Nogales international., 1930-01-14
Third Instalment
Synopsis
whse Happened Before

; Az = partv in Palm Beach given by Mf. Cooper |
Clary Lesson, attorney, meets Lucy narGne''' |
known as Devil-May-Care because of her adVen- |
turous. eventfuI life In game in which partners |
for the evening are chosen, Lucy is won by Inn
Stevens, who has great reputation as suece:saul
heart breaker. Lesson is a bit jealous. linn
Stevens tells Lucy they are going ABOARD mas 49,
the Minerva, and she accedes in order not to DC
.'s GUTTER Asked if she is sorry that ne won
her company, Lucy says she Is not and 'nat
evidently Fate has arranged it. Tim tnefeupon
sells her stop looking regrestuiy after Lee'Sn
Aboard Stevens boat, the Minerva, Ste
xens tells Lucy of his love. When she re-
plies with contempt for him, he grows no
1ently angry and she becomes afraid OF MN.
He SAYS he will never let her go from 'ns
Minerva until she accepts him. 10 escSps
him, she leaps into the water from ner caIln
1w;ndow. swimming a short distance unoeF
Now Go On With the Seo1
The Minerva was making, she guessed,
an easy seven knots; unless some one
on deck had seen her or heard the
SLIGHT splash of her dive she would not
be observed, for though the Cult
Stream cleaned, it was the pale radi-
ance of stars that was reflected; the
moon, being new, cast no beam upon
the sea. It would be several moments
before Stevens would give the alarm,
before the course of the Minerva
could be altered its searchfight made
10 play upon the waters. Only acci-
dent could aid them in finding her;
that accident could hardly be avoided
bv thirty-foot swim beneath the
water. Time enough to exhaust hersei1
thus when discovery was imminent.
Her feet sagged until they hung
straight down; the tired arms re-
laxed; that black hair, shiny in the
FIST rays of the sun, dipped below the
water. And then her toes touched
hard sand. She kicked violently, and
her head came above the surface.
There, straight before her, green and
lovely in the morning, was land. she
had been tired, too hopeless to see it +;
swimming on her side, she'd not
looked ahead for, oh, hours, it seemed.
And here it was, white sand, fragrant
3unqle. She mustered all her wan
Ing strength. 1t was only few yards
tt couldn't be more than that, to where
the shelving beach would rise to meet
the Jungle. and let her walk. :,
A path That meant people. II
she could <nly reach house, get
Anside If she even had blanket
70 keep off the sun, the flies, the ants
There 1yds d house. A shack, but il
looked ike the Cosden house to Lucy
Hardness. A veritable palace Of un-
painted boards. She staggered toward
it. Even a makeshift veranda, with q
roof above it, chairs, table, and there
must be bed inside. A bed!
She leaned for a moment against 9
cocoanut palm. A nut fell, crashing
Upon the veranda asland crab, startled
by the sound, looked UP, saw grea
white figure that stretched toward the
sky. He scuttled across the cracked
boards, as the great white figure ad
vanced, stumbled across the veranda
and into the hut.
How could the crab know that /
was the most harmless human in The
world, just now; merely half
drowned, semiconscious girl, naked a.
no one had ever seen her since sht
was baby, as nothing had ever seer
her save the sun, the sea, the jungle
and the crab?
Lucy Hardness stirred, and an in
slant ache rushed through her body
But it was the delicious ache that fol
lows complete exhaustion and subse
quent rest.
"Oop said Lucy Hardness.
81 could eat" she said slowly, judi
cially, "at least six eggs, four larnl
chops, a dozen slices of hot buttere'
toast"
"And six pepsin tablets" said
husky voice.
Instinctively she drew tight tn
baggy pajamas. The voice might hav
come from the room in which Sh
stood, yet there was no one here. Sh
stepped to the door, noticing for tn
first time that it stood ajar, an
peeped through it.
Smiling gaily at her, the while h
stirred a yelloWish mess i'll a frying
pan that sizzled above an open firt
stood tall, slim man. He wor
khaki knickers and his white shirt ha
short sleeves and no collar. His hal
was quite gray; green sun-glasses hi
the color of his eyes; his nose wa
twisted slightly, as though ono
broken, and his wide thin lips curve
in a grin that showed white teetl
For the rest, he was clean-shaven, an
his hands seemed extraordinarily mu!
cular.
"God gave me more than / deserve
she responded, including good d
gestion. Why didn't you build yor
FIRE on the windward side, and the
I'd have smelled the coffee and glat
dened your eyes with my presence S
much the sooner"
always a purchase price,"
sighed. Some women are bougl
with jewels, some with rank, and yo
1t seems, with coffee"
Unaware that she did so, she nodde
This was a man who could instant
catch your mood, drop into file, al
march along with you.
"I'm not sure that suit of pajam'
is sufficient clothing to justify n
presence at your breakfast table" 81
said.
"You had less on when tou'
you." be said dryly,