The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 1, 1930, Page 6

e THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, SATURDAY, NOV. 1, 1930. POLLY AND HER PALS TS THIS wotT [~ ErPRESS HERSELF T +AOLERNISTICALLY/ “E ROSE IROYelYCKERs[ IN THE DARK Ellesmore, | “Ye His private tracked down Nurse Casey and she informed him she had changed | places—and names—with you. TI'd told her she could tell if she kept | Lester guessing a month.” “And no said Hallie slowly, {“I feel T'd pay anything to get an- other week. But that doesn’t mean| I'm not grateful to you for letting| me have a month.” “I did it for Grannock's sake,” napped the doctor. “I reckoned ithat in a month you would have |built him up emotionally and ner- |vously. And so you have. He's fit now to be told—anYything that he must be told.” “Not quite,” said Hallie. “Oh, hell stand the strain of the operation all now.” ‘No,” she contradicted him flatly. “Not if he knows the truth about me. . T thought he was fit, too, but he isn’t yet. He confessed to me this morning that the thought |of the night after the operation was terrible to him. “He fears he may be given a sedative,” explained Hallie, “and | that the night nurse may abandon him.” Lytton cursed losdly. “Well, we can assure him that therell be a trustworthy—" he} floundered—"that he won't be left alone again.” “He has asked me to stay with him.” “What d'you mean?” “He feels he will be safe if T am with him.” Lytton opened his ‘mouth. “QOh, please laugh, if you want to!” said Hallie faintly. “I know 0 SYNOPSIS: Hallie detective has nurse who blinded Saxely Gran- neck by deserting him at a crucial mement, and Rose Con- aldine, the girl he loves, are the came person, but Grannock is kept in ignorance of the fact. e actually is not to blame, yed by Lester Broon, Grannock’s haif-brother, while drunk. Mrs, Bartholomew, cegentric old woman, tells Hal- lic her father was Clem Con- aldine, cuspected murderer. Les- ter desires Hallie and threatens to tell Grannock her secret un- less she marries him. Grannock i sent to Baltimor: for fur- ther treatment, accompanied by Hallie, unknown to Lester. In New York another Rose Con- aldine, is told by her unscrupu- Jous lawyer guardian, Mr. Perle, {hat she is the daughter of Clem Conaldine by another woeman, but may use Clem’s fertune, if she splits it with him. Grannock asks Hallic to stay with him during his com- ing trcatment as before, mot knowing, of course, that Hallie is the nurse who st betrayed him. Dr. Lytton arrives from New York. nervous right Chapter 20 A STRANGE PROPOSAL Dr. Lyttcn lost no time in making an excuse, to get Hallie to himself and away from Grannock “I know wha hes happened said Hallie. “Lester is coming “He came down last nig train just after mine. He's sure to be with Grannock in an hour.” “Does he know I'm here?” ~—ae | Dime and Dollar Building | and Loan Association EVIDENTLY NATWRE HAS THEY TEACH&E GEXTRUDE'S LEARNING REVEALED HERSELF TO DEAREST IV AN’ ANGRY MOOD. CANT Sou JUsT HEAR THE THWNDER? “I could have arranged for to sit up with him that nigh said, returning to Hallie. “Not alone, of course. I mean, even if I could conscientiously recommend you, Downing would probably insist on one of his own nurses being there, too The trouble is, of. course, Broon. By that time he will no’ doubt have given you away to Grannock and Grannock won't— well, he won't want you. Will he?” “No. And I'm afraid of his not wanting me any more. Not because of myself but because of him, the effect on him . . . You understand, I think. He may be stronger than he was. But if he has to face that one night fearing that the same awful thing will happen to him and realizing that. the one person he thought he could trust above all others is just the one he was try- ing to shun—then he will become insane.” Lytton was scowling at the ground. “You may be right,” he said ab- ruptly. “It's one of these cases where a sympathetic observer may well make a truer diagnosis than the medical man. . . But what are we going to do?” he asked. “I imagine Broon's with Grannock now, appie-cart!” “If he is, I must just go away.” She found she could actually smile at his vehemence. “If. he hasn’t spoken