The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 9, 1933, Page 4

7he_ I DDEN DOOR BY FRANK L. PACKARD SYNOPSIS: Germaine Tremblay ts taking Colin Hewitt, mystery oe ro 16 ad ° of St. | Jd i fahing club ies letter to Wo Lope Bis 4) 2. iy yO} jask, New F, whom Colin fears and hates. rock, and Germaine was atunned. Chapter 15 THE LANDING leaped back to the stern of Cees “Germaine!” |atarm, | ‘There was no answer. He bent over her anxiously. She must have been leaning forward and in the act of shutting off the power (when the impact had flung her trom ‘her seat and her head had struck ‘some part of the engine. She was stunned, surely no more than that, for there was no sign of any wound. His common sense told him that it ~eould not be anything’really serious ‘but common sense seemed sorry Comfort, He was in an agony of sus- “pense. The boat grounded on the beach. He picked her up in his arms and carried her ashore. Her face, so close to his, resting on his shoulder, ‘was white, bloodless, It brough. fear ‘to him. Unreasoning fear—because gurely there was no real cause for “tear. Her hair brushed against his oe. somehow strangely urging to hold her closer still. She w: 2o_weight in his arms, and yet his ‘arms trembled. Hils eyes searched around him. he cried out in @ bundred yards away, were trees, already beginning to look ghostly ‘through the gray curtain of fog. He carried her across the beach, found patch of sward under the trees at the edge of the wooded land, laid her down. And now she stirred, opened her eyes, stared at him blankly for a moment—and smiled. “That's fine!” he exclaimed boy- ‘ . “Your’e better. But just lie “still until I tie up the boat.” ' Phen he brought cushions—a tar- paulin to lay upon the ground. “Now,” he demanded, “how's that, lady?” “Perfect!” she answered. “It is \, Inice of you—and 0 silly of me.” ot he ejacuistel; “All my f ! I should have kept my eyes open.” “For comething you eouldn’t see?” “Ob, well,” he said s little lam Teast—" you have already and I shall probably have o—whith won't inst.” She gingerly over her head with her § “Also a godse-egg—which |Won’t last elther.” “Btout fellow!” he applauded. ‘ fog was still thickening. d could scarcely eee the boat BOW water's edge. Thank God ‘there was no cause for grave con- eern on her accocnt, bu what to do Suppose the fog lasted on the afternoon, the night— ? He might get assist- @nee from the siub. If one struck @croms overland, it couldn't be very far away. *“Leok here,” he proposed, “from what you said, this clud can't be More than a mile of so at most from ere by land, and | think I'd better eut.over there and ret some of the # tu help out. You can't stay all night, you know.” s= Taised herself up on her el- bow. “You will do nothing of the sort!" abe stated with finality. “And why not?” he asked. ‘For & host of reasons,” she an- Swe-ed. “In the first place, I'm quite ‘all right, or, at least, I will be in Balt an hour or so; and, if it became @ question of going to the club, I ae with yo . In the second im this fog, we'd be lost in tthe woods befove we had gone a quarter of a mile. And in the third Place, we are perfect!: all right as fwe are, no matter how long the fog laats. We are not even going to be jeubjected to any hardships. There's j@ thermos bottle and a lunch basket Him the boat, you know.” { I sounded logical. Undoubtedly jahe was right. Sti the skipper. | perceive” he ‘teased seoce She tossea her head. “You know the penalty for mu- tiny, don’t you?” “All right,” he grinned; and then, seriously: “But if we don’t get back within a reasonable time your fa- ther will be frightfully worried.” “No,” she said calmly: “not a bit. Father was brought up on the coast. He knows exactly what we will have done. So long as we get back before he leaves for Gaspé, it will be all right—and we're sure tu do that, for this fog, of course, will delay the Belle Fleur too.” “Splendid!” said Colin. He spread one edge of the tarpaulin over her as a covering, and quite unneces- sarily rearranged the cushion under her head. “In that case,” he laughed, “I shan’t mind, from purely selfish reasons, if the fog laste on a bit.” The fog did last—unduly. Dark- ness came. In spite of her insistence that it was “nothing at all,” the biow on her head refused t “be treated quite so cavalierly, and she had been content to lie where she was, drows- ing a good part of the time. She was asleep now. But now it was a wholly natural sleep. The lunch basket and the thermos bot- tle, jus. as evening had set in, had worked wonders, What time was it? Colin, sitting on the ground beside her, fumbled for his watch, and then replaced it in his pocket. If he struck a match he might awaken her. It must be jomewhere around ten o'clock. A queer smile twisted his lips. The last sort of complication he had ex- pected to encounter on this quest of his for one Joseph Lavarre was— Germaine Tremblay. Like a story. He knew now that he had written her finally and