The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1921-11-13
THE INVOLUNTARY VAMP

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Your bsauty. my dear, win BE-
quits unimpAired. You'n break
many hearts yet before you dis."
IT'S about time I started. then."
seao DIANA with Q faint smile. In
rer weakness her thoughts few to
~ u was the Arst time since
sne nad recovered full conscious
nes, tnat her own affairs occurred
ner AZ all. % interested had
sno been IN her Surroundings and
the strange people who had sue
Drs1Dsa Out q sfsAt.
DO you know" she said, .it has
Just occurred to me that \ country
wide search II likely being made
for me unless you've already noti-
ned somebody that I am with you"
The doctor shook his head.
I'VE are far out Of the beaten
track here. my dear. and no inquiry
concerning you has come to us.
There was nothing about YOU for
Identification"
That's 90" Diana nodded. .but
when you found me. wasn't There
someone
The doctor shook his head again.
There was no one shout. I found
you on Q side road Just Q few feet
distant from the main highway,
which leads to our nearest rail-
road station. Il was just before
sunrise. You were unconscious
from Q blow on the head. There
were wagon tracks showing that q
vehicle had passed that way"
nl.,s shuAAAraA
The brutal Thank Heaven he
went on without stopping! dare
say he thought ! killed myself
when I Jumped and he didn't want
to be connected with the crime"
The doctors brows were raised
slightly, but he asked no quss-
lions.
you see. doctor. this 10 what
happened" Diana was beginning.
but he laid his fingers gently on
her lips enjoining silence.
Some other time, little girl You
mustn't exert yourself by talkins
now. Remember this. my sister
and I are happy to have you with
us. We belong to the great free
West, which asks no one why he
comes or where he goes"
Diana snuggled down into her
pillows.
you're awfuiiy kind. think
am q little tired and I'd like to
sleep. II I have already been lost
two weeks It won't hurt to wait
a little longer before getting word
to Alex and the others. Poor Lynn
II wonder"
She had drifted OF into slumber.
She did not know the doctor sat
beside her for. more than an hour.
his eyes studying the soft curves
of her young face. the pouting
droop of her lips and the nun OF
hair that escaped from the bandage
around the temples.
Several times he sighed and into
his eyes crept q PARKWAY. look as
though he saw distant lands and
haunting visions. Once he touched
her cheek softly n II assuring
himself Of its coolnesa-
Then rising, he started to leave
the room. stopped. turned back
and bending over. touched his hps
TO her hand that hung over TIE
edge of the bed.
INsTALLMENT xxx
Dfs>e sSents Mystery.
In a week Diana was able to Be
taken out on the veranda. which over
looked a little garden filled win
gray bright flowers. a veritable OASIS.
against whose gate the relentless
desert bent IN vain. Wrapped COM
fortably in a kimono Of Cynthia Bor-
den's, she was carried out by the
doctor himself and laid tenderiy IN
a hammock which had been nrst
filled with pillows.
at loathe being such q baby. she
laughed, her lips inadvertently brusn-
ine the doctors ear as he bent 10
lay her IN her improvised nest You
and your sister are running me. l
thought ! was q pampered Pet at
home but I've never been treated ike
this before. never"
The doctor laughed and tucked her
wrap around her.
you brought the nrst sunshine
into our life In many year"
But you're such amazing people
protested Diana Think, I've been
here several weeks and you haven't
even asked my name or where I'm
from or what I was doing with
broken head In q ditch early one
morning. There aren't many people
Dack East VINO would DC 80 sohciooS
and so lacking in curiosity"
do We question the rose that
opens its lovely petals In our garden,
or the nightingale that sings beneath
our window in the moonlight?
smiled the doctor.
Diana made q little grimace.
"Don't-you remind me Of Domin-
guez"
The Doctors straight brows knitted.
mot Pedro Dominguez?" he said
sharply.
Diana nodded gaily.
Pedro. the dashing Spaniard.- from
whom escaped the night you found
met
As the Doctors frt clenched sug-
gestively. she added hastily:
'Oh! no! 1t wasn't Dominguez
who gave me my wallop on the head!
No one could have been more gallant
than the dashing Pedro. a little too
gallant. thought. That's why I ran
away. Oh. Doctor Max. II you knew
the whole history Of my adventures"
Her gay laughter brought . smile
to his grave face.