Show finally found jis his 1 real wife BY DOROTHY DOUGLAS 0 OCTOR BROCE when he be took tooh D docton over the bli big practice in glen cove relt felt that hat he simply must mus t have hare a wife not a wire wife in tact fact but a wife in fiction one that dwelt on the fringe fring of tile the world an une doe doctor for was inclined to lose out among certain patients it seemed to lie he exported expected of a medical man that he be properly nod and securely married and thereby put himself hini self within the intimate circle as the family doctor the brilliant idea of having a fictitious wife came to him like an inspiration the story was rapidly circulated that mrs bruce was compelled to live in n a higher altitude than glen cien coie coic and the anle 1 lie was so plausible pl that no one not even the servants in the house doubted it these false matrimonial colors had been lying flying some two years and doctor bruce found himself giving natural reports of ills his wife to the many patients interested and felt fell no guilty qualms of conscience whatever there was of old mrs kent who sympathized with fill him so keenly about his cifes health and took so much interest eliat she insisted on seeing a photograph of mrs bruce this was as all very simple until doctor bruce was called in suddenly to mrs kents who ibo lived all alone well out in the cou country in the middle of the night and there he met his waterloo ns as it were there had been nothing not liing in the past p ast to suggest sug est that flint li mrs its kent ila had been deliberately hiding from her doctor the tact fact that flory fiory hall flail was the most exquisite niece that anyone ever had slie she had bid come tor for a visit to her aunt from the far wes ves and had been taken quite ill im medin mediately tely after her arrival she was tossing about with scar bedl let cheeks nod and flame lit fit eyes when doctor L bruce ruce arrived and her tern tem pera ture was quite high enough to have alarmed mrs kent the temperature of flory alarm doctor cruce bruce half so much as the sudden nod and devastino dev asting swirl that lie he himself seemed swept into ne ele knew now why his heart bad remained so utterly unmoved hitherto by anything feminine this tremendous tiling thing had leapt upon him as surely a thing of flame as the fever in florys eyes florys fever would wool be quite overcome then its just the flu sighed mrs kent in relief 1 I 1 was afraid it might be brain fever or nervous prostration her mother has sent her on to visit me in order to break up fin an unapproved love affair I 1 was fearful the worry might nothing L to worry about mrs kent well see that this lovely niece of yours throw herself away on some worthless chap when he be had made flory as comfortable for table as possible and given full instructions to her aunt doctor bruce reluctantly departed there was no slightest doubt that the doctor had got of himself in a tine kettle of fish bsh aith his false marriage tales and tile the point w was as would anyone ever believe h him im flory fiory responded with flattering speed to the doctors care nod and had bad she 61 I 1 e not supposed sup poled him married would have acted just as swiftly in the matter of well perhaps a love affair As it was she had many moments when the look in his ebes aies swept away all feeling that he was ns tile the husband of another woman and that she herself was supposed to be suffering from a disappointing lore experience two tivo weeks lied fled quickly by and more and more the doctor realized that something must be done to ease case tile the situation in which ills his folly had plunged him certainly lie he was in love with flory fiory of that there was no doubt and what hit was more he fie intended to marwy marry her and the sooner it happened the better before flory fiory ventured out after her illness doctor bruce asked mrs kent to come for a short drive with him when they had got to a bit of 0 clear road where attention could tor for a moment be diverted from the wheel doctor bruce turned to mrs rs kent mrs rent kent I 1 have an extraordinary nar y confession to make I 1 have hare fallen desperately flesia abely in love with your niece and I 1 want your advice my advice doctor bruve bruce la Is for you to take me home at once you a married man to but bin just my trouble im not married its till nil been a terrible bluff it seems almost impossible to make you believe me but honestly you hear it all irn im sure forgive and does flory know about this mrs kents voice was hard but there w was is something rather flatter ing to the doctor in her surprised eyes certainly not I 1 wanted to tell you first arid and get your consent you see if flory and I 1 could go right away and be married no one need know but that she has been my wife nil this tinie time 11 and while it quite so SIM pie to lose a fictitious wife as it had bad been to invent one doctor bruce was introducing my wife to all ills patients in ili a surprisingly short time el by mcclure Newa newspaper syndicate 1 |