anaheim-gazette 1930-06-26

Miss Nobody from Nowhere BY ELIZABETH JORDAN Second Installment WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE She found herself standing on a corner in a strange city; a beautiful young woman who did not know her name nor remember anything about her past life. A policeman asked her if she were in trouble. Frightened, she said she was not. A handsome young man who had been watching her came up and spoke. He said that he had noticed her having breakfast in the hotel where he was also staying. She thought he looked honest, and she was terribly afraid, especially after she had found nothing in her purse that would tell her even her name. She consented to let him escort her to the Garland Hotel. In the taxicab she learned for the first time that she was on Fifth Avenue in New York. Now Go On with the Story. "Yes," he told her, thinking it out as he spoke. "We can do it like this; I will get out of the cab a block from the hotel and walk the rest of the way. When you reach the Garland, go to the desk in the main hall and ask the clerk if there's any mail for you. If there is, it may give you all the information you need. Anyway, it will give you your name. If there isn't any mail, the clerk may mention your name as he tells you so. In any case, go from the desk to the writing-room at the left of the entrance, and sit down at one of the writing-tables. I will come into the hotel just behind you, and after you have left the desk, if I see that you haven't got anything, I'll ask Robinson, the day clerk, who you are and where you're from. He'll tell me. He's a nice chap, and we've talked a lot since I came. Then I'll come in and sit down opposite you at the desk you have chosen, and if there's any one else in the room I will cater to convention by asking you to lend me a blotter or something of that sort. We can fall into a low-voiced chat, and I'll tell you settle the matter of the name, at least," the guest suggested. "She hasn't had any, yet." "I wonder if I could make out the names. I'm rather good at reading scrawls. Do you mind letting me look at the register?" Robinson produced the book, turning back two pages with a smile. As he talked he ran a finger down the short list of entries, but his companion, whose interest seemed deeper now, found the name they wanted, before the clerk did. "Here it is," the guest exclaimed, adding absently, "That's odd," as he studied the wavy line of the last word. "Can you make out the town?" The clerk was beginning to think there might be more In this than appeared on the surface. The guest's face took on its most matter-of-fact expression, and he glanced at his watch as if abruptly reminded of the flight of time. "It seems to be Niport," he indifferently suggested; "one of those small towns one never hears of unless one lives in them." The young man strolled away into the writing-room. It was empty except for the girl, so he wasted no time but went directly to her and seated himself in a chair beside her's. "Good afternoon, Miss Parsons," he began. She drew a quick breath. "Is that it?" "No, but that's what they call you here at the hotel." She looked confused and puzzled. "It doesn't mean anything to me." she bleakly admitted, "but what makes you think it isn't right?" "Because I happen to know a little French." As she waited uncomprehendingly, he took a card from the desk rack. the facts we know and show own credentials, so that he act as your counselor and send for him. If you serioz to a doctor, we won't have to not going to risk losing; by any confidence you may have But I've simply got to do, and then make your own decisions. You don't you? I wouldn't be your trust in me if I didn't do. She drew a deep sigh than a groan. "It's amazingly kind of you all this trouble. I wonder I had an attack, like this before how I feel that I haven't. I am being a Good Samaritan slowly admitted," I suppose right about sending for the Mr. R. Stephen Carrick, who in at eight o'clock with the of one making an evening c human as he was distinguished patiently to Hamilton illiminary recital, asked a few questions, and made a thoroughination of his patient in a man was not too impressive. He Parsons very much encouraged had decided to adopt the hot for her—but when he four alone with Hamilton in writing-room his manner was free. "It's a case one can't safely predictions about," he confessed we knew what had caused tion, or what the patient's p has been, we could do some and one man's guess would be good as another's. Her general health seems She's a high strung, tem creature but she has dignity desk to the writing-room at the left of the entrance, and sit down at one of the writing-tables. I will come into the hotel just behind you, and after you have left the desk, if I see that you haven't got anything, I'll ask Robinson, the day clerk, who you are and where you're from. He'll tell me. He's a nice chap, and we've talked a lot since I came. Then I'll come in and sit down opposite you at the desk you have chosen, and if there's any one else in the room I will cater to convention by asking you to lend me a blotter or something of that sort. We can fall into a low-voiced chat, and I'll tell you what I've learned. "You think of everything," she assured him, with relief; and again there was a faint suggestion of a smile around her mouth. There was no trace of a smile ten minutes later, however, when the clerk, having greeted her with evident recognition but without mentioning her name, turned from his inspection of the mail rack to tell her there were no letters. It was a heavy blow, but she left the desk without signs if its effect. The hotel was strange to her. Nothing she saw suggested that she had ever been there before, except the attitude of the clerk. He had gone to the mail rack with the assurance of one who knew exactly what he was looking for, and he had also run over a few letters that had just been dropped on his desk. On a second thought