Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-12-01

save only strange, distant whrr she raped for
third time but more loudly Then because there still
nothing tangible she transferred her hand to the doorknob
it, also, was highly polished.
The door will be locked, she thought vi course, the
door will be locked!
But it wasn't locked
The girl was lying hudded in heap in front of
painted stand that did duty telephone table The tele
phone was whirring in faint protest - and Mare moving
like marionette put back its hook before she knelt
beside the pathetic figure She took without conscious
attention detail - the furnishings of the room Everything
was cheap hand excepting the girl and the tele
phone.
For the telephone black and shnynew and the girl -
tiny thing in housecoa had ashen, lovely features All
this Marse noted while the time she felt for the girls
pulse
She hadn't been doctors wife for nothing - she knew
some of the tricks of the trade thought Marise as she raised
hand small and fra to justify the wide wedding band
that it
The pulse showed some movement but not much and when
Mae raised the girls head wobbled upon her slender neck
Ever slightly Mase shifted the limp body to more COM
Portable position
She smoothed the concealng garment and then her
ewes growing wide with something akin to terror she knew
what the matter
"Oh nv heavens" she thought. 1T will be any minute
mnhe'
The girl twched Just once Convusivey. and her lips
wrhed into white line of nartiCuate protest but her eyes
did not open considered franticay sending for an
ambulance, but flash she put the idea away II seno
for ambulance it won't get here until doomsday Koph
had often complained about the length OF time that 1t took
for an ambulance arrive He had always said that was
best call the family physician and let him worry about
ambuances.
Marise scrambng her feet over by the unpanted
stand and almost against her own votlon was reaching
for the telephone The family physician Ell! With steady
fingers she dialed familiar number and seeled herself to
meet the crisp GOODNESS of the office nurse And then almost
as if she had heard it just hour before Rophs voice
coming over the WIRE
DR.. Kennedy speaking, he said
Nlarise gasped Oh Rolph, this is me- and need you
hM PHI said "ae Just once and then he mutteed some
thing that was half profane and half prayer But Marise
cutchng if it were life preseve didn't give
him chance ask for explanations lou must come mere
at once said And bring everything you need for tor
childbirth
Roph said Where are you and is - His voice cracked
rather horribly.
N1arse told him, The girls stranger, and heard his
relieved sigh She gave the address and Roph sad iii be
with YOU immediately Then she was back again beside the
limp figure and pulling pillow from shabby couch and
placing under pair of feet in small sCued oxfords With
sudden inspiration she reached into her purse and found
bottle of smelling salts She mcorked the bottle and held 1t
under the straight high brdged and the girl opened
her eyes, graysh blue and deeply frnged with long black
lashes
The girl said weakly, Il passed out - Where's Jim' and
then she screamed.
Mare said Take easy, and knew that she was being
futile for the girls had exhausted her. and the
ysn which followed exhausted her more Mase SAID,
Hold on to me- dear tight The two fra hands the
left with its so-heavy wedding crept up and fastened
themselves around her fingers
where's Jim" moaned the girl. Then she screamed
again and her hands contracted painfully After that second
scream she relaxed completely that N1arse afraid
Roph would come late She knelt there and said word
less things in her heart until there claer of feet DASH
ing up the stairs and banging at the door,
She called Come in The door opened and it
Roph his hair tri rmpd and his tie twisted bit to the
In a Sp]it second