The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 25, 1930, Page 6

RS, 6 VERY WELL THEN, H TLL SEE HER UNCLE, MR. SAMUEL PERKINS! SORRY, MISS SMYTHE, BUT HON. GERTRUDE HE RO E [ROYSTCKERSI IN THE DARK SYNOPSIS: Hallie Ellesmore, nurse, who blinded Saxely Grannock by doserting him dur- ing a ocrucial treatment, and Rose Conaldine, the girl he leves but never has seen, are the same person, but Grannock is kept in ignorance of the fact because Hallie's presence is a help to him during the first sheck of his blindness. Only Hallie and Lester Broon, Gran- neck’s half-brother and her ex- fiance, know that Broon detain- |detective, swiveling round in his |chair, rummaged amongst a of ne papers. “Here we are!” He dragged out a rotogravure section and fluttered the sheets. “It's my job, Mr. Broon, | to keep an eye on the ‘personal |columns and, as I said, the nam: Conaldine stuck because of its old) association.” He spread out a page and pointed to a photograph of{ three smiles and six legs all sprawl- | ed under a garden-awning. Leckett was “set-wise” enough to cd her frem her patient while know that this kind of crowd was he was drunk. Hallic has learn- 'not Lester Broon's -kind of crowd. cd her real name is Conaldine “I take it,” ventured Leckett, from Mrs. Bartholomew, friend |“that this Miss Rose Conaldine is of her dead aunt. Another Rose [noc the one you think is on the Conaldine in New York is told |way from Portland to New York?"” by her guardian, Mr. Perle, law- | “Oh, lord, no! This one is blonde, yer, that she is helress to a |isn't she? With blue eyes?” $50,000 a year income. Both | “I believe so.” Leckett was guard- Roces are told their father was | ed—very guarded. “There have been Clem Conaldine, suspected mur- |a number of gossip paragraphs dur- dorer who never was caught. |ing the last few days about the Loster threatens to tell Gran- |young lady and, as it happens, I've nock that Hallie is the nurse |been informed, unofficially, that who blinded him, unless she [she is a bit of an heir Just marries him as criginally plan- ‘s(cppud into a lot of mone 0 When 'she fails to meet , | Lester burst into a gale of laugh- Lester in New York to be mar- | ter. ried, he is told by Dr. Lytton, “Sorry!"” he said at last, com- Granneck’s physician, that Hal- |posing himself. “I see now that I He is in Beston. Grannock has |must have puzzled Miss Conaldine gene to Baltimore for further |as much as » puzzled me. I was cye trcatment. Meanwhile Les- |locking for the other one, you see.” ter has met the New York Rose | b’ ; ' murmured Leckett. Conaldine by accident. | I wonder if theyre related? 1 {should think they must be, with an {identical name and an unusual one {at that. But I s’pose that's beside private de-|the point.” tective, w not, at first, especially| “I think it is all clear,” Leckett impressed by his caller, Lester;said slowly. “You simply want the Broon. It was not until the name|address of the place where the lady Conaldine was mrentioned that he puts up affer coming off the boat became alert |. . . . Well, you say the boat is “Conaldine!” he echoed. |due temorrow evening, so you will “You know the name!" said his|probably hear from me by the client. Leckett took refuge in eva-imorning mail the day after that.” sion. | “That'll be fine,” “It's unusual, Mr. Broon—it sticks!ing negligently. . in the mind. I suppose it's because| *F there will be preliminary ex- of that manhunt there was—let me|penses,” said Leckett, He had see—ahout twenty years ago—after|dealt with gilded youths before. Clem Conaldine, the man who was! The sunshine lay in a golden wanted for murder. You'd hardly|flood outside the cffices of Leckett remember it, perhaps, but it made and Hicky. Lester revelled in New a great stir at the time.” {York at mid-summer; and vet his “Oh, that’s why the name was|conscious thought, as he turned sort of familiar to me when I first/into Fifth Avenue, was that Hallie heard it! I do remember some-|and he must play soon amongst the thing. They didn't find him, did/snows. Autumn in White Sulphur they?” |Springs, Christmas in Montreal. “Not so far as I know. Now, Mr.!She would skate divinely with those Broon, let's see if I have got this|balanced, slender limbs; and he right. You want me to have a lady!would teach her to ski. ... called Miss Conaldine, a passenger| Lester paused before a jeweler's. on the steamer Nantucket, coming{Long ago he had decided that the from Portland to New York shad-|ruby was Hallie's stone. owed from her arrival at the wharf{ A long dark car hummed to the to wherever she is staying. You are|curb opposite him. He recognized rtain that the lady is on board|the heavily enamelled woman at the e N et ?” |wheel and concentrated him atten- Chapter 23 A HUNTED WOMAN Mr. Howard Leckett said Lester, ris- pile |} | you!” THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, SATURDAY, OCT. 25, 1930. MioS SMYTHE, oF 2 | THE HON. CULTURAL ACADENMY, TO SEE You, SIR! ~— me!” said Rose in a sudden gasp. “I don't think anything you could say would make me forgive you.” give me a chance,” tered Lester. How did you find out that lly am Rose Conaldine she ked, fiddling with her bag. “You— till may not believe anything Why, everybody's talking about protested Lester. This was so obviously gratifying that he en- larged on the theme. “You don't m to realize the sensation you've sed everywhere. l'!filf-a—doz&'x‘ni people have asked me if I've mat you yet—and I've had to tell them | that I have but didn’t know it!”