Nogales international., 1930-02-04
Sixth Instalrnent
Synopsis
What Happened Befors

Synopsis
What Happened Befors
At = party in Palm Beach given BY Mr. Cooper
Clary, Lesson, attorney, meets Lucy Harkness,
known as Devil-May-Care because of her adven-
turous, eventful life In game in which partners
for the evening are chosen, Lucy is won by Tim
Stevens, who has great reputation successful
heart breaker Leeson is BIT Jealous. Tim
Stevens tells Lucy they going aboard his boat,
the MinsrVs and she accedes in order not to be
"a gutter" Asked if she is sorry that he won
her company, Lucy says she is not and that
evidently Fate has arranged it. Tin thereupon
tells her to stop looking resretfuly after Lee;en
Aboard Stevens boat, the Minerva, Ste
yens tells Lucy of his love. When she re-
plies with contempt for him, he grows .yio-
lentIy angry and she becomes afraid of him.
He says he will never LET her go from the
Minerva until she accepts him To escape
him, she leaps into the water from her cabin
window. swimming a short distance undex
water.
Lucy reaches land and meets DR.. Fergus
Faunce on an island. He takes care OF her
and takes her home. Everyone is worried
about her, and when she meets Stevens he
is frantic, regrettul and still ardent In pro-
| teStations of love.
Lesson informs Lucy that Stevens must
raise a quarter of million dollars or go
to jail-''at five o'clock" Lucy goes to
her bank and raises the sum.
Lucy goes to Stevens to help him, but
he refuses to take money from woman
to whom he is not married. So Lucy
marries this man that she hates, and
promptly runs away from him, going to
her staunch friend DR.. Fergus Faunce to
tell what she has DONE
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
Tim Stevens left the villa of his
wife in state of mind that bordered
on insanity. Bewilderment, outraged
pride, denied love-all these conSpired
to render him something less than
sane. Bat the breezes from the Cult
Stream blew upon him; the exercise
of walking, by its very monotony,
soothed his nerves, and by the time
he reached his own home he was able
to think ccherently.
She had run away. No doubt OF
that. Why she had run away, why
she had married him only to desert
him for all the world like heroine of
a cheap novelette,, he could not ina
CINE. Only, it was no cheap and vul-
gar motive that actuated her. He
knew that. Lucy might be bizarre,
but never common.
It suddenly occurred to him that she
might be mad. Certainly this would
seem a reasonable explanation OF all
that she had done. Only, he remem-
bered the cool gray eyes, the broad
forehead, to know that no insanity
lurked within that perfectly shaped
head.
She was the most i1npuIsiye creature
though she might have acted upon I'M
pulse, in marrying and leaving hlm, il
'-'ould be impulse only because it had
)ecn done so suddenly. She had done
whatever she had done with delibera-
ion, even though she had not wasted
much time in planning.
Nevertheless, his eyes lighted as he
stepped inside his patio, only to grow
.omber instantly as she was not re-
yealed to his eager glance. Hope
Or, rather, its pale specter-vanished
completely.
He sat down, rang for a servant,
ordered a high-ball, and drank it
slowly, slipping it carefully, as though
he sought by taste to analyze its IN
gredients. A sudden odd thought came
to him: the liquor had no SAVIOR, and
nothing else in life would have SAVIOR
again unless it were accompanied, or
spiced by the presence of Lucy.
This was loVe. This was an ache
that distracted, that maddened. that
drove one to frenzy. No mere baked
desire this, but an overwhelming long
ing, frantic longing that, he suddenly
realized, was not only of the flesh but
of the soul.
He could understand why man,
frustrated in love, might sink to any
level of dissipation, to win moment
of forgetfulness. An overwhelming
urge seized upon him, to drink and
drink until he won Inconsistencies.
Then his mouth hardened, and his
eyes, that had not been focused. but
had been wide and staring. resumed
their customary GOODNESS. Lucy Hark-
ness had made a public fool of him.
at least, publicity could not be long
avoided,-but he would add to the
foolishnesS nothing of his own. He
wouldn't drink, and he wouldn't kill
himself, and he'd do nothing ;. save
uIlQ llCI.
He rang again, and ordered a
servant to fetch Modane, the skipper
of the Mimervd. The swart Levantine
arrived shortly.
II was married to-day, Modane,"
said Stevens.
Modane nodded.
"I congratulate you, sir"
"And Mrs. Stevens and I sail on
the Minerva in half an hour, on our
honeymoon, Modane," Stevens con-
tinued.
Again the skipper nodded.
"Our destination, sir :"
"You are to proceed south, beyond
Miami. Every second day you'll send
a man to Miami in a nlotorboat, and
at the post-ofice he'll inquire for let
tiers for yourself. For, Modane, Mrs.
Stevens and I shall not be aboard the
Mineyvd."
"No, sir" said Modane.
"But the crew are not TO know this,
and no one else is to know it. Once
you've started, the crew will discover
it, but it will be too late for them to
gossip. Send tight-mouthed man
ashore for letters, one that isn't in
clined to gossip"
"Yes, sir" said Modane. ''You