Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 March 1939 — Page 18

RIAL STORY—

MRS. DOC

=: By TOM HORNER

> CAST OF CHARACTERS . ALAN WARREN — Ambitious young “country doctor. EMILY WARREN--Alan’s wife. , ++ ERIC KANE—Construction engineer. - “DR. FARRELL — Alan’s elderly as~sociate. :

Yesterday: Alan decides at the last moment not to go to St. Louis because “his patients need him. Emily is furious. . As Alan leaves for the hospital, she “calls Eric Kane, tells him she is leaving “Alan, that she wants him to come down ~&t once,

~ CHAPTER THIRTEEN FP Emily had expected her blunt - ‘statement to surprise Eric, she was not disappointed. -. “You're doing what?” he shouted over the wire. : ® “I'm leaving Alan,” she repeated. “I'll explain when you get here.” “But I can’t leave the dam now, Emily. Things are in bad shape here. The water is rising—" “Please, Eric,” The appeal in her yoice could not be denied. “Well . . . all right. I'll be ther within an hour.” : But it was almost two hours before she let him in the door, wet and dripping. His clothes, his boots were mud spattered. There were dark circles under his eyes, as if he had not slept for nights. The moment he saw. her all the love he had tried so hard to put | from him, claimed him again. Eric | wanted fo enfold her in his arms. Instead he said: “Just what is this all about?” He tried to make his voice sound stern. * “It’s true,” Emily answered. “I am leaving. I'll go back to St. Louis, then to Reno. I can’t go on here.” “What happened, Emily? Why this sudden decision? Don’t rush into anything you'll regret later.” | “I know what I'm doing—and I won't regret it, Eric. Alan turned down the chance to go to St. Louis tonight. Wired Dr. Peterson that he was staying in Sumner. ... Well— I'm not!” Emily’s eyes blazed. “Where is Alan now?” Eric asked: “At the hospital—with one of the patients that helped wreck our marriage. Oh, I'm not blaming them, entirely,” she added quickly. “If it hadn’t heen Mrs. Howland and ‘Grandma Frank it would have been someone else. There always would have been someone he couldn't leave. “It’s been wrong ever since I came here. You saw only a little of it, while you were here—it’s been like that for a year—” ni ~ Eric found himself admitting that Emily’s decision was not without justification. He let her talk on and on, and her returning composure was his.reward. Ts 5 ” » ” "A SUDDEN meeting, a girl he could not forget, and a blizzard had drawn him, as if by fate, into the tangled pattern of their lives. , What role was he to play? Was there any hope of the future—with Emily? Suddenly he realized that she had stopped speaking. A question trembled on Eric’s lips. Loving Emily, he had to know. | “Is there any place in your plans for me?” he asked slowly. | “Frankly, Eric, I don’t know.” Eric knew she was telling the truth. | “I want to marry you, Emily,” he said simply. “You're sweet and kind, Eric,” Baty said. “But I'm not sure. Right now I'm still married to Alan—and 'm still in love with him. One can’t idolize a man for five years and hen suddenly get over it. lan apparently has been {trying to kill my love for him. Love can’t last forever if it is not returned. Alan’s profession, not his wife, is his real love. Even tonight, when I eeded him most, he left me.”

| “He’s a doctor, Emily. Did you|

expect hm to stay?” ‘1 “No . . . But you—you were having trouble at the dam, you are not my husband—yet when I called you «|. « you came.” ; | “I'll always be here if you need me. I love you, Emily.” |-“I know you do, Eric. . . . That’s why it’s so difficult to tell you—to k you to wait, just a little longer.” ‘| “I've waited six years, with a lot Jess hope than I have now.” Kane paused. “Okay. You make the ules; I'll play your way.” “Thanks, Eric.” ” ” 2 “wy UT there’s one thing I must do,” Eric said. “I have to tell Alan. He must know that I love you.” 3 + |“He knows. . . . I told him that you had kissed me, the night of the dance. And he doesn’t blame you, Eric,” Emily continued. - Loyal to

an, Eric grasped at anything in

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ome. If the break did come, however, Emily must be thoroughly conyvinced : that it was -all -over—that there would be no returning. Right now she regarded him as her best friend. That was the role he must accept, for a time at least. He hardly noticed when Emily left the room to answer the doorbell. Hel heard Dr. Farrell's voice. ~ Farrell greeted him without mth. Eric could see that the gtor' did not welcome his presence, But Farrell had little time for Kane. Alhost savagely the old physician, : suddenly grown older, turned Emily. is I fy God, Emily,” he asked, his pe trembling with emotion, “what e you done to Alan?”

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