Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-12-31


him? Tell me. won't you?"
And pretty Margery Lynne told
him all she knew about his friend,
jim, In whose defense she, herself,
had taken up arms against her
chief-of-staff. Then she told him
about the flyer and his strange &C
tons. And she included IN this
something she had not, al yet. Iv-
vealed to anyone else. In conciu-
sion she told him OF the girl chau-
ffeur. Pat. or Patricia Blair, re-
garding whom, she said. he must
have heard in the United States.
For Patricia Blair and her twin
brother, James K. Blair, Margery
informed him. were the famous
orphan heirs to a twenty million
dollar estate that was being held In
trust for the two until their twenty
fifth birthday. And that event. &C
cording 70 Margery. would trans
pire ON the first coming January.
"As for your friend. jim" she con-
tinued. flashing a cautious glance
around to make sure that none put
the lieutenant was listening. II
zane close TO getting my walkinh
papers On his account" and she re-
lated in brief the story OF her ar
rument with DR.. Skies. In her re-
ference 70 the young flyer brought
in by DR.. Gordon and Pat Blair,
Margery Lynne said:
eff II were not that ne was the
acknowledged brother Of Pat Blair
I would be half inclined TO think
there might be something. well nos
altogether honest about that young
mani"
In support of her statement sine
gave a recountal OF her observations
AZ previously outlined by her az the
meeting In DR.. Skies office.
And that isn't AL" she con-
tinued, her voice dropping TO a
pitch Just loud enough 10 be heard
BY the eagerly listening lieutenant.
Night before last at seven O'Clock
as the night nurse, Decker, the
same man who has charge OF this
room, came on duty I happened,
BY accident To BE- standing behind a
screen close to Blair's bed. ! saw
Decker pass AMI heard a soft psf
The night man glanced around
swiftly and then tiptoed over 70
Blair.
"fQuIckr r heard him say In o.
sharp whisper, give me the dopeT
"The dope must have been en-
bodied in the words spoken by Blair,
the ma supposed TO be . victim OF
aphasia in It's worst form. lie spoke
for perhaps twenty seconds, u 2
low. clear voice. But IS wasn't Eng
llsh that he spoke: IL sounded 70
me like Bulgarian. on some other
Elavish tongue. That was all. Deck
er hurried away and slipped out
from behind the screen without let
ing Blair see me. "A few minutes
later I returned TO him with a glass
or cocoa. He drar'- Ii when i held
IL to his lips, but his manner was
lust as IL has been ever since ne
came herewith the exceptions I've
mentioned that OF one whose
thinking brain Is not working IN
coordination with the other parts
II haven't reported this Decker
incident TO DR.. Skies, a. vet, nor
spoken Of 1t to anyone besides you
said MarFery I'm conclusion. But
what do you suppose IL all means
lieutenant? Why these odd lapses
from stupidity to lucidity2 And how
come Pat Blair'S brother, an AM
erican born and bred, to be talking
some slavish ~language?"
The lieutenant shook his leac
slowly, thoughtfully, aS though Tho
question were beyond his mental
grasp. After "a moment he looked
up.
There certainly IS d large color
ed gent hidden somewhere in the
woodpile," he remarked. Then hf
added: 1T is almost too much d
a coincidence to accept off-hand
and yet-heres' this lad who car
ried me In from the Shell-hole
Back there In that hole he told o
being shot down in the enemy;
territory, his ship and he only
slightly damaged. Then his uniform
with his personal letters identity
tag and all are stolen. A German
outfit Is left for him. He cons 1
, and i'm a day or so makes his get
} a-vay. He Is shot In the arm ang
J that morning Stumbles into TIM
! hole where / am. Later he mention
casually that his name Is jim
, that he was born at HAS ID. m OF
New Years Eve OF the y17r 1893
just twenty minutes before his twtl
/. sister, whom he calls Pat "a |
darn pretty girlP
Then comes the big shell anS
Jim II rendered non compus men