| “Well, I mustn't stop now. I'm meeting my guardian for lunch—" she was blushing most unbecom- ingly. | “But I shall be dancing at the Club Rivoli tonight,” she gabbed | on suddenly. “You—we—we'll talk there, if you like. Oh, there’s a| taxi!”’—and with a rush she had hailed it and sprung in } (Copyright, 1930, by Roy Vlckex',»r‘ Rose’s taxi ride brings her face to face with some dismay- | ing facts in Monday's chapter. LR TRE L AR DOUGLAS NEWS NUAL D. F. D. BLOWOUT IS BIG EVENT TONIGHT Tonight the Douglas Firemen will ontertain the general public at their annual supperwcard party and dance in the Eagles' Hall A fine menu has been prepared for the supper which it is expected every- one will attend. The first sitting will be at 5:30 o’clock. When every- one has been served, there will be. two hours of card playing, both whist and bridge being offered, and suitable prizes for both. Coffee and sake will follow the card playing and the entertainment will conclude with a dance. Excellent music has been secured for the dance. Every one is invited to attend. i | AUXILIARY TO INITIATE | Initiation of new members will DISCUSS GERTRUDES be held next Monday evening by the Ladies Auxiliary of F. O. E. ‘A]l members are urged to be pres- ent for the ceremonies. | FORMER DOUGLAS GIRL RETURNS WITH HUSBAND Mr. and M: Jerry Williams h: arrived from the south and will make their home on Channel. Mrs. Willilams is former Harriet Sey, daughter of Mr. and {Mrs. Charles Sey. WRIST IS BROKEN { Mary Pearce, while at play at the recess yesterday morning on the Douglas School playgrounds, fell and broke a bone in her left wrist She will carry the arm in a sling for several d e ——— Katie is"parlor mald, cook, woman, laundress, and her e time she can take care of the flow- ers and mow the lawn for the Joneses Coliseum, October 28. A great comedy. —adv. - ,ee - — | Dailv Empire Want Ads Pay. “Tomorrow’s Styles Today” Sweaters Women’s Coat and Slip-on styles in a comp lete assort- ment just received “Juneau’s Own Store” SUNDAY 1% “I've no reason to doubt it. T was|tion on the window display, hoping told in Boston that she had left to escape notice. She stopped for Maine and planned to sail back only long enough for a girl to slip to New York from Portland.” imx[ of the car. The girl crossed the “Well, that seems simple. Can|street, coming straight at him. It you give me a description of her?|was, he noted, with amusement, the You said she was a nurse?” newly fledged, press-agented blonde “Yes. But she probably won't be Rose Conaldine. in uniform coming off the boat., He stepped into her path. She was to leave her job—her case,i “Are you ever going to forgive I suppose they call it—in Portland |me?” he asked. and taking the boat back to New| She halted, startled, tongue-tied, York instead of the train, would|hopelessly ill-at-ease. He bent down be on her own responsibility. A sortito her a little, searching her face, of holiday. But your man will'letting his words fall softly. pick her up easily enough. She’s| “Ah, I see you won't! I don't medium height, slender, pale—does|blame you, of course. Only—I have not usually wear ‘makeup—and/something to tell you that might eyes and hair” perhaps make you think a little better of me.” “No one has ever been so rude to “Dark! Leckett made careful notes. It was too bad, he thought, that this gilded youth should come look- ing for a dark Miss Conaldine, when | there was @ blonde one all ready| and anxious to be claimed by some- | cne more presentable than a retired | cook-inventor, wanted for murder. he insisted. | “Dark?” “Very dark. The darkest x:Dsfibl‘,iumiersigm:d, Ernest L. Pulver, has v + ibeen duly appointed executor of gom e;esfalmo.s.. l?l,“k' wiah “rsl‘lhe Estate of Emery Valentine, name, by the way, is Rose. She! jdeceased, and that the creditors is Miss Rose Conaldine.” et e “Rose!” Leckett jumped. persons having {and all h against said deceased may exhibit “I take it for granted” he sald.| o with the necessary vouchers, still making notes, “that you can-|witnin six (6) months after the not be confusing ber with the Miss gyt publication of this notice, to Rose Conaldine who is—" Again gaig executor at the place of busi- the society columns proved invalu-iness of said estate, to-wit, the .\%—"Whokfifi l)l'flp"t’ge‘&,‘:fl;““zl‘“Valenlxne Jewelry Store, Juneau, the Peacock Ball at u voli| Alaska. next month?” | Dated this 3rd day of October, His client began an impatient de- 11930, nial but stopped abruptly. . “Say, that’s queer. I did meet & Executor of the Estate of fiss Rose Conaldine the other day | Emery Valentine, Deceased. at least she sald that was her First publication, Oct. 4, 1930. He broke off while t/h_e'l.-l!t publication, Oct. 25, 1930. 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