Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 October 1940 — Page 13

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New York Jungle

By Wray Wade Severn

YESTERDAY: Sidnpy. follows Nella to - fhe swimming pool, arrives in time to see Lesencoft dive in, save the drowning girl. The director insists the girl attempted Suicide. He notices a bruise on her head. Losencoff has an alibi for his presence in the neighborhood, expreses no regret Over Adams’ death. Neila revives but is Unable to speak. |

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN AFTER the doctor's second visit, Everyone in the house knew that Nella Langdon was a eh of psychic dumbness. She could not speak.

But he had administered a narcotic and had held out hope that when she awakened from the sleep induced by the drug she might be herself again. | People afflicted with psychic dumbness or blindness became so, he explained, because | they had heard or ‘seen sights |so terrible that. their nervous: systems refused to recognize them and relate them. In Nella’s case, a nervous inheritance from an insane grandmother, made her a ready victim. The question in all minds, including Captain Plowman’s, was: What °would : Nella relate yodn she did ret to normal? *¢ “What can Nella. have seen?” Marta asked Sidney when they were alone together in the library, later in the day. “Can she be protecting someone?” Yin | “God knows,” Sidney replied. “To guess is to accuse, and| I am not prepared to do that. Neither, I believe, is Plowman.” | “Aren’t there drugs that may be used to free her?” | h

| “Yes, but they are not always successful and cannot employed without the consent of relatives. I imagine Hugh, as the nearest relative, might not wish t tried.” | Abruptly Sidney switched the subJect. “Barkes said he saw a shadow against your curtain at 6|o’clock last night, Marta. Have you an idea who made it?” | | A quick flush burned Marta’s face: She turned from him, and stared qut the window at the dripping trees, green now from [their long renching. Pi “ff we are to play square with Adam, Marta, you had better tell me all you know,” he said gently. | Marta faced him, eyes despairing. “It was Adam’s own shadow the chauffeur saw,” she said simply. “Affer you left me, he came to my room. He wanted to explain before I met the others. I had gone down the hall for a shower. and when I returned he wags standing by my window. The curtain had been drawn.’ 2 2 =

| A QUICK FROWN darkened Sidney’s face. Langdon’s conduct remained inexplicable to h “Don’t judge him t Sidney,” Marta said in a low tone. “You were in California when he came back from his hunt in India last year, after he’d had that terrible brush with a tiger.| The beast, would have done for him but for Hugh.” She swallowed. “Now—I wish Hugh had not been there, We would have been spared all this horror.” : : Helpless to offér comfort, Sidney waited for her to go on, * “The tiger had ripped| the sheath of a nerve,” she said. “The pain was dreadful and impossible to bear without the aid of merphine. : “In Capetown they operated and he recovered, but soon| his nerves began to trick him. He would wake up at night covered with cold sweat and imaginegdthe tiger was tearing at him, He had never before known the meaning of fear. He knew it then, and it became unbearable.” “So he continued to use the drug?” Sidney guessed. “Yes,” Marta admitted. “When he got back we decided [to fight the fear as well as the drug—together. He and Hugh and I came down here

harshly,

“You dear girl!” were moist. “He thought himself safe, Sidney. We believed it, too. He decided he must prove himself by going om another hunt and though|we tried to dissuade him, he felt that he had to “That took courage,” Sidney commented. : “Adam was fine, when he was himself,” Marta went on. “He contracted fever in the jungle and lay for weeks at Patricia Bridges’ cousin’s farm. The doctor gave him morphine.” “So the fight had to be fought all over again,” Sidney mused. “It did,” Marta admitted. “He wrote me in despair. I decided that if 1 showed my faith it| would help, so I"—she hesitated a lpng moment

and continued—"I wrote him that

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when he came- back We would be married and that I'd take a long vacation” until he was himself again.” : . “Greater faith hath no man,” Sidney breathed. «1 should have been for one of those slips inconsequential bit of

justified but of fate. An unfounded “gossip, based on someone seeing me , with Boris several times.” «you mean when a report of your engagement to Lesencoff got into the newspapers? I | saw that, Marta.” “How Adam got the paper in Capetown, I don’t know, but no doubt all papers are available there. Unfortunately he sa the announcement and did not receive my letter.” “Then he took that for your angwer to his call for help?” Sidney

said. «He did. He simply gave up and Pat cared for him, he married her. She attracted him, he admitted, but he did not love her.” | «Adam had a -bad nervous inheritahce. Such people| should keep away from drugs.” | : ‘wa 8 MARTA continued the story: «1t, wasn’t long before he realized Pat did not really care for him. Of course, he had money and the Bridges had lost all they had. Then she discovered his habit and once they had arrived here, she made plans to have him put|in a hospital for treatment. “He told me she meant to keep him there and control his estate. His nerves were completely shattered, He did not know what to do, 80 he sent for us| without telling his wife. He thought she might prevent us from seeing him.” . “It makes a clear picture, Marta,”

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is wise. Plowman is a natural gentleman. He will not cause you a moment of unnecessary distress.” There is no such thing as a private life in my profession,” Marta burst out. “Tell Plowman what you think he should know, but ask him to protect Adams’ character as much as possible.” : (To Be Continged)

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