Show r MR DIGGLES ON DUTY A i 0 N bihary WHITEFORD t e r MR DIGGLES kept his head down os as though he were studying tho the prescription scarcely hearing mrs tompkins voice through the noise of blood thudding in his temple homles when ho he tried to io speak ills his lip lips s were dry and his tongue moved nervously over them 1 I beg your p pardon a r d 0 n mrs tompkins what wha was that you said 1 I said if you a i delivery boy ill watt wait for the three bus bun but im anxious tw to get back an ai soon as I 1 con can lie he looked again at dr cramped handwriting 1 oh ill deliver it mrs tompkins im sorry to learn mr tompkins well 1 1 I l told him its just his bad disposition coming out 1 I told dr price I 1 certainly hated to drag him minute out ot in weather like diction this just juat for or a stomach ache doctor says heu hell be all right in a day or two mr diggles Dlf igles took the handkerchief from the pocket ot of his grey alpaca caprit and wiped his forehead ore head the moment ho he used to dream ot 0 years ago was here at la last st this would cost dr price hla his practice ce the pity was dr price would nevii never know he could have saved himself it he made it so clear that a man who mixed pre about diagnosis dr price would never know what hed done to himself when he told mrs white she might as ai well give the twins a chocolate soda aoda as diggles Dl ggles own whooping cough mixture because ut u dr prices new ways of 0 doing things no one bought diggles Dt ggles ready rheumatism reliever nelle vcr now shots it was the doctor was wag giving for everything not prescript alons Alan manslaughter ter they called it lie wet wel his alps well no one could expect agles 10 lo interfere alth dr df prices pr pro 1131 not a second timi time though it was so many years ego ago he could ael eel cho he flush of anger ager that flooded his tac remembering the day hed called dr price up and suggested thai maybe the heart eart medicine he ordered ter or mr ven ables was wa too strong 1 I 1 know what im doing just mind your own om business diggles and I 1 can mind mine ile he looked again at the pre prescript scrip tion there was no mistaking tho th symbol ambol and hed ill it as it stood he tle reached for the bot bottle leand and re inov moved edthe the cork carefully he measured out the prescribed doze R DIGGLEs straightened suddenly M MR staring at the partly tiled filled mortar A feeling of nausea swept through him as he snatched it up a and nd flu lung ng the contents into t the h e sink mink his hand replacing the bottle on the shelf heu trembled outside the wind howled and hakes flakes of ice made a cold noise beating the window pane slowly he be walked toward the telephone after all just as many people swore by dr price as trusted diggles Dl ggles As he waited listening to dr prices telephone bell ringing the shop door opened mr diggles put down the receiver and went to the front dr price was on the mat stamping the snow from his feet fact diggles Big gies will you let me see the prescription mrs tompkins just brought in 1 I was wa just trying to call yole you about it dr price pice I 1 felt there was some little inaccuracy dr price nodded something told me but I 1 really worried I 1 knew catch a mistake if there was one its ita a great comfort to me to know that a substantial man like you Is checking up on me diggles Dl ggles 11 1 I have to do what I 1 qan can A man has to do his duty he smiled and stood up right doctor I 1 guess duty becomes a habit if you do it long enough the wind screamed into the shop as dr price opened the door and went out it was a bleak bitter day but in mr dig agles heart it was suddenly umi mer |