Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 March 1939 — Page 14

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:- By TOM HORNER

: CAST OF CHARACTERS ALAN WARREN — Ambitious joung gountry doctor. : EMILY WARREN-—Alan’s wife. ERIC KANE—Construction cngineer. DR. FARRELL = Alan’s elderly assopiate. Yesterday — Emily demands to know whether Alan is going to St. Louis. When he says ‘“No.” she tells him that Eric ‘kigsed her. Alan faces a grave decision. Should he give up Sumner for Emily?

CHAPTER ELEVEN. ,

LEEP brought Alan no. reprieve _ from his thoughts. Throughout the long hours of darkness he tossed, weighing one argument . against another. At least he knew what he must do. “I'll go to St. Louis.” Only then did he sleep. ~ Early the next morning it was ~ done. Tt~ letter to Peterson writ- ' § | ten, in the mail, but the satisfac- ~ 1 | tion Alan had hoped for was still "1 + lacking. | “So you've really decided to make 4 i _ the change,” Farrell asked as he sat $e in Alan’s office, A framed picture ; ‘of Alan’s father looked down from . | the wall, over the desk. | “Yes, I'm off to the city to become | famous.” Alan smiled. | “You are young,” Dr. Farrell said | seriously. “But it’s ability, not age, | that counts, and Peterson knows | it. Do you think he'd be offering ‘you this place if he thought you | weren’t able to fill it? | “Youve got the same asset your | father had—the ability to win your patient’s full confidence—plus a lot | of knowledge and technique that . | neither he—nor I—ever hoped to have. It's a gift the Great Phy- | sician bestows only on a chosen few.” “Going to the medical school won’t rob me of that—if I have it =Dr. Farrell. There'll still be | patients to take care of there.” 2 t-4 2 % |. OUR technique probably will . improve greatly, Alan. You'll be doing 20 deliveries to every one {you would do here. You'll develop |new methods, pass them on to your |students and, in time, you will be ‘the great obstetrician—Dr. Alan ¥ Warren. : “But it will be . different then, "Alan. Every patient will just be another person under a white sheet —not some girl you've watched grow to womanhood. You'll probably mever know her name; youll never see the baby after she leaves the hospital. They come and they go, and where they come from and where they go to will remain a mystery to you. You'll be a specialist,

not a country doctor.” “You make it sound pretty bad,

ctor.” : © | “I'm not trying to discourage you, .son,” Farrell said. “I just want ou to be prepared. Think of the dvantages you’ll have. No more long drives; no more rushing to the hospital in the middle of the night.” | “I. wonder what Dad would have Sone Alan asked, looking up at is picture. | “Loving his son, knowing what he knew, he’d probably tell you to take it,” Farrell answered. “But e didn’t go when he had the hance. He once had an offer to become associated with a New York specialist and turned it down. His vork was here, he said, and here he stayed.” : | His father had stayed here. Would Bis father want him to stay, even it cost Emily’s love? How had is mother faced this problem?

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A FAKING his rounds in the hos[VA pital brought Alan relief. Here he could forget his worries about e- future. | Grandma Frank’s thin, quavering voice greeted him as he entered her room. |“T do declare, Allie Warren,’— the never failed to use his poyhood nickname — “youre getting more like your father every day.” But her chart belied her cheerfulness. Alan noted the high temperature, fast pulse. {Maryanne Brown, in the obstetrical. ward, beamed with pride as Alan took her 2-dayold, eightpound: son from the nurse, laid him "in his mother's arms. Alan was almost out the front door when he heard a piping; small voice calling his name down the hall. He turned back to find S5-year-old Tim McKay, his head wrapped in bandages, rushing toward him. |“I thought you'd gone home, Tim,” Alan said as he lifted the boy in his arms. “How's the head?” Alan reached in his pocket, drew out ‘a coin and solemnly handed it to the delighted boy. “Remember Time, all it will buy is an ice cream core.” Every child in Sumner knew of Doctor Alan’s “ice cream cone nickels.” No, Alan thought, I can’t take this, this atmosphere, with me.

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AYS were too short for Emily. Although no word had come from Dr. Peterson, she was already planning on what furniture she would move to St. Louis first. Her dream home there seemed to become a reality. Her days were full. Letters to old friends, plans for farewell parties, hopes for the future kept aer from missing Alan. The rain reminded her of Eric and she wondered how the work at the dam was progressing. She had _ not seen Eric since that last night, but she had heard of him indirectly {from the Price boys. : Alan came in, his raincoat dripping. A small stream ran from the brim-of his hat down over her head and neck as he kissed her. = “I hope you can stay at home to- . night,” she told him. “This is the kind of a night for popcorn and apples and a good book.”

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