Nogales international., 1930-09-16
Fifteenth Installnlent

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Fifteenth Installlrlent
Standing on a New York street corner, &
young woman suddenly discovers that she
,ioes not know her own name nor how she
got there. Everything in her past is q
blank. She knows only that her name is
Eve" She meets young man who lives
at the hotel where she is registered as Eve
Nobody of Nowhere, which she had written
in French. Eric Hamilton calls in a nerve
specialist but Eve slips out of the hotel
goes to little apartment house, where she
meets professional dancer who gets her a
Job in a cabaret.
AS cabaret hostess she meets many
curious people. Then, one night, man who
claims to recognize her comes in. She is
afraid of him and runs away, back to the
hotel to Eric Hamilton. She has her hair
dyed and changes her manner of dress, so
that the stranger out of her old life will not
recognize her. Then Hamilton persuades her
to go through a marriage ceremony with
him. AS they return to the hotel the man
she fears is waiting. Hamilton sends her up
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 concert
singer and Henderson was not only ne; ne;
manager but had hoped to marry her. She
children of a friend from an overturned
.owb6at in Lake Michigan, two of them
drowning before her eyes. She had slipped
away from the nurse on guard in Chicago
and completely vanished. The shock of the
leath of the two little boys coupled with hel
memory. :.
Hamilton tells the whole story to his
friend, DR.. Carrick, who Is able to assure
Eve that there is nothing in her old life thai
she needs to fear, while he considers how
to bring her memory back
Eve and Hamilton find themselves on a
very friendly footing, while waiting for Dr
Carrick's attempt to bring her memory bsei
to her.
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
They were in her sittiug-roorl and
now she rose and walked TO the win
dow, where she stood dor a moment
with her back to him, looking our
Something in her manner made him
feel THAT he could follow her. He
did so, and stood beside her as he had
done their FIRST evening together in
that room. The same lmersory rose
in the minds of both, and under the
fGtee of it she turned to ifRce him
~'Nou're right" she said quietly. Il
lupe you. 1 didn't realize it till this
week. i c1idi1't want you to know 1t
Vow. Bttt I suppose I've been show
ing it asseEry time / iooied at you on
spoke ito you
"Eve." Her expression stopped his
speech xnd held him rartionless.
II love you" she repeated. "But
I'll never marty you, really. til LIN
-A--@1-:+el.7 myself again"
-" And when you're absolutely your
;1elf again. he almost groaned, you
won't know me at all. My God, Eve
'tl7ink what y@u' re -c0nEemning us ITO,
If this thing laasts!"
:hAmGl thihk what KE condemn rls to
if married you while I'm hike ttFlis
and then" she tedf for the nrigk
words and verbally tnnderlizned tfhem
-"c2aae BATH to fax. myself the wife
of "a stranger. Tha.'s the way rs
saidfto be, 3ou kneW, in these e#ses."
FTaRt you l1ove 1ne now," he <.nried.
"YcdETve SAID so! u can't tsake st in
yet, hut yEEaFe said sol"
goa, yes, Il love you nom." She
adde's slow9y. "And 4 m depending on
youtS) ,keep~Eaet from making Rrsv mis-
take in tf1a1. just aaS I'm depending
on gyDu incGseryt else"
There WAS a moRssnt's silence ewhile
the ftlll Significance of the admission
carne to 'hnaG, and E,le earth flecked.
The acornhaaed love and pity .ifr@ felt
for taer inttsaat moWent was, the most !
shatbering @motion he Ead ever
known. He vwanteI to seEtei her and |
hold aler he MantST to knee1aat her |
feet. He oessa< her Eands arHd1 lpoked |
doWrl at her
TEwe," he said, sEas steadily assF she
1ad spoken, EFF lL'-et won yau conce,
tSSDd4-yyau say IlIhaTe, l
can tao it again pMten yorl're well.
Ge&Jddo it again! and in thelre
i-netfll be ia f1apfE st and the r1lost
aatietlt lover ,WOu eaE imagnle."
She .contirraed to look up ,,a1 gai1n,
rad he bent with ;aal i1narticula8e naur-
I'Ir a&Md laid FMS ofx1k against la,ers.
eor aan instant they Gclung togatt1er,
Raile fiae felt her tears on bis t1ace.
Aaen ssbe spoA1.
Now I hare edonetit1" she brought
g1i with a childish g0if of coutIlfion.
Now I've dragged you into the very
ess-r .6f this hat4eous ttzngle lisate
1yE6H if0- doing it-fzm- letting you r
noW I Nare. Bun oh, Eric, how could
hdip iitlf'
He TdIts sed fe- and stood back, L
but Trembling under HIS
pparsmt t:a1mness. {
"Tfret'S that" Ne ,di7aerfully an~ v
ouncei- Nov vel11 go down II S
And tonight we'll take IN
musical comedy &nd drop in at T
lke's aftenward" a
"And IN hRve to gut on the same 9
ss1cing-frock I wore the:e every {
Ght" size smiled, gz3lantjy playing t.
}, because l haven't anything else" &
But what about the dyaa hair? II
OIL certainly don't lave to go around ii
w with it looking tisss way :" he
inted out. ga
They stared at each other ia con-
Sc
After lunch I'll go up to the beauty he
rlor," she decided, "and ask them
get rid of it for me. That will ha
We you an afternoon off duty"
AS the visit to Jake's drew nearer R
e found herself growing nervous yc
Perhaps he won't even speak to
e" she told Hamilton when they an
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