for all time into bis life. E realized now that, from the moment he had met her on the Bonaventure, he had subconsciously known this would be so, but he had never questioned himself. And this afternoon when he hac carried her from the boat, and she had lain there in his arms white and uncon- scious, suddenly he had known then, too, that thére never would be need for questioning. He knew now that everything that the world held for. him was vested in Germaine Trem- Dlay, f And she? He shook his head. If their companionship had come to mean anything more to her than the frank and open friendship which she offered, she had shown no sign of it, But neither had he, for that matter. His hands clenched sud- denly, Over their picnic supper she had asked some natural and inno cent questions about his life in Bos- ton—-and he had lied slibly. ; But why; go, on with that? It had bedn with Bimsallatternooa and éve- ning. What good | did. it ido to tell himself ‘again that the’ magquerade was not of his making, and that he was nb criminal? What could/he say to a girl about love, even if hé dared hope tLat she too might care, when he himself was being tunted for his life and could only be @ source of danger to her if he were discovered? shrugged his shoulders in vi- cious dismissal of the subject. He thought of the boat—and wished he could at least glimpse it. But be tween the fog and the darkness he could not see more than two or three yards in front of him. Perhaps he couldn’t have seen the boat any- way trom where he sat even if there | were no fog. He turned his head sharply—lis- tening. His ear had caught the sound of movement somewhere in the woods near at hand. It came nearer—the crackle of twigs and underbrush. An animal of some sort, probably. His lips ti,htened a little. Germaine was still asleep, and he did not waken her. Why should he— yet? His hand went into his pocket and came out with the revolver, for which he had bought a reserve sup- ply of ammunition in Quebec, and which had never left his person since the night he had picked it up in Butch Connal’s room. And now the sounds died away for an instdnt—then came again, But this time it was the crunching of sand. Whatever it was, it was moving along the beach now. Not far away. But he could see nothing. And then suddenly there came what seemed like the thud of a heavy body falling on the sand, then a ye of pain, followed instantly by a tor. j tent of vile oaths in English. | (Comurioht 192% Frank L. Packard) ' Sudden danger thrusts itself upon Solin ana Germaine, tomerrow, THE ARTMAN PRESS PRIN SUBSCRIBE FOR THE TING IN THE CITIZEN BLDG. CITIZEN— * |Economic League Gives c= Up Idea Of New Charter | SOCIETY PrITTi tii) i | (Continued from Page One) Miss Ada Milligan Returns To City Miss Ada Milligan returned last night from a two months visit to different sections of the country, including one week in Chicago at the Century of Progress Exposi-) tion. Miss Milligan left June 1 for! Miami and after a short stay there| went to Fort Lauderdale to at- tend the Young Peoples State Conference. i After this she went to the) Blue ‘Ridge Mountains district and attended a conference of the Christian and Congregational churches and from there to Cin- cinnati. { In the Ohio city she joined an aunt, Miss Anna Wiehe, and they} both left at once for Chicago.| Miss Milligan says that to describe| the sights at the exposition is} hardly possible. Nothing more} stupendous in conception and ex-; ecution can be conceived and weeks could be spent in detailing| the wonders to be seen on every; hand. H After spending the week in! Chicago she and her aunt return-| ed to Cincinnati and after visit-| ing at various places in that city} and the suburbs she returned; home after an exciting ten weeks! of pleasure and education. | Arrange Dances At Cuban Club There will be a dance Friday and Saturday night at the Cuban flict in legal opinions from out- standing attorneys of the state as to whether the proposed charter can be ratified at the November: jelection and become immediately The “Key West “Sandcrabs,”| operative and effective; and local string orchestra, will make; Whereas, It appears inevitable their debut tomorrow night at an that serious legal entanglements old fashioned square dance to take/ and confusion would follow in the place at the Armory, corner White; event of the adoption of the ‘char- and Southard streets. jter in November, and also that There will be no admission or the various candidates in the No- charges made for the dance, vember election would be put to which will take place immediately, great expense and “left ‘in sus- after flag drill and program which’ pense as to their status, not know- is being sponsored by the local ing whether they would be permit- degree of Pocahontas. ted to serve even in the event of A spicy program of waltzes and; their election; now therefore old time fox trots with several Be It Resolved by the Economic novelty numbers will comprise