New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 31, 1930, Page 30

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1930. | B ROSE [~ %FCKERsl IN THE DARK Synopsis: Saxely Grannock is sus . tained during the first shock of go- ing blind by the love of Ha more, though he does not know she is also the nursec who caused his | Dlindness by deserting him at a crucial moment. Only Hallie and Lester Broon, her ex-fiance, Gran- nock’s half-brother, know she was | really detained by Lester while * drunk. Though disgraced, Hallie is . ..allowed to stay near Grannock be- cause her presence helps him. Lester, meanwhile has threatened to tell Grannock Hallie is the nurse who blinded him unless she marries him. . Hallie, who is an orph: learns — from Mrs. Bartholomew. iend of ™" her dead aunt, that her real name is Rose Conaldine, and father was & suspected murderer who never | was caught. In New York another | Ttose Conaldine, ward a lawyer | named Perle, is told she is heiress 1o a $50,000 annual income when Perle | learns she has enlisted a private de- tective to probe her origin, also ob- scure. Hallie known as Rose on- aldine to Grannock, who never has | seen her face. One day he tries to learn her appearance by feeling her | face. Dr. Lytton, fearing he will thus discover Hallie is the nurse ne hates, exclaims in protest ot Chapter 19 A WAY OF LSCAPE “What under heaven is the matter | with you, doc?” There was irritation in Gran- _nock’s voice and the doctor, gazing stupidly at him, could not deny that he had good cause for irrita- tion. But that did not alter the fact that if those groping fingers straycd any further over Hallie's Di ., Lytton would scream like a wom or so he felt. [ Even as he framcd the though however, the steady calm of th woman shamed him. And it was she who came to the dotcor's rescue. “I think Dr. Lytton is tired out, saxley. We sometimes forget that | doctors nced rest—at least, I do. It comes as a shock to me when they point out they're only human.” “You don't mind my running fingers over your face, Rose?” “Of course not, dea | By this time, Lytton had pulled | himself together. “I'm sorry to be such a Grannock. The fact is it o see you at such a t ‘blind man’s’ trick. “I am a blind man,” annock quietly. “Temporarily, insisted Tytton. he treatment we gave you failed. Primarily, that was my fault. I— “No!" cried Hallie. ¢ The cry had been surprised from | her just as a few minutes carlier the doctor’s outburst had been sur- prised from him. This time it was | Grannock who unconsciou aved | the day. “No, it was the nurse's fault en- tirely,” he said. “Tt's futile to dis ¢uss it any more but we all three know that that woman, wherever | she is, will have my blindness on her conscience to the end of her | day my fool, ts me ditional | up. & | returned G “Yes,” said Hallie think she knows that.” Lytton turned to go. Grannock’ ears, keener already than Hallie gensed his intention. “One second, Lytton. I just want to tell you how T stand. I agree that | it would be a terrible mistake for | me to resign myself forever to this disaster if there's a real chance of my being saved from it. But is there? 1 can't invest any more hope in a gamble. Also—" he hesitated | and then spoke with embarrassment —“I'm, financially speaking, a poor = man.” “Oh, well, you needn't let that dspect of it worry you! A man like Dr. Russell, the speccialist, looks on your case as an invaluable experi- once in his carcer and you'll find “his fee is purely nominal. And as for me—well, I've told you how 1 feel about my share in it and 1 stick to my opinion in spite of any- | thing you and—anything you say. 1 shall make it my business to investi- gate every line of treatment as it is | opened up. . . . Now that the swell- | ing round yvour eyes has gone and you're. regaining your strength at steadily. 4 TOP WORRYIN( money—use our sy plan of Cash ou credit. 1'OR the WORK- INGMAN any amount up to $300. PAYMENTS MALL as $1.00 per K. Rates only 3z per month Mutual Industrial Service 111 Main — Over Ashley's Thone 1 saturday out pl D 9-1, AUNT HET BY ROBERT QUILLEN “I'm gettin’ so absent- minded it mortifies me. Tnat stranger in church snored so much like Pa I © pin in him before 930, Publishers Syndicate ik | | hensively. ld | thing would happen today.” | seen | capacit | way, | might 1l to He thought he threw activities, , and fast. Then elf into a stream of uch a fast rate, T want Russ have another look at you.” There was a short pause. “I'm perfectly willing to see Rus- sell,” said Grannock, then. “I'm willing to take any steps to recover my sight that you may advise. In | the meantime, 11l adjust my life to blindn Rose will teach me. And it one day I recover my sight—" he med to know by instinct where Hallie was standing, for