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SYNOPSIS: When Saxel.v
Grannock meets Ilailie KM s
morc, beautiful young nurse,
on the cliffs overlooking Long
I: land Sound, they fall in love
at cnee, although Halley is al
ready engaged to Lester Broon,
Granncck's younger half-broth
er. Grannock cannot sec her
clearly as he has eye trouble
and is to undergo an operation
which will rilher cure or ruin
his sight. Hence he refuses to
let her tell her name, but gives
her a tiny ivory rose as a love
token. Ilailie is hired, unknown
to Granncck, as his night nurse
during the treatment, and must
notify Dr. LyUcn when certain
rymptoms develop. Lester, com
ing in late an:l drunk, holds
Ilailie captive jn the drawing
reem until past time to call the
fleeter and Grannock goes
blind. Ilailie, disgraced, breaks
with Lister, though he refuses j
to give her up. Leaving the
house, she meets Grannock out
side by accident. Hearing her
voice, he recognizes her as the
girl he met on the cliff. Heart
broken, she tells him of her
Icvc and desire to help him,
and eannet bring herself to re
veal her identity as the nurse
tflio blinded him. She evades
his questions r c g a r d i ng her i
name. Dr. Lytlcn, arriving in
anger, almost gives her away.
Chapter 8
II ALLllfl PLEADS HER CASE
Some four hours later, Dr. Lyt
ton mounted the steps of the un
pretentious house where Haliie was
staying.
The door was opened by a tall,1
forbidding woman.
"Are you Dr. Lylton?"
"Yes.”
"Then you can step in. She said
she wouldn't see anyone i^lse.”
Lytton looked more attentively at
the speaker as he passed.into the
narrow hall. She was unusually
tall. Her while hair and haggard
face suggested weakness of the j
body, but Lytton. with a doctor’s j
instinct, decided that her malad.t j
was of the soul.
Whatever Dr. John Russel's opin
ion, Lytton held himself responsi
ble for the accident to Grannock's
eyes. That Grannock was his
friend as well as his patient did
not really make a bad business
wprsc, because, to Lytton, to fail a
patient was the world's worst busi
ness already. Nevertheless the dis
cipline of years had enabled him
to master his sick fury with Haliie
Ellesmore.
In place of his anger had come •
a resentment that he could not
dismiss her from his consideration.
By some means he did not yet
clearly understand, she and Gran
nock between them had created an •
amazing situation.
Haliie entered. She had put on
a filmy summer frock of a clear
yet pale red. The doctor was aware
that here was a darkly beautiful
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i woman dressed in the color that of
all others most suited her.
"I have sent my report to your
matron," he began.
“Yes, I suppose you have.”
i “So there's no point in our dis
| cussing your dereliction of duty.
! It's the rest of the mixup that I've
| ccme about. Orannock knows you
as—as a friend, but not as the
nurse who—not as a nurse. Is that
(it?”
I She looked at him steadily.
“Won’t you sit down?”
“No thank you. I won't sit down.
You'll understand me perfectly
! when I say that I should not have
| come here to see you if I had
thought I had any choice.”
“It is natural that you should
I feel that way," agreed Hallie. “But
I want to tell you, even if you
don't believe it, that I feel—brand
ed. I shall feel branded all my
life. Whatever happens."
“What dyou mean? What can
happen? That's any good to Gran- |
nock, I mean? You're evidently the
girl Grannock met and talked to
' on the cliff—the girl he couldn't
see and whose name he didn't
ask.” He heard his voice drop to
a snarl and did not care. “And you
think you can keep that up with
him?”
"Yes. With your help.”
“Act the unseen angel of mercy,
eh?—to make up for having blinded
him! Very pretty. Perhaps it would
be best if you’d give me the facts
of your—your association with Les
ter Brcon. That seems to be the
kernel of the whole situation."
“I mot Lester in New York about
three months ago," she said. “I fell
1 in love with him at once or I
thought I did: and he fell in lovo
■with me. I believe he really does
love me still, as much as he could
love any one.”
Lytton remained silent.
“He told me. after a while, that
he couldn't marry me, unless his
brother approved of me. And be-!
cause my family history is rather
obscure—he didn't seem to think
that his brother would approve of
me. So it was settled that I should
spend my month's vacation here!
and try to get to know his brother
independently. I see now that it
wasn't a nice way to behave, but
Again she stopped.