she turned back to him. "My key, please." He took a key from the rack and handed it to her, and when she had found the writing-room and sat down at a table she looked at the number on the brass tag. One hundred and twenty-eight. So the young man with the nice face was right that far. She was a registered guest at this hotel; and the hotel itself, though a trilite passe, was reassuring in appearance and at-but went directly to her and seated himself in a chair beside her's. "Good afternoon, Miss Parsons," he began. She drew a quick breath. "Is that it?" No, but that's what they call you here at the hotel. She looked confused and puzzled. "It doesn't mean anything to me." she bleakly admitted, "but what makes you think it isn't right?" "Because I happen to know a little French." As she waited uncomprehendingly, he took a card from the desk rack, wrote a line on it, and laid it before her. Your signature on the register isn't very legible," he explained, "and the hotel people interpreted your name as Parsons. But this is what it looked like. Does that mean anything?" She shook her head. "Evidently you know French; don't you?" Then let me write it more clearly as I interpret it. Does this mean anything?" He wrote another card and she read it in a low voice. "Miss Eve Personne, Nulle part." "Miss Eve Nobody, Nowhere," she slowly translated, and looked at him with a whitening face. "What does it mean? There was a note of actual hysteria in her voice, and he quieted her with a quick gesture. "Don't be frightened," he begged. "We're getting our explanation, but we've got to do some guesswork. It may mean that you were rather desperate when you came here. Perhaps you were afraid of a nervous breakdown and felt it coming; perhaps you were hiding from some one; anyway, you certainly registered in a way that gave no clue to who you are." "Then we're just where we were!" she cried out. "What shall I do?" He took a key from the rack and handed it to her, and when she had found the writing-room and sat down at a table she looked at the number on the brass tag. One hundred and twenty-eight. So the young man with the nice face was right that far. She was a registered guest at this hotel; and the hotel itself, though a trifle passe, was reassuring in appearance and atmosphere. Her slight delay had caused her to pass her new acquaintance in the lobby and he stepped aside to make way for her, raising his hat with conventional courtesy as he did so. She responded with an almost imperceptible negative sign, but he saw it and approached his friend Robinson. "Who is that girl?" he asked casually, nodding at the slight retreating figure, nodding at the slight retreating figure, as he lit the match he had asked for and applied it to a cigarette. "She sits at the table next to mine." Robinson gave him an understanding grin. "Easy to look at, isn't she? Her name is Parsons, I think—Miss Eve Parsons. At least it's as much like that on the register as like anything. She begins a word with one big clear letter and goes on with a wavy line. But we've called her Miss Parsons ever since she came and she answers to it," he added philosophically, "so I guess it's all right." "Where's she from?" The young man lounged against the desk in the manner of a visitor to the city, talking without much interest but to kill time; and the clerk goodhumorously bore with him, having nothing else to do at the moment. "That's another queer thing." Robinson remembered. "I can't make out her home town, except that it begin with N. I meant to ask her, but I forgot. Jenkins, the night clerk, was here when she registered three nights ago, and he didn't pay much attention, because she said she was leaving again the next morning. I suppose she changed her mind, the way women do," he ended with large tolerance. "Anyway, you see she didn't go." "How about her letters? They would we've got to do some guesswork. It may mean that you were rather desperate when you came here. Perhaps you were afraid of a nervous breakdown and felt it coming; perhaps you were hiding from some one; anyway, you certainly registered in a way that gave no clue to who you are." "Then we're just where we were!" she cried out. "What shall I do?" He found his card-case and taking a card from it, laid the bit of pasteboard beside the two already on the desk before her. "First of all, remember that this little episode won't last long. Then remember that I'm here to see you through," he said comfortably. "I am your friend and brother for the time, if you will have me." It was hard to see that look of terror in her eyes. "Memory may come back any minute, you know, as suddenly as it left," he again reminded her. To steady her he pushed his card directly under her eyes and went on talking. "'Eric Hamilton,' he read aloud, and added the penciled word "Chicago" to the address. She gathered up the three cards without comment and dropped them into her handbag. "Evidently I have a room in this hotel," she said. "Perhaps when I go to it I shall find some papers or other clues in my luggage." He looked at his watch and casually added that he had a suggestion to make. He had been thinking hard. "It's quarter of six," he said. "Suppose we dine here together at seven. You must eat something, you know, to keep up your strength. Then if you haven't found any more clues in your room, I shall ask you to let me look up the best psychiatrist in town and have him come here this evening. As she began to protest he raised his hand. "Just hear me through," he begged. "I know a little about such cases, and my theory is that you will be all right in a day or two, or in a few days at the most. I mean to stand by till you are. But I want to find a reliable man, and have him see you, and give him all..." ANAHEIM GAZETTE PLANS TO WIDEN COAST BOULEVARD Congested and Increasing Traffic Make 100-Foot Highway Necessity At a meeting of the Orange County Coast association held at the Seal Beach civic auditorium Tuesday night, it