Evening Star Newspaper, August 13, 1931, Page 37

moon by Manganel Bell Houslon SYNOPSIE. other. having discovered resort. The MArque t's receipts, writing the . from their robberies could be found. eanwhile Umberto. Divitt's henchman, 85 been arrested trying to stage a rob- bery Divitt had planned. CHAPTER XXXV. | KIRK'S RETURN. | IRK had not wanted to come to- night. Nelly had pined for Di- vitt’s and the news that the place was altered had done lit-| tle to lessen her desire. She thad seemed stronger of late. Ther ‘was really no reason for not taking } Nelly had grieved keenly over Jus. bita’s disappearance. Strange that Jua- nita had not sent them even a post card from the place to which she hac ., Strange that the marquesa had | not written them again. But no tranger than that the marquesa should ot have called Kirk the night Juanita | ‘was taken ill instead of spiriting her Hke that | P eocretly, Ne'iy belteved that the mar- | esa had « -ed Juanita’s engage- | ent to .. had_taken this means of breaking it. The difficulty With this theory was tha’ it was hard to imagine any one's taking Juanita @way unless she was il or willing Nelly worried considerably about it | #nd about Kirk. Kirk wac so changed. | Indeed, there were incidents con-| with Juanita's visit and de- that Kirk had not communi- ted to Nelly. Incidents that puszied d troubled him. Her strange be- i o Ao spirned by Divi hoyttr ‘ | ard. over | That was all she could remember, the | the gestures of an automaton . THE EVENING And Nelly had opened her eyes that once and said, “Juanita! . . . I hear Juanita’s voice. . . . Kirk, dear...” Kirk was there, Kirk was looking at her—Juanita. . . . Kirk was lifting Nolly. Nelly looked like & baby in Kirk's arms. . . . That was all she had thought then, meeting Kirk's eyes. She felt as if he had always known. . . . No, not that. As if he must inevitably know-—some time. He had spoken. “Juanita. . . . Not as Nelly had said it—blindly, glad- Iy—but as one who cannot or will not believe. . . . And then the doctor Liad come, and presently Kirk lifted Nelly PO S0E G S - fn his arms. Juanits met his eyes Juanita moved away with her tray,|again. . . . up toward the roulette wheel. Kirk| It had not mattered, then. But passed her, not looking &t her, going |now—Yet it had to be. Inevitably. it toward the telephone. Juanita' heard | had to be. Life moved on & current. his voice. “Hello! . . . This is Stan- | strong, unseen. Human hands could 7 not stem it. Better to move with it.... Then something happened at the| Music filtering into the court roulette wheel. Nelly was sweeping in | from the Tijon. The Mexican band her winnings, laughing. Suddenly her|. . . “La Paloma” . . . They had face grew gray and fixed. and she drop- | played “La Paloma’ the night she bad ped quietly from the high chair to the | danced with Kirk in the Tijon patio floor. | .. . Dimly she thought of this as she ‘Get back! . . . Get back, every- | iit the lamp. Dimly she thought of body!” Divitt's shout | what Kirk had said when she sang it Some one started to open a window, | for him once, ‘Paloma—the plece has but Divitt stopped him. He hated| wings in it. You, too, have wings, things ltke this. They got in the pa-| Juanita. Will you fly away some day pers. No open windows here beyond mv reach® And then that “Get back!” he ordered again, gath- | DIEht at Tarpon Point, while the rain erin; y y I streamed around them Not g up the money Nelly had let fall ey o I herding the crowd like sheep. dpg:re!f_‘ wings, may L Only Juanita was there now, kneel- 2 ing, with Nelly in her arms. Gabreau| 2Sevond his reach! . . . had brought water. Juanita bathed| She took off the chiffon trousers, the mall, white face. | red slippers, kpowing it was the ' last all a physician,” she said to Ga-|time. She dressed herself in the first breau, “There, now. . . . There, now, | dress that came to her hand, pulled on Nelly, Youll be all right.” | the small black hat | “Music filtering into the court. “La Juanita was in her room. Nelly was | Paloma.” “Wings, Jusnita. . . . Maybe one. Kirk had carried Nelly from the | a stormy petrels wiil ‘you fly rlers to their car. The physician | beyond my reach?” . . , had come quickly, with with them. , . .| ey were playing again as she Kirk's eyes, . . . Kirk's eyes, meeting | passed the pariors, though it was not i R an hour since Neily had fallen from Where her veil was she could not!the high chair to the floor—not half remember, nor when she had snatched | an hour since Kirk had carried her like 1% off. . Perhaps when she had bent | a baby in his arms . . . Divitt was in Nelly, thinking she was dying.| his place, raking in the money with of DELIGHT Juanita, glancing in that direction, saw Nelly playing intensely, with flushed cheeks. Saw Kirk begging her to leave. But Nelly would no' leave. The telephone Tang back in Molly's cage. Gabreau stepped in and an- swered it. “It fer Meester Stanard,” he told thought that Nelly was dying. . back to the Call a physician,” she had | Gabresu stoo¢l with his said to | door. STAR, GTON As she entered Roya! street two au- tomobiles drew to the curb in front of Divitt’s place. Men in uniforms got out. The gttes opened again and they went in. Juanita crossed Royal street. There was the look of & sieep walker on her ace. It was toward morning that Kirk Stanard came back to Divitt's place | &nd rang the bell. There was a pad- | lock on the gate, but he rang—long rings that mignt have raised the dead. No answer came, and presently he re- membered a gate that led from the Tijon patio probably into this ecourt He had seen it the night he talked | there with Juanita. He walked quickly | around to the Tijon, seeing no one as| he went through the lobby except a boy behind the desk—a boy who looked | at him with frightened eyes and asked | no_questions. | ‘The gate had been broken as if with an ax, and tied again with rope. It too, was padiocked. Kirk undid the rope and went in Silence. The silence of a forgotten cemetery. ‘The parlor doors stood open The lights still burned. Chairs and tables were overturned. Kirk made the circuit of the court, opening doors upon empty rooms. He started up the stair Suddenly he heard a sound—a long bleating cry that came from an upper room, echoing through the court. (To be contirfued.) Seventy-Foot Monster of 01d. A large Wing of the Peabody Museum of Yale University was built especially for the accommodation of the 70-foot Brontosaurus. The skeleton is 16 feet high and the reptile was roaming over the earth 120,000,000 ars ago. The bones were uncovered some time ago in Wyoming. For size, ft is a record holder. 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