he turned confidently in that direction—"s will teach me how to use that, too. Won't you, Rose?” “Yes," she promised Lytton glanced at alked away together. Against ter judgment. he muttered: rou're a plucky girl. I'm sorry 1 nearly thin when he felt for your cyel “Lt's nothing. ger of hen mo him at a time sons that I'm thankfnl here. He's so carcless.” “Have you—have you thought any more abot particular proposi- tion?" ventured the doctor. They had reached the doctor's car and Hallie got in before she replicd “I had a letter from him during the morning,” she said. haps vou'd like to read it we start. Chapter 20 A MYSTIEYING DISCOVERY Mr. Howard Leckett, private de- tective, hurried from the train, for it was Thursday morning, and he al- ways seemed to be late on Thur days. As he hurried along the plat- form he jostled a young wonian whose back scemed vaguely familiar. Looking back, he recognized her who had left his employ so 1 days before. office his boy told him that a Miss Conaldine was waiting to sec | him. This reminded Mr. Leckett of another fact about the young lady he had just seen. She had left im- ow mediately after Conaldine There's always the | first visit. Mr. Leckett began think- something away | ing rapidly i stopped to acquaint of us is with | his partner, the crippled Hicky, with s one of the re Lester isn't all during those nine days she we with us,” mused Hicky, after a first | startled whistle, “except this Miss | Conaldine. No, you can bet that if | sie was put in to keep an cye on our | business, she was put so as {o be there when Miss Conaldine came along.” | “By Perle a | one of the ol “Not likely. B: her they his as ave o his befo Tie doctor took it with distaste. ““It's all tixed up, Hallie,” read | csted party, I should say; though | Lytton leven o'clock on Thurs- | who it is—! I can’t discover that day morning at the municipal build- | there's any one of her name an ing. After that any paradise for two |where except lem onaldine and he's | that you can think of—or what |an old, old story.” Paris, darling? There'll be a | Rose Conaldine il of dough coming when | Leckett as he entered. Although she irried and 1 can get hold of | still made play with her big blue | us swell honey- | eyes, the detective immediately | you be sure 10 | sensed a change in her | t cleven or 1 shall have to “Nice of you to call again so soon, down and old Socks and | Miss Conaldine.” formally ask for your hand in mar- | “I know you said that you would viage. | mean this and I think you | call me up and make an appoint- know it!’ ment,” said Rose and she now spoke 4There was a lot more which the | with a drawl, “but circumstances doctor skipped and at the end a |have altered and T thought it only | petition of the threat of seeing | fair to let you know as soon as | xely. possible that I do not, after all, r Damn him, tton, compre- | quire your services.” This speech. Thu hat's in three | obviously rehearsed, left her some- | What going to do?” | what breathless. “I don't know. I hoped that some- did you find she went on | “You may think it's sort of funny, hut even now I don't know the first | thing about where my money comes from.” | “You know it is coming 1} “Fifty thousand a year reason-—sonie q iryin gto sound casual. reason—why 1 can't Mr. Leckett gazed at her with pro- | <ely in three weeks, It was 1 who | found reverance. marrying at once and | “Well, I'm glad,” he said. “Well, 1 the one (o back out do congratulate you, I'm sure. Kifty | “Assuming. you married Gran- | thousand a year! And your guardian nock as arranged,” Lytton said, | —Mr. Perle, T think you said—he “what wouid you do if and when he | has handed it over to you withou found out who you wer restriction; “I'd do just what T f g W A L G G tions? 1's “mine” retorled Rosc. of freeing himsolf of me | Then she colored again—'But, as I stay swith him in any [S&id Mr. Leckett, 1 don’t know how o1l Ghdie. Oreon [on WHEHUS mities T imeany all M. | Perle told me is that there had been | ome trouble about establishing my identity, although it was my own father who left me my fortune. He | 20/ in town and'lalk fo him.! i«l\»w.l intestate—that means, without | “It wouldn't do the least bit of |Making a will. doesn’t it?