' When Mr. Grannock and I did
make friends with each other it
was by pure chance,” she went on
presently. "I imagine he told you
about the long talk we had on the
cliff?”
■Yes.”
"It was a wonderful talk. A won
derful time . . . When he had gone
and Lester told me who he was and
congratulated me, I felt as though
I were being dragged out of a
dream. A dream of heaven. And
then when the matron wrote to me
that I was to report to you as
the nurse selected for Mr. Gran
nocks case—”
“You took good care not to in
: form me that you were intimately
I acquainted with Lester Broon. I
imagined from your matron’s let
ter that it was some other branch
of the family that knew you.”
i “You didn’t inform me that my
! matron had written anything spe
! cial about me at all," returned Kal
i lie, with a flash of spirit. "Please
! understand that I ddin’t ask Les
I ter to wheedle her into recommend
| ing me for the case. I didn’t know
i he’d seen her until he told me last
night."
Lytton took a turn up and down
the room. Some of his hostility
was melting away; he knew it.
Her story had challenged his hatred
and contempt.
But then—then! It all came back
to that “dereliction of duty" which
Lytton was determined not to re
open. She had left her patient, who
was also the man of her spirit's
choosing. A double treachery.
“Well, that may all be true or it
may not,” said Lytton harshly. "My
concern now is with the next few
days. Strange as it may seem to
you, you Will not receive help from
me in any prolonged deception of
Grannock. He has been fooled
enough. But—”
“Have you told him that I—his
friend of the cliff—am Nurse Elles
more?” she interrupted him.
“No."
“Nurse Casey?”
“She won’t open her lips.”
“When I came to the Broon house
yesterday evening," Hallie said, “the
housekeeper herself showed me my
bedroom. I think she said .she had
dismissed one housemaid and the
other was out. At any rate, she and
the butler and Nurse Casey are
the only people in the house Who
would recognize me as Nurse Elles
i more if I came to see Mr. Gran
nock tomorrow.”
"You're forgetting Broon.”
"I've refused to marry him, any
way. He has absolutely nothing to
gain by spoiling his brother’s il
lusions about me. My experience of
Lester is that, if his own inter
j ests aren't threatened, he is just in- j
j different to every one else’s do-j
ings.”
Lytton’s grunt was skeptical. I
"The only person in Southcliff1
who knows my name as a nurse or
that I went to the Broon house,” |
she continued, "is Mrs. Bartholo-;
mew.”
"Who's she?”
"My landlady here. She opened
the door to you. She was a friend
of my aunt and she is my friend,1
too, though I have never stayed'
with her before. She is a strange ,
person—”
"What you are doing," broke in1
the doctor violently, “is to drag
me and these other people into a
conspiracy of silence! Without our i
consent!”
"I don't think I could do that if j
I tried. Any one of you can breaK
the silence at any moment. It’s
simply that if Mr. Grannock gets j
any kind of pleasure—or compen- ,
sation out of having me near him, .
you are all bound to be on my .
I side. Aren’t you?” |j
"And what you’re doing now,” (
i raged the doctor, his face thrust ,
j aggressively into hers, "is to tell ,
I me that whether I like it or not ,
|you are coming back into Gran- ,
j nock’s life as—what does he call
you?—'Rose.' The woman he has
! never seen.”
Hallle sobbed suddenly.
“I took away his sight,” she whis
ipered. "I want to give him min?
I instead. When I'm his eyes and his
hands and his feet, then I'm doing
what I can to atone, even though
I know it's so terribly small an
atonement.”
Baffled, furious, the doctor took
up his hat and made for the door.
Hallie intercepted him.
"Have you-” she demanded
breathlessly—"have you taken any
] steps at all to prevent Mr. Gran
nock being told?”
"If you must know—yes. I've
ordered Broon and Casey and the
two servants to keep their mouths
shut indefinitely.”
"Oh! Thank you! Thank you for
that!” j
"Damn you,” retorted the doctor.
He pushed her aside and slammed
himself out of the house.
(Copyright, 1930, by Roy Vickers)
Lester Broon reveals himself
in his true colors in tomorrow's
chapter and sees a disquieting ,
pertent of the future.
If
DOUGLAS
NEWS
“ALASKA,” TOPIC
FOR ROBERTSON
DOULGAS P.-T. A.
