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

WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE.
A beautiful young woman finds herself
on tie sidewalk in strange city. She can
not remember her name or where she came
from She has nothing in her purse to tell
Iersef 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 find that she registered, IN
French as Miss Eve Nobody of Nowhere
The clerk has been calling her Miss Par
sons" The young man tells her she Is IN
Chicago She is terrified at her loss OF mem
ory. He asks his friend, DR.. Carrick, a
r4:ve specialist, to call at the hotel. ".
Carrck talks encouragingly, but says ne
will send nurse to stay with the mysterious
Miss Nobody listens while Hamilton
.esls her what the doctor has SAID tnen
steps into another room When the nurse
arrives, the girl has vanished from inc
hotel!
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
Miss Adams remained in the taxi
cab at the club door while Hamilton
went into the clubhouse and inter
viewed, in a small reception room, a
psychiatrist who was at first some
what resentful and then deeply inter
ested. The Good Samaritan was
soothed BY the discovery that the
doctors surprise over the patients
disappearance was as great as his
own. To Hamilton the suspicion that
his carelessness was responsible tor
the girls flight had been the turn
of the screw.
"She left this for you," he ended,
taking the envelope from his pocket
and handing it ever. I'm hoping
there's some clue in it"
Doctor Carrick opened the envelop.
1t contained blank sheet of paper
and a bank-note for twenty dollars.
He dropped the envelope and paper
IN the floor and Hamilton bent and
picked them up. !.
"May l have these?" he asked, and
put them into his pocket without wait
ing for permission.
Carrick got up and strolled around
the room, in the manner of men who
think best on their feet.
you're sure no one else called on
her, and that she didn't receive any
telephone message?" he asked at last.
"Not to my knowledge. The tele-
phone was in the sitting where
I was reading, so I'd have heard Il,
and l suppose any card or guest would
have come to the sitting-room door"
Hamilton said.
PROBABLY Carrick rU0N anOtIlr,
turn, while Hamilton sat still ano
gloomily watched him.
"Then what's back of it?" he NUT
tered. "Just panic? In her condi
ton she might easily have been afraic
of me, and of the nurse, too; but
got a strong impression that she hac
confidence in you" He stopped anc
met Hamilton's eyes with sudder
keenly professional look. You tel
that, didn't you?"
eyes, l did. 1t touched me very
much. It's one of the things thai
makes me feel that I can't let hei
down." Hamilton admitted. I've
simply got to find her and be sure
she's all right"
Carrick nodded.
"Its going to be big job to fine
her." he predicted. "And I'm afraic
it's a job where l can't help yor
much. Left to herself, she'll give san
atoriurns and doctors and nurses the
widest kind of berth"
There seemed nothing more to say
but for moment longer they faced
zach other uncertainty. Then Hamll-
ton Strengthened his shoulders with
gesture his intimates would have
recognized as characteristic of hin
IN moments of final decision.
'Ill tackle it." he announced, re
ierring to the big job"
"Good!" said the doctor, heartily
sand keep me posted" he added, moi
quite so heartily, for Carrick was
man hard-driven by his practice. L Let
me know if l can be of any use."
They shook hands.
Better go little more fully into
Ill the details of her leaving the hotel,
was Carrick's final advice. "Inter.
view every one who could possibly
have seen her or talked to her. They
do queer things when they're in thai
state"
"He couldn't help much," Hamilton
reported to Miss Adams. "Whert
shall I have the driver take you?"
She gave him her address and HI
paid the chauffeur in advance, adding
on a sudden memory, the amount dut
for nights service. 1t was com
fort to watch the taxicab vanish to-
ward Fifth Avenue He had frantic
wish to be alone, to begin his ques
at once. In a case like this every
minute counted. But F. where coulc
he begin?
Carrick's club was in the Forties
off Broadway, and the roar of tn
city came to Hamilton from every sid
IS he stood at the curb for a mo
ment, looking around for another taxi
cab.
What damned heart1ess world
was! There was moon in the sky
fat moon, which seemed to be 1eer
ing down at him. :. This town wa
an awful place for helpless girl t.
be alone, at night. ;. "Miss Nobody
from Nowhere =. and she had con
fessed that she hadn't brought mucl
money.
"GodP he breathed. It was a