League of Key West: the program. The public has been| 1. That the Economic League inated! ty attend. of Key West herewith abandon all . {efforts to have the proposed char- To Give Play | ter, as passed by the recent Vides 1 bs lature, adopted at the forthcom- This Evening ling city election in November, and E |that no further efforts be made Local interest centers the! jy tha league/st this time|to-eacey first appearance” of St. Mary’s the charter referendum. "i Dramatic Club which will be at} 2. That the league reaffirm the Palace Theater tonight at 8! it. decision and firm purpose of o’clock when “For Love of Anne, igiving the city of Key West a Old Fashioned Square Dance in MRS. CHAS. TAYLOR! DIES IN NEW YORK WIFE OF MANAGER OF POR- TER DOCK COMPANY; BODY TO BE BROUGHT HERE The following is the calenda) lery, Florida National Guard, now Wedn Afternoon tea with Mayor an At night, Junior Woman’s Clu ficers and ladies. Mrs. Charles Taylor, wife of Manager Taylor at the Porter Dock company, died 6:30 o’clock ae morning in the Deaconess hos- } pital in Buffalo, N. Y. later. Mrs. Taylor underwent an op- [eration yesterday morning and 20-| HIGHWAY NETWORK jparently recovered from the |shock. Evéry indication was that IN MANCHUKUO NOW she would recover. Last night a GETTING STARTED change was announced and _ this ee me Taylor wired news (By Associated Press) of her death. 7 . The body will arrive over the CEANGEHON: Mepchon nay East Coast on the Havana Special |9-—As an aid in suppression of Saturday. Announcement of the|brigandage, the Manchukuo gov- services will be made later. ernment has started construction Survivors are the husband,|! of a network of highways. Charles Taylor; two sisters, Mrs.| The program calls for 50,000 H. J. Haislip, of St. Petersburg) miles of roads at a cost estimated and Mrs. Ivan Watson, of Key) at $35,000,000. The work will West. Two brothers, Henry and require 10 years, Charles Ogden, both of this city. Announcements of the project entertainment of officers and enlisted men of the 265th C WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1938. CALENDAR r of events for the week in the ast Artil- encamped at Fort Taylor: esday d@ Mrs. William H. Malone from 5 to 7. All officers and their ladies. b dance at Club Miramar. All of- Thursday At noon, Luncheon at Rotary Club. At night, Enlisted Men’s Dance, free, All officers. Place to be announced Friday At night, dance at Country Club for officers. GOVERNMENT LEADERS MEET WITH MACHADO {Continued from Page One) with Machado’s approval, it was re- {ported in informed circles. |. This was not construed here, however, as an absolute refusal to comply. GENERAL FERRARA EXPRESSES VIEWS MIAMI, Aug. 9.—General Fer- rara, Cuban secretary of state, to- day termed as “impossible” re- ports that American Ambassador will be the presentation. Three acts of sparkling comedy,| with entirely new specialties be- | better fundamental law for its jeity government through the jadoption of a charter that will rejection by the voters at a spe- cial election to be called for the sole purpose of voting on the char- emphasized that economic aspects} Sumner Welles told Cuban Presi- of the plan had been overshadow-| ‘ent Machado he must ask con- ed by the pressing need to give! #tess for a leave of absence that {the troubled political situation ;Howard Wilsen’s band jthe semi-finals this Friday tween acts is the program for the! pive the city the maximum of evening. An orchestra will play: service at a minimum’ of coat. during the intermission periods. 3. That the president of the aig ee. ~\league be empowered to name a Club this week. The regular committee of three members of Silver Cup Dance Contest, with this league whose duty it will be , will hold! to carefully study the question of and: city government in all its branches Caesar LaMonaca will furnish the'gnd to write a new charter that music Saturday ngiht. | will incorporate the principles for A large crowd is expected to! which this league was organized— attend both of these affairs. jnamely, the economical, business- PERSONAL Charles J. Roubal, boatswain U. | S. coast guard service, who was inj the Marine hospital, left yester- day for Ft. Lauderdale to join his ship. R. H. Bogle, botantist with the | F. E. C, Railway company, who was here on business for several) days, left yesterday for St. Augus-| tine. H Rabbi B. D. Mendell, who came here to perform the wedding cere-| mony of Isadore -Appelrouth: and Miss Jennie Weintraub, yesterday morning, left in the afternoon for his home in Miami. Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Schoneck and four children sailed on the Anton Dhorn yesterday for Dry Tortugas where they will spend a vacation of two weeks. Mr. and Mrs. M. E. Russell, of | | 1227 Washington street, are spend- ing a vacation in New York City} and are guests at the Lincofn hotel. i | Mrs. Maurice Cruz left over the} East Coast yesterday for a_ stay with relatives in Miami. Attorney J. Y. Porter, IV., left) over the East Coast yesterday for} a short business visit in Miami, | Robert Lewis left yesterday aft- ernoon for Miami where he will spend a short time with relatives and friends. Mrs, Sallie “Curry, who was} spending several weeks in Key West with relatives, left yesterday | for her home in Jacksonville. Roy Edwards was an outgoing passenger over the East Coast yes- terday for Miami Beach where he will spend a vacation of one week. | E. M. Smith, agent for the Rail-; } way Express company, left yester-} i day afternoon for Miami to join) Mrs, Smith and accompany her i back to Key West. Tax Collector Frank Ladd, who was in Jacksonville for a business | | meeting with state officials tax collectors from other countie: jreturned on the Havana Special | yesterday, FUNERAL SERVICES “FOR MRS. CORRAL 60 Corral, years} Mrs. Louisa old, 2 in the residence at Fun prning} Duval} 8 Abe 4 4d three Caridad brothers, sters, Florinda and Garcia, in Havana, Cuba. } Funeral ai the Prit of eral Home re New Or 20e WEEKLY | pices MTree ri tier iii MENTION William Vassie, depot machinist with the lighthouse department, left yesterday for Fowey Rocks light tion to make repairs to an engine and afterward will go to Tarpon Springs on business, like administration of all govern- mental affairs in the island. 4. That the charter committee to be named by the president be instructed to give due considera- tion to the matter of consolidating the city and county governments, jand to incorporate such pro- ivision in the proposed charter if tsuch a plan seems feasible and | workable. 5. That the charter that, will zi | be written by this committee be Rafael Rodriguez left on the t submitted to a good con- afternoon train yesterday for Mi-! stitutional lawyer for his approval jof its legality, and after receiving the approval of the league, be |submitted to the legislature of 1935, with a ratifying clause, that will provide for its adoption ‘ or | | | | ami to interview several old time Key West ball players who are making their home there and ex- pects to have them come to Key West to play. a We dont mean by this re greater security to the 380,000,- 000 Chinese, Manchus and for- eigners who inhabit. the new state’s 450,000 square miles of j territory. But the government hopes also to facilitate the functioning of its administrative system, which has been handicapped by lack of com- munication. It is planned to build about half the net work in the first five years. About a third of the roads will be first cla: stone-paved highways, 45 feet wide and con- necting the principal cities and ports. The remainder will be di- | vided betewen 35-foot “all- weather roads and 25-foot roads. Native material and labor will be used throughout. ter at some suitable date after its passage by the legislature. 6. That the league seriously commit itself to the election of representatives to the legislature who will be subservient to the best interests of the city and county, and pledge itself to sup- pert only those who are known to be committed to the cause of economy and business-like ad- ministration of governmental af- fairs, 7. And Be It Further Resolved, That the members of the Economic League of Key West pledge them- selves to the task of persuading capable, well-trained citizens—as a patriotic. duty to the city—to offer themselves ‘as candidates for ithe various offices to be filled in the forthcoming city election and that through the adoption of this, a resolution we solemnly pledge} CHICAGO. — When Donald ourselves to support only those; Reamer, three, of this city, fell jwho will obligate themselves to!from the rear porch of his four- give the city the most economical) story house to a conérete walk, government possible under the|his only injury was the loss of present charter and to eliminate} several front teeth. waste and unnecessary expendi- tures in all departments of the city government. GETS LUCKY FALL Subscribe for The Citizen—20 weekly. | might be settled. | General Ferrara, returning home after attending the world economic congress in London, left by plane for Havana, “It would be an odd piece of diplomacy for an ambassador of any country to approach the presi- dent or ruler of a country which jhe accredited, and make such de- ‘ mands,” Ferrara said, He added, however, that media- | tion can succeed if properly ha: {ed and “with some outside pz jsuch as an’ American ambassador acting as mediator. Let Cubs | alone—let her work out her own solution of her internal problems.” ered Miss Jessie Gray, Philadelphia training school teacher, was elect- ed president of the National Edu- cation Association at the group's convention in Chica: d Cockeenraecget i ‘BumsteadsWormSyrup m bocties yearn . Philedelphia tell you what to do. We have no idea of | doing that... But we have a cigarette that is . milder and tastes better and we \. honestly believe you will enjoy it. 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