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THE EQUINOX Mrs. Β. How perfectly sweet of you ! ΒΓ. F. I hope this is not professional ; at least, I'm sure there’s nothing the matter with you. Mrs. Β. Heavens, no! I have health enough for six. Dr. F. And there's nothing wrong with Dr. Bob? Mrs. B. Nothing serious; he has had a bit ofa cough this month back. Dr. F. Heaven help him if he has to make his own diagnosis—you know we call him Doctor Doom’em ! Mrs. B. It’s just that I want to talk to you about. Dr. F. You don't mean to say you mind ? Mrs. B. Mind ! It's driving me mad. Dr. F. But h…
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DOCTOR BOB [He bows to MRS. BOB, shakes hamis with DR. FIELDING, amt goes oat R. Mrs. B. Another victiml Dr. F. It’s a shame] Mrs. B. Will you stand by me? Dr. F. You know I will. What is it? Mrs. B. Let’s teach him a lesson. I’ve got a splendid idea. It isn’t hardness of heart; but he doesn’t see clearly. I want to make him feel and understand what it is that he‘s doing. Dr. F. And how do you propose to do it? Mrs. B. Well, you know he asked you to look at his throat. Tell him it's something terrible, that he’s got to diel Can you think of any…
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DOCTOR BOB Dr. F. Poor devil! I‘ve known for months that it was all over with him. Mrs. Β. Oh, how dreadful! He's not twenty yet. Dr. F. He never will be. Mrs. Β. In my mind I can see him coming out; Ican feel and understand. Oh, why won‘t Bob let him take hope to his mother? Dr. F. It's a shame. It's silly, useless cruelty. I'd like to punch Bob's head......oh! I beg your pardon, Mrs. Bob—— if he breaks down that fine boy’s courage. Mrs. B. Oh, I quite agree with you. Dr. P. Then I say that he'd be all the better for a dose of his own medicine.…
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… little laugh aml takes anal lights a cigarette] Dr. B. Ten minutes! [He seats himselfcomfortably, %/?”עמששat the cigarette. A langpame. MRS. BOB amt DR. FIELDING return] Mrs. B. I must tell him—I must tell him! He's suffering too much. (Rims in.) Bob ! ...... What is it? Dr. B. Ihave about seven minutes of life left, Nan. Ι could not bear to let you see me suffer for a month. Mrs. B. What do you mean? Oh, don’t you see it was all a joke? We wanted you to understand how the people felt when you condemned them. There’s nothing the matter with yo…
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THE EQUINOX Mrs. B. (mide) What splendid acting! Dr. B. Oh, my God! (He falls back in his chair, sich an:! limp.) Dr. F. I'm sorry—I'm awfully sorry—but it’s true. Dr. B. Oh, my poor wife. Herel Thinkl Think ! How shall we ever break it to her? (He rises and staggers 0111‘ of [he 1119400711!/”?קשמSeeing MRS. BOB he slaps.) Mrs. B. (pretending no! to notice his agitation) Well, dear, and what does Dr. Fielding say? Dr. Β. (hoarse/3v) Nan, I hardly like to tell you. Oh, Nan, it’s the very worst. It’s the most malignant form of cancer. I haven't a…
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… rings. Dr. Β. Α patient, hang it all! I must leave you to talk to Nan. Send ’em along! [He goes info consulting—roomnnd close: Με door. Mrs. Β. He's set on this telling the truth. Dr. F. 011, it‘s wrong: I know it’s wrong. There's always a chance in the most hopeless cases. Mrs. B. Can’t we—ean’t we make him see it? Dr. F. But how? [Euler SERVANT, showing in \VILL STANLEY. W. S. 755600?/?חנמHow do you do, Dr. Fielding? Dr. F. I didn‘t expect to see you here; I thought you were better months ago. W. 5. So I was—in fact I am—only the mother insi…
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…infectious, !11 lost recovering her szgflieient/y to firing her ont.] Dr. B. Here, Nan, tell them to light the fire in the spare bedroom ! [MRs BOB goes out. DR. BOB'S leleþhone 011 011781171 rings. DR. BOB goes to it.] Dr. B. Half a minute, Fielding. Look after her. [JANE gasþs 111111 opens her eyes. Jane. You've been lying to me. Father of Heaven! I don’t want to die. I cannot be so ill as he says! Dr. F. No, dear child, no. The fact is—er—er—well, we’ve just discovered he's a bit mad, do you see? Listen to me, Jane. Jane. Oh, I'm trying to. Dr.…
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…offee, dear, and the brown brandy. No more patients for a bit. Come along, Fielding, eh? [He leads FIELDING to the consulting-mom, while MRS. BOB goes aut L.] Dr. F. This is an exceptional case, old man. I do hope you won‘t frighten her. Dr. B. Great God! always the same old story. They never come to me until the rest of you have finished them, and then it’s my candid opinion you want. Then you get it, by Heaven ! and instead of blaming yourselves, or the patient, or the disease, you blame me. \Vhy don’t you give me a chance? Why don’t you bring…
