Show war HH Adapted from the Metre Picture Jn in- RANDALL WHITE in an aulo and i Frances eald Defense Coun Marlowe CAST OF CHARACTERS cl as ho rose cini and without show aced Mo 1 ruin of her career that it because of the paralysis of one rr on do o She expect to rues James Reynolds Lew asked the charging lwi by a w-ta iteration he performed caused the Blair Kildarc is is also and to settle out of tacitly admitting Kildare's Leonard Gillespie the young doctor's commends Kildare's refusal to let the hospital settle and Carew Walter resident of the falls in ine to save the medical from the persecution of Channing is the Mary Lamont is Kildare's Mollio Byrd is superintendent of the hospital and always bickering with a lovable tyrant confined to a wheel chair for twenty rates as a leading Chapter Four which the young defendant bitterly declared should be tilled got under way in a crowded courtroom where pity for the pretty plaintiff could be sensed in every glance and whisper of the eager audience in Tyros in legal the Blair General Hospital group were shocked beyond measure at the openly expressed amounting to almost between Attorneys Channing for the defense and Reynolds for the you hear what that Reynolds Mary and the judge were pals in our lawyer and theirs planning lunch Byrd we haven't got a Chinaman's Carew overheard he said and judges don't have to get mad at each This is their business and they're all in the same Youthful Mary Lamont was Reynolds does seem a harmless ehe does the doctor just before he cuts off both your growled The prosecution called the as their first With adroit come of them leading but more the kind to which only partial answers were Attorney Reynolds made Jimmy tell the story of tho emergency operation this Although on official business for the he was out for a with his sweet They had lunched together but had had no Intoxicating drinks not even His examination of the Injured girl had been If anything beyond bruises and a compound frac- iture of the left and a rupture of tho spleen had been present he have discovered it and tho accident had not the paralysis of the had never before performed a operation on the he was not a surgeon but a physician serving officially as assistant to Leonard diagnostician at the Blair General Attorney Reynolds showed quite early that ho was determined to win his case and that ethics and good sportsmanship might be to suffer a bit in his doing it operated to save this girl's life on the grounds that she was better off alivo even though he I expected she'd completely Jimmy because you bungled the job Reynolds was continuing the judge stopped he asked mysteriously at another ever any doubt in your mind that you were doing the right in for a You never expressed any doubt at any before or lafter tho the inquisitor I the young doctor answered Two subsequent witnesses for the seemed to blast the very foundation of Jimmy's even in the eyes of his most biased Bergs to the tho plaintiff's counsel i Sven Bergstrom was employed at tho garage in which Byrd her car and to which Dr had it after having borrowed it the day of the Ho swore he had found a partially emptied bottle of whiskey in the In my He's a foreign-born shouted Mollie when tho bombshell was object to thia line of thc day used Miss Byrd's ho has that to do with shouted Channing with ill-timed show of Reynolds withered him with my colleague wants to claim that Superintendent of Nurses Byrd is accustomed to keeping whiskey In her he said that now-a-days bottles of whiskey are standard equipment in six-cylinder then perhaps I couldn't possibly prove that tho only time whiskey was found in Miss Byrd's car was the only day used her car the day he operated on my Miss Frances whispered excitedly as his attorney sat down didn't have any whiskey In that I hadn't had a drink and they can't prove that I The prosecution introduced George Young to drop another He was the young who had arrived at the of the accident with the ambulance to pick Frances Marlowe I j found Kildarc Attorney you tell I of any conversation you had with this defendant at tho scene of the I couldn't conceal my prise at the daring of the doctor the said remember I remarked Tt must have been pretty The young Miss said something to the effect that she doubted whether the patient would have lived if i had not proceeded so j quickly with his surgical I remember distinctly that Kil- f dare did you have the from this remark of that he was entirely without doubt as to tho necessity of this dangerous emergency for the was fiLet wIth objection the slipped lius query across to discredit testimony Kildarc had previously His objection was sustained but the deadly implication of what looked like sharply conflicting statements from the same pair of lips on a vital point had registered with the All this damaging before lunch on the first day of the It was a badly discouraged Blair Hospital group that assembled in a little restaurant they knew for a bite of food they didn't Attorney Channing was late in joining f Jimmy was iu me of I said what that swore I said I certainly don't remember he it didn't mean what that lawyer interpreted it to About the whiskey bottle found In the car he had been driving he had simply no He brooded through most of tho Suddenly he left the He'd promised to phone his parents about the progress of the he This is young we're dealing observed the wily If he's really in that Jimmy was actually telephoning but maybe not to his Ho came out quickly and called Vernon hospital from the bar over into a knew Bergstrom at Miller's he knew ho was and he knew he'd actually found the bottle of whiskey In Miss car for he himself had seen him find he concluded how you ever gonna prove which one was the drunk Jimmy asked In Nobody ever throws good away unless he's been mixing it with tho orderly remarked Suddenly something clicked in the young doctor's he said go into the dining room and tell Gillespie not to wait for Tell him Til meet them in orderly Interrupted a conciliatory speech Attorney Channing was making to young Kildare's the lawyer was going to put you on tho I'm counting strongly on your professional broke Kildare's gone He'll meet you In court The beloved ogre nearly choked on his did you let benighted ho The snarl begins to unwind In the next J in u. s. a. |