Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 January 1940 — Page 15

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/ Winters, who died on the Moravia.

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SDAY, JAN. 16,

STORY—

Blackout.

By RUTH AYRES

~- CAST OF CHARACTERS - :MARY CARROLL—American fashion €xpert, in London during wartime. VINCENT GREGG—Soldier of fortune, in love with Mary.

CARLA MARCHETTA-—A ndon socialite.

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DR. GILBERT LENOX—Surgeon, serving with British army. .

YESTERDAY: Mary's stay in the hospital is made doubly pleasant’ hy the extra’ attention given her as Dr. Gilbert Lenox’s wife. In her delirium, Mary raved about the sinking of the Moravia, her suspicions of Carla, and her nurse urges her to take it up with Scotland Yard. Then comes the day for the removal of the bandages. After they are removed, Dr. O'Connell hands Mary a mirror.

CHAPTER TWENTY

TREMBLING in every muscle, Mary lifted the glass, forced herself

Looking back at her, she saw Mary Carroll—the real Mary—the Mary who had sailed on the Moravia. The Mary Vincent hr&d loved. » Gone was the hateful, twisted face of the Mary Carroll who had become Anna Winters. She could smile now. She tried it, spreading her lips gingerly. s , Dr, O’Connell’s voice startled her. “No wonder you wanted this done!” He spoke softly, almost as if he were talking to himself, “You're beautiful!” : In the restoring of the mutilated face, it seemed as if all else that had made her Mary Carroll had returned, too. Her skin was fresh. Her eyes glowed luminously and blue.| Even her hair had lost its dullness and was like a -cap of curly cornsilk. And her voice, so muffled and strange during the paralysis, was as clear as it had ever been. ' It took hours to’ become accustomed to it. The next day, Mary could wait no longer, She wrote to Vincent. But first, hardly considering why she did it, she sent a note to Gilbert. “I've never been so happy in my life,” she wrote. “Everything came out perfectly. You have my deepest gratitude.” The letter to Vincent was more ‘difficult to compose. It would be a terrific shock to him—as if the dead were coming to life. She did not tell him about her marriage to Gilbert or “her new name—simply requested him to come to her hospital room. ;_ It was agonizing to wait for him. un zn u

AND THEN, THE waiting was over. Vincent. Gregg stood in the doorway. : His face was as white and set a a china mask. His eyes stared, distraught at the fear this might be some horrible jest: “Vincent!” Mary spoke his name slowly. “Please don't be afraid. It's me—NMary Carroll.” ~ The words seemed to release him and with one quick step he was at her side, si arms enfolding her, his lips on her face, her eyes, her mouth. Te? : : It was rapture. It had to be! Mary returned his kisses but she .knew in her heart something was not quite as she had dreamed. Gently, she cupped his face in her hands. “Let me look at you,” she ‘murmured, sure that when she saw his arrogant dark eyes and the eyebrow that cocked so debonairly, everything would be the same again. “You've changed,” she began and then with the pent up emotion of long weeks of waiting, began to sob. “There, there,” he comforted her. “Youre to lean back and rest. I love you, Mary. again and nothing matters.” For a long time they sat there trying to reassure each other with their very silence. It was Mary who spoke first. “It was my cabin mate, Anna

No one except you knows this, so you must guard the secret with me. In the terrible confusion, there was ‘a mixup in identity. I had on Anna’s dress and had picked up her purse and her passport. When I was brought into this hospital as one of the survivors, no one thought I was going to live. I didn’t care— you see there'd been a horrible accident. It—it disfigured me.” : “You—disfigured I can’t be-lieve it. You're as lovely as you've always been.” “A famous plastic surgeon, Dr. O'Connell, eliminated the facial paralysis.” ' “And you've been going through all this alone? Why didn’t you let me know?” “I couldn't bear to,” she said wearily. “You were here one day and when you looked at me. you didn’t know me. It was as bad as that.” Vincent began to stride uneasily up and down the hospital room. “Bui you needed me, darling. I would have wanted to be with you every minute.” His voice held eager Jonging and remorse and yet in Mary's ears, try &S she would to at it out, the words didn’t ring cchivincingly. . : 2 ” = SHE HURRIED on then with her story, even to the marriage at the Registry to Dr. Lenox. This would hurt Vincent most of all. She looked at him and found his eyes expressionless. “I see, of course,” he began. “It was “a marriage just for the records— to help you. It doesn’t mean you belong to him?” “Oh, no,” she said. “He left that very night to go to France. Gilbert Lenox gave me his name because he pitied me and knew I was destitute. As his wife, I was able to stay at his lodgings—able to come to this hospital for the operation as a private patient instead of a charity case.” Vincent stood by her bedside. “I "let you* in for all this. I'll never forgive myself for letting you sail on the Moravia alone. I swear it was the last thing I'd meant to do. “That morning I had to make a short plane trip to help a friendd who was in trouble. There would have been plenty of time to make the boat if the plane hadn’t been

The explanation sounded hollow. Something flared in Mary Carroll. “The. friend was “Carla Marchetta,” she accused. Vincent turned, slow flush mounting in his white face. Mary weni on, “It was Carla who sent you the note in the restaurant that night. I found it—‘At Midnight.’ her that night and after that, everything changed.” » : “You fourid it?” He sounded flat and defeated. “Yes, Carla -Marchetta sent it to me.” Desperate now to learn the whole truth, Mary said—¥ou’'ve seen

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But it means nothing. You'll have to believe me. Carla was my only friend through the time when I thought you were—dead.” Yes, she must believe it. must. Vincent was her life, His eyes watching hers became eager. “Now that you're here beside me, Mary, all that's over. I never want to see Carla again. I never loved any girl but you. Can’t you take me on faith? : “I'm not angry because you married Dr, Lenox, If I can underip Pb, Cap PR oS fh Tao

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stand and trust you, you must do the same for me. Devilish, fantastic things happen in war-time. We've been caught in the net of it— but we're together and %hat’s all that counts.” Winter twilight toned the room in gray. A clock in the hall chimed softly. “Tell me, dearest, that everything’s all right between us,” Vin-: cent begged. : (To Be Continued) ==

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