The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 28, 1933, Page 3

FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 1933, parse $2269999999999999 509996 99999999999900909009900000 by Mignon G. Eberhort traged; he mee Mbuae Ct of ener ciheeee tie five shote fred at “the court, and Sue's relate to an attempt to secure the token by of ‘hich Sue will claim her share of bes father’s estate. But get reine leave pag) a is room. The sound of @ movement close by acakens him. Sarees — Chapter 23 THE SILENT PRIEST GOT up on my elbow and peered toward the door, and finally rose was undisturbed. “Mice,” {told myself. “In the walls, The place is full of them, probably.” And went back to bed.} Latin.” But not this time to sleep. Among several other things I determined to get a few quiet words with Marcel in the morning. I should giso remember to ask (Lovechiem for a key to my room. ‘Atter all, keyg existed, and i myself intended to make no casnai matter of it. There was something decjdediy unpleasant about that. deserted wing and now that the wiad had gone down [ particularly ig ceed the way various creaks ang gmail mysterious rustles ‘came te life.” With dawn f felt asleep again and woke late to @ gray and troublous day. When Marce} ‘brought my coffee and some very hard rolls { began: “Marcel, you know, of course, that I’m in rather a bad @x ebout this murder?” Oh, yes. he knew. “Well, it develops that it is of the utmost importance to both Miss Tally and moe to discover every- thing possible about the marder. T myself am in some danger of being hanged for itor guillotine or ogg they do--and Miss Tal- “Miss Tally is in danger, plao,” finished Marcel quickly, bis eyes ing. “Me, J know that.” ‘ell, then,” { sald slowly, “} ‘won't press you, Merce}, but } went you to thimk it over. Miss Tally pays you have been very kind to her srperhaps, when you consider the Matter for a time you mey—pr~ récall something you've séen or I seipbac i ya Als a hd "You, know, then thet 5 dda’s one had gonp too far. {9 not.» erimbaal,” iprost "I cannot asy parece will think. ft is aimost lukewarm water he left abruptly, Phere was about his de- irture @ suggestion of escape, and ‘T could only hope that his iting for Sue Tally would work in our favor, 1 wanted to help Sue, of course, but at the same time there’s no use denying that I wanted quite as much to help myself. The hotel had been deserted when I first came down in the morn- ing; only Pucel cocked a suspicious eye toward me as I went through the lobby. But when I retupned from my walk Madame Grethe was at the desk—her eyes looked very green and knowing, and she smiled secretively as she spoke to me—and Mrs. Byng and the priest were sit- ting iff the lounge. Mrs. Byng was Knitting furiously on somé gnor mous garment. 4 es place was silent except for the priest’s newspaper rustling mow and then ‘and Mra: Byig’s needles clicking. I looked up; the _f skylight was gray and the encircling * galleries were empty and bare and @ the doors blank. It was Rot, to sty the least, a cheerful spot, and it was rather appalling to think’ ‘we'd al} got to stay there until police gave us permission to leave. T sat down fairly near the priest. T got out my cigarettes; Pogcl transferred his attention to the watch on my wriat. “I'm gorry,” I said, across the ob- vious perrier of’ the newspaper. “But—may I have a match?” Mre. Byng’s needles clicked, and she gave me a sharp look, and her equine nose lifted a little as if it sniffed battle. The priest’s newspa- per rustied reluctantly as he shifted it to one hand. The flaming -radi- pce of his beard came into view, hp reached for the box of matches tying before him on the small ta- ble and passed it over to me. “Thanks,” I murmured, lit my cigarette, and as he immersed him- seit in the newspaper at once, I persisted: “You speak Bnglish, then?” * He gave me a morose look from the edge of the newspaper, SQeeeeesssacarceneggrgns who ly this day will produce &n easy-going person whe will! piek out the soft spots in life;) but there is a Spice of stpbborn- ness, and a bit of luck in the way, ef influential friends, that may; lift the native te some eminenee. There is a danger of over-indul- ce, with a possibility of trouble; rom the opposite sex. PPPSSERSOOORPSD9RROSOOC® “¥es," he seid Savy, end me peered again. Mrg. Byng’s x al clicked violently. “Praveling?” % touristy approach. “No,” This time be did not eyen glance around the newspaper, “English, are you?” He looked st me fully this time, 9 face was not old, but it was lined; his eyes were # Nght yellow: aay, apd eround. bis month the hairs of big red beard grew thip, and you felt @ sort of distaste look: ing at it, | “No,” he said sharpiy, “French,” | He stared at me 8 moment and sen added: “If yop must know, I’ spent two years in America and Tm here for my health. J also speak French and Italian, And T can read | temarked in 3 T said blandly: “Puppy plage to | come to for your health. Haye you j been here long?” ‘The newspaper quivered for g mo- ment, then his light eyes and flam- ing soft beard reappeared. “It? he said celdiy, “you want my fyll history, go to the police They've just acquired it, owing to the very strange affair which ac- companied your arrival here. There was,” he added, driving the poipt } further home, .