The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-10-21

cover my eyesight that you may advise. In the meantime, I'll adjust my life to blindness. Rose will teach me And if one day I recover my 1 sight" he seemed to know by in- stinct where Hallie was standing, for he turned confidently in that direction-"she will teach me how to use that, too. Won't you, Rose?'
 Yes" she promised
 Lytton glanced at her as they walked away together. Against his better judgment, he muttered:
 You're a plucky girl. I'm sorry nearly gave things away when he felt for your eyebrows"
 Its nothing. There is always the danger of giving something away when more than one of us is with him at a time That's one of the reasons that I'm thankful Les ter isn't here. He's so careless. |"
 Have you-have you thought any more about his particular propo- sition?" ventured the doctor.
 They had reached the doctors car and Hallie got in before she re- piled
 T had a letter from him during the morning." she said Perhaps you'd like to read it before we start"
 The doctor took it with distaste
 "It's all fixed up, Hallie'," read Lytton Eleven o'clock on Thurs day morning at the municipal build ing. After that any paradise for two that you can think of-or what about Paris, darling? Therell be a ! truckfull of dough coming when we're married and I can get hold of enough to give us a swell honey moon. Hallie, you must be sure to be there at eleven or I shall have 1 to come down and see old Socks and formally ask for your hand in marriage I mean this and I think lyou know it
 l There was a lot more which the doctor skipped and at the end repetition of the threat of seeing Saxely.
 Damn him. said Lytton, com prehensively. Thursday; that's in three days. What are you going to do?"
 T don't know, hoped that some thing would happen today"
 What could happen?"
 T thought perhaps you would help me
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 You see, it's hard for me" her voice trembled, Ito have to invent some reason-some quite unfore- seen reason-why I can't marry SaXely in three weeks. It was I who suggested marrying at once, and now, to be the one to back outl"
 Assuming you married Gram mock as arranged" Lytton said, what would you do if and when he found out who you were?"
 I'd do just what felt he want ed me to do. Disappear and give him the means of freeing himself of me legally. Or stay with him in lany capacity he could endure. Or Tor kill myself"
 "Pifflelp said the doctor. Any
 way, the immediate problem is Broom. I've been thinking I might | go in town and talk to him."
 Ut wouldn't do the least bit of lgood."
 No, I don't believe it would. leonfessed Lytton. He brooded fol la moment. Then-"But what are we going to do?" he burst out t"If you don't marry Broom Thurs Iday, he'll come between you anc Grannock at once. And if you dt marry him, how are you going te marry Grannock in three weeks anc stay with him for even the short est feasible time?" Hallie reused herself to a sem . blance of matter of -factnesS. : T can't marry Saxely, of course That, at any rate, is clear. I mus
 find some way of postponing ou, marriage indefinitely. If you coult help me postpone it-as I hopet l you might this morning-I shall b eternally grateful" ] But what about Broon?" s T think I shall have to marr l him on Thursday; but I shall tr l lmoSt desperately hard to mak . some sort of-of bargain wit /. him"
 : They stopped in front of Mr. S Bartholomew's and Hallie left hir e without further word. e At home Lytton found a lette h He had just had the pleasure c Il from Dr. Russell, the eye specials
 meeting Dr. Edgar Downing, wh
 was returning to Baltimore O . Thursday. No doubt, pr. Lytton wa