The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-01-02
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Sn wiih wealthy RONALD
 0uNk. Dana's hallsslster, MANUKs lB im love with Ronald HHR hises C behind an nntagonis-
 6 attIim1n.
 nsih nTrn. Cameron ana PAULA LONG, whe has loved ecolt for ysaEh hope the marriage win not lAst
 RauIa, a patient of gcott'G is Niwaym calling hiIm and managing ae ses him as partiess Dana has bseenas awars of Paula'a infasua- sIen.
 Heott, deeply In love with his wlfe, ls uncsmfOgtable over the
 one stormy night PAula's houBekeeper calls Scott and tells hfin PnuIa 6 ilL fie gees e see her ana Paula confesses her love fer him. When gcott's indifference and contempt reveal Co Pauia the MeDelessness oe her Iove, she pro. tenAs good spoFtsmanship and nslze him Co have . drink with her.
 NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
 CHAPTER xxxII
 Scott lifted his glass from the tray. paulA was showing herself tc he game. oil right. She. hadn't WhiEnpefed or made Q plea for Byni- pAthy when he told her he knew the truth.
 Then, like . flash, came tho pEsu0nition. Was she, thought Gould you trust an emotional woman in Q state like this?
 1t may have been paulas ex- pRession that warned him. There Was . glow of triumph and trag- edy in her eyes. Scott dashed hii glass and It's contents to the noor. As quickly, Paula put her lips to her own glass, but Scott'a hand shot out, knocking it aside Paula cfumpled, sobblng. They were perking sobs that sounded horrible end pitiful.
 Scott lifted her and called tc Charlotte loudly. Together they worked swiftly. fse was fairly certain that Paula had not swal. lowed any of the poisoned drink but he could not take chances They worked over her exactly ai though she had taken c fatal quantity.
 Al hour later Scott talked frankly with Charlotte. There had been no need for explana. tons, Charlotte's mortified glance at the broken glasses and trail Of liquor on the floor had told her tho story.
 7t was Charlotte who located thn poison tablets and dropped theln into the fire, while Scott watched gravely.
 ouieted by . sleeping powder, pasiia at last dropped Into sleep, Her face was pale on the pillow 4 thin hand gripped the dainty lnce coverlot convulsively.
 gcott stayed, quietly watching as she slept, waiting for any un- natural reaction. Across from him sat Charlotte, her eyeA scarcely moving from Paulaa face.
 Scott said in . low tone, T can trust you, Charlotte. No one must know of this--or tho other. Soon veil get Miss Paula away where she can be treated and cured"
 "Yon can trust me, Doctor eeott," the housekeeper said. x've been with her since she was i2 years old"
 scott remembered. He wal thinking that Paula had never known real home life. Charlotte inad been the maid of paula's frivolous young mother, and had assumed fuii charge when tho young mother died. Paula's father was somewhere, but he had been di- vorced by paula's mother and re- married before her death. PaulaA money had been inherited from her mother.
 Poor pauia, Scott thought, coni- passionately, stretching out for happiness with her eager, rest. less hands. When it eluded her, she had tried to smash thingh for both of them.
 ffe was as certain ag though he had analysed the drink Paula had handed him that it also had c0n- tained poison. But he felt only pity for the distraught creature lying fnotioniess on the bed, at though she were in that deen sleep of complete f0rgetfulncBf for which she had longed.
 At dawn 0 nurse arrived tt take charge. She, Of course, must know of her patients attempt at suicide to be on guard.
 She would know the rest, with out being told as soon as she had been on the case c few hours But Miss Maddox was trust. worthy. one of that gallant army an whom SO many tragic truthi are safely buried.
 Scott let himself into the apart ment and looked around. The place had Q solemn air, Must be his owr state of mind, he told himself. Il was natural to feel that way after such sn ordeal as he had beer through.
 He switched on c light in tht bed room and the tumbled empty bed met his eyes. There was ( note pinned to the pillow, witt Dana's name aiiixed in . ghakJ ecrawl.
 Scott read the note. smiling
 YEAR AsTee YEAR