Evening Star Newspaper, November 10, 1936, Page 30

DAILY SHORT STOR! ACCIDENT By Edith Lott. l)( AN agony of suspense, the girl who had been John Lester's wife watched the inert, bandaged form on the Emergency Hospital bed for some sign of con- sciousness. By bending her ear elose to the dis- tended nostrils and swollen lips, the only part of his head not wrapped n gauze, she could hear an occasional feeble breath. She did so now. timidly touching one of the ban- daged arms in an attempt to con- wince herself that this wreck of & man was really John. Still alive, thank God! She leaned back in her chair, re- laxing a little. “He hasn’t a chance.” | the doctor had said, answering the question in Marcia's tragic dark eyes. «It is only a matter of hours.” But he might be mistaken. He must be! John could not die now, just as she hed found out the terrible mistake ingly. she had made. As she closed her eyes to the dead whiteness of the dimly lighted hos- pital room, it became, in memory, the snowy whiteness of the day she had first met John. There had been a skating party at Washington's pool. How gay they had been, skating reck- Jessly far out to where the ice had begun to crack. | Where to reach me. She said John When they had seen the dark ¥ water underneath, John had said, his | had been away for & few days. This eager eyes smiling into hers, “Soon the sun will free it. The sun is like | WAs returning.” love—our love.” “Love does mot free. It builds | walls, prison walls,” she remembered saying pettishly. * %k x A FEW months after their mar- risge she had repeated these words, and John had said bitterly mad. “‘There is nothing to wait for now.”” * x ¥ % in. A At sight of her the memory of last night's events came back with a swirling rush. Had John been con- acious while he lay beneath the blaz- her? No one knew. and Marcia felt that the despair of not knowing would drive her HAT was the nurse saying? “Are you strong enough to answer & few questions now?” “Yes," she answered calmly. “I'm ready.” “How long had Mr. Lester lived at the Lincoln street rooming house?” The nurse was looking at her pity- “He went there after our divorce | six months ago,” Marcia replied, “I had not heard from him since.” “And his landlady, Mrs. Moore, located you when we called her after finding the address on the driving license?” | “Yes.” Marcia replied wearily. “He had told me where he was going to live, and I had let Mrs. Maore know accident must have happened as he “His middle name was Robert?” | the nurse inquired. | But the telephone was ringing. With A premenition that it was vitally im- portant news, Marcia seized it. | “Yes, Mrs. Moore,” she said im- | patiently. “This is Mareia Lester. “You say he is on his way? But it | can't be true!” | Marcia’s flushed face was a queer that he guessed she was right. A faint moan from the shrouded figure on the bed made her bend over him, listening intently. Had the breathing stopped? Taking a mirror from the purse in her lap, she held it to his lips. A slight moisture | mixture of joy and incredulity as she | sank back on the pillows. The nurse | slipped practiced fingers about her ‘wrist. | “She said——" Marcia began, | squeezing the cool, strong hand. | But the door was opening, and a D. C, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1936, Corsets "\ Regularly $5—$7.50—$8.50 It was our amazing good fortune to secure three of the finer makes in corsets to sell at one low price "in apprecio- tion"! Covering a complete size range for every type of figure! Your new clothes demand the new princess lines achieved in all these models. $7.50—$8.50—"Treo” Samples Fine materiols, imported webbings, French Batiste Broche and Lastex. 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In As she replaced the mirror she U, e "ibs! lightweight but firm; long, slenderizing lines, sizes nd block tened | With the sest of life suddenly found zirdle. $3.95. ghtweig| U ; 9, lerizing S, $1Zf a lack. caught a glimpse of her frightene | good, fHitor SMATCR e $530 Tres dark eyes and the cluster of reds:h Sitetahed aia: 2’.