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

5 == SYNOPSIS: Bcrause Jason Divitt knows she was a stow- away on the ship wherz Um- berto, his empleye, had found her, Juanita Basara's fear of expcoure kecps her a prisoner in his New Orleans gambling Divitt and his wife, are kind te her, and the dwarf, Gabreau, Conchita’s ccn, nearly kills Umberto when he ferces his embraces on Jua- The Turkish disg she s as che sells cigarettes has intrigued Adrian Fouche, who percuades his friend, Eric Led- better, who has lived in Tur- key, to speak to her in Turk- ish. In their party are Kirk Stanard and his grandmothe Mire. Belaise. As Ledbetter josts with the veiled Juanita, a new- ccmer, Senor Basara, of Mexico Cit. the group. Juanita, ed, is about to rum. A KISS IN TIME The man beside Adrian Fouche caught Juanita's hand, babbling softly in the strange tongue. He turned to the newcomer “1 was just saying, Senor,” he chse d, “that e is beautiful as an houri and fragrant as the jas- mine flower, and in spite of loyalty to the noblest sheik in New O leans, I could love her to distrac- duanita left a kiss on Ledbetter's astonished cheek. This the raising of the curtain on the tion. is the prologue most glorious * spectacle this side the Bosporus.” Senor Basara smiled, his glance Jeaving Juanita an instant and traveling about the room. Juanita Jowered her face, closing her eyes. Ledbetter began again hsi soft jar- gon: Odrian spoke now in a fiery aside. “I didn't bring you here to hold her hand and make love. I brought you to make a date for me. You said you could pull off her veil in @& way that looked accidental, Now do it.” Tliness shot through Juanita. Led- better had released her hand and she drew from him, her eyes en-| countering Kirk Stanard’'s. Stanard Diamond Briquets CLEAN ECONOMICAL EFFICIENT PACIFIC COAST COAL CO. Phone 412 POLLY AND HER PAYS to | [ 183 TAXI STAND AT PIONEER POOL Day and Night Service MOON of DELIGHT! | : by Marganet Bell Houstorn |had been dividing his interest be- |tween their by-play and Mrs. Be- | laise’s game. He was looking at Juanita now, smiling friendly. The exchange of glances lasted only | an instant, yet a swift courage had when she looked | She had felt entered Juanita again at Ledbetter. that she wi move. She knew now that she could not fall before those friend- ly, smiling eyes. She could move now-—she could get away. But there was Divitt watching her . Quickly her hand moved over her | tray. She selected a rose and, bend- ing over Ledbetter, thrust it into his buttonhole, then lightly, swift- ly, left a kiss upon his astonished | cheek—a kiss through the mesh and spangles of her veil, yet never- | "| theless, a kiss. She was gone. Molly was smil- ing at her where she stoed in front of the cashier’s cage. “Honey, that was great. Eric Ledbetter's got a million, and this is his first look-in. I thought for a minute you were going to frost| him. What's the matter?” “I'm ill. I can't stay.” Molly saw the dilated eyes, the hands that trembled ta the edge of the tray. She sat the tray on a ble. “Go to your room, I'll send Con- chita’ to you.” Juanita slipped out a side door HERE'S YER CAR UNK ARE Y'DOIN’ OVERBOARD? WOT TH’ DICKENS ) THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1931. JA caLL X~ ME, MATE? 4 By CLIFF STERRETT “Read what he say. If he is not apologize I will keel him anyhow.” Juanita closed the door, lit the candle in the recess behind the bed. It was as she had supposed. The note was written in indecipher- able characters. = She went back to Gabreau. “It is because Divitt make him do it. Divitt say somebody make | say it hurt Turk ladies ‘'modesties | | when somebody pool off dey veils. | Ledbetter say he beg you pardons. He will never do dat if you will come back. So he tek out his pen and write. Adrian Fouche say so know what he write.” ‘ Odd that Gabreau had not sus- pected he would write in Turkish. “Is he there yet?” “For why should he go? He thlnk‘ | You come back and kiss him some | mo'. De udder man have gone. De | man what they call ‘senor.’ He ‘have{ gone to ketch his boat.” ! Juanita breathed again. ‘When Gabreau said huskily, “You will not do it? You will not kiss no man?” she answered quickly. “No, Gabreau!” scarcely knowing what she said . . . So it was accident that he had come here, one of those twists of the shuttle that seemed to give significance to the whole design. And he had not even suspected, since he had gone away. (Copyright, Dodd, Mead and Co. | Divitts game is under the rouletie table—a strange game, tos, perplexcd Juanita decides | tomorrow. | i into the court. Juanita stood a dazed instant leaning against the cool’ stucco of the houseé; then she stumbled up the dark, stair and into her room, locking the door, taking off her veil so that she could breathe. For a deadly in- stant her heart had stopped. Now it was beating in great beats that seemed to push against éach other. Conchita came to the door and she bade her go away. “A lit’ orange flower water,” pleaded. “He will cure anything. Juanita drank the water. “Lay on de bed,” ordered Conchita. cannot cure you while yuo ron up and down.” ’ Juanita turned on her. “Vamos!” he {out. { Up and down, twisting her hands. How safe she had felt—when here ,to this very city, this very house—! And she had thought him at the |other end of the world. Apparently he was a friend of Adrian Fouche and of the man who had spoken }to her in the strange tongue—Turk- !ish, of course. A trap—and whose? Who had suspected and brought him here? No matter. He had come, would come again. The man Ledbetter would have pulled off her veil in another instant. Vet they must have thought she could not understand when they spoke lin English. . . . How tangled # 'was! But it was a‘“net, and here |she must stay, crowded into a cor- {ner, while they drew it tight. Again that sudden stopping of the heart. Some one was knocking at the door. She stood rigid. Then a voice. “It is Gabreau. I have | somet'ing for you.” Juanita opened the door and Gabreau handed her a note. ! “It is from Eric Ledbetter,” he ’snld. “de man wat you kiss.” And |as Juanita did not take it, “You (not want it? Then what for you kiss him?” “To get away.” Gabreau's voice ;compelled an explanation. “You not kiss him because you f| love him?” W""‘"“m‘, “Buen Dios, no!” “He|,, she cried, and Conchita waddled and | | | | i | For more enjoyable | lunches—makes them | taste better—makes | you feel better. Anheuser-Busch Budweiser 'The Nation’s Favorite lw" Schwabacher Bros. Company, Inc. 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