The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 13, 1931, Page 6

S Ao PR T A e SRR S PR PR N e TS E ,(,.. R RN T IO OUR HOST INFORMS)E DEAH ME, DUKE! WHAT A = MRS. PERKINS, YOUR LADYSHIP! SYNOPSIS: Nora Lake is hu- miliated when her father, Jul- jan Lake, plans her marriage with Nichclas Thaycr, to pro- vide for the motherless girl of 20 the home his artistic wan- deziust has denied her. But her diclike for Thayer thereby is in- crcased, rising higher when the successful young artist, after a night’s stay in the Italian villa Ient them by Mrs. Nevers, abruptly plans to leave. Her inexplicable decire that he re- main may be due to her knowl- cdge that he is the brother of Jenathon Thayer, of whom a tendcr memcry remains after a chance mecting five years be- fore. To forget Nicholas she goes for a walk, returning hours later te find him in pain from a cut hand received in opening a chutter for her. Chapter 5 A HAND OR A LIFE The stranger whom Nora thought about all morning shatches of pain and delight w gone; in his place was just a boy. She stood beside Nicholas and saw that he winced as he unwound the bandage that he had so clum- slly wrapped abeut the hand with its ugly gash below the thumb. The hand was now so swollen that even the wrist was puffed. She looked at his flushed face in alarm. “Why haven't you seen a doctor?’ “I've no use for doctors,” he said stubbornly. had in PREPONDERANCE OF VULGARIAN THERE ARE HERE TONIGHT! o ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, MAY 13, 1931 = By CLIFF STERRETT THAT DUMB DAME HEH HEH, TAKES US FER A COUPLA FURRINERS/ BY JESSIE DOUGLAS FOXum: She asked, “Where’s Julian?” “He's been out all morning.” {but she told him to promise to stay where he was, though she were in no hurry she left the room. But once outside the {in his indifference. | bin= gate she flew down the hill. | She kept seeing Nicholas' eyes that had followed her like an old | dog’s they'd had at home, who had {looked at her with just such hum- |ble suffering. The ugly inflamma- |tion of the hand was ious and | she must get a coctor at once. She ran on, remembering she had | noticed a doctor’s sign not far down the hill. But beneath her fright | was a sense of triumph. He had not been able to leave after all | was still at the villa . . . and he was going home . . . perhaps if one wanted a thing enough there was |a way of getting it. If only the doctor would be in! | She found him smoking a cigarette in his garden, with an air of in- finite lelsure, amused at this young thing who came rushin gin to him, demanding that he should come at | once. At once! But as he mounted | the hill beside her, refusing to go !z\ny faster than his fat legs would carry him easily, he grew interest- ed when he heard the patient was a man, a young man and a paint- |er. | He looked shrewdly at her face, wondering if this man were her |lover. 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Box 1908 Seattle Carnation Milk “From Contented Cows” An “Old-timer” in Alzska ®1D’s LARGEST-SELLING BranD oF EvaroraTeED MiLk icu!f to the fellow's suitcase handle. she was frankly frightencd | her | then as! He | jty her in the wall. Some half hour later he came down from Nicholas Thayer's room |to find Nora sitting on the bottom in through the gat @ |step of the stairs, like a small watch dog. “How is his hand?” she asked, rying to hide her terrible anxiety. He shrugged. “He should have called me soone: There was something almost cruel Nora pressed him. “Please tell me.” “What can I say?” He made a gesture of cutting off the right hand at the wrist. She shuddered. “You can't! He's a painter.” “Lifé is like that.” “Life is like that.” Nora flung out her hands to- ward him as though she would shake him out of his imperturbabil- “You must do something!” listen to me. He is a little mad, I think,” he said, tapping his temple. She would do anything to help, she tcld him passionately. She had forgotten everything but the artist and his future, the man who had painted the old peasant woman. \For had it not been she who had asked him to unfasten the shut- ter? But she was cool and quiet as she listened to the instructions that Dr. Madroni gave her. Nora could not encompass such a tragedy as that which would re- sult if the doctor’s fears concerning Nicholas's hand proved justified. In that event, she felt herself as the blind means of his fate. Why had she let him open the jammed shut- ter! When the doctor had gone she knocked at Nicholas’s door and went in. His bed was unmade and s room was in a state of seething d der. He was walking the floor and groaning aloud. “This damn thing!” he exploded. “Look what it's doing to me. T've got to get out of here and get to work. I can’t do a thing until this is better.” She got hot water, tore up an old silk slip for bandages, made a poultice, and returned to set his room in order. He could not eat a {thing, he told her; but she made a pot of tea for him and watched him drink it. He gave up his restless walking after a time and flung himself {down on the bed. “Does it feel any better?” {eould not help asking him. “For God’s sake don't ask me that!” He turned over and lay on his face. After a while he asked, “Did the doctor say anything to you—" “Nothing,” she said, lifting clear Jeyes to his. ’ All through the afternoon she stayed with him,” changing the poultices. Where was her father all this time? Why had he gone off and forgotten his guest? She had heard her father say that he could not bear pain. He was too sensi- tively aware of it, he had often ex- plained to her. He suffered more than anyone else could suffer . . . When the early dusk had come she lighted the lamp and brought him her father's frayed dressing gown. The doctor had given her a sedative for Nicholas and he drank it with a wry face. He was not easy to care for; he was too impa- tient. After a while she saw he was asleep. She sat by his bed watching him, remembering the cruel gesture Dr. Madroni had made of cutting off a hand at the wrist. She felt shaky; she had eaten nothing since noon. But she did not like to leave him long enough to go down to the kitchen. Outside the widow she , heard the ryhthm of cicalas. In the room was a low mutter. For now the { sedative had worn off he rolled and | twisted, groaned aloud with a sound that tore straight through { her breast. Perhaps Nicholas was dying. Per- haps this blood poisoning would | kill him! (Copyright, she 1930, Jessie Douglas Fox) A death sentence? Is that Thaycr's answer tomorrow as he considers life’s futility and | struggle? - et — HANDCUFFS ONE-ARMED MAN DODGE CITY, Kas. — Putting |the ‘“bracelets” on a one-armed man is quite a trick, but Sheriff Charles Campel of Pearisburg, Va., was equal to it. About to return |a prisonar for trial on a felony charge, he snapped the spare hand- “He is unreasonable. 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