and lost the most of his money and when he died, he
didn't leave nothin' but the house and just enough
insurance for the girl to skimp along on.
Her mother was a kind of a half invalid and didn't hardly
ever leave the house. Julie wanted to sell the place and
move somewheres else after the old man died, but the
mother said she was born here and would die here.
It was tough on Julie, as the young people round this
town—well, she's too good for them.
She's been away to school and Chicago and New York
and different places and they ain't no subject she can't
talk on, where you take the rest of the young folks here
and you mention anything to them outside of Gloria
Swanson or Tommy Meighan and they think you're
delirious. Did you see Gloria in Wages of Virtue? You
missed somethin'!
Well, Doc Stair hadn't been here more than a week when
he come in one day to get shaved and I recognized who
he was as he had been pointed out to me, so I told him
about my old lady. She's been ailin' for a couple years
and either Doc Gamble or Doc Foote, neither one,
seemed to be helpin' her. So he said he would come
out and see her, but if she was able to get out herself,
it would be better to bring her to his office where he
could make a completer examination.
So I took her to his office and w'ile I was waitin' for
her in the reception room, in come Julie Gregg. When
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