somebody comes in Doc Stair's office, they's a bell
that rings in his inside office so as he can tell they's
somebody to see him.
So he left my old lady inside and come out to the front
office and that's the first time him and Julie met and
I guess it was what they call love at first sight. But it
wasn't fifty-fifty. This young fella was the slickest lookin'
fella she'd ever seen in this town and she went wild
over him. To him she was just a young lady that wanted
to see the doctor.
She'd came on about the same business I had. Her
mother had been doctorin' for years with Doc Gamble
and Doc Foote and without no results. So she'd heard
they was a new doc in town and decided to give him a
try. He promised to call and see her mother that same
day.
I said a minute ago that it was love at first sight on her
part. I'm not only judgin' by how she acted afterwards
but how she looked at him that first day in his office. I
ain't no mind reader, but it was wrote all over her face
that she was gone.
Now Jim Kendall, besides bein' a jokesmith and a pretty
good drinker, well, Jim was quite a lady-killer. I guess
he run pretty wild durin' the time he was on the road
for them Carterville people, and besides that, he'd had
a couple little affairs of the heart right here in town. As
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