Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 January 1940 — Page 15

ONDAY, JAN. 15, 1940

SERIAL STORY— « i

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By RUTH AYRES

| CAST OF CHARACTERS [ARY CARROLL—American fashien expert, in London during wartime. VINCENT GREGG—soldier of for. tune, in love with Mary. = ARLA MARCHETTA—s mysterious London socialite. gx

GILBERT LENOX--surgeon; serve ing | with British Army. ESTERDAY; Dr. O’Connell prepares Mary for the operation ‘that may restore her: beauty, end the paralysis of facial nerves. As she goes under the anesthetic, © Mary = sees ~~ Vincent - and Carla, the blond: boy of: the. Moravia. Gilbert’s voice comes to her, faintly, but reassuringly. She. wonders if she will emerge as Mary Carroll or’ as Anna Winters.: ~~. © oof :

CHAPTER NINETEEN MARY CARROLL. woke in a soft white bed. HY oy A Why did her face feel like hard-

‘baked ginger bread? Why could|

she see only through little slits of stiff frosting? ; Then she remembered. Dr. O'Connell had operated to end the paralysis from the blow she had suffered on the Moravia. Had the operation been successful? Was she Mary Carroll again? Through the slits in the adhesive tape, cut for her eyes, she could see a white figure at her side. A private nurse, who introduced herself as Miss Babcock. “What time is it? Mary wanted to know. “Five o'clock. You've had a long sleep,” Miss Babcock answered. Mary tried to move. “You mustn’t do that,” the nurse cautioned. | still.” She held Mary's head in her hands to prevent further movement’ and Mary drifted back into a new world. | : It was | Paris and spring and there was no war. Only a “war of nerves” and the stout-hearted did not worry. There was a party at a count’s villa at Passy. Mary would wear her Robin Hood red dress. ‘And that distinguished young man with the scar on his face. Who was he? { Why, that’s Vincent Gregg, an aviator. He was her fiance. Only not her fiance then, and later when he was—why, Carla Marchetta— She awakened with a scream. “The ether has made you sick,” Miss Babcock spoke calmly. “Lie still and the nausea will pass away.” Several days later Miss Babcock told her she was much better. Mary knew it without being told. It seemed a perface of something the nurse would say. Mary waited. Finally it came: “You mumbled some strange things about the sinking of the Moravia in your sleep, Mrs. Lenox,” the nurse said. “It bears out what I've been thinking all along and what. a lot of other people think, too. Someone was behind it, Mrs. Lenox. I know it.” Mary nodded, her face stiff behind the white muzzle of bandages. “I know,” she agreed. “I've thought +50, a thousand times.” :

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Scotland Yard,” Miss Babcock went on. “I've fold him what you said in your delirium. It may mean nothing at all. On the other hand, in wartime, one mustn't miss a single chance. “The investigation about the forayvia will be reopened soon because of Trew clews. If you are well then, you may be called to testify.”

” 2 2 “OF COURSE,” Mary said quickly.

“You must lie perfectly|

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Miss Babcock rose to attention as Dr. O’Connell’s footsteps were heard in the hall. “Someone,” she finished hurriedly, “has been tipping off the enemy to the time of ships’ departures. The Moravia and others. Find out into whose hands the information went and you'll know something.” Dr. O’Connell was hopeful, contrary to custom, after he had placed new dressings on Mary’s face. “Youre doing beautifully, Mrs. Lenox.” L “Would Mrs. Lenox be allowed a full tray tomorrow?” Miss Babcock

asked. . : For the past few days Mary had like. this?

noted a sing-song: Would Mrs. Lenox Would she like that? Would Mrs.

Lenox like to hear the radio? Would | . she care to have the nurse read to|

her? It was not only her own nurse who asked, but other nurses on the floor. Mary could not understand why she was getting such attention. In wartime London, with a hospital full of patients, why should nurses be taking all this trouble for a mere refugee? “Is it because of Dr. O’Connell that you are all so good to me?” she asked the night nurse. “I don’t understand, Mrs. Lenox,” the nurse protested. “We don’t do any more for you than for anyone else.” “But you have been good to me.” Mary remembered the adequate, but . scarcely exacting, care she’d had as a ward patient in the same hdéspital. “Well, of course, we have tried to make you comfortable,” the nurse replied. “For there’s nothing anyone in this hospital wouldn’t do for Dr. Lenox.” For Gilbert Lenox’s sake then, Mary had been given care that could not have been surpassed for members of the Royal Family. His wife—but only in name. These thoughtful suggestions, these comforts and kindnesses, all‘because of Gilbert. rE “I wish Mrs. Tully could see me now.” Mary smiled as she recalled the occupant of the next ward bed when the ‘victims of the Moravia’s torpedoing had been nursed back to health. * : > #® 8 2 “THOSE BANDAGES come off tomorrow,” Dr. O'Connell bustled into her room one aftérnoon. “Can you tell me anything about the results, Doctor?”’ Mary could ‘not hold back the question. It was 80 important for her to know if the operation would be successful. It meant everything to her—the difference between sunshine and fresh’

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“The next morning was unbelievably long. The hours dragged until noon was announced from a hundred steeples. A brief sleep shortened the afternoon, but it was growing dark when Mary heard Dr. O’Connell’s step at her door, Soon she would.know. But did she really want to know? What if she should always remain Anna Winters? Had Mary Carroll really died on the Marovia? She wished now

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face was inscrutable. She heard a nurse sigh. Dr. O'Connell whistled softly. Spmeone handed her a mirror.

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