‘2?:&':5‘.’3& 38 1 44, . s brown curls above them. How John PR, : . S : < G o had loved to tease her by runnmg‘ HE hivse. Hestiasd : i . \ his hand through her hair! THE out, & Fleor. oe. in. Why did| piqued to think she had been 30 | He was moaning again. \ | deceived. That pretty Mrs, Lester hld' not the doctor or the nurse come? Marcia tried to rise. Her feet were | ccmed so in love with her husband. = But you never could tell! 3 $ 5 O d k h f ; th felt parched. She v T o ot o o o, | Meamwhlle Marcia was being con- | § Of C H anakercniers Then a woman in white uniform Was | paq never stopped wanting her. “But | § n e ou Sa n 1 lifting hel"‘:’ he‘: X:L Manight. Veu' wm: wn; mi man I came here to ]H(ludi"{' Hand. “Mrs, er, mi - | See?” she asked after another reas- its i have been sitting here for hours. You | suring kiss. “How could Mrs. Moore, | Inieted Lot must get some rest now.” | and how could I ever think he was clouded the glass. | oitie o e et and | e N\ W% 180 Prance For medium and full figures! Brache foundetions; s 3 '95 ] cleo’ blue, aque wine, Sam s R A IR AT I S O “No, no,” Marcia could hear her own voice, but was not conscious of speaking. “I must be here when——" * % ¥ % SHE felt herself caught in strong arms. “There is nothing to wait for now,” the nurse was saying as Marcia drifted away into complete oblivion. When she awakened the sun was shining brightly beyond lowered you?” | John's arms tightened about her. “We owe that poor fellow a lot, Marcia. He neglected to have his ad- | dress changed on his driver's license | when he left Mrs. Lester's several | months ago. He was just another | John R. Lester. my dear.” | “Raise the shade, my John" she | said, her voice a little shaky, “I want to feel the sun.” | (Copyright, 1938, HIGHER AUTO TAXES FOUGHT BY GROUP RESTRICTIONS URGED | Park’ View Citizens' Association | Oppose Weight Levy—Com- plain of Trash. Opposition to any proposed increase in gasoline and auto accessory taxes, or the levying of & “weight tax” on|one of its officers. The new officer sutomobiles, was voted by the Park | View Citizens’ Association last nigi® | Ernest J. Read and Benson Taylor in the Park View Platoon School. { were named delegates to the Federa- A committee consisting of J. 8. Cole and F. 8. Walker was appointed to consider the plan for adopting Lhree‘ eight-hour shifts for firemen. Complaints of junk and trash being deposited in unused garages, 10¢"de mittee at its next meeting. Gelbman ! mmong houses situated on erd!l’“uld zoning should be changed from | reet and Geprgia avenue, gnd Lamont and Morton streets, were heard and # resolution was adopted to eliminate the nuisance. Nominations for officers of the asso- eiation were made with virtually no | ehanges in the present personnel. F. 8, Walker was designated to at- tend the hearing of the Capital Transit Co. on November 16. PAIR DENY SLAYING OF 3 IN CALIFORNIA Brothers Once Threatened With Lynching, Plead Not Guilty as Mountaineers Watch. Br the Associated Press. YREKA, Calif., November 10.— Grim-faced mountaineers watched si- lently as two mountaineer brothers, who were threatened with lynching after they killed two officers and a :enmer, pleaded not guilty yester- ay. Neither John nor Coke Brite com- imented except to answer “not guilty” when arraigned on murder charges. Defense counsel asked for a change of venue and & hearing was set Novem- ber 10. Sheriff W, G. Chandler posted heavy guards in the tiny court room, which was crowded, but there was no demonstration against the brothers, objects of open lynching threats after the mountain gun battle at Horse Creek August 30. The victims were Deputy Sheriff Martin Lange, 48; Constable Joseph Clark, 65, and Fred Seaborn, 50, for- mer Navy officer, Licensed at Fairfax. @peeial Dispateh to The Star. FAIRFAX, Va, November 10—Mar- riage licenses have been issued in the office of the clerk of the Ctreutt Court | this change. CONGRESS HEIGHTS | Change in Zoning Proposed—Of- | ficers Re-elected With New Secretary. The Congress Heights Citizens’ As- sociation last night re-elected all but is Mrs. Marion Dulin, secretary. tion of Citizens’ Associations. J. 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