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THE REGISTER. GDAED, EDQENE, OREGON
LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE
First Things First
By HAROLD GRAY
L Mabel McElliott
fl ,MJ. NEA Service, inc.
CHAl'TEll XXII
Llor mounted and her tongue
a -l,ucr to a merrier tone,
led . "f-ssive attitude to-
nklv amorous now and her in.
"him aw boldlj' isl'Ia5,ed
,t have mother cocktail, Mich-
,, ouir t"8 nio-i j
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a in tllA ffMV HUlfc
E t himself. It was a desper-
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f u:. inEti.; a nuest did not
at the connui-'i. ui u.
had her sewuuu
too mind if we push along?
asKeu "'
get back I'm sorry '
. Mi: .... Tk lrl In
i.Iace was uhik u,.. ...
lad 610011 i luD " '-' -
L i,? eves raking the crowd.
Le had vanished.
right, Sally taia, -irtu o.
lithey arrived at her frontdoor
I JlOOn was JUSt rumiB nui iuj
j roiiuli on the veranda.
Hcatlieroe, onun um ;
10 see
I at hlB Hrtll.
Ilirlirise uiiu h"ilB.
who was swaying oddly on her
wbut on earth does this
His eve darted to her escort's
oubled face.
nil richt. Father."
Lid, very carefully. "You see,
and I are going to oe mur-
urine said very softly into the
me, "John, I wish you'd come
( vou can get away, that is. Is
bridge or something?"
was at the instrument in the
Ihall of the I'arker house. Zoe
ten feet away. Uerda, lor tne
was with Zoe. Kathnrine had
ied that Miss Zoe hnd a split-
Ldache. She wanted to call Dr.
tot i!oe had protested.
said yes, there was Bridge,
could manage it.
Ida Mrs. Mcllvaine just ran
aid. "she 11 take my Hand.
bite of her relief, in spite of
for Zoe, ivatnanne coma not
from making a grimace. Of
Grade would be over! As soon
knew John Kaye was in Inni-
cicia had put on her prettiest
kiade up her plump face as sed.
ai she knew how and very
"happened in" at the Stryk
Just like Gracia. And, if she
nanage it, she would break her
biient to that nice army officer
Irry John Kaye herself. ,
s years older than he .is,"
ne said rather angrily.
went back to Zoe's room. Zoe
fused to permit herself to be
pd. She was lying on the bed,
nine sandals, stained with mud
kv, dragging the pretty coverlet
Her face was lead color. Her
open wide, had a sort of
ok in them.
la asked if there was anything
le wanted. At a negative shake
ead, the maid went awny. Kath-
at down beside the girl.
won't yon talk about it? It
help, maybe." '
twisted her small body about so
,pr face was again burrowing
le pillow.
away, why don't you? Leave
me. Oh. I'm dying that's what
ms awtui feeling. .1 can t stand
nildenly she sat up with one
movement, clutching her head
hands.
as going to marry him do you
man t believe what people said,
are what he'd been in the nast.
kl've seen him with thnt--tb.it
ow I know how he feels. Why,
t wanted me for n minute. T
fool. lie was laughing at lue
' all the time."
rine did not try to stem the
the other girl's sufferinc. It
padful to look nnon the row-
M newness of the wound she
leeived.
's why I want 'to die, Kay
ft to help me. I can't I
live after this. Couldn't face
way he's been laughing at me.
at woman, too. Did you see her
' me, as if she was amused?"
the recollection 7.n rMi
I'rine said, very gently, "Ton
made mistake, dear. That was all.
We all do that. And you're only 20.
Do you suppose there is a single per
son of 40 todsy who can't look back
on an early mistake?"
"I'm through," Zoe said with final
ity, "Life it's done for me, Kay. You
don't know ah, you don't know. What
wouldn't I give to bo like youl Noth
ing seems to hurt you."
Katharine said nothing to this.
There was nothing one could say. Zoe
was like a deaf woman, a blind wom
an. She was aware of nothing hut her
own raw wound.
There were steps on the stairs, and
Katharine, distracted by the res
sponsibility of her charge, was reliev
ed to see Dr. Kaye at the door.
"Johnny, can't you give her some
thing to make her sleep?"
Zoe overheard. She rose, swaying
giddily.
"Dr. Kaye, you can't do anything
for me. Katharine should not have
bothered you. I'm aorry. Just go away
and leave me alone." There was a kind
of desperate dignity about the small
figure.
"Zoe, dear, your mother and father
will be home soon. They won't know
what's happened. Do you want to
frighten them?" Kutharine asked her
gently. ,
"That's true. That's true," Zoe
seemed suddenly tractable. "You give
me something to sleep on, doctor, and
I'll be better tomorrow, perhaps,"
John Kaye had his finger on her
pulse now; his quiet eyes were exam
ining her.
"I have something in my kit," he
said. "It'B right there on the chair,
Katharine."
The tall, slender girl in white, with
the vfair hair brushed like a golden
casque on her head, found the leather
case and gave it to him in one quiet
movement. John Kaye smiled at her;
she was so cool ami sure of herself,
so aloof, apparently, from earthly
troubles. Katharine recognised the
quality of his smile and answered it
in kind. John was gone! Whenever he
was around you felt safe.
"This will do the trick. Two of
these now. You'll sleep like a log."
"All right," Zoe said docilely. "I
want to bathe my face, I think. Back
in a minute."
Katharine and Dr. Kaye waited as
she disappeared into the giltering, til.
ed bathroom. They could bear the
rushing of water. Then a thud,
John Kaye rushed for the door. It
was locked.
"The balcony!" gasped Katharine.
"You can get in through the bathroom
window."
The doctor hooked his leg over the
sill. He was out of sight, Kathuriue
waited, her heart thudding painfully.
Zoe how awful! What would they
find?
The key grated in the lock. Dr.
Kaye stood in the doorway, Zoe's body
in his arms. A strangely limp Zoe,
her face stained by a brownish liquid.
"White of egg, quickly," grated the
doctor. Katharine nevei" knew how
they got through the confusion that
followed. Bells ringing people hur
rying to and fro through the corri
dors. Mrs. Parker was there, her face
strained and white. And thero was a
nurse with dark hair under a flyaway
cap.
"However did it happen?" wailed
Zoe's mother. Katharine said some
thing nervous and rather garbled
about desperate headache John
Knye's prescription.
"She mnst got the wrong medicine,
that's nil," Katharine' said, trying to
make the lie sound Reasonable.
"Oh, Katharine, do you think so?"
Terror looked out of the older woman's
eyes. "Katharine, it wasn't anything
else? She WAS happy lately, wasn't
she? It wasn't wasn't the other-'"
"How could it be?" You hnd to lie
to mothers, Katharine reflected, Zoe's
mother couldn't have borne to know
what her child had gone through that
summer night. Life was sometimes too
black and pitted with terror. . .
All through the night they fought
for Zoe's life. Katharine went through
the halls softly; once she mee John
In the doorway and he smiled at her
wearily, gently.
"John, is she are you going to be
able to?"
(To Be Continued)
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