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THE DAILY SHORT STORY

Nocturnal Interlude

"ARE there any bears around here?" from fright, Mae Estes had come Marcia asked. Her great brown down stairs: Mae saw Sam bending. eyes looked toward the dark caves of over Marcia with a stained knife in his blackness beyond the porch screens. hand, and her mind leaped to conclu- Overhead a wind was rushing through sions. She screamed and plunged into the crowns of fir and hardwood; the Wally, who was just arriving. Wally crashing of waves against the lake's took in the situation at a glance, told rocky shore produced, to the romantic- Mae to call-a doctor and the police, and minded, an ominous sound.

'made a leap at Sam.

Mae Marcia was romantic. She was past "Don't wake him suddenly!" thirty, bordering on corpulence. She shrieked. "He'll kill you!" had an imagination that could conjure So Wally circled warily and, began "Take It any kind of a situation she might de- saying in a honeyed tone: sire with the least possible effort. easy, Sam, old man. Put down the "Bears?" Wally Bradford laughed, knife now." Sam was about to try ex- and all the others laughed with him.plaining, when he noticed that Wally He "Hardly. No, Marcia, I'm afraid the was looking over his shoulder. most exciting thing that might happen whirled in time to avoid being attack- to disturb your slumber while you're ed from behind by Harvey Smith, who here will be Sam Mullers night prowl had sneaked up, grasped the circum- ing. He has the night horse." stances and decided that temporarily "Nightmares? Oh, my goodness!" putting. Sam out of commission would Marcia atared horrified at Sam Muller, prevent further immediate killings. who grinned and shifted in his chair. Sam dodged and fled. He didn't in- He had hoped Wally wouldn't mention tend to be manhandled. without being this quirk of his. nature, but Wally al- given a chance to explain. He streak- ways spoke of it because a good many ed through the living-room, meeting amusing incidents. had resulted.. from two females and a man en route. The this nocturnal-roamings.~ . "I hope females fainted and the man picked up

you

By Stanley Cordell

Sam bounded

don't have one to-night, Sam," a lamp threateningly. Marcia went on. "I'm dreadfully up the stairs. He had the good sense afraid of people who have nightmares. not to return to his bedroom where he I mean, they're like drunken people or could readily be discovered. crazy people. You can't tell what they're going to do."

"My theory is," interposed Harvey Smith, "is never to wake a night walk er suddenly. The shock sometimes makes them violent."

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Instead he entered a storeroom at the end of the hall and sat down some blankets to collect his senses and plan his next move. His-next move, he decided, would be to sit still until matters downstairs had straightened

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"Don't waken them at all," Bertha themselves out. Ross said seriously. "Talk to them. This was rapidly being accomplish- Try to pacify them. My sister used ed. Marcia moaned and returned to have nightmares, and that was the consciousness and explained that Sam only way of keeping her quiet."

hadn't attacked her, but was going to.

Other theories were advanced and The other two females also recovered discussed. Finally Anne Bradford sug- their senses. Just then the doctor and gested bed, and one by one the guests policeman arrived and Wally, who had retired. Sam Muller was the last to been doing some thinking, advised them go. He disrobed, donned dressing that they were not needed, as a man gown and slippers and sat beside his who had been thought asleep wasn't. window smoking. Something had oc=" The ©law and the M. D. finally de- curred to him that he hadn't mentioned parted. Then everyone began a hunt to the others. Alice, his wife, wasn't for Sam, but they couldn't find him. arriving until tomorrow, and suppose The reason was he had dropped off to he had a nightmare when Alice wasn't sleep in the storeroom. He hadn' around 7: Alice, knew how to cope with been asleep very long before the toma- his nocturnal rampages. If she weren't toes began to work and he rose up, here to prevent him, he might get him opened the door and stepped into the self, into trouble.

hall, just as Wally was passing.

Sam lighted a fresh cigarette. The Wally roared with delight at the mis- smart thing to do was to remain awake take that had been made and slapped all night and take a nap to-morrow. Sam heartily on the back Such a That would solve the problem, and no shock is bad for any sleep-walker, Sam one would get a fright. So he found became violent. He poked Wally on a book and sat down to read. An hour the jaw, and Wally went out like a passed. Two. Sam stirred. He rose. light. Others "came running, just as He felt sleepy. The thing to do when Slams blinked to wakafulness and want- you feel sleepy is get something to eat. ed to know what it was, all about? Eating keeps you awake during the (Copyright, 1938, by The Associated process and afterward too.

iNewspapers).

Same quietly left his room and tip- toed to the kitchen. He opened the, big electric refrigerator there. His eyes fell on some ripe tomatoes. To- matoes were his weakness. He found akknife, and began to alices in tonato. He had eaten half of it whês ho herd a noise. He whirled, and discovere Marcia standing in the doorway, Ing as though she were seeing"a" She, too, had felt the urge to of nourishment. Agam swallowed the place

In his mouth and

∙Mard

Sam stayed dumblý,

had reasoned that Marola had he was sleepwalking, and had

NOTHING!