Show Legi e Re 1 L P By gy 01 Ulvan van LANCED GLANCED vv VP at the corny gag a delivery delvery room door above the i have never e eI lost a father tather 1 I Ined t red ned ed at the thought of ot the hose hos- having to take it down after alter I I these years The fellow tellow pacing und and down In front of ot f It looked as gh he he might take ort oft and fly any rny moment he was that nerv new hing were too quiet for tor New NewBar's tars Bars ar Eve I had just phoned Mac I I city editor to report the condi condl- 1 4 of a hit and run victim and Be e c had told me to hang around 1 hospital till he called back I IA A b been en impatiently to get land and see what was going on when noticed this fellow tellow trying to tor toa r a groove in the floor Just for gh i sat down where I could Men eh ch him without being too ob ob- s. s ere arent aren't many men who can cant can't t that in their stride but this jo IV hr r was any that I Ij j seen there before he seemed the verge verse of hysteria He lIe kept ling i ng g at the big clock elock on the wall then checking it with his wrist wrist- ich eh h. h I noticed that It was seven seven utes ites till twelve but that didn't important enough to explain condition of ot his nerves p 1 curiosity got the better of me meI I got up and offered him a cig Re te when I sa saw w him groping f pA iE a c re i x t Congratulations I 1 s said a I d d. d Huts Hut's ts t's quite a start toward adl a willy dl I land d In an empty pack His thines thin ires es relaxed Into a vacant of thanks for a moment but buthe buthe buthe he frowned again as he looked t the clock and then at the thed d door our first I asked him nodded without taking his eyes le e door Triplets they took an anly ly last week Congratulations I said That 1 a start toward a family gave me a serious look then fed d self sell Yes Isn't Then after a quick at lock his attention was wu back backe backie ie e door ting icing that talking about Itt it t help I asked No are there no The doctor said he heit ht it everything would be all allm I im m the tone tOile of his answer I Ij j that angle wasn't causing all ety I caught myself glanc glanc- i at atthe the clock each time he did j beginning to wonder if It he had haded haded Bed ed from the psychopathic Maybe there anyone delivery room No one had hadd td d or left lett It since I had been had bad managed to use up two cigarettes In four minutes d year was all aU but gone and andis l is s 5 this poor devil He couldn't light the third one I had tot to tot Jit t for him I thought he was to pass out when he looked up clock and saw that thirty sec sec- had Lad passed while we were g g that cigarette lit AS I WAS glancing around to toke toke ke sure lure there wasn't anything that he could use for a weapon got violent the door opened red-headed red nurse poked her herWit tout Wit out o boys and a girl she an an- d. d T. T The grin on her face let us that Jat everything was aU all right let t you see your wife wile and the theas as soon as we make em pre pre- le e. e Happy New Year Yearl she he shut the door I looked ft It t the father tather I came closer to surprised surprised at what I saw than thane fe e been in several years I Id Ired Ired Iy y red d U if this could be the same samen n that at had been eating my cig cig- H JUt just before the nurse stuck gad ad out the door He was com corn r f calm with Just a touch ol ot woud foud smile that Is normal norma in uses ej rna That got me doctor In there had the easy B l sure thi this job I toW t him I fl t Sure ure I was going to lose lop the i f J at that I 1 was a lit lit- irked ed up wasn't I IT n Fter ter ler I no snorted ted that a aan an an n understatement There Therean ave an beep been something else InI In In- I to get you all steamed up f iu u were three hundred undred dollars teamed steamed up about ft d that I had been Ii d P lop over a lot less ed d at my puzzled By getting here before mid mid- those tho e kids saved m plc three a Ii dOllars on my income ta tax L I a We tittle afraid they weren't make U. U it f |