Show adventurers CLUB 44 0 1 tic the house of a friend by FLOYD GIBBONS famous headline hunter S SOMETIMES its your best friends that get you into the worst troubles take cecile saul of new york city as a typical instance 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 fault either cither she probably thought 0 she was doing A cecile it a favor Ce cecilea Cec lles ciles friend had a sister theres the nub of the whole situation the sister had hat a nervous breakdown brcik down and was confined to tier hep bed and when she be needed the of a trained nurse tier her sister cecilee Ce cilos ciles friend immediately thought of cecile cecile was and is a trained nurse she was engaged to take care of the sick woman and it a very pleasant job either the woman a very congenial person 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 facts fact the sick gal was do doggoned boned uncongenial she was a large woman of about middle use age weighing pounds and powerfully built she was sensitive about her illness and that made tier her reticent and hardeo talk to iler her sister Ce crelles Cuc lles elles girl friend lived in the house with ith them and that helped to cheer alicer the place up alien she was around iut 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 sli nig night lit in september that cecilea Cc Ce ciles big adventure took pl place ace tier her girl friend was out for the evening seeing a show at the movie around the corner the sick woman was vas asleep or I 1 f alv 11 1 N I 1 11 e iff 4 A ir she came forward saying im going to kill you so cecile thought cecile herself was reading a hook book when nil all or of a st lIlen she bhe looked up and saw her patient rise from the bed slie site had a peculiar expression x press fon on tier her face and she came toward coward cecile saying you stole my his band and im going to kill you 1 I started backing away says cecile petrified with fright because in a flash it had come to me that she had gone mad when I 1 backed into a wall I 1 just stood there because I 1 was too frightened to cry out or run the woman oman caute came on toward cecile pounds heavy and looking at least twice that as site she towered over the nurse thrusting clawing hands out to ani grasp her tier her eyes had biad gone glassy and foam oozed from the straight determined SIR silt of her mouth month feels lunatics hands on throat 1 I tried to think fast cecile says at first I 1 thought I 1 could soothe tier her an and d get tier her buck back to bed hut but that work tier her mind had gone completely so completely that she understand anything I 1 said all she had in it was that fixed lierd thought that I 1 wits was her rival tor for her husbands lius bands affections and that to kill me would be tier her reen e 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 D devil evil a miracle happened tile the miracle was just the opening of tile lie door it swung wide and in came Ce cecilea Cec lles ciles girl friend the sick homans womans sister who just a few ini minutes before had left for the mobie le luckily for cecile site she had seen that movie I 1 hi t fure had turned around and come buck back home sisters quick act saves life the sister realized in ili an instant what had happened also site she was a woman with a lot of that stuff called presence of wind mind slie she understood tile super strength that insane people seeni seem it to acquive knew liow flow futile it would he to try to light tier her olt oil there was no little lime to lose la in calling for help ho 0 o she went immediately into action there was a large picture hanging on the wall right by the door the girl picked that up brought it down on the mad womans comans head the mad woman fell in a heap on the floor unconscious all ceille ie for a while then she came to again lind a doctor wits was bending oer tier they told tier her later that hint slie she too hill sort of lost tier her mind oer the incident had become hysterical and had to be quieted with a hypodermic still dreams of awful scene it Is quite a while since that happened said cecile and the woman Is on the road to recovery she was told only imbt week of tile attempt to tale take my lire life and site she felt very sorry to think of all the grief she had caused nie me but believe you me ine it will be many years before I 1 stop dreaming of an ugly distorted foaming mouth glassy eyes disheveled hair and hard bird hands pinning me to the wall and choking anje W an even harder voice cried ill kill hill you ill kill you you stol einy hu hasbani well personally I 1 like pleasanter plea santer dreams 0 service lct |