Nogales international., 1930-09-09
Thirteenth Installment
WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE

Standing on New YORK street corner,
young woman suddenly discovers that sh'
loes not know her own name nor how sh'
OF there. Everything in her past is
.lank She knows only that her name il
Eve" She meets young man who live:
It the hotel where she is registered as Eve
Iobody of Nowhere, which she had writer
French. Eric Hamilton calls in nerve
pecialist but Eve slips out of the hotel
oes to a little apartment house, where she
leets a professional dancer who gets her q
ob in cabaret.
AS a cabaret hostess she meets many
curious people Then. one night, a man. whc
claims to recognize her comes in. she Is
afraid of him and runs away, back to the
lotel to Eric Hamilton. She has her haiI
dyed and changes her manner of dress, Sc
hat the stranger out of her old life will not
recognize her Then Hamilton persuades he1
to go through a marriage ceremony WITH
him. AS they return to the hotel the man
she fears is waiting. Hamilton sends her ur
stairs and turns to the other man.. who says
his name is Samuel Henderson, of Chicago
Henderson identifies Eve to Hamilton
She is Eve Darlington. famous concer1
singer and Henderson was not only he1
manager but had hoped to marry her. She
had collapsed after trying to save four
children of a friend from an overturned
rowboat in Lake Michigan, two OF them
drowning before her eyes. She, had slipped
away from the nurse on guard In ChicagC
and completely vanished. The shock OF the
death of the two little boys coupled with hel
lear of Henderson had caused her loss OF
memory.
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY.
"She was just about off her head
for ten days after the accident, ne
went on, "over the two boys she
couldn't save. She had been awfully
fond of those kids, and they'd gone
through the whole thing so well. She
had expected to bring them both in
together; they'd been SO plucky she
was sure she could manage it. :.
She said she kept hearing Herman's
good-by to her. 1t was always in her
ears. Oh, we'll :" he repeated,
and stopped for minute, staring be-
fore him as if following the scene
he had described.
1--WE thought she'd come around in
a few days." he resumed philosophi-
ca1ly. "We called in doctors and a
nurse and kept her quiet but
she was terribly strung up. Couldn't
forget the accident couldn't t
stand music couldn't see any
one couldn't eat couldn't
sleep. l made every allowance for
her. What can't forgive" he added
heavily, is her skipping out and leav-
ing us in the lurch. I'd have bet a
million she would never do that"
Gust how did she do it,"
Henderson peered at his companion
with a family sardonic grin and rose,
shaking his broad shoulders as if to
cast a weight from them.
"Here, hold on You can't go yet.
There's a lot l want to know" Ham
ilton urged.
"That goes for me, too. But it's
simply amazing how little you know
about your wife," Henderson NUT
tered.
'We've certainly talked more about
the future than about the past"
'T'11 bet you have" Henderson took
a turn around the room, plainly think
ing things out. "Well, I'm the past,
all right, and Pm the also ran, and
l guess I'm the SHOWS of yesteryear," !"
he announced, returning to face his
host. Then the faint grin left his lips
and he added with unexpected dignity 4:
Il thought you took on this call be-
cause you knew there was an expla-
nation coming to me. Now I'm be-
ginning to realize that you don't know
thing about Eve. l can understand
Why size didn't tell you about the
tragedy or even about her breakdown
after it. But why didn't she tell you
about me and about her musical
career :"
SIT down again and we'll try to
figure it out. But did | under
stand you to say that Eve had prom
iSed to marry you?"
Henderson drew chair forward
and sat down facing him.
"That gave you a jolt, didn't it?-
but it's true. Eve has been engaged
to me for three years. You see, l
sent her to Paris to study the piano
when she was seventeen. Oh, yes, l
sent her." he added in response to the
listeners involuntary movement. I've
made that girl. She's a genius, as
I've said, but she takes things hard,
as geniuses do.
when Eve got back, this July, I
expected her to marry me right away.
In fact, l had made all the arrange
,ments. But she begged off for year
said she wanted to make her Amer
.3can start first. She hal earned a lot
of money, and she wanted to repay
more of the loan before she married.
OF course was disappointed l
didn't care anything about the lean,
since she was to marry me, but l
agreed to the delay. l always gave
Eve her head. Had to, as matter
of fact"
He stopped and looked repr zach
fully at the dead cigar.
81 forgot to say that when Eve was
at her lowest and couldn't see any one
but the nurse and doctcrs," he went
on as if it had reminded hiri of some
thing, we let Mrs Heckner come in.
We knew she'd talk about Ewes say
ing the two girls, and we thought she
might brace Eve UP. But instead ci
that the two women fell into each
others arms and cried themselves
sick, and Ewes nurse had her hands