The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 7, 1930, Page 6

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But there his next summer’s vacation will be tomorrow.” | ———— COOK STOVES AND HEATERS —at—— Juneau Paint Store 'SENATOR BORAH'AND OPRONENT] HE ROSE ROYelYCKERSI "IN THE DARK SYNOPSIS: Hallie Eilosmore, beautiful young nurse, falls in love with Saxley Grannock during a chance meeting on a cliff above Long Island Sound, althcugh she is already engaged to Letter Broon, Grannock's younger brother. Granneck can- not see her clearly, as he has cye trouble and is to undergo an cperation which may eith: restere or ruin his sight. Hence he refuses to let her tell her mame, but gives her a tiny dvery rose as a love token. Hal- lie is hircd, unknown to Gran- neck, as his night nurse during the treatment, and must notify Dr. Lytton when certain symp-- | tems develop. Lester, coming in late and drunk, holds Hallie captive in the drawing room until it is past time to call the doctor and Grannock goes blind. Hallie, disgraced, breaks with Lester, though he refuses | to give her up. Forbidden by Dr. Lyiton to Grannock, Hallie nevertheless meets him by accident outside the hous Hearing her voice, he recog- | nizes her as the girl he met on the cliff, not knowing she also the nurse who blinded him. | He urges her to forget him, now that he ic blind, but she jpcists che loves him and wish- | cs to help him. Then he asks sce | her name. (cld man. You just leave her to— Chapter 7 | ON THE BRINK OF BETRAYAL “My name?™ echoed Hallie. “¥es, I suppose I must tell you my name.” In Grannock’s hand, that clasp hers so closely, a pulse was b upon the doctor’s. it?” Granno: now sa W is | sharply s Dr. Lytton,” “Oh!” Grannock laughed again, this time almost shyly. “It's you, doc? Say, you didn't obey orders did you? I told you to make clear to—to this lady that she to forget all about me. But you she w n't persuaded. She— came.” ytton, charging down upon his atient, failed to size up the situa- tion. “Grannock, old man, I don't know hat to say to you. I seem to fail you right and left. That this should have happened—! Come in and rest a little. Youre overtaxing your- self, squandering your nervous se Casey!” He barked s shoulder. “Get Mr. Gran- nock indoors, please. Order him some coffee “Order coffee for two,” put in Grannock quietly. “In the drawingj room. And perhaps you will be good enough to see that we—this lady and I—are not disturbed.” “What's that?” snappe Something about his patient she s Lytton. then |caught his attention and he hesi- tated. “What's that?” he repeated un- certainly. “It's most inadvisable | that you should have any kind of discussion with Nurse Ellesmore, intention of seeing—. erviewin Nurse nnock with im- of fdct, I houze." " He| “I've mean, more patience. thought she'd left the turned his shtless gaze towards Hallie. “As I can’t lead you into the house, will you lead me? We| no . Lytton seized his patient angrily. ing—or was it in her own? It was as if at his touch she had become one with him . . . And now she| must shatter this divine one-ness. Bhe must tell him her name and feel the beating pulse of love check and falter . . . Would he strike her down in the sunlight? Would he| turn awey with a half-stifled word? | “I was brought up by a very dear aunt who gave me her name be- cause my own would have been ~notorious. I don't even know what it is; I accepted her verdict upon it and although she tried to tell it to me I wouldn't let her She wrote it down before she died and left. it in safe keeping so th: I could know it—if I ever wished to. But I think perhaps I haven't found the courage So when you ask me my name I can't really tell you, you see.” volce stopped and was she herself | talking. Evading The careful she knew that it who had been Coward! “But I am going to find out my real name,” she added. “If you call me by it, I shan't feel that it is notorious any more.” | Grannock was laughing softly. ‘ “Does it matter what is ‘real’| and what isn't? Haven't we made| our own reality? To me, you' are | forbid—" His voice roughened and | the ivory rose and a voice that has; the sound of the sea in it and—a| great many other things. pne.” He frowned and halr-turn-{ ed. “I seem to hear people ncar‘ follow this path to the front door. And if we meet this Ellesmore wom- an on the way—I'd rather not be told.” “Ah!” The gasping sigh came not from | Hallie, but from Nurse Casey. Hal- lie's hand had sprung to her mouth at that moment when Lytton un- consciously blundered away her secret; she had stood so while Grannock’s rejoinder told her that even now he had not guessed it. But Nurse Casey, whom no one had watched, whom no one regard- ed as more than a necessary piece of surgical equipment—Nurse Casey |was once again succumbing to the temptation of becoming ‘personal” about a patient, Fighting with her tears, she rushed at Hallie and tried to push her away from Gran- nock. “What's the matter?” fretted Grannock. He put a hand up to his bandages. “Oh, my God, this blind- ness will take a lot of getting used to! What is happening? Rose—?” “Yes,” she answered him faintly but immediately, “Yes, I'm here.” He made a 'movement towards her and at that Dr. Lytton came to life. “No, I'm sorry, but I really must he had to start again. “I'm in charge of your case, old man, and All in{you must do as I tell you. You're not fit to entertain Nurse—this—to entertain anybody today.” “Wait a minute,” complained * | ears, your entertainment. |for passage south on the Alaska ¢ Hallie wrenched her hand from|Grannock. His hand went up to his i and faced the study window. It bandages again and Hallie's hefiri; framed Dr. Lytton. broke afresh at the pathos of the . Never in her life had she seen gesture. Ignoring both Lytton and such anger on a man’s face as she |the little nurse she moved close “You promise that?” he asked | quickly. Then, before she could re- | ‘But I don't need to make you If you say it, it will be s0. 'Till tomorrow, then.” “If you still want me,” she re- peated, “I will come.” His laugh changed to a groan and, with the sound of it in her Hallie left him. She turned the adjacent corner of the house | and began to run. As she ran—out of the garden, down the drive, out into the road—she thought one thing only and that was—"In a few§ minutes now I shall be able tog cry. In a few minutes I shall be able to cry.” ] But when at last she galned her solitude, no tears would come. (Copyright, 1930, by Roy Vickers) In tomorrow's chapter Hallie begins to convince Dr. Lytton that her deception of Grannock is for the best. IMPORTANT MEETING OF DOUGLAS P.-T. A. TONIGHT The Douglas P.-T. A. will meet tonight for the regular monthly ession in the auditorium of the | high school. 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