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Chapter 12 HOMER might have had Bruce 4 back with the band if he had gone straight to a telephone and called Bruce’s house. It was 1 A.M. out in Encino, and tne lamp oa Bruce’s desk was gleaming bright- ly as Bruce sat struggling with the notes he had taken in Pathol- ogy lectures in a harried attempt to keep abreast of the class. But his mind was too cluttered up with other matters—unfinished bits of business from the old life as well as new problems in his own household—to settle down to a steady assimilation of the notes that lay in front of him. It was one of the disadvantages of being a student by day and head of a family by night. The others in his class had nothing to think about except their work in school; and they ran in a pack more or less. But Bruce wanted T’nette curled up familiarly on the cushions of the couch by the fireplace. Just having her there would have made it easier to study. “A married man,” he thought, “gots into the habit of seeing his dame around and when she’s out of the room—” He frowned. In his own case, the cause of T’nette’s absence from her favorite spot was him- gett, me one 5 nome nad been % remely polite since theig.guarrel, yet it had not blown “Stes as others had in the past. It had left a kind of scar. Remembering, Bruce winced. He brought himself back sharply to the notes cluttering the top of the desk. A little frantically Bruce realized that he had lost the art of taking notes in class. He flung himself away from the desk and began to pace aimlessly up and down the den. When his restless feet came to a halt he realized with a start that he was standing in front of the piano. He sat down, lifted the lid cov- ering the keys. With shaking fin- gers he began to play softly the new tune that was blaring forth from over? juke box. It was a catchy little thing called “Wood- pecker Song.” Instinctively his brain began inventing sophisticated variations on the theme and he forget all pre rree ne erp oe = me THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME WASP WAISTLINES ... THE KEY WEST CITIZEN COR MEDICin By Frank Riordan about the pathology of new growth. At the first sound from the piano, T’nette, who had been ly- ing miserably awake in bed, sat oolt upright. A strange terror caught hold of her. er first thought was that Bruce had finally reached a decision. That decision could be only one thing or he would not already be working out an arrangement for the cur- rent song hit. Then T’nette’s heart seemed to pause and listen. She detected a queer accent in Bruce’s timing. The ture was a gay one and had to do with an early-rising bird who liked to serenade his lady- friends; yet Bruce was playing it almost as if it were a dirge. “My darling,” she whispered brokenly in the dark, “you're in trouble.” Hastily she got out of bed, threw a robe about her and started for the door. The pain she had felt that day Bruce had rebuked “her for meddling in his affairs was still sharp. . “But I don’t care,” she thought fiercely, “even if he hates me he has to do the only thing he was ever meant to do.’ Her hand was trembling as she reached for the knob of the door into the den. Just as she began to turn the knob she stopped as she heard Bruce run a wild glissando down the length of the keyboard terminating it in a dissonant blast as his fist crashed down on the bass keys. After that there was complete silence. T’nette pulled her robe close about her and tiptoed back to bed and waited for Bruce. But dawn and grey morning arrived and still Bruce had hot come to bed. And when, haggard from her night-long vigil, T’nette came out to have breakfast with Julie, Mrs. Lyons informed her that Bruce had left far school very early. “He said something about an examination where you look at little businesses under one of them —them microscopes,” Mrs. Lyons said importantly. “My gracious, Mr. Crane will make a fine doc- tor.” Rz0ce would not have agreed with her. He was struggling through his first slide examina- eng ee ee + AP Newsfeatures tion in pathology, and the words of the professor as he had han out the slides were still ringing tauntingly in Bruce’s ears. ‘ “You can know all the text- books on new growths from memory but you might as well start digging ditches if you can- not identify them under the croscope.” % Bruce was trying to keep his. mind on the sketch he was mak- > ing of the cells under the lens of. his ’scope; and as he sketched he was trying also to decide whether he had_ been given Hodgkins or Acute Inflammatory to identify. Precious minutes ror 1 on while he tried to make up mind. ae Much too soon, the five-minute warning bell sounded. It did, not bring inspiration to Bruce, but it did force him to make a decision; and hastily he began to put down all he knew about Acute matory. And he was wrong. * The professor that same after- noon in class went into great de- tail telling Bruce—in the presence of the students—how almost. im- possible it had been for him, Pro- fessor Green, to believe that a student could not identify Hodg- kins after the professor’s lengthy lectures and demonstrations. — “Perhaps,” Professor Greén concluded with feminine shrew~« ishness, “perhaps we could make you a Musical Doctor.” His. smile was cruel; and the grins on, the faces of the students were grati- fying to Professor ‘Green. But ‘his smile wilted as he happened’ to catch.Karen Thayer’s eye, for she made no atterapt to conceal the contempt she felt. es She cornered Bruce after. clags. _ “You're not going to let that little panty-waist pull you down, are you?” Karen said abruptly. “You simply can’t, for if you do--” She took his arm and walked along the hall with him. “If you do I'll have lost my inspiration,” “I can still be your inspiration,” Bruce murmured with no attenipt at jocularity. "7 “Why don’t. you take me-, a drive to the beach. After a it’s Friday_afternoon and your wife will have you for two whole days.” ‘et (To be continued) Aa (Copyright 1947 by Frank Riordan}: ° hee eal = Take your choice of new foundation garments for the for new fall silhouette. Above, left to right, boned long-line bra and girdle, the wasp waist belt and the high-waisted girdle; below, wasp belt with attached garters, all- in-one, and bra-attached corselet belt. 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