Nogales international., 1935-04-06
Fifteenth Installment
SYNOPSIS

SYNOPSIS
Three weeks after a cream colored read
steT had been found wrecked in the sea
Anne Gushing appears at the desert town
Marston. Later she marEies Barry Duane,
Fer life is complicated by Tumors about
her past life which she has kept sscset.
This secrecy eventually lcads 10 her sep
aration with Barry. after they return
West. John Gage. wealthy mill owner. and
his wife visit the Duanes at their ranch.
Cleo Pen2leton, in love with Barry. joins
them. jim Kennedy. part Of Anne's past,
appears ard Says he has business at Barry 5
ranch. Anne follows him to warn Paula
Gage Paula becomes hysteEical on hearing
Anne's voice.
Paula, don't be frightened! Don't
scream. 1t is Nancy. Tve come to warn
you. jim is here. Paula. don't you
know me?"
mo, no, Nancy's dead! She's under
the water-1 see her all the time--and
ii washes over her eyes. Oh. God T.
The screamed again. The pounding
horses were at the top of the slope.
and Barry flung himself off and raced
down. with Gage running heavily after
him. A slim figure was backing away.
turning. running. but Paula Gage was
'huddled in a terrified heap at the foot
of a tree. 'H'b'f Maff
Barry bent over her and jeeked his
head up again. Nancy was just d;sap-
,pearing. She had looked at him. for
one long. steady moment. and had
turned her back on him. AS though
they were two hostile strangers.
knowledge crashed and clamored in
his brain. He bent reluctantly over the
lAuddled woman. but Gage was beside
him now.
"John,, Nancy's down there! She
came out of the water! | can't GO
I'm afraid I only asked her to go
away didn't mean her to diei And
.Jim--Jim-"
Overstrained emotions cracked.
Paula tainted.
'We'd better take her into the
house" said Barry constrainedly. He
wanted to go after Nancy. Those in
credible revelations were clalnoring in
his head; they were accusing him.
Now he saw Petry's long legs hasten
ing toward them.
"Petry, help Mrs. Gage up to the
house. TIL be back as soon as can. "
His nervous stride quickened to a
run. Gage looked heavily after him.
Barry ran along the edge Of the lake,
his eyes dartiug anxiously. Toward
the back of the house he swerved and
caught sight of a fitting figure.
Nancy, wait Just for minute :"
She paused in mid flight. looked
back just once and went on again. The
light figure vanished around the edge
of an outbuilding. Long before he
reached it Barry heard the scurry of
hoofs and saw piebald streak flash
across an open space. Nancy had gone.
He took it standing, but his face
whitened. Nancy had made it pretty
plain that she didn't want to see him.
just the set of her chin as she had
flashed across that patch of light had
been enough to tell him that. He set
his jaw and went back to the house.
Back of him Jim Kennedy edged
cautiously around toward the smaller
corral, where two saddled horses, lett
to themselves, had wandered back to
wait patiently.
In the house Barry found that Paula
hal regained consciousness. Petry had
just edged out, and Gage was standing
little away from her.
She's gone" said Barry briefly.
WAS it-real,y Nancy" Paula
raised herself on one hand. IS she
alive? | didn't kill her? =. mean
I" She broke off with a frightened
whimper.
Wen finish this-presently," was
all the reply he gave her He turned a
heavy stare on Barry. I'D like few
words with my wife in private"
I'm staying. Wen finish it here
It's my business as we'll as yours
Nancy is my wife-and you can keep
your spur and your damned money, but
/ want to know what you've all been
doing to her"
Gage glared at him. "And what have
you been doing to her? The girl ! saw
out there is Mrs. Cages sister. who is
supposed to have been drowned five
months ago, and if she is your wife
why isn't she in your house, instead OF
wandering around in the woods like
a demented woinan?"
Barry wliitened. I'm beginning to
think that she has had enough to drive
ANYBODY insane. I've done my own
rhsre. and I'm paying for it. But the
Jam that we're in now is due to some
thing hat happened before / met her
It's due 10 YOU, or one Of you. >. And
that damned Kennedy"
He bit it off suddenly. but Gage
caught the name up.
Kennedy! 1t always comes back to
this Kennedy" He turned back to
Paula
You'd better tell US all OF it," he
said evenly. What do you know about
Jim Kennedy"
He was my husband. Id divorced
hirl, a year before l met you"
go on" he said curtly.
81 was awfully young when
married him. We were poor and lived
in little town. He was there only a
few days, and when he went I'd
married him. And then | found out tha'
he was just gambler, and we tegar
travelling all Owe, the country and