
.Sanders—up to Parrish’s
the uncompromising
the girl softly.
I come,” Myra went
"I want to. know
I’m afraid it is my fault,
I shouldn’t have let him
But
anybody
there’s no use in
now. The cat’s
Somebody’s got
for that boy.”
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mind, I say it. You were wrong
about that milk business .and that
girl was right. There’s no telling
how m'any lives she’s saved here in
town.”
“You think so?”
“I know so—now. I’m not very
pround of it, either, as village presi
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“And is that ail you wanted to
tell me?”
“Not quite. You and I have been
friends of a lifetime, Langdon, and
I’ve always had lots of confidence in
you. I have yet. -But when Mary
was taken down, last week—”
“You sent for another doctor.
‘That’s your privilege, Judge,” inter
rupted the other coldly.
“My wife wanted Dr. Dale,” went
cn Maeys, imperturbably, “but. I’m
not hiding behind .any woman’s
skirts. Mary’s our only child and
we (had a chance to see what, this
other doctor had been accomplish
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“There is no way. But for you—
be would be well now. Get that car
out of my way.”
She stumbled unseeingly in. the
direction of Buster whose engine
still murmured Sympathetically.
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She quitted the room as abruptly
as she had entered it. And the first
hint of dawn found (Serenity still ,at
her desk, thinking—thinking.
There seemed but one thing to do
now.
She knew from her past observa
tions about the debts Parrish was
accustomed to follow on his impor
tant round o'f morning .calls. When
he drove away from the Garstrang's
almost across the street from Seren-
ity’s office, he would undoubtedly
drive down Elm Street, get the
morning mail, then start for home.
Buster, as .a yellow accomplice,
would slowly trail the unsuspecting
Minnie at a safe distance; then he
would spring into action and head brought Mary through very nicely,
the m'are.off at her own gate. That She’s going to get well.”
Serenity, decided was
battleground. .There
observers to report
irrespective of who
or 'father.
She had decided
thing on one final appeal. She would i . . , . .tell him of her love for Maury, beg 1 no^ by hnnging her in on the case.
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That
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won, sweetheart
to stake every-
She’s going to get well.”
‘‘My congratulations,,’' observed
Parrish dryly, gathering up his reins
‘‘I am going now to my only son who
is at, death’s door, to-day. Your re
markable young doctor is the cause
of his being there. I presume I
ishoul'd add to. her fadeless Ihurels
Is that what you wished to advise?”
“I’m not offering advice* Lang
don.”
“Goo'd morning, Judge. Go on Min-
■for her right to be 'at his side—de
mand it—anything!
There was even a half-formed mo
tion in her mind, in case Parrish (
proved utterly obdurate, of letting! nie.”
Buster crash into the ancient buggy | At the point of vantage she Iliad
and spill its occupants; by tearing picked out, Serenity threw her1 road-
off a. wheel or two sne might rend- ster across the road almost under
er the enemy “hors de combat” for the startled Minnie’s nose. w '
twenty-four hours or more. Then _ _ .
she had dismissed the idea with an side of Parrish’s buggy and called
hysterical little laugh: j breathlessly, before he could inter-
“He might hurt Minnie, and that'rupt:
wouldn’t be fair.” I “You must let me speak to you a
So she trailed her quarry as she moment. I have a favor to ask. Oh,
had planned, taking a detour that ‘no—not for myself! Won’t you let
brought her within sight of the past-'me bring Doctor MacDonald down
office just as Parrish left it and from the city to see—your son? I’m
climbed into his buggy. Then she sure I can -get him to come down
was forced to idle Buster’s motor with me. I’ll make him! You know
a few moments, and 'appear to be he’s my uncle. He’ll do anything I
listening for valve taps, while Judge ask him. Please—please—Her
- * - ”• ■* [hands were clasped in piteous en-
|treaty.
! Amazement and anger struggled I for mastery in Parrish’s face.
shook His 'head, apparently
trusting himself to speak,
“Oh, but there must be some way!
It’s because I—I
Maeys, held conversation with tho
older doctor in front of the bank.
If the girl could have hoard their
talk, her new-found courage would
have ebbed sadly.
Macys’ >his face more bleak than
ever in its isidowhiskers, hailed his
friend as he was 'passing the bank.
Walking up to the side of tho buggy,
he began, with his usual directness:
“Well, Langdon, I guess there’s ho ,
use of boating about the bush.
Spring
ing to the ground, she ran to the
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Parrish stared
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