The Nome daily nugget., 1935-04-01

Ana II WOrKed!
 Henry grew alarmed.
 He cautioned her about Somer- vile again, and received a cold re- tort to the effect that Edna May was now old enough to take care of herself.
 The effect upon Henry made her deliriously happy.
 He became angry.
 At last she was making some Im- pression; at last Henry was begin ming to realize she was something besides a kid sister.
 She consented once to go out with him, and Henry spent the evening handing her brotherly advice, to all of which she smiled sweetly and looked wise. Henry ragged and took her home in sullen silence.
 Edna May found difficulty in con- trolling her emotions.
 Henry was waking up.
 He was, she was sure, beginning to fall. She could tell.
 Every girl can tell when she Is making an impression on man. And the thought made her deliciously happy. Her happiness couldn't be any more complete than on that morning, two days later, when she came to the breakfast table and picked up the early edition of the Reporter that was lying there. She glanced casually at the headlines and Tipped the pages to the society section.
 Right then her heart stopped beating and the breakfast table and room and everything began to swim and sway crazily.
 At first she couldn't believe her eyes. But she read it again, and then a third time. There couldn't be any mistake. It must be true. And there was Henry's picture and the widow Morgan's. And there were the black headlines staring back at her, Bankers son elopes with young widow"
 Edna May got unsteadily to her feet and somehow reached her room without uttering word.
 Even then she didn't cry.
 Her hurt was too great She just sat before her window and stared out and saw nothing.
 She wished she was dead.
 How easy 1t would be to die now. It would simplify matters so much. It would spare her all the years to come, years of torment and misery
 Edna May suddenly stood up and went Into her bathroom and took down a bottle of iodine. Later she opened her eyes and became of burning sensation in her stomach, and decided she wasn't dead.
 Her mother was there, bending over her with anxious eyes.
 She wondered why Edna May had taken such large dose of cough medicine, and Edna May shut her eyes and didn't attempt to ex- plain.
 She'd have to try again, she told herself. She couldn't go on. She couldn't.
 At noon Edna May got up and dressed and went out for a walk At the corner of Fisher and Spruce she turned and crossed over to de- tour around roped-off area where some construction work was going )n.
 She remembered hearing the cry. but her mind was too occupied to give 1t much heed. Then she saw the heavy crane swinging oward her, and screamed. Death stared her In the face, and she tried o avoid it.
 Death A few hours before she lad sought 1t. And now she screamed and ran and prayed that { would not claim her.
 Its pity" the doctor was say ng, shell be scared for life such good-looking girl, too even though they do get damages, It won't do much good dam lges won't remove that scar. ."
 Edna May opened her eyes and ooked at the doctor and her mother md father, and smiled.
 There was pity and sorrow in heir faces, but Edna May still ,miled.
 She reached for her mothers land and drew her toward the bed. It can't be as bad as that" she 'ald. Tt could be so much worse. I'm lucky to be alive"
 After while she thought of Henry and wondered If he was happy with the widow Morgan.
 She hoped he was. She wanted ,very one to be happy. There were 10 many important things to do.
 Life meant so much.
 It was so good-so good to just ,e alive. To feel that you had ears and years to live. How fool sh she'd been to try to crowd 1t all nto so short a space of time, to lave had but single purpose in hind.
 Edna May closed her eyes again.