The tribune independent of Michigan. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1933-1935, 1934-04-28
one DESIRE
By VIM Hss
Gr.aisra

been cruising up and down the
lower part OF West Boulevard.
Aroused by the peal of the ambu-
lance, arriving upon the scene
from the hospital where he work
ed as a specialist. he speedily
sought to follow 1t. and arrived on
the scene few minutes later.
you are just in time. Doctor
Stevens" a nurse exclaimed, as
he alighted from HIS car. One OF
the occupants of the taxi was kill
ed instantly. Officers fought back
the crowd into an orderly line,
thus giving the efficient hospital
attendants plenty of space to
transfer their patients to the am
bulance.
Its JEFF Roberts," a reporter
shouted from his perch on a
parked car on the opposite side,
as a half-warm corpse was pulled
from a mass OF weckage. Hur-
Tiedly, the reporter made his way
through the crowd, TO put in what
he termed the best accident story
OF the week"
He drove cab No. 2S2," a fell
low cab-driver yelled. Then the
bloody limp form OF a woman was
lifted from parked car.
my God, it's she! DR.. Stevens
gasped. as he closed the door of
the second ambulance that drove
away 20 the morgue bearing the
body OF the cab-driver. who had
met death after having heroically
saving the life OF a girl Of his own
racea girl who had been un-
known to him.
1.-TWO hours later Or. Donald
Stevens emerged from the main
operating room. shaking HIS head
gavely. Immediately. he was be-
sieged by reporters. who waited
eagerly with pads and pencils In
hand.
"who are they, Doctor?" one OF
them queried
agnes D'Orsay. the torch sing
err and"
: What! I told you boys that was
the danes car. What luck, How
is she. Doc? This will make a
headline"
Were expecting her speedy re-
covery. She's mostly stunned. al
though there is a nasty cash back
of her right ear" Or. Stevens told
them, although he was thinking OF
only one of the recently injured
: Lynne Ross. How did she manage
to be on West Boulevard? Hadn't
she expected him? She had been
so happy at the prospect OF dining
with him at the Marquette, earlier
in the day. Why was her cloth
ing drenched as they were? 1t was
all so strange. Why had Bob Red
: den, in his delirium. called her
name over and over again?
who was the guy with this
: D'Orsay dame?" another reporter
! quizzed.
Bob Redeem" Stevens heard
; himself saying slowly.
Who's he?" the reporter de-
manded earnestly.
"Oh, don't know. They haven't
! been investigated. yet" Stevens
, said. thus Diminishing two OF the
f. eight who swarmed around him.
: Miss Ross has awakened" the
r nurse said. in q half audible whis.
3 per. in the doorway behind him.
;. "I1l see her at once" he sold
e as his heart almost stopped ii
h rampant pounding.
A few moments later, he ben
~ over n seemingly helpless -
l. whose face was almost hidden IN
i der bandages. She raised appealing
n eyes to him. that seemed to plead
: for relief from the pain she was
y undergoing.
s Meanwhile, q startled mother
Y paced the floor of her little apart
ment, anxixously watching and
{ waiting for her daughter, who
had left hours ago, so mysterious
e ly. A shrill tinkle OF the telephone
carried her eager feet quickly into
the hall, to answer the ring.
(To be continued next week.