was pointed out by Harry Welch, secretary, quoting E. V. Cortelyou, of the state highway commission, that the natural increase of traffic on the coast artery demands the acquisition of 100-foot right-of-way through the entire length of Orange county. Welch cited figures showing an average of 28,774 automobiles traveling north and south and east and west, at the Arches at Nowport Beach during one hour last year, and an average nearly double that during a corresponding hour this year. Reports made by committees from the association and city officials on the coast revealed that progress toward obtaining the desired 100-foot roadway was being made. Mayor Sam Bowen, of Huntington Beach, stated that the highway at the two entrances to that city, which were outside the subdivided area, would not be financed by Huntington Beach, at least as long as the and his colleagues were members of the city governing board. He said that Huntington Beach, at its own expense had paved an 80-foot strip through the city, no help whatever being made by the state or county, and that he believed it was up to the highway commission to acquire the necessary land and pave the rest of the project. Regarding finances for state roads, Mayor Bowen stated that much revenue could be had by the state by extracting oil on state lands in the neighborhood of his city. J. P. Greeley, of Balboa, reported that a plan was being worked out by which financial aid to construct the viaduct at the Arches would be derived from a portion of the county's share of the gasoline tax. Ray Baldwin, member of the Los Angeles county planning commission, revealed the progress made toward constructing the connecting link if the state highway known as Hathaway avenue, stating that proceedings have been started by Los Angeles county to condemn a right-of-way for the San Gabriel river flood control project, which insures a right-of-way for the highway being granted. Baldwin also pointed out that the antagonism against the widening of State street, Long Beach and through Orange county to Fullerton, then connecting with the present highway link. He said that an organization is being formed by civic associations and city governments extending from Serra, at the eastern end of Orange county, to Santa Monica. Unemployment Bills The Wagner unemployment bills which were passed by the senate have been pending for some time in the house with apparently no hope of action. Now the house is starting hearings on these bills. It remains to be seen whether the intention is to prolong the hearings indefinitely, until it is too late to act in this session. There ought to be prompt and favorable action, and the public would do well to let the house know it is expected. The unemployment bills provide for putting federal public works expenditures on a long range program, for a federal system of collecting facts about employment, unemployment and part-time employment, and for the federal government to join with the states in the establishment of a nation-wide system of public employment offices. Many of the recommendations contained in the bills were made by the commission headed by Herbert Hoover, when he was secretary of commerce. They have the approval of the American Federation of Labor. In some opinions the passage of these bills is more important than the tariff or other matters to which congress has paid more attention. But it isn't necessary to slight any important matter in order to take up another. Dispatch in regard to the Wagner bills should have a salutary effect on congressional psychology as well as on the national economic situation. Publishers recently announced a fifty per cent reduction in the price of fiction. Maybe this is because there has been such a tremendous flood of free trade fiction this year. Genuine BAYER ASPIRIN SAY "BAYER ASPIRIN" and INSIST! Proved safe by millions and prescribed by physicians for Colds Headache Neuritis Lumbago Pain Neuralgia Toothache Rheumatism DOES NOT AFFECT THE HEART Accept only "Bayer" package which contains proven directions. Handy "Bayer" boxes of 12 tablets Also bottles of 24 and 100—Druggists. Anguilla is the trade mark of Bayer Manufacture of Monoestheticenter of Salicylicacid It's a case one can't safely make any dictions about," he confessed. "If you know what had caused the condition or what the patient's previous life been, we could do some guessing; one man's guess would be about as as another's. Her general health seems to be good, is a highstrung, temperamental nature, but she has dignity and poise, in this condition, and I'd wager she kept herself pretty well in hand her life. I'm guessing that some jolt caused this—something that about sent her off her head." In the whole, their talk left the Samaritan glad he had shared responsibilities; and later, in Missson's upstairs sitting-room, he gave a ceraufly edited report of Carls conclusions. He thinks, as I do," he robustly answered. "that it's merely a temporary alter. He told you that, himself, his memory may return any minute, may not come back for some time possibly not for several days," he optimistically added, observing the quickage in her expression. As I expected, he wants a nurse to you at night," he went on, "and will send a good one within an hour. Knows of just the right person. Stay with you till she comes. She understanding, tactful woman, and realizes that she is engaged simply companion." When he stopped she rose and walked window of her sittingroom, where stood for a moment with her back him, staring out at the night. He too much understanding to speak even to approach her. But he could touch her, and he did. She was very slight and girlish, and she rather dim room the light from old-shaded bulb near her gave her good bronze-tinted hair the effect of halo around her small head. Her motion moved him profoundly. Life a queer thing, he told himself as unly as if the discovery had been queue. 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