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Show I choly. ' After It was over and Taliuadge had paid the insignilicunt check, they went together as far us the corner and there Dora left him. Thirty minutes later Tulmadge Scott, after some irresolution, entered the restaurant of the Sterling hotel. He allowed the head waiter to lead him in ceremony to a table near a babbling fountain. He was about to order and In search of such delicacies as turkey, cranberry sauce and pumpkin pump-kin pie when he noticed that the girl at the table beside him wore a hat like Dora Grayson's. Why. it was Dora Grayson! And before her there was a small platter of steaming ' turkey, sweet potatoes, cranberry sauce They exchanged smiles, and then Talmadge Scott found himself at her table sitting opposite her. Dora blushed with extreme embarrassment. "You see. I just had to have turkey. ,lt may he a myth all this business about Thanksgiving but .1 like It." So they feasted leisurely and happily hap-pily together. Later there were explanations. ex-planations. "I. was going to ask you to dine with me," said Talmadge Scott, "but when I bega to nil I V talk about It you seemed to pooh-pooh pooh-pooh the idea of Thanksgiving din-, ., ners " f "And I'd made !r"r up my mind to v . , ask you to come and have dinner jy&T n!e' w'il" ' ' of"5 "as so ?nxiQ"s fo i 6&JKWf (Sw7 cook It. But you j " I'iS "L&J said, something I 1 tV': w about the Thanks-I Thanks-I litefl Kvi"S nl-vlh' so 1 VfiftN didn't." I f IvUl It was after liu- II Hi iAyw ner together Unit j - P.ori( asked Due- , tur Scott tp her little apartment.! where they talked before the cheerful glow of Ihe open tire In her liivng i room. "I've always wondered Just why a girl like you studied medicine?" lie ventured to begin.. "I've wondered, ton," said Dora. "II all seemed so wonderful and so easy in medical college. Hut now I'm practicing prac-ticing by myself. 1 wonder, too " "It seemed," Talmadge went on, "as If you were the sort of girl the sort of girl that would want to marry that Just couldn't escape marriage " "fiut I never wanted to marry anyone any-one but a doclor" she began, and then stopped in confusion. And Ibis gave Talmadge Scott the cue for his firl and last proposal. dnrxG. Osborr ??p ORA LOUISE GRAYSON, !;S1 'n SI'te f caressing brown f'Wll btbed nar an(j starry blue 'rlsil eyes' found herself at iSgrOl twenty-five a full-fledged doctor of medicine, working in the clinic of the Children's hospital. Somehow, worn, anxious mothers looked at her with so much trust and bo much confidence, she wondered how-it how-it had all come about. Sometimes she doubted her own powers of endurance to go on. Talmadge Scott, after several false starts and several years of business, at thirty found himself in possession of his degree of doctor of medicine. He wondered sometimes how It had ever occurred to Mm that he could possibly be anything else besides a doctor. For several weeks Doctor Scott had been stopping every day at the Children's Chil-dren's hospital to speak to Doctor Grayson, who received her little patients pa-tients in the room j . j, 1 right across the ihll'll corridor from the I'lH l j L'pilifi small operating I'll I f ll'fejjl' room where he jl (11 'jijfc worked two hours I' I'l ' 'System every mprnlng. In J&X ITfe never known a f. -r j A woman doctor be- lil?wo tore; lie trled t0 ' YUtoM'U 1 m s g 1 " e' b U ' ssJSfA could not con- vSfcJ'' e'ude. what sort l!!S3y j of person she f must be- "Clinic is closed rPfflivS' tomorrow," he re-feOf re-feOf marked the Wed-SjuTjgalffififHf Wed-SjuTjgalffififHf nesday before Thanksgiving. "I suppose you will have dinner with k friends." f "Thanksgiving dinner?" she queried. "I am afraid I don't feel In a very thankful mood. I'm thousands of ' pVjles from home. Do you stl(l believe In .'turkey and cranberry sauce anfl pitnipkln. pip?" "It's a pretty myth," he said. If Dora had been a keen observer shp might have noticed that a look of disappointment passed over Talmadge Tal-madge Scott's face, and If he had been tj mind reader he might hqve beeil qware pf her own disappointment. t heipg sp gifted they partefl with a brief farewell. pajmad.ge Scott knew where Dota qraysfln lived. All Thanksgiving day he tliQue'it of ber, In spite of e.ffprts tQ put her out of !(ls njlnd,. Several times he found excuse to pass her apartment. At half-puat sljt, as he fell fur the first time since breakfast the need of food, he again walked by her house. It was then that lie was re- warded for all his diligent waiting. for Dr. Dora Louise Grayson Just then 'i came out of the door of the apartment house. : "Are you going to dinner?" he ' asked, and Dora admitted that she was going out in search of something jto'eat. "But you don't care nbout the old traditional Thanksgiving' feast?" jibe queried. "It's funny how people have clung to the tradition." 1 -isn't It?" he said, tuid then. "As we both seem to be going out In search of nourishment, what dp you say t.i combining forces?" Ten minutes Inter they were seated opposite' 'eflCl. other in a while-lile,1 eating establishment. Dora had de Cllned Talniadge's Invitation to go t 'a more expensive place. : 'A salad is all I want," said Dora From a tray being borne past then came whiffs of aromatic turkey an, stuffing that somehow made Tal madge's mouth water. Yet he said iooklng instantly at Dora, "Yes. . ialnd and' tea. 1 think that's what shall have, top." So they supped together, and some how as they ate Dora felt a funn; gobbing sensation as of Intense home Wckness and disappointment, and Tal felt a curious sort of melan |