“ne murder before you arrived.” He continued to’stare | eoldly/and blandly gt. me. | It was’ unfortunate that Pueei, who ‘hag been exploring silentiy in the vicinity, of. my: pocket, drew forth at thet moment a box of matehes, faid i¢ carefully upon my knee, and uttered a triumphant eluck, ‘Fhe priest looked at it, and Mrs. Bypg looked at it, and the cocketoe looked at it and preengd | himself and eluecked again happily. | '® second cluck was too much for Father Robart, who bimsglf uttered @ sound not too faintly re: sembling it, shoved his paper to sethey with an angry motion, rose, and stalked toward the jit. The Mt tle irop gate benged, the two par- row doors dipped together, and the small lift, looking not unlike a yery tell eoffin, murmured dully and started to crawl upward. *Puecl,” 1 said softly, “some day 0 See soipg to wring your Mrs. Byng sniffed again. e “If there ever was 9 bird in league with @ devil, it fe thet one.” She surge which ® boaresly dis- * thlek eyebrows flew iin ® startled manner, and needlon paused for just an in- stant; then, recovering herself nobly, she nodded to me in en “J- told-youso” way and pesamed her knitting. Pneci returned to the matches quite as if sulphur had a natural attraction for him, and I said to Mrs. Byng: “I'm glad to seg you've recovered from the shock of the other night.” “I may look better,” she said, knitting rapidly. “But I still feel ‘the shock. I feel anything for a long time, Mr, Sundean, ang feel it deep- ly. Lhave temperament, I have tem- perament. And I might say eight here—T have good eyes, Mr. Sun- dean, And temperament.” “No doubt,” I said warmly under the compulsion of her waiting gaze, and just then the gong for lunch sounded. ‘The meal over, I returned to the lounge and settled in p corper at the far ond with coffee and a cige- rette and ap old “Punch,” hoping either See or Lorn would and me there. But Lorn slipped quietly out again ang Bue hed disappeared. Gradually the faint clatter from regions back of the dining room died away. ‘The day had grown darker, and the well of the lounge, lighted enly by the gray and sullen skylight, was shadowy and dim and very silent. ‘The whole place in fact had sunk tanto a kind of sentient, brooding silence which reminded you thet, be yond those twisting dark corridors and blank doors, there was, the same smali circle that had been fn the hotel that wind-ridden night when a man was murdered. I felt uneasy and restless, and was oddiy relieved to hear quick light footsteps crogs the dining room back of me. Jt was Marcel. He came closer to me His eyes darted quiekly about the lounge. “I bave decided myself. 1 will tell you,” he said then, soberly and im a low voice. “It is at best only three things that I know. One is about the towels. And one is about Father Robart. And the third oze | —may mea e life.” (Copyright, 1998, Mignon @. Eberhart) A sudden territve shift in the situation comes tomorrow. TODAY'S GAMES AMERICAN LEAGUE Washington at New York. Bosten at Philadeiphis. Chicago at Cleveland. Detroit at St. Louis. NATIONAL LEAGUE Cincinnati at Chicago. St. Louis at Pittsburgh. Philadelphia at Boston. (Only games scheduled. i the Cleveland } Philadelphia PIRATES LOSE. AND GIANTS NOW | IN LEAGUE LEAD| | ST. LOUIS. BROWNS Pept CLEVELAND INDIANS; DOD- GERS SHUT OUT BOSTON AGGREGATION {Special to The Giants- NEW YORK, Aprii 28.—The New York Giants by a seore of 5/ to 2 came out yictorious in their game with the Phillies, taking the feague lead. Carl Hubbell got ‘ evedit for his third vietory of the jseason as he relieved Ray Starr and held the Phils scoreless in the} last three innings. The St. Louis Brown defeated! Indians, ‘with the! seore Yeading 3-2. The veteran right-hander, George Biaeholder, held the Indiays to four hits and won jn the final game. of the Hreree’ engagement at Cleveland. The Brooklyn Dodgers blanked the Boston, Braves, with Walter} Larry, Ropes, H. B. Rust, Sr., Dr. Beck outsteadying Ed Brandt to} {give the Brooklyn outfit its vic-;E. A. Barker, Brad Barnes, L. D. tory, The score was 1-0. The champion Chicago |downed the Pittsburgh