She was eighteen, the youngest of his brood, squat,
and in no waycomely save for her tender mouth. Firstthing is, I must find a location
for my office.
A frowsy head protruded from a ground-floor window.
Should he operate; cut into the wind-pipe that shemight breathe?
I swear, itdont hardly pay to invest in mortgages
any longer. Martin worried as he took outhis clinical thermometer and gave it a
professional-looking shake.
Among his economies was the reduction of his sons
allowance. Plenty of places open for him there, with a big salary, so wewont have to
be dependent on anybody!
Say, I wish youd walk down a ways with
me.
He arose, in time, and went silently to his
laboratory. When do you think youll have your trunkunpacked, Mart?
This was a week before the glasssign was up, and
Martin rejoiced to Leora, Begun already!
Behind the front room of the tiny office-building
were twocubicles, formerly bedroom and kitchen.
He determined to view the roomsbehind the Eagle
office. But understand, Lee, Im not going to go monkeying with anyscientific
research.
Mother Tozer, what the dickens do you think Im
planning to do?
Youd be safe renting it for a year, but that aint
the point,said Bert. Alongthe railroad bumped a freight train with a cheerful
clanking. Silva the healer bulked in theroom, crowding out Gottlieb the inhuman
perfectionist. Fortunately our ever alert policeman, Joe Colby, was on the job
andhelped Dr.
Make me afool, after all the trouble Ive taken? She
and I was reading that piece in the Eagle about it.
Apparently he accelerated for corners, to make them
moreinteresting.
Did you bring your trunk up from the depot?
Alongthe railroad bumped a freight train with a cheerful clanking. From the thick
swale the young prairie chickens rose. Robert spluttered, then shouted:Yes, I did!
He found the child in a newly finished bedroom of white plasteredwalls and pale
varnished pine. Behind the front room of the tiny office-building were twocubicles,
formerly bedroom and kitchen.
Aw, let em sit on plain chairs, Martin
grunted.
Slowly the Novaks began to glower, shaky hands
attheir lips.
He felt helpless without theequipment of Zenith
General, its nurses and Angus Duers sureadvice.
Whered you think we better put it when its
unpacked?
Tozer had said, smiling to sugar-coat it.