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TMiun uruiuxm WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE A beautiful young woman.finds her self on the sidewalk hi a strange city. She cannot remember her name or where she came from. She has noth ing In her purse to tell herself who she la A young man who has seen her in the hotel where she Is stopping notices her and takes her .to the hotel In a cab. There they find that she registered, In French, as "Miss Eve Nobody of Nowhere." The clerk has been calling her "Miss Parsons." The young man tells her she is In New York. His name Is Erie Hamilton, of Chicago. She is terrified at her loss of memory. He asks his friend, Dr. Carrlek, a nerve specialist, to call at the hotel. Dr. Carrlek talks en couragingly, but says he will send a nurse to stay with the mysterious "Miss Barsons" that night. ow go on with the Story) "Will you tell me exactly what the doctor said, and all he said" she asked at last "Of couVse." He came and stood beside her. "He thinks that yoo hare had some sort of shock, which made yon decide to get away from the scene of It, whatever It was. He thinks yon came to the decision very hastily, for you started with no lug gage. Yet when you got here you clearly expected to stay some time, for you went out the next day ana bought some things which you had delivered here at the hotel." "When I "came* up here to my rooms before dinner I went through every thing," she confirmed, "but there was nothing to help me, except some money. It's not much, but T hops It will see me through. Anyway, It's probably all I have in the world, for my clothes show I'm not rich. They're 'good but not gorgeous'," she grimly paraphrased. His heart leaped over the small jest, but before he could speak her face darkened and she went on. "The money won't carry me very far in a New York hotel If I have a long siege?with a trained nurse at night and a psychiatrist coming every morning," she pointed out "Suppose this attack lasts longer than my money does?" "It won't" He spoke with such conviction thai she brightened again. "The Garland's suknmer rates are still ? la effect, and they're very reason able." he went on. "Carrlek Is too good a chap to send you a big bill." He few* hit velee. "ToeVe perfectly we the bit la thete immP he Mke*. Qaite iiw?" Mitt Adaatt tnlled He *u talking sgalnst time to keep her panic at bar till the nurse came. "Oh. what a devilish situation this is!" She turned back to the win dow, bringing her hands together with an effect of desperation that alarmed "Come now," he urged, "keep steady! A whole lot depends on that The more quietly you take this, the sooner yon will get over It He agrees that the .thing to do Is to sit tight, lust as you're doing, and let Inquires come from the other end. If your family and friends don't kno# where yon are, they'll hare started an In vestigation by this time, bug theyTe probably doing it very carefully." 8he stood s*Ul and stared Into the darkness. Suddenly she turned back to the. room with a little laugh that broke through their eeriousneas like a gash of a fountain. "We may discover that I hare run away from a husband and six chil dren," ahs said slightly, but giving a definite sOsct of breathlosanoss and tension. My lnneosat babes may be crying far me this miaate." ' "What a ghastly Idea!" he began, and Stopped abruptly. Aa It shs bad eaaaht bis thought she looked at hkn with sudden Intentnees; but he was on his guard again and his disarming smile banished any soapicion she might hare bad. However, the little episode seemed to harden some half formed purpose, for ebe went toward the inner door with an air of resolu tion .be recalled later. "If yoa will excuse me," she said, "111 make eotae preparations for the noma. I suppose since she Is com ing aha mast be made comfortable. Na, please dont go," she added as be turned to take up bis hat Td rlther yoa wore hers when she comes. There's some light literature on the tsbto that may Interest you." tee made a hospitable gesture to ward the light literature, and disap peared through the door leading into her bedroom. He selected e mags sine, drew ap easy-chair to the reading-lamp, and Voutentedly ut down. Bhe ?u only a low test away, on the other aid* of the door, and there waa something satisfactory In being her sentinel. It wasn't strange that he was Immense ly Interested in her, he mused. Any one would be Interested In a girl In that tragic plight. For a few minutes more be casually thought about her while he turned the pages of the magaslne, glancing at pictures and titles. A title on a page of the magaslne he held caught his eye and he began to read, with frequent glances at the closed door and an ear alert for sounds In the inner room. As he had Already demonstrated. It was'not his habit to do anything by halves. He became attentive to the article he waa leading, then Interested, and finally absorbed. "Is his Miss Parson'e room?" she Inquired. "I'm Miss Adams, the nurse. Doctor Carrick sent me." "Yes, of course. We have been ex pecting you." ? -Doctor Carrick told me all about the case and gave me full Instruc tions," the nurse went on. "It took some time. Otherwise I could have been here sooner. I suppose she's in ber room." she suggested. "Hadn't I better go light in and report?" Miss Adams gave the door panel a soft but decided tap, and when she received no reply she repeated It without emphasis, calling clearly: "The nurse. Miss Parsons. May I ceme In?" But when there waa no response to this, she turned and east a. questioning glance at .the young "Qo In," he managed to bring out, rad strengthened the order with an imperative gesture. Plainly Miss Adams was not the type of nurue who accepted orders from every one who choee to give tnem. She hesitated and Tapped a third time. Still receiving no reply, she turned the knob and entered the l>ed-room, leaving the door ajar be hind her. Hamilton remained close to the open door, but he did not look Into the room beyond It Instead he wheeled and stared hard at the oppo site wall, telling himself there were n half dosen reasons why the girl In the Inner room might not have heard those three decided