It was ten o’clock. Belle Fleur
seemed % strangely silent. Lotus
stood on the broad gallery out
side her bedroom and saw the
stars reflected with startling
clarity in the waters of the swim
ming lagoon. From the bayous
came the hoarse croaking of
frogs and the occasional plaintive
whimper of a swamp owl.
Stacy had not yet returned
from New Orleans.
His father, Lotus thought and
Jioped, had retired to his own
t{BK>m with a book. . i
X She wondered suddenly if this
wasn’t the moment to do a little
snooping. The servants, to all ap
pearances, were in their quarters
behind the house and she would
have the spacious old rooms to
herself.
She had seen Stacy use a flash
light that was kept in a drawer of
the first floor hall table. She
would need it for what she plan
ned to do. As she tiptoed down
the hall, light gleamed from len
der Curtis Corbin’s door.-” She
found the flash and decided to
examine the library first
She played her light over the
room and examined the contents
of the massive • library table
drawers. It seemed a purposeless
search, as she was not surq what
she was looking for. If Corbin
were a dope smuggler, he could
have dozens of hollowed-out
books filled with the stuff and
she would have to examine each
one separately, to find out. It was
much too big a task for one per
son. ,
The door to Curtis Corbin’s
study was open and she moved
across to it. Den was rather a
contradictory term to apply to
.this room she decided, for it was
IJpily as large as the library.
She moved the bright spot of
light across the walls; and eyes
gleamed back at her!
The walls were covered by the
stuffed and mounted heads of
various animals; it was their
glassy, taxidermists eyes that had
frightened her.
Quickly, she rifled through the
contents of the desk. The papers
all referred to business deals
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which meant nothing to her. She
moved the light around again.
This time it fell on a large pack
ing box, from which excelsior
and shredded newspapers pro
truded.
She peered in and gasped . . •
The boa constrictor lay coiled
up in its bed of straw, its skin
gleamed naturally. Though she
knew it was dead, it was several
moments before she could bring
herself to examine it.
Leaving quickly, she tiptoed in
to the dining room* and obtained
a steel knife from rthe buffet. Re\
turning to the boa, she ripped out
several of the stitches with a few
quick jerks and reached into the
opening.
Her fingers closed on more ex
celsior. Though she continued ta
feel around, stuffing was all her
exploring hands contacted. With
a deep sigh of disappointment,
she returned the snake to its
original position.
Suddenly her ears caught the
sound of" soft, shuffling footsteps
decending the stairs, Curtis Cor
bin was returning to the library!
Suddenly, the front door was
thrust open and Stacy came in.
“Hi Dad!” He sounded as
though he were forcing himself
to be jovial.
Curtis Corbin’s answering voice
was cool and deliberate: “Well
did you make any progress?”
“Of a sort. Aline and her grand
aunt are coming out here tomor
row for a three-day visit”
There was a strained silence,
then . . .
“Now, listen. Dad, Rosa is not
bad. She’s just different from
your brand of feminine society.”
“That’s neither here nor there.
There’s no way we can explain
her presence here. The Cartier
women will be Insulted. It’ll ruin
everything.”
“I don’t care if it does. This ro
mance is your idea, not mine.”
1 “Well you’d better make it
yours. I think I told you what
would happen if you didn’t carry
out my plans. You’ve lived a soft
life Stacy. You might find earn
ing your own living not an easy
proposition.”
There was an ugly pause. When
next he spoke, Stacy’s voice was
modified.
“Well, they practically insisted
on coming—there was nothing I
could do. I’ll fix things up O. K.
—I’ll give them a sob story about
dosa being sick and alone, and
they’LTthink we’re being kind t6
ner. I’ll explain it to Rosa; she’s
a good kid) she’ll play along.”
“She’d better," Corbin’s voice
rasped; “or we’ll find some other
solution for her.”
The next afternoon Lotus
watched the arrival of Aline Car
tier and her spinster grand-aunt
from her own gallery.
The aunt was a finely-drawn
portrait of what Aline could ex
pect at sixty—slight, erect, with
an aristocratic head borne proud
ly on her slim, aging shoulders.
Curtis Corbin strode down the
terraced brick steps to greet
them.
Lotas noted with amusement
that he had undergone a strange
metamorphosis of character. Now
he was very much the gentleman
of the Old South. He had donned
a silk pongee suit and'a. flowing
black tie. In his fingers was the
ever-present expensive Havana
cigar—which was not an affecta
tion. He bowed low over Miss Car
tier’s hand, as though he were
about to kiss it. Evidently the
same idea occurred to the older
woman, for she withdrew it from
his warm clasp with haste.
Lotus shrank back into the
shadows as the foursome neared
the house. Her thoughts were
seething. It had never occurred
to her that the Cartier family had
been the previous owners of
►Belle Fleur. And considering the
dispicable manner in which, Cur
tis Corbin had acquired it,’ how
could 'Aline and her grandaunt
bring themselves to visit her?
Stacy must have done his job well
—evidently Aline had fallen head
over heels in love.
When the group was in the
house, Lotus' slipped down the
stairs and across the grounds to
her rendezvous with Stu Law
rence.
He was there in the pirogue,
looking as ill-kempt and fierce as
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ever. HU eyes were an amber
color, and from the shadow of the
cypress and the swarthiness of
his bearded face, they peered
back at her like some wild
beast’s. To her dismay,, she felt
her heartbeat quickened at the
sight of him.
She told him about the snake
and the new arrivals at Belle
Fleur, then, though she longed to
linger, left hurriedly, for fear
Lachene would discover her.
