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;
He couldn’t move . . . and his head was bursting open.
CHAPTER 28
'TVE SHOULD have a doctor tor
Miss Boisevain,’’ Janet insisted as
they reached the kitchen.
: Nita shook her head dolorously.
“But. Nita, there Is something
•erious the matter with Miss Boise
vain. That was a bad heart attack
She had!”
Nita answered her by going to the
doyr, and looking out. When she
came back she sank wearily in a
chair and put her head in her hands.
Her shoulders were heaving, yet not
a soynd came from her.
“How can we get a doctor?”
Again the servant shook her head,
and looked at Janet. Tears w r ere
streaming down her face, and her
tightly closed lips were trembling.
"Nita, tell me!” the girl urged.
”T£U me where Mr. Rodman is . . .
write it down for me, won’t you?”
Nita turned. A shiver ran over
her big frame.
If Nita could only talk! If she
could only tell me! Janet searched
frantically in the kitchen for a bit
©f. paper and a pencil. She could
find neither. Discouraged, she knelt
at Nita’s feet.
“Please, Nita. tell me about this
naad house! What’s the matter with
everyone, you and Miss Boisevain
and Rajah? Am I dreaming, or is
ail this true? i can’t believe it!”
Nita lifted the girl by the arms
gently, and led her to the door, and
out into the buck. Then she turned
and went back into the house.
Janet walked around listlessly for
a while Blair Rodman had come
apd gone. He might be waiting out
here for her . . . might be! Although
Miss Boisevain bad said she would
never soe him again!
She had sent him outside, telling
him Janet would follow in a few min
utes and he had gone. . . .
Yet by some chance he might be
waiting for her stlli! Gathering
ITALIAN TROOPS IN AFRICA READY FOR BATTLE
Wearing their sun helmets, Italian troops art
shown marching with full pack under the broiling
aun of Eritrea, aear Masaawa. They are headed
Germany’s New Navy Adopts Gas Masks
Now that Great Britain and Germany have agreed on naval strength in the North Sea. German a * v ®j
authentic are permitting glimpses of the fleet secretly built before the negotiations started. German
gunners working with gas masks were pictured during rweat maneuvers. (Central Tree )
| hope, she hurried through the gar
- den, peering into the bushes as she
went. Presently she came around to
! the front.
His car was standing on ti|*» path
near the porch!
He must be her*, looking for her!
Miss Boisevain bad U*d? She would
see him again.
Hurrying around to the other side,
she kept calling, “Mr. Rodman! Mr.
Rodman! ”
There was no answer to her cries,
nothing but the faraway call of a
bird, somewhere in the deep for
est. . . .
• • o
Blair was just coming to his
senses. He groaned as he turned
over. His head ached fiercely with a
throbbing, steady pain. He had never
felt such terrible pain before. He
tried to move his hands but could not.
It was dark. He could see nothing
around him.
Something wet and warm was on
his fingers. He moved one of them,
but the wet warm feeling was still
there.
Where was he? What had hap
pened? Too tired to think, he closed
his eyes again. But the pain in his
head racked him and he moaned
aloud.
He had come to see Janet Lord
. . . Janet ... a nice name, and it
fitted her so . . . hair like sunshine
she had . . . and deep violet eyes . . ,
he had seen her again, but where?
Yes, he had come to the house,
Miss Boisevain’s housa . . , why was
his brain whirling so . . . fce couldn’t
think straight ... he couldn’t move
. . . and his head was bursting
open. . . .
Where was he? He had come to
Miss Boisevain’s bouse to see Janet
—even in hie agony her name was
sweet to him. He tried to say it
aloud but couldn’t.
He had seen her again, he was sure
of that . . . she was pleased to see
him. Her hand when she cave it to
toward the Ethiopian border, where they will dig
in and await Premier Mussolini’s word to advancs
Into Ethiopia.
him, thrilled him ... Tie remembered
he had never wanted to let it go. . . .
There was a happy smile on her
face when she came to greet him. . . .
Miss Boisevain, he had seen h§r
again, too. She looked the same, as*
he remembered, except that her faca
seemed sickly to him, her color
bad. Miss Boisevain ... it was ho?
house. . . .
The note asking him to dinner.
