Nogales international., 1930-05-16
Eleventh Instalment.
What Happened Before


known Devil-May-Care because of her adven-
4urcus, eventful life. In game in which partners
for the evening are chosen, Lucy is won by lin
Stevens, VINO has great reputation as successful
heart-breaker, Lesson is bit jealous. Tim
Stevens tells Lucy they are going aboard his boat,
sh. MiHsrpI, and she acccdes in order not to be
- gutter Asked if she is sorry that be won
NJ company, Lucy says she is not and that
evidently Fate has arranged it. Tim thereuPon
sells her stop looking regretfully after Lesson
Aboard Stevens boat, the Minerva, Ste
wees tells Lucy of his love. When she re-
Yhe3 with contempt for him, he grows VIC
kenfly angry and she becomes afraid of him.
H. says he will never let her go from the
Minerva until she accepts him. To escape
bin, she leaps into the water from her cabin
window, swimming short distance under
w1ts:.
Lucy re hes land and meets DR.. Fergus
Faunce on IN island. He takes care of her
and takes her home. Everyone is worried
about her, and when she meets Stevens he
IS fra,r:.io regretful and still ardent in pro-
testatons of love.
Lesson informs Lucy that Stevens must
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 a 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.
Stevens sets out in search of Lucy.
Meanwhile, DR.. Faunce and Lucy launch
new boat. A hurricane wrecks them on
their first trip: Lucy is saved, and tnds
herself aboard the Minerva wondering
Dr. Faunce is aboard the Minerva also
Stevens threatens to kill Faunce unless Lucy
sticks to him. To save Faunce she accedes,
but expresses hate for Stevens. A few min
utes later he startles her by saying ne
doesn't want her, and never will!
Leeson sees Lucy and in burst OF con-
fidence tells her of a plot against her hus-
band. Certain interests are to break down
the bridges on his property, and make 1t
worthless. She goes to Faunce's place,
where her husband and Faunce are to-
gether, and tells of the plot. Preparations
are made for a fight.
Lucy's husband and the man she loves
make common cause against the invaders
and hold the bridges against the. crooked
sheriff and his gang, backed by Clary, the
copper magnate. Lucy leaves them togeth-
er as she rows back to Tango Key, gers
her car and finds Judge Leaning: -.
The charge against Stevens of resisting
the Sheriff is thrown out of court. Lucy
begins to wonder whether she has mis-
Judged her husband. The great Breakers
Hotel takes FIRE and Tim proves himself
hero as his wife watches him aiding IN the
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It was the sort of banal remark
that a character in motion picture
might have uttered.
But Lucy was in no mood to be
captious, to pick flaws in praise or the
persons who uttered it.
"Tim has done we'll, hasn't he =" she
said.
Elsie Darragh laughed.
well? If he's saved third of men
and women he's supposed to have
dragged out of the Breakers, he's done
more than WE'LL"
She heard men crying hoarsely, or
dering others to make way for their
passage. Several of them were bear
ing, on an improvised stretcher, the
body of man.
She heard some one ask if he were
dead. One of the bearers shrugged.
Looks like it," he answered.
"Who is it," another queried.
"Tim Stevens" said the bearer.
She was not surprised, either then
or later, that she was able to take IN
slant charge of Tim.
Not merely had Stevens been badly
burned, but he had been struck by a
falling timber, and, while the skull
was not fractured, serious injury had
been done. Not until the twenty-fourth
day was he pronounced completely out
of danger.
And on that day Lucy went to bed,
to stay there a week. When she got
up again, the cloud had disappeared
from her faculties and she was herself
again. She had not been i'll during
this week, simply completely worn out,
nervously exhausted. Her vigil by
Tins bedside had been almost con-
tinuous for over three weeks.
On the bridge at Seminole Creek he
had shown himself possessed of ply
sical courage equal to any she had
ever witnessed. On the roof of the
cottage he had shown ability to with
stand punishment when the event
called for it. And the manner of his |
injury had been fine. A negro pinned
beneath debris ~. Tim Stevens pull
ing the man out II. Tim Stevens
warned that the roof above was fall
ing Tim Stevens refusing to flee
to safety, but staying until he had
released the co1ored man This was
sacrifice, of the finest sort. Forget all
the passion-inspired brutalities that he
had used, or tried to use, against her
self, and one found pretty decent
sort.
But there was something else. He
had stolen No argument could over
wheln this fact: he had been saved
from jail only by the acceptance of
quarter of a million of her money.
On the morning that she arose from
bed she found Stevens lying on a
couch in the patio. His great frame
looked pitifully thin beneath the light
coverlets. But he had been freshly
shaved, and the gauntness of his face
lent a certain attraction to his almost
too obvious good looks. He would,
she reflected, be as handsome in age,
when withered, as in the flush of early
manhood. He held out a trembling
hand to her.
"You're all right" he asked eagerly.
:'Finep she smiled.
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