taps. Miss Adams reappeared, and now she was toviously disturbed. "We musV*t assume too much," she said klndly^Naith an understanding glance at his agitated face. "You said she was frightened, and In such con dltlons pit lent* do strange thing*. I'ye looked out of the window." she pdded calmly; and again he fait file scalp prick. There's nothing wrong In the street Of course ah* may he ? j me where else In the hotel." He found hie volcei. "You're perfectly sure she lent In these roomar* he asked. "Quite sure." Miss Adams smiled austerely. "I've looked In the cloeet and even under the bed." "May I lookr "Of course. If yon like." Her manner nicely combined with Its professional courtesy and Intima tion that he would be wasting his time, but he pushed past her even be fore she could more to one alts The room had the look of having been unoccupied for days. The words of the nurse made him swing around toward her. "Here's the way she left," she said. He had nottoed another door with a bolt on the inside. It led from the bedroom and he had taken for granted that It was part of the adjoining suite and was looked. Now he saw that the bolt had been shot. The nurse held the door alar, reveal lag a glimpse of a side corridor past Its threshold. "Ussiest thlag In the world." he conceded. "She packed, stole out through that door and along that back corridor to a rear staircase, and probably got stray without being seen by any one. But how about her hotel hill? Do you think she* forget thdtr Mlse Adams looked thoughtful. "She might. They da all sorts or queer things when they're not nor He had been staring down ingiy at a "ttle writing stand, hut new he caught a faint suggestion of penciling on tht top envelope of the pile of hotel "Hero's something," ha cried, < hen his picked up the envelope. Then priaslnn changed. It to Doctor Oarriek. "Wham did" pan Bad that?" the nurse demanded. She had been standing on ' the threshold, looking I down tho hall, but turned back Into | tba room at the sound of bis voice. "On ths table, on top of this llttl* heap of stationery. It looked like all the other envelopes, for the name Is written on It very faintly, with a bard pencil. I didn't notice it till now." He felt the envelope. "Lord I I wish I dared to open It." | be muttered. Hamilton harried from the room. At the hotel office desk he asked for a match and lit his cigarette with careful casualness. "Has Hiss Parsons goner he asked I as he drew In the first mouthful ofl "Yep; she checked ont 'most i hour ago," the clerk told him, andi added without rancor: "Women make| me tired." Hamilton rested an elbow on the "WhyT" "Oh, becai?>e they're always chang ing their minds. That girl said when she came that she was only staying cats night She stayed three days. That was ell right?the longer the better. But tonight she had a cot put In her room for a woman friend who was to visit her, and after I'd stirred up a chambermaid and a porter and got everything fixed she changed her mind again and cleared out. She left a dollar for the chambermaid and the porter, though," he added forgivingly, and ended, on another afterthought. "Nice girl." Hamilton put on the hat he hadl been carrying and descended the| betel's front steps to the street "Cab. air?" asked the doormen, who| IU*w - ???? "Not yet . . See here. Saunders?" Hamilton put a dollar Into the men's I hand?"did you happen to hear thel address lllse Parsons gave her cab-j man tonlgbt when she left?" Saunders pocketed tbe dollar and | looked sympathetic. ?She didn't take no cab here, sir," h* reported. "It was funny, too, for sbe usually does. Besides, to-night she was carrytn' a little hand-beg and aibig bundle. Bnt when I started to get a teal for bar she walked oft, bhaktn her head." "Which way did she go?" "That way." Saunders indicated the site street His voice sank to e con fidential note, for his was en honest nature end he desired to earn his duller?in pert at least "I got the feelin', sir." he said, "that the walked, off because the didn't want to give no address here. If that hadn't been It. why would she carry them things ? She give mf my quarter Jest the same, and I'd Ml that qsarter she took a cab at the next corner." 'Hamilton- returned to the waiting | nana. It- was aaay -now to pleee to gether the btta of the putsle. Miss Parsons had experienced another panic, had decided that she was be coming "a case," and had fled to avoid that horror. Of course she would pick ap e cab father along the street or take one of the scores of calm plying up end down the next avenue, only a block away. By thia time ahe might be In Harlem or on a train bound west or south. In any case, she was definitely gone. She was out tbe re somewhere la the dark ness. Whet would become of her? Anything, everything, might happen to her. He mnet find her of course. That went without saying. Even If his In terest had been lees then it was, he oeuldrit let 'her. In her condition, vanish luiw ihs unknown. He had not been responsible at first, but He made his report to tbe nurse. "She paid her hill and checked out aa hour ago." Miss Adams nodded. "She would," ahe confirmed. Hamilton's strained nerves snapped. "If ft was so certain that she would Why tbe devil didn't Cerrlck warn mar' he broke out, end immediately apologised again. "Come on, we'll go uptown and talk to Cerrlck. You test suppose he has gone to bed, do yon?" he asked Irritably. Miss Adams expressed her theory that doctor Cerrlck oould not have done anything so inconsiderate. It wan much more likely, she thought, that the physician might have dropp ed In at tale club on hie way home, to bfcee e rubber of bridge wtfh some ft lends. As a nurse who attended many of his patients she knew some thing of Ma habits. She even knew the warns of his elnh, end mentioned it (CONTINUED NEXT WEEK) (311^ 7RH ?weHfet-tew ?o oo m "?h?yV ?% K.N4 War Nurse Sends * 1; ^ S I -CSargon to Mother In Far Off Loodoii MRS. A. J. PAYNB "Sargon did bo much for me that Fm Bending a treatment to my mother in London, England. "I'm a trained nurse and served overseas in the World War, but I never in all my life saw anything like Sargon. 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