Show adventurers CLUB 1 HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES i OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELF 1 fiend in the NW night by FLOYD GIBBONS famous headline hunter ELLO EVERYBODY it would be bad enough for a man to have an adventure like this one im going to tell you now but for a woman well it must have been at least ten times worse geraldine gorman german R N of brooklyn N Y is the woman who sent the story in to me and also the woman who went through the terrible ordeal it relates but im up a tree to tell you who the hero of the yarn yam is I 1 dont know whether to say its geraldine or brownie the dog both of them did a pretty good piece of work when the pinch came so I 1 guess ill have to hang a medal on both of them to begin with geraldine gorman is a registered nurse back in 1932 when she graduated from rom her course ot of training she went to work in a local sanitarium as night supervisor and it was in this sanitarium in the quiet hours oi of the winter night that adventure caught up with her and gave her the shock of her life drug addict broke in there were three other nurses and a watchman on night duty at the sanitarium but they were in another building it was about half past eleven and geraldine was sitting at her desk writing up charts it was quiet deathly quiet in that room not a sound was audible except the loud metallic ticking of the clock but suddenly geraldine was startled of her chair by a crash of broken glass at the other end of the long yi geraldine ran down the hall to investigate and stopped suddenly at the sight of a hulking figure climbing through the broken window she almost screamed in sheer terror when in the moonlight that filtered through the shattered pane she recognized the man as karloff Ka a russian drug addict whom the sanitarium had discharged as a hopeless case only a few weeks before 1 I stood rooted to the spot says geraldine and the first thing my eyes encountered was a heavy steel cast cutter with a knifelike knife like edge and sharp teeth Karl offs hand band was closing over it open up medicine room or I 1 kill he growled shaking the thing at me geraldine knew what he wanted in the medicine room Narcotic sl dope he was insane with the craving for it but instead of opening the room she turned and ran down the hall if she could beat that ac X now I 1 kill sure he cried maniac to the cellar there was an underground passage to the next building where the other three nurses and the watchman were congregated gre gated over a midnight snack chased her into the morgue but before she was hall half way down the stairs geraldine knew she would never make it karloff with his long legs was gaining on her with every step and as she reached the basement hallway he brandished brandishes bran dished the heavy cast cutter and cried now I 1 kill sure geraldine was frantic she spied the door of the sanitarium morgue swinging partly open darted inside closed and bolted the door but at the same time she heard the outside lock snap and knew that the russian had made her a prisoner she was safe there herself but how to warn the rest of the staff it if she get word to them somehow big H crazed karloff could steal up on them when they looking orl slaughter them one by one with that big saw toothed weapon he carried geraldine looked around the room she was trapped in there was no chance of getting out both doors were securely locked from the outside in the center cente of the room was an autopsy table and over at one side near the ceiling belling cel ling was a small t tiny in y window set at the ground level she dragged the table over to the wall stood on it and breaking the window looked out on the cold freshness of the winter night she could get her arms through that window and no more it was no use she was in that morgue room to stay to rescue suddenly geraldine saw something frisking about in the snow and got an idea the risking frisking object was brownie the watch mans dog a big shaggy animal with a lot of good dog sense she whistled to him and he came scampering over to the window then geraldine got busy she drew a fountain pen from her pocket tore of the starched cuffs from her uniform and began to write KARLOFF BROKE IN she wrote DANGEROUS HIDING IN CELLAR IM LOCKED IN THE MORGUE then she thrust the cuff in the dogs mouth and told him to take it to his master time dragged on and geraldine lived in an agony of suspense so 01 isa depended on brownie would he carry the note as he had been 0 do it seemed hours that the dog had been gone and still htiu there was no indication from the others that they had received her message and were sate safe then at last she heard beard a sound outside the door the outer lock was snapped back and the voice of the watchman assured her that karloff was in a strait jacket and all was right with the world brownie had bad come through service 7 |