Show I 1 LEAP BEGIN HERE litRE TODAY Judith Avery gave up her job at atthe tho the Guarantee National bank when she could no longer bear to lo sec see Toby Locke every day and md to give him his wife's wiCe's telephone messages when he couldn't leave the thc assistant tellers teller's cage to answer the telephone After i a weeks week's s job-hunting job she took a n position position tion as office girl for tor Dr Craig Mitchell Mitch Mitch- ell eli Dr Mitchell knew why she had given up her position at the bank He Henad had nad been the only one to see her cry- cry crying lag ing ng at Toby Lockes Locke's wedding and had lad surmised the reason He wasn't the most brilliant young youns physician in town for nothing Judith didn't have to explain to him that she had wanted to o be the bride instead of Donna Herriot Herriot Her Her- riot at Tobys Toby's wedding But he didn't know enow how badly she needed the job he ne offered her She had gone Into debt for the first time lime in her 20 years to o pay for a dress and 10 for a ahat ahat hat lat to wear as Donnas Donna's bridesmaid bridesmaid- all nil to 10 show Donna and her other friends how little Tobys Toby's loss los had meant to her I NOW GO ON WITH TIlE THE STORY CHAPTER TE TEN Judith d stepped into the even routine routine routine rou rou- tine of Dr Mitchells Mitchell's office so easily so naturally that after aCter she had been there a week it seemed she had been meeting his patients answering his calls for a year The bank was far faraway faraway away in the past the hurry of ot it the frantic haste at the end of ot the month The thought o of Toby was close chose but the bank had faded She liked the work to come into the door marked Entrance which led into inLo the domain that was washers hers The well furnished homey re reception reception reception re- re room with its deep comfortable comfortable comfortable comfort comfort- able chairs its low end tables its thick oriental rugs that hushed the sound of ot her feet Her own desk at the long window had nothing professional about it it nothing It was of satinwood with spindly legs and a il smooth in inlaid inlaid inlaid in- in laid top In the drawers were the neat catalog cards with more of them the later ones in a standing cabinet near the desk Flowers on the desk usually a low bowl of ot them fresh every day Flowers Flowers Flow Flow- ers era too in Dr Mitchells Mitchell's office ad adjoining adjoining adjoining ad- ad joining the reception room Judith seldom went into it but it was lar large e too and in one corner was tas the great reat roll top walnut desk old-fashioned old incongruous among the newer furniture furniture furniture furni furni- ture that had belonged to Craig Mitchells Mitchell's father For the practice had been started years ago by Craigs Craig's father rather HE WORKS TOO HARD liARD Off OIl the consulting offices were three other rooms the examination room the dressing room which was occupied by the nurse Doris Benjamin Benjamin Benjamm Benja Benja- mm min when a patient wasn't using it There was another office too the domain of Mitchells Mitchell's assistant Dr Humbolt L Mitchell seldom came to the o office fice before noon In the early morning hours he was operating later hater he was out on calls It was only in the afternoon afternoon afternoon after after- noon that he was available for consultation con con- A stream of oC patients came from 2 o'clock on When Judith saw his appointment sheet the first dl day she was amazed She had never conceived conceived conceived con con- of oC a man being so bus busy Docs Does he always work this hard she asked Miss Benjamin Always He works too hard Miss Benjamin said When Doris spoke of or Dr Mitchell her whole attitude changed Her face softened her lips grew quite grave a new light burned in her gray eyes eyes' and nd she lost that look of or starched efficiency effi efi- which her tall slender figure fiUre acquired from the white uniform she always wore liES HES STU STUBBORN nORN She wasn't pretty prelly but her features were good and her hair fell in soft waves about her plain face tace Si Six years cars carsa a ago o she had come to Craig Mitchells Mitchell's of office fresh from Irom the Cro Grassland Crossland land hospital hospital hos has pital where she had taken her training training train train- ing inc and from the moment she started to work for him she knew instinctively instinctive instinctive- I ly how he wanted things done It was Doris who arranged the flowers lowers in his office in the mornings Doris who gave a last look at his desk to see that everything was all right Doris who insisted that he take bIte a glass of ot warm milk as s a up pick-me-up in m the afternoons when he had had a hard day dy She fixed the milk herself hersel and carried it into his room determinedly To the reception room Judith could do what she liked but in Dr Mitchell's Mitchells Mitchells Mitchell's Mitch Mitch- ells ell's office only Doris held full Cull swa sway Judith left leCt at G 6 but Doris stayed in invariably invariably invariably in- in variably in the suite until Mitchell himself let left leCt t Doris takes good care of ot me Mitchell had said one day when Doris was begging him to lo take the afternoon afternoon after alter noon off orf He had smiled and walked into his office as usual telling Judith to send in the first patient Someone has to the nurse re remarked remarked remarked re- re marked grimly when the door closed after him He lie can be stubborn at times Doris took constant care of him Judith decided The office was al al- al most a home to her Certainly it was WiS wasas wasas as dear as any home could be And Dr Mitchell might be a son to her A small wayward son who needed to be scolded sometimes and praised at nt others Doris seemed 50 years old to the girl when hen she started talking gravely about Mitchell in her maternal Cashion lash Cash ion yet Judith knew she was Vas only 25 2 At the end of or the week Judith discovered discovered discovered dis dis- dis- dis covered what hat she had been blind to before That Doris was in love lo with Mitchell Not Nat that Doris had told her And she knew too as a woman knows that Craig Mitchell was not in m love with Doris had never been in love with her He was nice to her polite but that was all She was necessary to him in his work efficient |