Show FLOYD GIBBONS tf f 1 Adventurers Adventurers' n tu re- re rs' rs clu Club b t. t ff t di Y v A 1 I Maniac 11 If With ith Knife nile nilet By FLOYD GIBBONS t Famous Headline Hunter I FIND Pauline Getty y says that adventure doesn't necessarily necessarily have to begin at sea or with the Martin Johnsons It can cal happen right at home in our everyday lives if well we'll one only Y stop to think of it I Pauline was employed as a nurse In a Jamestown R. R I I. sanitarium I It was n a place that took toole care of people who had nervous ous disorders and those who into were mildly Insane Pauline hesitated a long Ions time before she accepted the position position position-didn't didn't like llIe the Idea of working around among Insane people But the superintendent assured I her that there were no dangerous dangerous dan dan- lunatics Jn In the tho place so In the end Pauline took the tho job never figuring that that doggone superintendent might not know what he was talking about They gave Pauline a flock Hock of ke keys s 's and showed her about the place place place- told toM her the most Important s symptoms of ot each patient In her charge and what sort of or actions to expect from them Then hen they left her ber alone to todo todo todo do her work worl It was night duty ditty she was doing and everythIng e was quiet about the sanitarium Pauline was beginning to think her first fears rears had been unfounded I IAn An Inexplicable Uncomfortable Feeling Things went smoothly until 2 00 a a. a m. m that fateful zero hour of or the night when patients' patients vitality Is at Its Ita lowest ebb and night nurses are tired thed and off orr guard Pauline Paul was sitting at her desk writing up her charts when she became aware of an uneasy feeling the feeling the feeling that she was being watched I dont don't know how v to explain that feeling I e had It m myself a couple of times though and I know how Pauline must have have felt feH sitting slUing there I along alone In that silent hospital She g got t up and made malIc the rounds rounds rounds' of ot all her patients but they were all nIl In their beds and sleeping peacefully Then she went back to her I desk and sat down again thinking ing It was just a 0 sill silly fear that the stillness of the night shadows had brought on her She picked up her pen again but something made her put It down Then she heard a sound behind her and leaped to her feet to face a gigantic colored man holding a long sharp-bladed sharp bread knife pointed straight at her throat To Paulines Pauline's stricken fear e eyes ejes es he lie looked like the largest man she had ever er seen lie He was well over six feet tall broad of or shoulder should r with muscles that stood out like cor cords s. s This Was No Nightmare This Nightmare This Was Real HIs Ills eyes were large and bul bulging his bulging ln his mouth set In a 11 humorless grin gru grill that displayed ed n a double row of shining white unite teeth But ut It was the knife that caught Paulines Pauline's gaze ga and held her transfixed while hile her heart palpitated In her bosom That knife sharp and Jagged of edge pointed straight at ather ather ather her throat was moving toward tov her slowly an Inch at a I time She wanted to move but fear rooted her to the spot u I My throat she sn says s 's seemed frozen I couldn't cr cry out ui an any more than I could move mo I could only think think think the terrible thoughts of ofa a woman about to be he murdered by an nn Insane fiend I stood there for forShe forShe I 1 r r rA A She Heard a Soft Sound Behind Her what seemed to be at least three months months and and actually It was almost two minutes minutes feelIng feeling that I was about to be stabbed and hoping hed he'd do It quickly and have ha It over oyer with Two minutes Only a 3 tiny fragment of ot the da day but Its It's a long long longtIme longtime longtime time to be under the sort of strain Pauline was facing Her lIer knees went limp and her het head began to swim She felt as If she was going to faint and fought with all her power against it for she knew that unconscious and helpless she could expect no mercy from the wielding knife maniac Suddenly she saw something l hite flash clash past her There came a sound of at scuffling feet and out of a daze she watched a pair of at arms encircling her would would would-be be assailant Accident Summons Aid Just in Time The knife clattered to the floor and lind the big negro meek and whimperIng whimpering whimpering whim whim- In the clutch of a male orderly was led away to his room on the floor below When the two h Ind ad gone Pauline sank Into her chair again her body In a virtual state of collapse The timely arrival of the orderly seemed to be nothing short of a a miracle le for no orderly was supposed to be In that part of the building at that time of the night When he came back she asked him about it and between the tho two of them they figured out what had happened It seemed that when Pauline had bad Jumped ju up from the desk designer her foot toot had touched a bell button on the floor A light had flashed nashed In the orderly's room and he lie had come on the run Just In time to sn save e her from a u 1 pretty rett gruesome bit of carving Q W Sor |