—bui T am Soay | his sole heir. Oh, ves, and T think he “No, T don't helieve it would,” |2l that the money came from an confessed Lytton. He brooded for a |invention. But I - didn't hear what | Tnoment, Theno-But what are we | Kind because you'll think me awfully | zoing to do?” he burst out. “If you |SIIY—T fainted clean a ) don’t marry Broon on Thursday, EULL eniion igRs sl R U he'll come hetween you and Gran. | eckett. He picked up a typewritten | nock at once. And if you do marry |Shect: “Hm! T'l give you the gist of him, how fire you going {o marry | (NS Teport, Miss Conaldine, though & ! i 0 Y 11 must make one thing clear to you. Grannock in three woeks and stay | o, i, we should undoubted! with him for even the shortest | St S CORaLer Y b i | have been able 1o produce incon- | trovertibly accurate information Hallic roused 1bout your parentage but this—" he blance of matter-o tapped the report—“doesn’t pretend | T can’t marry to be more than a snggestion. A clue. That, at any rat -1 | Tt's a clue, moreover, that you may | find some w Of DOSIPONINE OUT | prefer not to consider.” marriage indefinitely, If you could | ey help me postpone it—as [ hoped you | this morning cternally grateful.” all be “But what about other inter- bowed to Mr. | to give a must see M aid 1 out anything at all | “What could happen?” “I thought perhaps help me.” “You s hard voice trembled, Jto have you would for me—" her 10 invent unfore- marry though " id Itose, some suggested now. to be 1t he wanted | gl iesinio) nd give him ill my “Piffle!” said the doctor. “Any the immediate problem Broon. I've been thinking T might must. fou mean because it’s the kind | I might he ashamed | ask=d Rose with unexpected in- ge = jof? | Broon?" [ulrmuy placed some domestic pat- ents on the market bu they hadn't Well, who is it?" | caught on. T don’t know what it was expect you've heard of him al- | he was working on with Bolt.” Clem Conaldine “And Bolt was murdered? rose shook her head in its [ my—by this Conaldine?” helmet. “Well, Bolt was found dead—and “Ah, you couldn’t be expected to |Conaldine was the only person who remember the man hunt T don’t sup- | couldn’t prove an alibi. He didn't, " said Mr. Leckett carefully. [as a matter of fact, wait to prove ou might have come across |anything. He jas disappeared.” an account of the mystery some- hey didn’t ever find him?” Nev “And—my money from some earlier invel | catching on after he disappeared?” You'd have to ask Mr. Perle |that,” Mr. Leckett returned. He felt rry for the girl. 1t must be a shock lin a way. still, fifty thousand a year | made up for a lot. Rose had got up and was drawing off her glove. “What is your fec, please Vothing,” answered the detective. 1 you can find what I've told you in a heap of articles on unsolved mys- teries. It's been no trouble to us to {100k it up.” | “Thank you.” Rose departed. | Teckett took up the brief, dra- matic story of Clem Conaldine and re-read if, comparing dates, adding ind subtracting. “And I'd like to | know,” he added. “how the hell Clem Conaldine’s daughter—if he “IHe was a cook. At a little private [over had one that the law would hotel in Southeliff.” iyu’ngl\lL —anages 1o be twenty- She looked so stricken |one instead of twenty-three?” hoped aloud that she w | (Conyright, 1930, by Roy Vivkers) to faint a in. ‘ — “Of course I'm not! T—it doesn't | ypile Lester Broon is pursuing matter to me it he was a cook.” |one Rose Conaldine in tomorrow's She giggled nervously. “Who did he | .papier, another is pursuing him, murder? The dishwasher? No. But we'll come to that. Apparently, he'd come down a in the cooking world. because he'd | been an under-cook at the Ritz for a time.” “What about—" Rose caught her breath—"what about my mother?” | “I'm afraid I've found no mention ‘ B Ng. silken yose,” [ | Rose paled [ “Man hunt? Mystery? e a—a—a criminal?” “I don't know,” Leckett with elabo hody knows. You see, caugt—that is, found.” ‘aught? By the police?” “He was wanted for murder, Miss Conaldin, Rose moistened her lips. “Who did he murder “Well, it scems he ndant of an old Irish-French He lived a lonely sort of life, doesn’t appear to have had any relations. His—er—work kept him pretty closely tied down.” lis inventions. you m “The only thing is, Miss Conald- ine, invention was his hobby. It wasn’t exactly his—well, profe: P Ie was a professional man ?! would come Was—was ntion of his answered Mr. tact. *“No- he was never was a de- |* that he s not going Ten Rodeo Performers Injured in New York New York, Oct. 31 (UP) -— Ten performers at the Madison Square Garden rodeo were injured last night, two seriously. Pete Tdaho, “hwartz of American Ialls, suffered a fractured skull her head woman crops up in the | When the steer he was wrestling newspaper gossip of the time. Her [dragged him across the arena and name was Margot Muir and he first |Fattered him against a concrete deserted her and then returned to [wall. Irvin Collins of Miles City, T Aty DD e | Mont., received painful injuries when Was it her he murder | his mount, Whoopee, threw him of her anywhere. There is—that is 1o ¢ ** Mr. Leckett stared over | gl e No. Some man connected with | over his head and rolled over his | though. Possibly her husband, | body. I he was known as Bolt. 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