New Britain herald., 1930-10-30

Synopsis: Saxely Grannock goes blind when his nurse, Hallie Files more, is held prisoner, during a crucial treatment, by his drunken half-brother, Lester Broom. So SaNe- It does not know that the disgraced nurse is also the girl he loves an1 who loves him. Lester, engaged 10 Hallie, refuses to consent to tn , breaking of their engagement Be- cause Hallie's presence helps Gran- rock, he is kept in ignorance of the situation with consent of pr. Lyt- ton, his physician. Rose Conaldine, ward of a New York lawyer name-. Perle. seeks the aid of Howard g Ieckett, private detective, in learn ing of her origin, about which her guardian refuses to tell her. Perl9 learns of this and suddenly informs her she is an heiress with 5000 ) annual income. Meanwhile Hallic, whose origin is also obscure, learns from Mrs. Bartholomew, a friend ot her dead aunt. that her real name also is Rose Conaldine, and her father was wanted for murder but never caught HaIlie tells Grannoct, her new name. He never knew her old one. Lester warns Hallie he will tell Grannock that she is the nurse who blinded him unless she con- sents to marry him.
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 DIR. LYTTON IS AROUSED
 When Hallie ran from Lester she went to Dr. Lytton's home and waited there until all his patients had left. He greeted her politely.
 Well, Miss Ellesmore?'
 "I am not using that name any mere" she reminded him.
 "Ah! No, I remember Grannock called you something else. Miss Miss
 Rose Conaldine. It's my owE real name. It would be best-don ; Ncu think ?-for us all to use it, all the time. Then we shant make any slips. So you've been to see MT. - Grannock since l left him?'
 "Yes"
 --"What do you think of him now ?''
 '1t's remarkable" he said. "It's miraculous what the will can do."
 She had sunk on to the medical couch as though exhausted. He looked at her again, this time with the close, impersonal scrutiny O the doctor. She was exhausted There were shadows under he' eyes, and her shoulders sagged 2 Her hands lay palm upward on hcf ? lsp. He thought at first that it was the same kind of nervous collapse that he had dreaded tor Saxel' Grannock. Then he noticed that her thin shoes were white with dust.
 .e What have you been up to-" h, demanded.
 Sf e ignored the question.
 If Rose Co1aldine were to leave him now" she said, her breat' catching in her throat. "wculd il harm hira? Would he suffer? No l know he would suffer. Bul is he strong enough now 10 stand the sUffering'?''.
 Lytton stared.
 Are you talking melodrama Or medicine ?"
 q don't want to be melodramatic doctor'
 If you're asking my views as hi medical adviser, I'd say that hi' +JD l,o O. his blindness is built entirel' on the hope and the pleasure o your - your companionship. Tax that away very gradually and h may carry on without it. Jerk ] away for instance, by suddenl' disappearing and you may vel jerk his reason with it.'
 She nodded.
 T don't intend to keep on re-dis eussing this wrctchcd business, Lytton parked. "So far as I'm con .cerned it's settled that you slil gradually out of Grannocf's If when it's safe for him to lose you Not earlier and not later. And evel then I shouldn't advise telling hin that you are were Nurse Files more" His voice roughened Whats this about your marrying : him in three weeks time?" T didn't intend to slip out of hi life, you see, at any time. l didn' intend to leave him, ever, unles someone gave me away. And no, could I possibly bring him any req happiness or strength unless ] wcr his wife?''
 "Wcll. what do you want to com