The dog, he had not noticed the dog
around. Yes, he had. • i
Then, what was next? Yes, Miss
Boisevain had kindly suggested he
talk to Janet outside . . . alone . . .
or had he thought of it? Everything
w r as so hazy, except Janet s sweet
face.
Well, he went cut of the room,
through a swinging door. Miss
Boisevain had pointed to it. A
swinging door. That was clear.
He had been thinking of Janet . . .
yes. Janet. Then he remembered no
more. Except that there had been
frightful pain, and then sleep. Pain;
was he ill?
A little stronger, he attempted to
feel his head again, where the pain
was the worst. He could not get his
hand up. Something was keeping It
down in that wet, warm thing.
His feet he could not move, either,
and his ankles ached. Ached but did
not pain as his head did.
Why couldn’t he move? Was he
paralyzed? What had happened
after he left Miss Boisevain’s big liv
ing room, where Janet w'as smiling
at him happily?
Lying quite still, he tried to puzzle
it out, but the more he thought about
it the more muddled he became.
He couldn’t move . . . his head
pained. . . .
God! He was bound! His wrists,
and bis ankles! Rope all around his
body! The wet. warm thing was
blood !
He had been struck in the head.
and his head was bleeding!
(TO BE CONTINUED)
HENDERSON, (N. C.) DAILY DISPATCH, FRIDAY, AUGUST 9, 1935
Rhumba Queen
A
Jo Andrews
Miss Jo Andrews of Boston has
been voted by the English club
of Mexico City, as the best Amer
ican rhumba dancer She began
studying the rhumba last Decem
ber and since has out-danced sev
eral of Mexico’s best rhumba
dancers at social affairs.
Hie Call to Arms! by Goat’s Horn
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.Reveille in Ethi
opia is called by
a bugler using a
primitive goat’s
horn as his in
strument. Note
the ancient model
rifle held, a sign
of Ethiopia’s at
tempt to hurried
ly arm its men as
modernly as pos
sible under the
arms ban imposed
by the large
Powers.
(Central Press )
Sues Crack Piiot
*
Florence Suddarth
Sixty cents to start a bank ac
count for her baby—that is all
that Royal Leonard, transport
pilot and recent entry in the Lon
don-Melbourne air race, has con
tributed to the support of their
alleged daughter, Royale Leonard, <
according to Florence Suddarth. <
The mother, shown in court at;
tx>s Angeles, where she is seeking*
|l5O. monthly alimony,*" claims*
’Leonard is the child’s father. ' Hal
has denied parentage. She as
serted their romance began in
Kansas City in 1933 where the
aviatpr made stop-overs during
flight* -
Elimination of New York “sweat-shops” conditions (typically represented in center),
of garment factories from New York to country, with workers residing in farm-homestead ■ communities .is
objective of garment workers’ groups which have started model community neai K s i’« headouai
federal aid. Wtee show (top), .Max Blitter, leader of project; f a.(left), that no* js heed^ua.-
ters of the community: and typical garden a tar ted by workar* (C***rn. wj,
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Wife Preservers
IIS A .>
To make that perfect cup of cof
fee use level measurements, just
as you do In baking. Fill the meas
ure, then level it off even. If you
do this your coffee will be consist
ently good —nvt gc<?d OU® tins® QJJd
bad another.
Royal Romance Renewed
After having been separated from her by displeasure of his uncle,
plump Prince Ah Ibrahim, nephew and heir of the King of Egypt, has
renewed his romance with Pearl Shepherd, American dancer whom he
met abroad. She was Pearl Ginsberg of the Bronx, N. Y. He’s visiting
her in New York now and they’re seen together in nightclub-
NATURE PRESENTS
——* ■ Rat Kangaroo
PHYSICAL FEATURES
Eighteen inches long, six inches high at shoulder with
10-foot tail; much like a tiny kangaroo in shape; fore
limbs short and hind limbs long wiih three toes, the
middle being much longer than the other two; thick, ,/ T
coarse hair. Color —(lurk grey. a ** ) \
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The rat kangaroo makes his nest in a hollow in the ground where be
sleeps during the day. He uses his tail to carry leaves and grass
when building his home. After the young are born both parents a »t
careful to drag spikes of grass well over the entrance when entering:
or leaving their home. This fellow bops like the kangaroo but also
has the capacity to leap high. « Aa a rule he sits upright.
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W. L. NEWBY, Salesman
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