Deborah, I decided, than frozen blue Barry Newbill. That thought perked me up enough to get me to talking. “I'll be glad when they per- fect a cure, where I can be myself again, but I'm thankful right now to be alive."

"That's a good attitude to have, my dear," Miss Grayson commented.

"They're going to let us go home Monday week too!" Julie exclaimed. "Deborah and I are really going to enjoy ourselves. She needs piles of clothes and things. Just as soon as she is strong enough we'll buy the stores out."

Discharged From Hospital!

That's the way the headlines of the local papers read when the doc- tors let me out as scheduled. Dressed in a pretty white above-the-knees dress that bellowed in the breeze as we walked arm in arm to her car, I avoided the newsmen who were there to cover the sensation causing event. I refused to make a statement and we would not permit pictures. By the help of some Government agents we escaped those who attempted to follow Julie's car. They blocked the exits until we had been gone quite some time. "I have another car in this garage that is under your new name, which the press doesn't know," she explained as she turned into a parking garage. We left her old car there and climbed in a new Chevy.

A few minutes later the girl I had loved, as a male, and now was to live with as a girl, drove up to some fancy apartments. She parked casually and we entered a large three bedroom affair which was tastefully furnished in feminine taste. "Your bedroom will be the large one on your right, darling." she advised. "I'll take the one that's beside it. You'll find several changes of clothing in your closets already. I just had to do some shopping for you. You'll need oodles of pretty things which we can begin to accumulate as you gain strength."

"You won't believe this Julie," I said softly, "but I am as strong now as I'll ever be. I don't feel the least bit weak."

"Then we'll just begin in the morning, to dress my pretty Deborah up in the finest. All right?"

"Sure," I said bravely, as I embraced her awkwardly. "Whatever you want to do is fine with me."

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