White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1933-01-26
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up to my bedroom and compared the
cast with one of my shoes"
"What7 Good heavens-you must
have dreamed that!"
"No, I didn't dream it. There was
nokody but Olga, the maid, in the
house when Wally got there. Olga
told Wally I'd be home in a few min
utes and showed him into the living
room. When she got back to the
kitchen she thought she heard some
body upstairs. She slipped up the
back way and saw Wally. He was in
my room and had one Of my shoes in
one hand, and in the other a white
thing that looked like part of shoe.
She told me after he'd gone, and then
I knew"
you'll have to make it palmer. My
old head isn't functioning very well,
just now. What did you known
ut all came to me like dim recol-
lection of bad dream. seemed to
see myself kneeling before your safe
and opening it and taking something
from 1t. Don't you remember how you
once showed me how to work the COM
binationT
''But, Betty! That's simply impos-
sible You couldn't have remembered
the combination"
mo; I'd forgotten it almost as soon
as you showed me, and l don't remem-
Der it now. But don't the psychologists
| fol hot th0 Il
never forgets anything?"
| you're getting in too deep for me
now. But it's all perfectly ridiculous,
anyway. You wouldn't do such thing
as that"
"Of course / wouldnt-not willing
| ly. But can't you imagine me doing it
unwillingly?"
"No!"
"Then I'll have to tell you something
l thought I'd never tell anyone. You
know Bert Candy drove me to the
theater that night, don't your
yes"
| after the play, he took me to Poz-
zoni's for supper. l was awfully tired,
and before the supper was over be-
| gan to get so sleepy that could hard
| ly hold my eyes open. When we left
| the restaurant l can just remember
Bert's helping me into his car; and
| after that l can't remember anything
until seemed to come awake as he
was helping me out at our front door,"
On him !" gritted Lands out of a
full heart. IF they ever let him out Of
jail I'm going to kill him! Did-did he
hypnotic your"
II haven't wanted to believe it; it's
too horrible. But I'm afraid it's true,
Owen. At first, thought I'd just
dropped off for few minutes while he
was driving me home. Then what
Olga told me about Wally and my
shoes scared me, though I didn't know
then that your safe had been bur-
glarized, or that anything had gone
wrong. But when went to my room
that night and looked at the clock, I
knew we hadn't come straight home
from Pozzoni's. It made me furious to
think that anybody had the power to
turn me into puppet-a plaything
That is why didn't object when Bert
invited us to drive out here with him.
meant to make him tell me what he'd
done to me-or what he'd made me do"
"But he didn't tell you, did he?"
you'd know he wouldn't. Every
time I asked him about that drive
home, he'd laugh and say that went
to sleep, and that he just drove around
town for while to let me have my
nap out Since we've been in Brew
ster I've felt that he was trying it
again-trying to get the control, I
mean. could feel his will pushing
hard against mine, and now 1 know
why. He was afraid l might re-
member"
Lands was silent for a little time
after she stopped. Then he said, I'm
pretty badly up in the air, Betty. You
see, I've been thinking, all along
with everybody else-that you were in
love with Candy. was sure of it.
Now you've left me sort of gaping.
But I'm awfully glad, you know
for Wally's sake"
"For Wally's sake?" she said, with
the quaint little grimace that had al
ways made him want to kiss her. Then
she laughed. II wonder If there ever
was another man so maddeningly, so
exasperatingly-oh, can't find words
for 1t! Have got to tell you right
out plain that there has never been
anybody but you, just you, always,
you dear, dense, absent-minded, self
forgetting dreamer? Haven't you
known that?"
"My Cd" he breathed. "Have I
been that stupid and blind, Betty?
But you know, don't you, that I've
always loved you, and that haven't
told you so only because l wanted to
be able-I mean, was waiting until
I could offer you something more than
my love and bare living And 1
haven't any more than these to offer
you now, for there'u be no more ex-
periments with things like the black