yet, I must try to make terms with him.” “What terms? “He might be willing to wait one more week. It Xs'n'L long. It isn't long!” she cried out with a sud- den sob—and found Lytton’s armime T tried! As for screaming, I see round her shoulders. “Ever heard that I hate women?” he asked. by [ Y that you were -essentially a man’s man. But I'm afraid I don't care whether you hate me or not.” “Hm!” said Lytton. “Would you care if I—" He checked himself so suddenly that she thought Lester was upon them and sprang to her feet in panic. “We must go back,” she said, spilling the whole infernallwomen. I took a step towards him. ] | Yes, Saxely said onceithe patient. Once in the drawing- Lytton crossly. “Even now I don't |know . . . Hallie, you've turned me down pretty flatly. Give me one consclation. Tell me exactly what happened that night.” “I heard Lester come home,” she |said quietly. “It bhad just struck {two. He was intoxicated and he was| 1g a noise. He came down the |passage toward the study. I was afraid he would disturb the pa- tient—" unconsciously, she had fall- ‘en into the precise tone of the pro- fessional nurse—“and so I opened the door and told him he must be quiet. I imagined that he would be surprised at finding me on duty | there but he informed me that he| had engineered it. So it was I who was surprised. I'd had no idea of that—he hadn't warned me. Al- though at that time, as' you know, I was engaged to him.” “Go on.” | “He talked and laughed and| wouldn't go. I was more and more anxious about the patient who was sleeping, I thought, lightly in spite of the sedative. I begged Lester to go away.” “Go on,” said Lytton. “He promised that he would go if I said good-night to him. . . T forgot about my duty then. Lester {has power, a sort of magnetism, for I am almost certain it was only one step but he seized me and carried me down the corridor and into the drawing-room.” ! “But—good God!—didn't you scream? Hit him? Catch on to Lhc‘ furniture?” | “He is a great deal stronger than | you think. I couldn't do anything to make him put me down. Believe now that I was a fool! I should have screamed the house down; but my one thought was not to disturb room he locked the door and threw the key out of the window. It was| no good my screaming then. No one | heard me.” Lytton was silent. “Fortunately for me,” she plough- ed on, “he just sat down and went to sleep. And I picked the lock. . .| I see you don’t consider it at all a convincing story.” Moose Hall, Wednesday, Nov. 5th. By CLIFF STERRETT THEYS BOWND T'BE o( A BT O'LIGHTNIN'! tors contributing to succéss or fail- ure of farm operations, and that before state highways will have| prov as beneficial as they wer designed to be, there must be ade- | quate means of access to them. ; It favors construction of surfaced roads whose wearing qualities will| be adequate and whose cost of con- | struction and maintenance will be no greater than demands of traf- fic warrant. e ————— WOMEN MEET MONDAY The regular monthly meeting of the Business and Professional Wom- en’s Club will be held Monday eve- ning at 7:45 o'clock in the studio of Miss Caroline Todd. 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Lyt- ton answered himself. “You won't,” he announced, again drawing out- his watch. “Well, I didn’t really think you would. Still, I'm sorry.” “Oh, I'm sorry, too!” gasped Hal- 1 'm afraid I've been very un- gracious but I was so absolutely thunderstruck, I took it for grant- ed, you see, that you loathe and despise me.” So I did for a bit,” acknowledged 00D S ARCTIC {Sleep comfortably through the cold- |est night—and every night. Be yourself every day. Buy a genuine ,Woods Arctic, world famous for |warmth and lightness. The real pioneer eiderdown of the North, for over a quarter century the favorite of explorer and sour- dough. Responsibly guaranteed. Buy yours early, from your dealer. Woods Mfg. Co., Ltd. Ogdensourg, N. Y. 4 Distributed by Kennedy Bros., Anchorage for telling me.” “I don’t want any one else to know ever,” she said urgently. They had returned to the hotel The clerk informed Hallie that Mr Broon had arrived to see Mr. Gran- nock. 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