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• SERIAL STORY
OF BRIGHTNESS GONE
BY HOLLY WATTERSON
FRAZIER-AND-SECH
CHAPTER XVII
At Good Samaritan you said
Fazierand-Rech as naturally as at
table you said salt -and -pepper,
bread-and-butter. You said, Fraz-
ierand-Rech are in Pediatrics, or
GYN, or Surgery, as they progress-
ed through the mouths of their
rotating services.
That doctor -nurse combination
had begun three year's before,
back in interne -probationer days,
more or less by accident and it
had continued by design—Dr.
Peter Frazier's design—straight
on into Emergency, Dr. Frazier's
last service before he would go
into private practice.
For the first time in .months
Candace ' found, herself resenting
it. In the beginning, longing to
run away from anything or any-
body that even remotely suggest-
ed Martin she had fought bitterly
against that enforced contact with
Peter; but circumstances and
Peter's quiet will •had been . too
much for her.
She would have said that she
had completely forgotten Martin.
'Dhat he was to' her now simply
a doctor who had once been an
interne at the hospital and was
now a consulting staff member
who appeared occasionally on ism
portant cases. That would be true
again after tomorrow; but today
he was more thanthat, much
more. He was the man she had
once loved, and who was to marry
on the next day another girl.
* 5 *
She had conte 0n evening duty
a . few minutes before, to find
Emergency busy in the aftermath
of a. street fight in a nearby for.
eign neighborhood. Being shep-
herded up to a ward under the,
watchful eye of a policeman was
a sullen group sporting assorted
bandaged knife wounds and black-
ened eyes, while on the table,
wincing under Peter's probing fin-
gers, was still another late bel-
ligerent.
Seppersou, the nurse she was
relieving, was a- good one as far
as care and kindness went; but
not pae'tioularly quick or efficient.
Candace thought, Seppy'11 be all
night at this mess it I don't clear
it, and she set quickly to work
to rid the corner behind the screen
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of the stained swabs and gauze,
leaving to Jepperson the less
arduous task of passing instru-
ments to Peter.
She was still cleaning back
there, out of sight, when she
heard two of the internes on am-
bulance duty -riding the bus, as
it was called—come into Emer-
gency, arguing cheerfully. She
recognized them from their voices
as Henderson, the rather flip good-
looking one, and fat Quincy,
"It's three days since that baby
was born in your bus," Quincy
was saying. "Three days, and you
haven't come across with that
barrel of beer forfeit yet, The
rest of te are drying. of dry -rot,
waiting."
lug the personal equation, It
malcee things very ear,,—for me.
I'm afraid its bad for yott, though.
Keep every hum= emotion too
long in leash and .one day they'll
turn on you and rend you:'
Candace laughed, sharp and
bard. ,With a deliberate effort to
Da insulting she said, "I never
thought. you'd be guilty of such
cheap advice;Doctor. That euro -
tion rending business -1 thought
only the cheaper internes- trying
to interest some nurse in a con-
venient affair used that lone,"
She had succeeded in annoying
him finally. "If you're 'insinuat-
ing that I'm advising an affair for
you—I'm not, Even to an affair
one must bring something; and
you're fast getting to the stage
where you're just an empty Yen -
Eel."
5 5 •
" 'Empty vessels make most
noise,' "sbe quoted. "That's what
I was always told as a child when
I prattled too much. But itseems
to me that you're the one who's
doing the prattling lust now.
Prattling the sort of advice that
goes over big with neurotic lady
patients. The type of patients who'
really pay. You'll be a big success
at that rate, Doctor." Abruptly
she stopped.
Exactly that was being said
about Martin, that he was build-
ing up that kind of a practice—
The thought of Martin cense as
a shock. She realized, with al-
most a feeling of gratitude to-
ward Peter for having so distract.
ed her, that the day she had so
long dreaded was almost over and
she. had been forgetting to think
of Martin, that she had not once,
Mime coating on duty, imagined
him practicing for that scene In
the church tomorrow.
And now, she knew thankfully,
she's have no time to think of it.
Because she was hearing the sir-
en of a policeman's motorcycle,
the sound of a speeding car coining
to a grinding stop 'in the coultl
yard outside. The. .emergency
warning gong began to sound.
There was the familiar faint
squeak of the stretcher-earriage's
wheels, the muted footsteps' of at-
tendants on the cork floor of the
corridor. The carriage reached
the door of Emergency, paused an
instant to negotiate,hhe turn, then
—Martin Corby was wheeled in.
(Continued Next Week)
That prospect didn't seem to
dismay Henderson. "Y' know, I
Itinda wish you would," he said
cheerfully. "You'd force me into
bankruptcy to fork over $0 for
a barrel of beer when you can
,get stinko tomorrow at the Harts-
horne -Corby nuptials at Papa
H•artsborne's expense. Papa Harts-
horne, they say, is providing even
champagne"
Candace had stiffened. Shut up,
she thought wildly. Shut up! But
Quincy's mind had already gone
on to other things.
"What are you doing here?" he
asked Sepperson. "Where's Hitiat
Beck? Isn't she supposed to be
on? Not that I don't prefer you,"
he added lightly. "Beets always
makes me feel nine years old, un-
washed, and late for school."
With the change of subject.
Candace could breathe again. She
emerged from behind' the screen,
rather pale but apparently other-
wise unruffied,
"Good evening," she said with
vinegary sweetness. "I .see- our
dear little cheerful cherubs are
with us again."
