Nogales international., 1930-08-19
Seventh Instalment
WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE.

A beautiful young woman finds herself
L. the sidewalk in strange city. She can
! I remember her name or where she came
ON She has nothing in her purse to tell
erself who she is. A young man who has
i.en her in the hotel where she is stopping
offices her and takes her to the hotel in
,lb There they find that she registered, IN
rench, as "Miss Eve Nobody of Nowhere.
he clerk has been calling her Miss Par
I,ns." The young man tells her sne is IN IN
ew York His name is Eric Hamilton, OF
chicago. She is terrified at her loss of mem
try. He asks his friend, DR.. .Carrick+
! erve specialist, to call at the hotel Dr.
Carrick talks encouragingly, but says ne
Jill send nurse to stay with the mysterious
tMiss Parsons" that night.
Miss Nobody listens while Hamilton
tells her what the doctor has said, then
steps into another room. When the nurse
arrives, the girl has vanished from the
hotel!
Ewes departure was simple. She went out
of back door into the servants nail OF tnS
hotel. where she encountered young frenSn
porter, who claimed to recognize her he
had seen her in Paris "Then you know my
name7" she demanded eagerly. But the
porter had forgotten that: He would write
name OF the American young lady they had
both admired. He tells her of an apartment
house where the janitor, he thinks, wou!o
take her in. Meantime, while Hamilton IS
anxiously hunting up the nerve specialidS1 drs 1os
advice, Eve gets into taxlcaD anu uii'e'
away.
She arranges with Marcers friend, the
ianitor of dingy little apartment house on
The East Side of New York, for small
furnished apartment. He tells her not 70
who occupies the next apartment come IN
VERY late in the morning. Eve wonders what
sort of place she has got into.
The girl in the next apartment IS IVY
Il nhnr0
with weak heart. Eve helps her one night
when she is ill. Ivy suggests that Eve, VINO
is short of funds, should take her place IN
The cabaret. Eve thinks it over, dislikes the
idea, but realizes that she has to 40 some
thing to earn living until she finds out
who she really is Ivy has twisted the name
of "Bersonne'' which is the only surname
Eve knows for herself, into "Berson-"
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
"There's somethin' I'd rather you'd
do. 'Twould help an awful lot if
you'd do it," Ivy urgently added.
what is it?"
Eve asked the question without sus-
picion. Her mind was conferred on the
girls condition-surely a serious one
for a dancer. Ivy's next words
startled her.
"Ifs my job," she muttered. 'T'm
goin' to lose it; that's all"
"Ohl I'm sorryT
'Yep. Jake said he didn' wanta be
hard on me, but he couldn't be lett in
the lurch again. So the mex time !
didn't come or send substitoot, It
would be the air for mine" = y ?
T>see."
Eve saw with clearness that made
her vince. Evidently Miss Davenport
expected a great deal from her fel-
low-beings. She would not have been
surprised if this stranger in her room,
having put her to bed and eased her
pain, now announced her intention of
substituting for her at the cabaret
and at once departed to do so. She
herself had already shown that she
was a friend in need. Probably her
associates also were the kind who
did that sort of thing. But Jake's! +!
To dance at Jake's! Eve felt that
she had definite limitations and that
one of them had been reached.
''You oughtn't to talk" she rest
iessly pointed out.
IF you'd go up there and report to
Jake, you could bluff your way
through the Dances" Ivy hurried on.
You'd do fine. The other girls d
help you, if you tol' EN- what it
meant. The fellas would, too. They're
all my frien's. They'd see you weren't
put up against it, cause they'd know
you was tryin' to help me-"
But, good Heavens, l can't"
Eve became conscious of her tone
Gnd checked her words, appalled,. This
girl had come to her days ago, offer
ing her a job because she believed her
TO be down and out. Now it was
clearly up to her to reciprocate. The
demand was wild one, of course, but
surely she was the last human being
who should fail any one in trouble.
She thought of Hamilton-of the swift
willingness with which he had come to
her help in her crisis. She could
never repay him, but here was a
chance to pass on the mercy and kind
cess he had shown her. This girls
job was at stake, her very bread and
butter. AS for herself, she could
stand Jake's for one night, whatever
possibilities Jal1e's might hold.
She leaned over the bed, in which
Ivy now lay in the exhaustion Of
FStreme pain.
Tell me what you want me to do"
she said kindly, ''and I'll try to do it..
What bluff must l make?"
She was rewarded by the look in
she other girls face as she struggled
Up on an elbow.
'Theres nothin' to it." she said
eagerly. Even if you can't dance all
the dances-an' I'm bettin' you can
I'll help if you just go there an tell
Jake how It's, an offer to take my
place. Talk to him first, and then GO
to the dressin' room. Ask for Queenie
Morris. She's Jake's head hostess
She's my pal, too, an the best of the
lot. She'll do the rest"
Il understand. But E. you're quite
sure Jake's place is all right"
The girl in the bed was spent by
the effort of talking as much as she