Nurse on Holiday — Kathleen Harris

Cindy Jameson's South American holiday had been exciting from the start. But a new kind of excitement developed when the lovely young nurse became a guest at the ranch of the handsome, mysterious Senor Ferrel. There was something sinister about this place with its drawn curtains and overgrown shrubs. At night from her bedroom, Cindy could hear the mournful barking of Senor Ferrel's chained dogs and the muffled weeping of his crippled sister.

Why then did Cindy remain? Had Senor Ferrel cast a spell over her that she was unwilling to break? Or was it Ferrel's attractive secretary, Alan Nash, who held her in strange captivity? She did not know. She only knew that soon--very soon--she would have to choose between them.

Beautiful blonde Cynthia Jameson, on leave of absence as a nurse, takes a glamorous vacation in South America. It is in Buenos Aires that Cindy discovers she has lost her passport and appeals to the hotel clerk for help. The clerk is of little help, but Senor Francis Ferrel, handsome, dark, sauve--and the soul of courtesy--suggests that Cindy visit her Ferrel Rancho while she waits for new papers. As an added inducement, he suggests that she will be company for his young sister who is confined to a wheelchair.

Cindy hesitates only briefly. This invitation will give her a chance to see the real South America--not the usual sights and amusements offered the tourist--and she feels that she can be of help to Teresa Ferrel as well. Her first glimpse of the house, with its drawn draperies, its overgrown trees and shrubs--and the sound of the senor's chained dogs--is so different from what she has expected that she begins to sense something sinister about the place. The senor is a feared tyrant in his own home--and only Cindy's sympathy for the lovely young senorita causes her to remain. Or is is that Francis Ferrel has exerted a spell over her that she is unwilling to break.

Ferrel's secretary, sandy-haired Alan Nash, is also a mystery to Cindy as she wonders why he chooses to bury himself in a place where he admits he is bored to death and has no liking for his employer.

Kathleen Harris's Nurse on Holiday offers a fascinating picture of a South America ranch as an American nurse uses all her ingenuity to bring lie and gaiety to the House of Despair, Alan Nash's name for the Ferrel hacienda.

Hero: Senor Francis Ferrel
Heroine: Cynthia (Cindy) Jameson