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DOCTOR BOB Dr. B. I only record the effect of the verdict of thejury— twelve good symptoms and true. Mrs. B. I can never forget seeing young Joe Whitney when he came from you. He had the face of alost soul. And the next day the papers had the news that he had shot himself. Dr. B. Well, what of that? He saved himself about four months of the most persistent and horrible torture that the mind of a devil could imagine...... People wonder why doctors are nearly always Atheists I Mrs B. Oh, Bob! Dr. B. In his place I should have done as he did. Dr. …
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…ing. She hasn’t any idea of how seriously ill she is; the shock might kill her. I begged him in my note to spare her the full knowledge. Mrs. B. Poor child! Dr. F. Well, if he says there’s no hope...... You know her, I think-Jane Skiring? Mrs. B. The little school teacher. Oh! I’d no idea she was so ill. I am sorry. [T118 consulting—room door opens, nnd an elder/y man, ?0/1058 lm! and stick are on 1/18 tab/e, comes ant. His face is drawn nnd lzis eyes haggard. He takes no notice of t/ie ῤεσῥίεῤεεεεπἰ, or ofliis hai and stick, 0111 goes sleazy/i…
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…ter the SERVANT, þreeea'ing DR. FIELDING, who 15 wearing his motor 1001 and guþ. The SERVANT goes through to Door L., 01111 returns with MRS. BOB, who goes to greet DR. FIELDING warmly, white the SERVANTgoes out R. and closes door] Mrs. B. How good of you to come so promptly ! Dr. F. [could never respond quickly enough to a call from you. I should have been here ten minutes earlier, but the Daimler doesn't like so much snow in the streets. VIII E 65
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…es. A bit ofa {right is the very thing to do one good. [Eider ΜΠ Stanley, his lmz'r 614/”?!!!ששa wild [00/5 in his eyes. He does not see Mrs. Bob (md Jane, who are?וש L. at one/é ofstage, but addresses Dr. Fielding, who 2": at tab/e.] W. S. I say, dec., it's all up. Dr. F. Nonsense. Cheer up, old son. It's never as bad as Dr. Bob makes out. W. S. Yes; I'm finished. God! but this will break up the mother. Dr. F. Then you mustn’t tell her. W. S. I’m not going to. But she’ll guess. Mothers seem to feel things. Look here, dec., I'm on for a night wi…
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…excess of intuitive sympathy had not made his life a hell; but he felt that his domestic relations were strained. Especially since “that Mrs. Grahame“ had evinced a liking for Gertrude. Her husband‘s colonelcy was the gilding of the pill; but the pill was a bitter one, for Mrs. Grahame went motoring and even golfing on Sunday instead of going to Church, and once or twice had taken Gertrude with her, to the scandal of the neighbourhood. Colonel Grahame, too, rather got on Bugg’s nerves, in spite of the " honour of his acquaintance." Such thought…
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… very slight, but it's been hanging about for a month. [He sits trad throws his hem! haehfoe the examination, which DR. FIELDING hegz'm. MRS. BOB 0077265 in L., sees the two meh, am! draws bath, facing audience, 'wz'z‘h a pleased exfeez‘ah! smile]. Dr. F. Whewl ............ My God ! [He draws himself 7719 with a gesture ofutter ergo/1y)“ Dr. Β. What's the matter? Dr. F. My God! Pull yourself together, old man. I've bad news for you. Dr. B. (gone while) It’s you that need to pull yourself together. Come, out with it! It isn’t...... it isn't ....…
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…ppears a suitable candidate for some more serious order, such as the M M M or even the O.T.O. H. Κ. Τ. TENTERHOOKS. By ADA LEVERSON. δε. MRS, LEVERSON is easily the daintiest and wittiest or our younger feminine writers; but she does well to call her latest masterpiece Tznlerlwa/ir. Mrs. Leverson offers us a picture of an aged, wrinkled and bedizened Jewess with false hair and teeth, painted and whitewashed with kohl, rouge and chalk until there seems hardly any woman there at all. Yet not content with addiction to indiscriminate adultery and m…
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…al piety; that it may have no objective value for the S.P.R. is quite unimportant for the class of readers whom it is intended to reach, Mrs. Davies is a “professional medium "; of such I have said things which only my incapacity for invective prevented from being severe. But though (no doubt) the phenomena recorded in this book are ‘non-evidcntial,’ I do feel the sincerity of the writer. I am confident of her good faith DIOGENES. TABLOID TALES, By LOUISEי4131101316]? i:. To quote the preface of Horatio Bottomley, “ Louise Heilgers is the only f…