Juneau Attorney Gives.
Instructive Address—
Anniversary Month
Since October, 1867, witnessed the
transfer of Alaska by Russia to the
United States, R. E. Robertson, in’
his address before the Douglas Par
ent-Teacher Association last night,;
chose ‘ Alaska" as his subject. In ]
order to tell what might occur in1
the future, it is necessary to pause]
and look back to the past, said
Mr. Robertson.
"It has been two hundred years
since Bering first sighted and dis- ]
covered Alaska: Captain Vancou-1
ver sailed up Gastineau Channel;
in 1793,” continued Mr. Robertson.
“Vancouver first named Douglas
Island Salisbury Island. Gastineau
Channel received its name from
Gastineau River in Quebec. The
country at this time, the sites of
| Juneau and Douglas, were covered
by dense, primeval forests and no
I settlements of Indians were located
on the Channel before the white
man came.
Founding of Douglas
"The discovery cf gold veins even
tually led to the founding of Doug
las Island community, which during
the years has had its ups and
downs, said Mr. Robertson. In 1867
when the Russian flag was hauled
down at Sitka and the American
flag ran up. there were no schools
or churches in Alaska. For the first
ten years of American administra
tion the country was in the hands 1
of military authorities; for the next
ten in charge of naval forces. In
1831 when gold was discovered at
Treadwell, there was no local or
civil law; no courts to record titles
of property; no school system at
all; no modern conveniences; no
communication with the United
States except by mail steamers. The
people of this country were entire
ly cut off from the rest of the
world. The advantages of today
are manifold. Douglas has a mod
ern school system to compare fav
orably with any other town of simi
lar size; electricity, telephones, ra
dios. pianos, daily press, books and
magazines, steamers, aeroplanes^
Looking Into Future
"We have a right to let our
imagination picture some of the
things the future is bound to bring
to us. The stimulus of obstacles
hard to surmount—if not for the
adults—at least for the children,
are bound to attempt to overcome
the obstacles; and in these very at
tempts, this country is bound to
progress in the future. Many in
dustries are not yet even tried. The
waters teem with fish. Mineral
wealth is not yet touched. In a
few years when the timber is used
for pulp, timber will be grown as a ■
crop. In the near future a road
will circle the island. Water will
be conferred into electricity which
will be utilized in a hundred in
dustries.”
In conclusion, Mr. Robertson said:
"We will draw something even more
worth while from the inspiration
! of :he mountains, woods and waters.,
A new and individual type of arch- ,
i itecture will develop. The literature j
I cf the future will feature, not epi- I
sodes of the gambling dens and i
dance halls, but will reflect the
true Alaskan spirit. The same in- j
definable spirit will be reproduced
on canvas in a great art.”
A business meeting opened the
program. The minutes were read
and approved. The treasurer's re-1
port of $89.53 in the P.-T. A. treas
ury was read and accepted. A mo
tion was made to construct double
doors at the front of the school t
building. A committee of three com- j
posed of Mr. Feero, chairman. Mr. J
Gair and Glen Kirkham was ap-j
pointed to attend to this matter.
The program also consisted of a j
song by the eighth grade, ‘ Huckle
berry Finn." Sam Devon gave a j
reading, "Elegy Written in a Coun-1
try Churchyard." The program con- I
eluded with a short talk by Supt.!
DeBolt in which he emphasized the
importance of good study habits in
the grades and high school.
REAL NEWSPAPER
IS NEW BREEZE
The Gastineau Breeze, local high ,
school paper, came out yesterday j
for its first issue of the 1930-31
term with a much improved ap
pearance over former Breezes. In
stead of eight pages with three col
umns to a page, there are now four
pages almost twice as large as
DOUGLAS COLISEUM
TONIGHT
“FAST COMPANY”
with Evelyn Brent and Jack Oakie
All Talking—Singing
VITAPHONE ACTS—SOUND NEWS
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formerly, with five columns of read
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I paper a more metropolitan appear
1 ance, and making it more satisfac
tory for perusal.
Staff of the Breeze this year is
headed by Alma Savikko as editor
in-chief, and Vieno Wahto, business
: manager. Mrs, Thelma Engstrom
is literary and business advisor for
I the staff.
Schilling Lemon
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Schilling Orange
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