Pirates by the close séore of 3-2. The win- ners scored all their runs: in the fourth inning. The New Yark Yankees trained their big guns on the Macks and defeated the Philadelphia aggre- gation by a seore of 5-2, Karl Cambs walloped his first homer of the season, with Babe Ruth aiso knocking one out over the right field wall. Joe Sewell and Lou Gebrig were also there with a | honie run apiece dyring the eon- test. The White Sox downed the Ti- gers, with the Cardinals winning from the Reds, while the Senators were yictorioys over the . Boston outfit. The summaries: American League At Philadelphia New York Philadelphia . Batteries: Ruffing and Diel Cain and Coghyane. At Boston Washington . Boston ...... Batteries: Sewell; Rhodes, Kline and At Cleveland . HL St. Louis . -8 8 0 Cleveland ..... oe fee Bee! Batteries: Blaeholder and Fer- rell; Harder, Brown and Pytlak, R. HE. we Bay ee | B. a) 2 on. At Chicago Detroit _... Chicago °..... 10 16 @ Batteri Marberry, Wyatt and Hayworth; Durham and Berry, National League At New York R. H. E, Philadelphia - eee Bae Pa New York 518 1 Batteries: Rhem, Liska and V, Davis; Starr, Hubbell and Man- cuso, At “pene oe Boston ..... doaeebs tes Brooklyn es Batteries: Brandt and Beck and Lopez. Q 1 Hogan; At Pittsburgh Pittsburgh 6 Batteries: Bush "and Hartnett; Smith, Swift and Grace. © At St. Louis incipngti Bt. Louis ‘310 3 Batteries: Benton, Frey and Lombardi; Dean, Carlton and J. Wilson. R. i, E. 2 6 © AMERICAN LEAGUE Club— W. L. New York Chicago Cleveland Washington Detroit Boston SOAMMMOED St. Louis NATIONAL LEAGU: Cluab— w. New York Pittsbyreh . Brooklyn St. Lonis Cincinnati Philadelphia Chicago Rentan m 700 545 454 A 417 -400 <3) PALACE BOB STEELE in RAINBOW END Matinee, 5-10c; Night, 10-185 eat Om ODI i WITH LOCALS ian | Cubs | THE KEY WEST CITIZEN BILTMORE TEAM. TO ARRIVE HERE BRINGING IMPOSING ARRAY‘ | -OF GOLFERS.FOR TWO-DAY: | SCHEDULE OF MATCHES) Judge T. E. (Tubby) Price wi] arrive tomorrow morning | the; East Coast, with the strongest] Biltmore team yet to meet the} Key Westers, and intends to keep. the Biltmore slate clean, with an; unmayred record of no defeats in} two.years. The strong Biltmore: team has played the Nassan team| ;twice, and Key West three times.! A brilliant field of golfers vepresent the Miami-Biltmore. Follows a list of, those coming| {from Miami: Captain T: E. Price, Roy $appenfield, Wiitiam . Reed,; will! Stephen Gibbs, D. H. L. Cartee,i Breekenridge,. Ralph Wilkins, Frank Bryant, Dr. T. E. Fitzgib- | bons, ‘Jack Vilas, Sr., Inman Pad- gett. } Ned Everhart, popular pro of! {the Biltmore will accompany the jteam, and Brice “Pinder, captain of the Nassau Golf team will alao| |be with the Biltmore _ boys. Matches will be played Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning. The visitors will be entertained at a banquet at a local restaurant j Saturday night, and a dance at the Country Club in honor of the Miamians will be held later in the evening. Local shot-makers have been j tuning their shots, and’ are ex-: pected to give the’ Biltmore team FAVORITES LOSE IN GOLF TOURNEY STUMP LANES DOWNED IN FIRST DEFEAT YESTER- DAY AFTERNOON — Yesterday afternoon two. fa- .{mous,golf teams met on the Mu- of battle had cleared, the team from Grunt Bone Alley had dis- posed of the team from i Lane to the tune of 6 to 5. The play was very close, all a the foursomes being well matched, and the results in doubt up to the| last putt. In the first match, | and Spottswood defeated ; Demetitt and Price. The second} match was won by Kemp and Kirséhenbaum against Russell and! Strunk. The third match was! won by Stowers and Ketchum} against Yates and Sands. At this} point things looked dark for the Grunt Bone Alley team, but Sam; Goldsmith and Otto hheiner | then came in with a v ‘tory over} Captain Willie Watkins and Rus-| sell rr, evening the score. Only! one h remained, and when} this was heard from, it was oa William R. Warren and beth Sharpley had de-| Price and Mrs. ! t Lester, giving the victory; team from Gro=t Bone Al} nicipal course, and after the poe tet ley. | result of ‘thi# match, the! teams are niw “tied with one} tournament yietory each, and the! players are lodking forward to the| play-off which is scheduled to take; place in two weeks, \ played in the tests, and a large gallery is | peeted to view the matches, Satur- j day afternoon and Sunday: morn- ing. | eve competition in the week-end battle. Members of the local team_con- sist of Clem C. Price, ¢aptain; Mayor Wm. H. Strunk, W. W. Watkins, NOON TOMORROW mr Ege sear Eddie Lionel J. BR. Stowers, — Bo! Jr., Malone, } Chas. ae Sam Goldsmith, ‘Joe Lopez, Dr. Thompson, J. 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