| Show adventurers 4 CLUB 41 the house of a friend by FLOYD GIBBONS famous headline hunter IS SOMETIMES its your best friends that get into the forstl worst troubles take cecile saul of new york city as a typical in stance cecile had a friend once and not so very long ago either who got her into the worst jam of her entire life it the friends friend s fault either she probably thought she was doing cecile a favor cecile a s friend had a sister there s the nub of the whole situation situations 1 1 the sister had had a nervous breakdown and was confined to her bed and when she needed the ministrations of a trained nurse her sister I 1 41 cecile s friend immediately thought of cecile cecile was and isa Is a trained nurse she was engaged to take care of the sick woman and it wasn gasn t a very pleasant job either the woman wasn gasn t a very congenial person 11 cecile says but I 1 was one of the few people who understood her hence she had implicit confidence in me As a matter of fact the sick gal was doggoned uncongenial she was a large woman of about middle age weighing pounds and powerfully built she was sensitive about her illness and that made her reticent and hard to talk to her sister cecile s girl friend lived in the house wiehl them and that helped to cheer the place up when she was around but more often than not she went out in the evening leaving cecile and her patient alone threatened by crazed woman it was on just such an evening a coolish night in september 1034 1934 that cecile s big adventure took place her girl friend was out for the evening seeing a show at the movie around the corner the sick woman V 1 she came forward saying 11 1 I in going to kill you was asleep or so cecile thought cecile herself was reading a boob book when all of a sudden she looked up and saw her patient rise from the bed she had a peculiar expression on her face and she came toward cecile saying i you stole my husband and I 1 in going to kill you I 1 started backing away says cecile petrified with fright t because in a flash it had come to me that she had gone mad i when I 1 backed into a wall I 1 just stood there because I 1 was too frightened to cry out or run I 1 the woman came on toward cecile pounds heavy and looking at least twice that as she towered over the nurse thrusting clawing clail ng hands bands out to grasp her her eyes had bad gone glassy and foam oozed from the straight silt slit of her mouth feels lunatics hands on throat I 1 tried to think fast cecile says at first I 1 thought I 1 could soothe her and get her back to bed but that didn dian it work her mind had gone completely so completely that she didn dian t understand anything I 1 aid said all she I 1 ad in it was that fixed thought that I 1 was her rival for her bus e band bands s affections and that to kill me would be her revenge she came nearer and nearer finally her hands were on my throat she was 60 pounds heavier than 1 I and about four inches taller and she possessed the super strength of a lunatic the thought came into my mind that this was not a very pleasant way of dying I 1 could think then of a good many more agreeable ends than being choked to death by a mad woman but just about the time I 1 felt that I 1 was going to have the pleasure of meeting with either st peter or the devil a miracle happened I 1 the miracle was just the opening of the door it swung wide and in came cecilea girl friend the sick comans sister who just a few minutes before had left for the movie luckily for cecile she had seen that movie before had turned around and come back home sister s quick act saves life the sister realized in an instant what had bad happened also she ae was a woman with a lot of that stuff called presence of mind she understood the sui sul er strength that insane people seem to acquire knew how futile it w uld be to try to fight her off there was no time to lose in calling for help so she went immediately into action there was a large picture hanging on the wall right by the door the girl p eked that up brought it down on the mad woman s head the mad woman fell in a heap on the floor un conscious that thais s all cecile remembered for a while then she came to again and a d actor was bending over I 1 er they told her later that she too had eort sort of lost her mind over the incident had become hysterical nn an I 1 had to be quieted with a hypodermic still dreams of awful scene I 1 it Is quite a while since that I 1 appended said cecile und and the woman is on the road to recovery she was told only last week of the attempt to take tahe my life and she site felt very sorry to think of all the grief she I 1 lid id caused me but believe bellee you me it will be many years before I 1 stop top dreaming of an ugly distorted foaming mouth glassy eyes disheveled hair and bird hird hands pin pinn nini me to the wall and choking me while an even 1 larder voice cried ID kill hill you jou III kill you lou stole my husband I 1 well personally I 1 tike 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