Nogales international., 1930-08-22
Eighth Installment
WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE.

/ WI1A1 I1AO GOANG ILL OANA'
A beautiful young woman finds herself
on the sidewalk il. a strange city. She can
not remember her name or where she came
from. She has nothing in her purse to tell
herself who she is. A young man who has
seen her in the hotel where she is stopping
notices her and takes her to the hotel IN
cab There they fnd that she registered, IN
The clerk has been calling, her Miss Par
sons. The young man tells her she IS IN
New York. His name is Eric Hamilton, OF
Chicago. She is terrified at her loss OF mem
!ory. He asks his friend, Dr. Carrlcki
nerve specialist, to call at the hotel. Or.
iCarrick talks encouragingly, but says ne
Twill send nurse to stay with the mysterious
"Miss Parsons" that night.
"Miss Nobody listens while Hamilton
Aells her what the doctor has said, then
steps into another room. When the nurse
arrives, the girl has vanished from the
hotel!
Ewes departure was simple. She went out
of back door into the servants hall OF the
hotel, where she encountered young FRENCH
porter, who claimed to recognize her. ne
had seen her in Paris. Then you know my
manner" she demanded eagerly. But the
at once to a friend in Paris and hnd the
name of the American young lady they had
both admired. He tells her OF an apartmeni5
house where the janitor, he thinks. would
take her in. Meantime, while Hamilton, is
anxiously hunting up the nerve specialist 1or
iadvice, Eve gets into taxlcab ana drives
away.
She arranges with MarcePs friend, the
,janitor of dingy little apartment house on
the East Side Of New York, for small
furnished apartment He tells her not to
Ioc frightened if she hears the young woman
whc occupies the next apartment come IN
1very late in the morning. Eve wonders "nat
sort of : place she has got into
The oirl in the next apartment IS Ivy
Davenport, a professional cabaret dancer
with weak heart. Eve helps her one night
when she is i'll. Ivy suggests that Eve, VINO
IS short of funds, should take her place IN
she cabaret. Eve thinks it over, disikes the
idea, but realizes that she has to do some
thing to earn a living until she finds out
who she really is. Ivy has twisted the name
of ''Personne'' which is the only surname
Eve knows for herself into "Berson'
Eve finds "Jake's" strange sort of place
and the girls who dance there even stranger,
though kind to the stranger who is taking
Lvy's place.
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
after they come we all gotta be out
there, setting around in our corner.
The bunch there now is reg'lars that
come early to get good tables. They
know each other. It's when the sin
zies begin to wash in, or two or three
men comes together, that We get
busy"
csZy Gawd" Misc Morris ex-
rAaaged deeply eloquent glance with
..3a;zie, who was smiling a sharp
sectfed ophidian smile. The instrhc-
tress continued her explanation in de-
pressed tones. Were dancers, and
we're Jake's hostesSes, too. See"
"Our job" Stella added, "is to keep
ne men from dyin' of homesickness
after they git here"
Oueenic ignored Stella.
"When =. mans settin' alone at a
table, or two or three men are to-
Rether. lookin' like it's Decoration Day
an they're sayin' it with flowers, l
drift up an give 'em the glad eye.
Nothin' fresh, you understand. Just
kind look to let them know there's
live wire near. If they speak, l
draw on my hot-air tank and find
out who they are; and later | intro
duce them to some of the girls, if they
see any they wanta meet. 1t they
don't ree-spond l breeze past like l
hadn't seen 'em, and try some others.
None of the othei girls goes near
till l find out who the men are and
interduce them. If you seen your own
brother at table you couldn't go tc
him till I said you could. That's all
there is to it, but it's gotta be done
with class"
To the novice there seemed a great
deal to it.
IF they respond, I suppose we
dance with them?" she asked, anxious
to get more definite line on her in
dividua1 duties than Ivy had given her
"Ain't she the clever kid?" Maizit
murmured. SCOT it the very fois
time"
Dance with 'em if they want yot
to-" the instructress coldly explained
IF they want you to set down an
give 'em the story of your life, let 'en
have it. Only make it snappy NJ
sob stuff. Maizie tells 'em she's {;
Russian princess, an it goes owe
great. If they wanta talk while 20,
listen, leave 'em do it,
They'll tell you how lonesome the!
are" Stella contributed. Lonesome I
she sneered. "They don't open m
faucets with that dope. The mel
that comes here is as lonesome a
angleworms in a box of bait!"
Stella, Eve learned, was a pessinis
and a black one. She was also
man-hater and freely confessed tina
she had no use for women. He
speech, and Queenie's, were usual
better than those of the other girls
but on occasion they could, and ofte
did, draw on the argot of the gutter
All this Eve grasped later. At pres
ent the lesson of the moment went OF
There's two things you don't stan
for" Queenie was saying in a crispe
tone. "You don't take insults and yo
don't drink from pocket-hasks. Jake
rule. See? Men that come here h;
got to treat us like. ladies'"
To Eve the whole experience W:
part of the dream she was in, b
the nightmare in the dream was 1e
sening. She was intensely intereste