Since that first meeting with
Lawrence, the gardener always
seemei to be somewhere in the
background when she thought
she was alone—suddenly appear
ing to cat the grass or prune the
bushes or pick flowers for Belle
Bleur’s Sevres vases. She was
certain that Curtis Corbin had
assigned him to watch her.
As she re-entered the house,
she was introduced to the new
comers.
From their lack of astonish
ment, she realized that Stacy and
his father had already prepared
the Cartier women with their sob
story, but in spite of this, the
.older woman was unable to pre
vent a faint frown of displeasure
from wrinkling her forehead.
In the garden below, Stacy was
making 4ove to Aline Cartier,
even urging an immediate mar
riage. He was suggesting that he
bring a minister to Belle Fleur
to perform the wedding during
their visit, so that old Mr. Car
tier could not interfere. To
Lotus’ dismay, Aline was pe
culiarly acquiescent to every
thing he said. \
In a moment the elder Miss Car
tier entered from her own bed
room.
Her voice was inclined to be
high and at this moment indigna
tion made it shrill . . .
“Aline, I’m astonished at Stacy
inviting us here when that Miss
Kirkman is around—it’s sheer ef
frontery!”
“Hush, she’ll hear you!”
“Oh, I’ve nothing against the
girl personally—she’s really quite
pretty and charming, but a caba
ret entertainer, and unchaperon
ed!”
“But Mr. Corbin explained all
that—he said she was sick and
had no friends or any place to
go.”
Need For Nurses Is Cited
To High School Graduates
Throughout the entire country
there is a perceptible slowing
down of business. Unemploy
ment is increasing. Both large
and small corporations are be
ginning to lay off workers. In
almost all industries there is need
for fewer people, and, in a few
months, this trend will probably
increase, and with it unemploy
ment will increase.
In hospitals, however, and
among sick people, there is an
increased need for nurses. More
nurses are needed to care for the
sick in hospitals and in private
homes. There has never been a
time in the history of America
when a graduate nurse had the
choice of so many different posi
tions or so many different loca
tions. Everywhere nurses are
needed.
Young women who enter this
profession now will graduate at a
time when nurses are badly need
ly, and they will have the op
portunity of entering any of the
fields of nursing in .which they
may be interested, it is one of
those opportunities of a long
lifetime that does not come
around very often. A young
woman who wants to start a
nursing career this year will not
have to worry about getting a job.
She will have her choice, be
cause nine out of ten hospitals
need nurses badly. Some hos
“Humph! Looks healthy enough
to me. And Curtis Corbin doesn’t
strike me as an exactly kind
hearted individual.”
There was a pause, then Miss
Cartier said in a querulous tone,
“What were you and Stacy talk
ing about in the garden all even
ing?”
“He wants me to marry him,
Tante.”
“Marry you, eh? Let me look
in your eyes, child—you’re not
deeply in love with him, are you
Aline?”
“Noooo, but it would mean get
ting Belle Fleur back in the fam
ily.”
(To be continued)
pitals have had to close up entire
floors because of the lack of
nurses and have been.forced to
turn away many of the sick who
needed hospital treatment so
very badly.
70,000 .nurses, or more, are
needed today in the United
States. New hospitals are being
built, and others are being plan
ned for construction in the near
future. Throughout the country
the demand for medical care is
growing rapidly and, as it in
creases, more nurses will be
wanted.
Nursing is a highly respected
profession in every community. A
nurse'finds great satisfaction in
knowing that her work is indis
pensable and that she is needed
to help in almost every phase
great human drama the nurse
plays a major role. She is ever
a force, not only in relieving the
sick and suffering, but in better
ing the social conditions of all
the people. In entering the field
of nursing, however, a young
woman should not be deceived
and feel that the life of a nurse
is like a Hollywood picture!
Nursing means real work and
personal effort. It requires a,
physically strong body and an
emotionally stable mind. £?he
must realize that her first con
sideration must be her patients
She must know how to be calm
and cheerful no matter how
weary she may feel and no mat
ter how difficult her patieAts may
be.
Nursing is not without glamour.
To take part in the tremendous
battle for lives, to save the sick
and the injured requires the same
courage that it takes to disting
uish oneself on the field of bat
tle in time of war.
A young woman who takes up
nursing and studies and works
and develops her talents to the
best of her ability will develop
into a high type of nurse and will
be recognized by those around
her and with whom she works as
a high type of individual.
In very few fields of esdimc
can a young woman rise to the .
heights of usefulness and appre
ciation, both of herself personally.
and her work, as she can la the
field of nursing.
In material things, the nursing
profession is one of the better
paid professions for women. The
salary scale for graduate nurses
varies in different states but, on
the whole, it is good everywhere.
Considering the fact that a nurse
can get her nursing education at
practically no cost makes this one
of the most attractive and desir- .
able of all professions.
All kinds of fields are open to
nurses. In the various branches
of hospital work, general nurs
ing, emergency room, obstetrics,
pediatrics, surgery, anesthesia,
office work, physiotherapy, hy
drotherapy, teaching in training
schools, superintendent at hos
pitals, heads of hospital depart-.
ments—all of these fields are
open to the able. and qualified
graduate nurses. ■-?
In the health program that hi
being developed in North Caro
lina, Public Health Nurses east
do pioneer work in local com
munities. T« gkany young wom
en such a position would be a
challenge and would stimulate
them to worthwhile accomplish
ments for themselves as well es
the community at large.
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