The Ladonia News (Ladonia, Tex.), Vol. 50, No. 20, Ed. 1 Friday, May 16, 1930 Page: 6 of 8
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LAOONIA MCWS FMPAV. MAY It, »—
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wm ««iac to do it. Now sh* rowlUod hr. 1 hava a pi*" »rh«rt you
that this youth could holp h#r and (can help mo. If yon can, I know
that the must establish a relationship you will, for wa wera acquaint*!!-
between them which would enable her ences in France." Khe stopped with
to keep in touch with him. Mentally a gesture his eager assurance, looked
she consdiered a plan while her brain understanding^ at his brightening
what the face, and went on: “Besides I will
of course pay you well for any time
and trouble you give to my service.
“I desire to leave this hotel, Mar-
Fourth Installment
WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE.
paid the chauffeur in advance, add-
ing, on sudden memory, the amount
due for a night’s service. It was a
* i
A beautiful young woman finds comfort to watch the taxicab vanish
herself on the sidewalk in a strange toward Fifth Avenue. He had a fran-
city. She cannot remember her name tic wish to be alone, to begin his quest
or where she came from. She has at once. In a case like this every
nothing in her purse to tell herself minute counted. But—where could
who she is. A young man who has he begin?
seen her in the hotel where she is Carrick’s club was in the Forties,
stopping notices her and takes her off Broadway, and the roar of the
to the hotel in a cab. There they city came to Hamilton from every
find that she registered in French as »»de as he stood at the curb for a
“Miss Eve Nobody of Nowhere." The moment, looking around for another
clerk has been calling her “Miss Par- taxicab.
sons." The young man tells her she ! What a damned heartless world it
is in New York. His name is Eric was! There was a moon in the sky—
Hamilton, of Chicago. She is terri- * f*t moon, which seemed to be leer-
fied at her loss of memory. He asks *n* down at him—This town was an
his friend, Dr. Carrick, a nerve P^ce for a helpless girl to be
specialist, to call at the hotel. Dr. »lone, at night—"Miss Nobody from
Carrick talks encouragingly, but says Nowhere”—and she had confessed
he will send a nurse to stay with the that she hadn’t brought much money,
mysterious “Miss Parsons" that night. I “God!" he breathed. It was as
“Miss Nobody" listens while Hamil- near * prayer as any he had uttered
ton tells her what the doctor has since he was a very little boy.
said, then staps into another room. As if in answer to it a calming
When the nurse arrives, the girl has memory came to him. He saw her
vanished from the hotel! as «he had been in the park, as she
had been with him, as she had been
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY with the doctor—thinking clearly, de-
ciding swiftly—terrified, yes, but
Miss Adams remained in the taxi- \“holding fast" in a situation that
cab at the club door w i!e Ham.Iton would have appalled the strongest
went into the club-house and ..iter- »ou); and his nerves steadied. She
viewed, in a small reception r^om, a was fighting with her back to a blank
psychiatrist who was at first some- wall, tut even in those few hour*
what resentful and then deeply inter- *he had opened new windows of life
ested. The Good Samaritan was
soothed by the discovery that the
doctor's surprise over the patient’*
to kim, and he had gained in under-
standing. He would find her.
He leaned forward and gave to the
disappearance was as great as his waiting driver the address of a news-
own. To Hamilton the suspicion that paper on whose staff was one of his
his carelessness was responsible for friends.
the girl’s flight had been the turn When Eve left her visitor in her
of the screw. hotel sitting room and went into her
“She left this for you." be ended, bed room, supposedly to get ready
taking the envelope from hie pocket for the nurse, she absent-mindedly
and handing it over. “I’m hoping tripped over n projecting end of the
tbjje’s some clue in it." cot she had ordered. The little epi-
• Doctor Carrick opened the envelop. *od« undermined her deard of the
It contained a blank sheet of paper night, and she stood staring at the
and a bank-note for twenty dollars, cot as if already she saw it* occupant
He dropped the envelope and paper there. It was in place, the chamber-
*s floor and Hamilton bent and maid had gone, the room was in or-
picked them op.
der, and the opposite door of the bed-
think best on their feet.
“You’re sure no one else called on
“May I have theae?" ha aaked, and room, which lad into a rear hall of the
put them into his pocket without wait- hotel, was Just closing on the modsst
ing for permission. __ _ ,_ exit of the porter. She stopped the
4 CgjTlck got up and strolled around »n*n with A word, a ready hand me-
the room, in the manner of men who chanically reaching into her hand-
bag for her purse. He wss a yo-n*
Frenchman, and as he came back into
her, and that she dida’t receive any the room in answer to her summons
telephone message?" be aaked at last, his expectant smile suddenly broad
“Not to my knowledge. The tele-, ened into a look of pleased recogni-
phone was in the sitting room where tion.
I was reading, so I’d have heard it, | “Good evening, mademoiselle,” he
and I suppose any card or guest would said with the eagerness of a lonely
have come to the sitting room door," person who sees a familiar face in a
Hamilton said. strange land; and he added in French,
“Probably," Carrick took another rather blankly, as he caught her ex-
sat still and pression of surprise, “But Mademoi-
selle does not remember me?"
turn, while Hamilton
gloomy watched him.
