g-ling. Ting-a-

el

s the d

id John, recognizing

other side of my

told your husb

hy

unning short of coffee an

want to keep you in cof

ors have to live and you must c

I don't want to have t

n I looked at it yesterday, I saw indications that the

came back to the table his wife said, "John, I sh

hy

" The doctor laughed, swallowe

-ling-ling.

el

Blank

the office. 'Phone him there in

and when the third was suspen

thought, laying the

lank. You said to ring in two m

dn't wait o

longer. All ri

no time," thought Mary. "John walks so fast I felt

ear. She had held the receiver till her husband could reach the office so sh

esident of the board

guess

by our house an' I want you to come down here an' bury

get a spade and c

ke my husband fo

again. Now it was her

number fo

entlemanly voic

s you,

es

wn by Jack Johnson's. Go

Doc. I'll be

d the new officer leaving his elegant home and going down to perform the obsequies. Nevertheless her heart leaned toward Jack Johnson's wife

later three r

Dr. Blank

is res

he board of health and we want this

doctor," said Mary, calmly replacing t

e miserable by this new honor

ing she asked if the second

found me a

day hideous and night

e fun and then send someone to

e the doctor was ca

the hotel. What had I better d

it look a

t's doi

t it alo

oing something to it. And I've got to do something o

to do anything

d I don't know what to do with her. S

unwrap it, I guess, and pretend to do someth

now

other pati

fine, D

! Goo

golden sometime when the telephone ceased from troubling and the weary ones might rest. This meant when the doctor should retire from night practice. Until that happy ti

she made the announcement that she was

out in the night?" asked her hus

there than down here

u couldn't hea

ummation devout

ated John. "You always hear it and I

elf once in awhile. I was awake so often last night that I'

und

rtingly from the landing. "Let us retire in the

en she was instantly aroused. The figure of a man stood by her side. In the moonlight she

go two miles in

hn, instead of standing the

but I couldn't

woman hasn't a right to a night's sleep

h his wife. "Well, come on dow

ng down ther

here and I'm expecting a message

aid Mary. "I'll sleep with

said the doctor as he

l you I'll watch the 'phone,

d very hard to be ruthlessly pulled from a s

d. Then she rose and went out on to the balcony. Seating herself in an arm chair, she looked about her on the silvery loveliness. The cricket's

clipse. When it began peeping out on the other side of the trunk our watcher's dreamful eyes took no note of it. A dog barked. She sprang up and seated herself in the chair again. She dare not trust herself to the hammock. It was too seductive and too delightful. So she sat erect and waited for the ring which might not come but which must be watched for just the same. Her promise had gone forth. Far up the street she heard horses' hoofs-it must be John returning. The buggy-top shinin

to bed again. Good nig

mfortably to sleep she found herself wide awake. She closed her eyes and gently wooed slumber, but it came not. Ah, now she knew! The night before she had shaken off all responsibility for the 'phone. Therefore she could sleep. Tonight her husband lay unconscious of her absence and the burden of it was upon her shoulders again. Well,

ut and rushed to t

ontinued. Ting-a-lin

st as her feet could take her. Straight to t

el

Where's t

ery fast

u get him awake?" Sharp impa

minute, please, a

ohn! John!" shook him soundly by the shou

one, quick!" c

E

It's been ringing

ould be out for the rest of the night. She crept into bed. After he was gone

ty satisfaction in his tones that she answere

e moonlit window and slept till morning, oblivio

g-ling. Ting-a-

doctor

le ago; will be back in

ould have some lemonade this morning. She is very thi

uld 'phone again after awhile. And if, after waiting, he still failed to find the doctor? Mary

uld?" asked Mr.

t don't let her have

Thank you,

prescribe for a sick woman even so harmless a thing as lemonade. How did she know that it was harmless. Perhaps in th

. It sounded like the doctor's ring. Was he going to reprimand her? But

me would you have your

d upon f

ppendi

ch a question as that, I certainly hope you would have more sense than to take it. Advic

u are a doctor's wife y

will because you happen t

o, b

," quoth Mary.

medies because she is so used to depending on her husband that she never has to think of them hers

n that direction," thought Mary, her

portune minute to get the right answer. But I

el

onade and-don't scold-I took the liberty of saying-it's awful for a thirsty person to

this long about it,"

was all

er. "What needless apprehension assails us sometim

I won't prescr