Sepperson giggled nervously, and
the two boys murmured confused
apologies and slunk abashed from
the room.
Peter straightened a moment
from the wound he was dressing.
"You're bushed, Sep," he said
casually. "Go on, Bech will take
over."
0 4 *
When she had gone and Can-
dace stood beside him he grinned
at her companionably. "I'd hate
to see sethalt would happen if one
of the young squirts around here
got up courage enough to dare
say 'boo' to you," he remarked.
Candace stared frostily, raised
warning eyebrow's over the 'par
tient's head.
Oh, he doesn't speak Engllish,"
Peter explained. 'What I mean
is," he went on, "yon have every
man -Jack scared of you when, if
only they had brains .enough to
see it, you're the one who's really
scared. Scared still that life will
find•you out, force you out of that
hard shell you're so busily grow-
ing."
She had struggled hard to put
their relationship on a profes-
sional, stricely impersonal basis
and It had seemed that site had
finally won. It was a long, long
while since a really personal re -
mask had passed between them.
She was angered,, and wounded,
that Peter should presume today
of all days. She said sharply,
'You're so clever, Doctor. You
read me juet like an open book,
don't you? But then you should,
since you've seen all the pages'
"Save the. sarcasm," Peter ad-
vised mildly, "Its a mighty effec-
tive weapon in most cases, and
I've come to adanire the way you
use it, but I'm is thick I'd blunt
it. Resent it Or not, it's still sound
advice for you to put that perfect
machine you've become under
dust corers once in a while and
conte out for air. At least when
you're off duty."
"Tf ever t should need or want
your advice,' Doctor;' she said
stiffly, "I'll conte to you as a par
tient end ask for it" ;Her face'
was white and her voice shook,
but the well-trained hands that
furnished him with implements
never wavered:
"You must renew," she broke
out furiously again after a mo-
ment, "that I resent this plying
on me all the time, That I hate
having to work with you; Hate it,
hate it, Tet You've somehow man-
aged it it on every service. l; hyo"
"Olit, it's for a Very selfish sea-
son," Petet said lazily, "Beeatse
you're a perfect machine, With
you, one Never has 10 be consider •
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Phenomenon in New Brune -
Moir Called "The Magnette
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About six miles from Moreton,
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and intriguing phenomenon known
es "The Magoetis Hill," For
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Land Of Japan:
Where Left is Right And
Right Side Wrong
In Japan always the left is the
right side, and the right side is
wrong. Keys must be turned, to
open or close a leek„ in what we
are accustomed to think is the
wrong direction. Books begin' at
the back, or what we call the end,
the type beiug.ueually set in ver -
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. first and that of the addressee
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is struck • away from one. The
Occidental wave of .good-bye, in
Japan, signifies "come here."
Men take first place in every-
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on the street. The man is served
first at meals, and it is the woman
who pays the bills in restaurants
and holds the purse strings at
house: she is also the one to carry
the parcels. Comparatively few
embroiderers are women, most of
the finest work being executed by
men and boys. As a last example,
let us watch' a Japanese maiden
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Canada, has agreed 1^ exert
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The agreement also provides
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pulp in 1943,
The statement said there \vas no
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ish Columbia, Bad weather con-
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the Padget Sound areas have vir-
tually exhausted log inventories.
To increase its ocean shipping,
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Menus Based On
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FIRST DAY
Rolled Cats --Milk
Toast
Ccoa—Children
Tea—Adults
Cheese Sandwiches
Apple Sauce
Milk -Children
Tea—Adults
Roast Veal, Onion Dressing
Roasted Potatoes, Carrots
Bread and Butter
Rice and Raisin Pudding
SECOND DAY
Stewed Raisins
Farina—Milk
Toast
Cocoa—Children
Tea -Adults
Ceeans Potato Soup
Cheese and Celery
Bread and Butter
Milk—Children
Tea, --Adults
Veal Hash on Toast ,
Potatoes.,
Cabbage
Bread and Butter
Apple Pie
THIRD DAY
Rolled Oats—Milk
Toast
Cocoa—Children
Tea—Adults
Potato and Celery Salad
Breed and Butter
Milk—Children
Tea—Adults
h'Iacaroni and Cheese
Bread and Butter
Prunes
FOURTH DAY
Prunes
Farina—Milk
Toast
Cocoa—Children .
Tea—Adults
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Scrambled Eggs on Toast
Sliced Tomatoes
Fried Potatoes
Bread and Butter
Milk—Children
Tea—Adults
Scalloped Salmon
Baked Potatoes, Carrots
Bread and Butter
Orange Custard
FIFTH DAY
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Rolled Oats—Milk '
Toast
Cocoa—Children
Tea—Adults
Scalloped Potatoes
Sliced Tomatoes
Cheese
Bread and Butter
Milk—Children
Tea—Adults
Baked Beans
Bread and Butter
Apple Sauce
SIXTH DAY
Rolled Oats—Milk
Toast
Cocoa—Children
Tea—Adults
Left -over Baked Beans
Bread and Butter
Prunes
Milk—Children
Tea—Adults
Liver and Onions
Potatoes
Beets with Greens
Bread and Butter
Gingerbread
SEVENTH DAY
Stewed Raisins
Rolled Oats—Milk
Toast
Cocoa—Children
Tea—Adults
Dried Pea Soup .
Sliced Beet and Lettuce Salad
Bread and Butter
Milk—Children.
Tea -Adults
Creamed Potatoes with Cheese
Bread and Butter
Left -over Gingerbread
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