“Then whst’s back of it?" he mut-
tered. “Just panic? In her condition
“No doubt I should do sc." Eve
answered in his own tongue, and
she might easily have been afraid (again he smiled and brightened. "Just
of me, and of the nurse, too; but I where did you see me?" she sskecl.
got a strong impression that she had ) He began to explain, volubly and
confidence in you." He stopped and happily, enchanted, it was clear, by
met Hamilton’s eyes with a sudden this unexpected encounter with a for-
keenly professional look. “You felt'mer patron, and perhaps foreseeing,
that, didn't you?" iloo, agreeable possibilities of fees in
"Yes, I did. It touched me very the new association. They were stand-
much. It’s one of the things that ' ing near the entrance he had used,
makes me feel that I can't let her | and with a gesture she drew him over
down," Hamilton admitted. “I’ve the threshold and out into the hall,
simply got to find her and be sure
she's all right."
Carrick nodded.
.“It’s going to he a big job to find
her," he predicted. “And I’m afraid
it’s a job where 1 can't help you
much. Left to herself, she'll give
aanatoriums and doctors and nurses
the widest kind of berth."
There seemed nothing more to say,
but for a moment longer they faced
closing the door behind them.
It was in Pari* they had met, the
porter, explained, in the little Hotel
Voltaire of the Quai Voltaire on the
left bank, when Mademoiselle had
spent the winter there three—no, it
was four years ago. It was surpris-
ing that Mademoiselle did not remem-
ber him, he humbly admitted. He
himself had then been of an unimag-
inable unimportance—not even her
each other uncerUinly. Then Hamil-.waiter, but merely a waiter’s boy.
ton straightened his shoulders with (Still, in that lowly capacity, he had
a gesture his intimates would have daily seen Mademoiselle, and once or
recognised as characteristic of him .twice had done small services for her
In moments of final decision. such as carrying notes to hsr friends.
"I’ll tackle It,” he announced, re- j Despite his Gallic courtesy, it wss
ferring to tha “big Job.” , clear that he was disappointed by her
“Good!" said the doctor, heartily, failure to recognize him, and Eve
‘And keep me posted" he added, not sought to soothe his hurt pride by a
quite so heartily, for Carrick wna a larger fee than the cot-bringing justi-
man hard-driven by his practice. "Let fied, while with an increasing tremor
me know if I can be of any use.” she considered Vhat the encounter
They shook hands. might msan to her. The young
“Better go a little more fully into Frenchman would earn much more
all the detals of her leaving the ho- than a fifty-cent tip, before their In-
tel," waa Carrick’s final advice. “In- terview ended, hut the instinct of
terview every one who could posaihly caution developed in her during the
have seen her or talked to her. They past few hours made her quiet her
do queer things when they’re in that singing nerve* and move slowly,
state." | "And you have remembered my
“He couldn’t help much," Hamilton name all this time?" she asked, in a
reported to Miss Adams. "Where voice she vainly tried to keep steady,
shall I have the driver take you?" The young porter, however, ob-
Shc gave him her address and he served nothing unusual about it, for
here the entente between them, so
agreeable up till now, experienced a
sudden chill. He flushed and stam-
subconsciously registered
porter was saying.
Undoubtedly, he assured her, the
name would com* to him at any min-
ute. This, she knew, wss possible, cel," she continued, “and to find a
Sooner or later he ought to recall new horn# in this city. I must, of
that name. He might recall, too if course, see the clerk and pay him
he did not remember them, the names when I go. But there are reasons
of the friends to whom he had car- why 1 wish no ons to know whsrs I
Had those notes, the names of friends am, except you. You I am sure I can
mared. It was incredible; it waa un- who coni, to her, episodes of trust.”
pardonable; he abaeed himself bafors the life she had lived in Paris—all The tribute, she wss glad to ob-
her; but the fact waa that for the or any of which, when he told them serve, left him almost speechless,
moment did he not remember Made- to her, could be clues she needed. “What I can do for Mademoiselle
moiselle’s name. Her face, of course. Yes, in those gesticulating and not will be done," was all he could bring
one would never forget. Even though over-clean young hands might lie the out, his black eyes avid with interest,
he himself had been a mere boy of strings that would lead her back Into j "Thank you. Then tell me, first,
seventeen when he last saw it, had the normal world. do you know of a good place where
he not remembered it at once, after “What is your name?" she abruptly I can go and live?—one which is not
four years? Eve let the flow of com- asked him. expensive," she added. "A place
pliments pour forth. Her mind was “Marcel Charpentier, Madamot- (simple and clean and respectable,
working clearly and rapidly. She selle,” he told her.
<ike the little hotel you speak of in
had merely intended to get sway from "Listen, Marcel,, she said, still in , Paris."
the hotel, without knowing how she his own language. "Listen attentive- She took it for granted that tho
little hotel in Paris had theae quali-
i
ties, and apparently ah# was right,
for Marcel nodded and gave himself
to ostentatious thought.
| Ha had baen in the city less than
half a year, and he had little knowl-
edge, of either hdjtela or lodging-
houaee; but now he remembered some
j thing. A friend of his, he told her,
wae a janitor of a downtown house
which had little apartments of two or
three rooms—a sitting room, a bed-
room, even a bathroom, and of a price
very reasonable.
| Eve came to a prompt decision. She
went back into the bedroom and re-
turned with a sheet of paper and a
pencil.
I “Write the address for me,” she
directed, “and your full name, too. I
will go and look at the house you
speak of| If I do settle there, I
will let you know. Unless you hear
from me, come there at eight tomor-
row evening. I desire to have a long
talk with you."
She took the slip he gave her and
handed him five dollars.
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