The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 20, 1931, Page 6

INEw NEXT-DOOR NEIGHBORS SCARE-CROW! GIT A LOAD OF OLIR BY ) SYNOPSIS: Julian Lake scos in Nichelas Thayer, his guest in Italy, a prospective husband for hit motherless daughter, Ncra. But the girl is humiliat- cd by the plan thus to cnd her wandcrings with Julian, al- ways vainly cuccess as a painter. is the brother ¢f Joncthan Thayer, whom che fondly remembers, Because of this her instant dis- like for him is submerged and turns to sympathy when nurces the cmbittered man through an illness which leaves his painting hand paralyzed as the rocult of an injury. Her father's plan to wed Mrs. N vers inspires her despairing pro- posal that Thayer take her away, and results in her love- leos marriage to the man who can give her a cherished home and the regard of his people in America. Chapter 11 IN THE HIP'S WAKE Not until she was aboard ship did she realize what she had donc. Her heart came up in her throat when - they reached the cabin, Nicholas was walking about ner- vously. It made her feel sorry for him. 1If she were frightened, how much more he seemed to be, as he talked in disjointed sentences abcut things that did not matter at all. “Nicholas, what did the doctor say about your hand?” “Oh, that?” he asked, his face grimly smiling. “I told you—it will be all right “Did he take?” ' “Oh, in ‘jtist a little while—" hew long it would He | d$Porsel MAKES OUR'N LOOK LIKE SOMETHINK THE CAT DRUG IN/ 7 ESSIE DOUGLAS FOX e Ncw she understood that flush in his checks, his feverish eyes, his| strangeé movements. She put al coa: over her pajamas, slid her! feet into slippers and ran out. he ccrridors were desarted | | When she reached the deck at| first the wind seemed to tear her | breath away, but she fought her | |way forward. The deck was de- ‘servzd. She peered in through the misted windows of the smoking- | reom but only a red-faced man and ‘fi boy were drinking gloomily at a | small table. She continued to fight [her way against the wind, as |thcugh she were struggling against seme invisible adversary At last she saw she |appro:\ching the door again. She {tore it open and stood inside, | breathless. A sleepy steward came toward her. | “It's no night to be out, miss,” |he said, looking at her wild hair |and her white face. “My husband . ..” she panted.| “No one's been on deck for an was cabin door and called his name | there was no answer. She stared about its emptiness. He had hidden himself from her beécause he was suffering. Or was it that dark sky, that terrible sea that made her think such things? After all, she knew nothing about Nicholas. His bitterness was only down in the bunk at last, hearing beats, until at last, near morning, | she fell asleep. shrugged. His thin cheeks. had a ‘As for. Nicholas, some time in Some time In the night h had drowned himself In th wake of the ship. < LI ] dark red flush and his eyes looked wild. "“A day or two before you—be- fore we—land you'd better cable my family. ‘I always forget those things. You'll remember.” He caught up his hat. TN take a walk around and see what's happening.” ‘But he came back to the door- y. “You've got the tickbts and thing? The passport's:on the terth—and you've got my ‘family's ess?” i nodded. How strange and jote he was, she thought as he away down the corridor. lenly she slipped down on het Krides, her face against the berth, and began to cry, ‘Married. Married. Married. Why Badn't some one told her it was like #his. That she was trapped. That er happiness depended on a nge man she did not even. .. He excited her, but there no security, no peace, no un- &'l t.aklng me home,” she thought. “She was able to lie down and picture Nicholas' home so plainly, old house dreaming on the bank beneath its great trees e little waves - that rolled in | against a pebbly shore. _Nora woke with a start. Look- g about, she saw that Nicholas not come down to the cabin. heard a stormy sea rage Suddenly she knew what she have known from the momen: " saw his face in the Naples “I think] that dark night he had drowned himself in the white wake of the| ship. | Someone had knocked at Nora’s door and she had flung it open to see the ship’ sdoctor. She needed | |no words to tell her now. She knew. “He's drowned!” she said, her volce ringing off into the distance. ‘She had known it all the time. Before they had made the search of the ship: from engine room to lifeboats. Sh¢ had known some- | thing like this, dimly, when she had first met him. Something that had- warned her that he was suffering horribly. ‘When the doctor left she lay on| her bunk lopking out through the porthole. “Poor Nicholas! Poor | Nicholas!” a voice sighed far away. Was it her own . voice? | ‘What tortures he must have gone | through until he had dropped into | that black sea! She could not think this way. She would go| mad. She had forced open LheI portholes and peered out at the ocean. It was calm and sunlit. How easy to slip down into those glassy waters, to fee! them swallow you. ‘Why hadn't she known that last | night when he had acted so strange and wild, when he had given her those last directions? But she had been too wrapped up in her own fears. All the things she had hidden from herself stood out stark and | naked. She had married him be- cause she was afraid. Afraid of | the life she must live with her She remembered. how he had' Stars, was a very pleasant affair. were, for bridge—Mrs. W. E. Cahill and Felix Gray, high scores, |hour, miss. It ain’t safe” he said.|Mrs. Fannie Rcbertson and A. E. Nicholas, of course, was in the|Goetz—lows ¥ |cabin. But when she opened her| For whist—Miss Gertrude Wal- tonen and Henry Kufer, first prizes, Mrs. Ed Crowe and J. O. Kirkham consolations. ments. COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES the cloak he wore to hide an almost |their high school careers tomorrow insane sensitivemess. Suddenly she |evening when the graduation exer- |Pice Edwards, Ruth Lundell and Valedictory—Vieno Wahto. was horribly frightened. She lay|cises of the Senior class, 1931, will | Alma Savikko. | Scng r. A. E. Goetz, | be held in the Douglas Coliseum,| The entirc program will be a,j Ad W. K. Ke starting at 8 o'clock. C his footsteps in her own wild: heart | g Keller father and Helen Nevers. ' about the old house to which he | CHINESE AVIATORS TRAINED BY W LET'S SEE EMTOP" was taking her. He was sending | her to his people, to his home. | It was all he could give her. | “He liked me! Oh, he really | liked me!” Nora thought. And for the first time she wept bitterly. (Copyright, 1930, Jesse Douglas Fox) Ashes . . . cold, comfortless, bitter! Only these remain to- merrow from the glowing em- bers of a cherished memory. ——— DOUGLAS NEWS —_— LARGE CROWD ENJOYS 0. E. 5. CARD PARTY ‘With thirteen tables engaged in bridge and whist playing, the card party given last night by Nugget Chapter No. 2, Order of Eastern| Prize winners for the evening and | —adv. Runs Amuck, | “ « 2 ’ JUNEAU CABINET Kills Three, || wna DETAIL MILL- | WORK CO. Two Escap e Front Street, next to Warner Albertn ‘Bitthas e &t ey ' erta Farmer then - tempts to Take His CABINET and Own Life MILLWORK % EDMONTON, Alberta, May 20— GENERAL CARPENTER Running amuck, Joseph Michala- | WORK vich, 3 3 his mother, Baska Michalavich, IN AUTOS aged 70; his brother Steven, aged | 45, the brother’s daughter, Mary, | Estimates kurnished . aged 13, then shot himself. He is| Upon Request still alive and was rushed hospital here. Two other children are rcported to have escaped during the kill- ings. The motive has not Deen as-| certained. { —e—— to the The Boulder dam will be 45 feet| thick at the top and 650 feet at! the bottom with a length of 1,054 feet. ——e— { ELKS! 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