The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 15, 1933, Page 3

| RIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1988, Cesseovecse oe 7he- HIDDEN DOOR BY FRANK L. PACKARD ee eecescece Chapter 47 HOUSE OF DEATH ‘HEY stepped into the dark shadows of the lane and, silent- ly now, made their way along it with Sergeant Mulvey in the lead. Somewhere ahead, Colin knew, ‘was the rear of the Wine Press and the alleyway that flanked Michael Barney’s specious tobacco store, but it was so dark that 16 could scarcely see Sergeant Mulvey’s form in front of him—so dark, in fact, that when finally Sergeant Mul- vey halted suddenly Colin bumped into him. “Here we are!” cautioned Set- geant Mulvey under his breath. It was much like last night, much like ‘that other door—which could not be many yards away—only that tonight, instead of Buck O’Mara, the big shot of the Mask’s murder squad, it was Detective Sergeant Mulvey of the Homicide Bureau who acted as guide. Sergeant Mulvey opened the door soundlessly ‘and closed it behind them soundlessly—and then for a full minute they stood motionless, listening. Then Sergeant Mulvey spoke. “Kind of force of habit,” he grunted, as the ray from his electric torch stabbed suddenly through the blackness, “even though | know there ain’t anybody here.” He thrust his wrist watch into the flare. “Twenty minutes yet. Lots of time for a look-see around.” The rooms were comfortless, scantily furnished, containing scarcely the bare necessities—no one giving them a single glance would question the status of old Keppelstein as a miser of the first degree. Sy contrast, the mural decora- tioas, untouched, obviously, except by age, since the days when the Wine Press had been in its prime, were ludicrobsly grotesque: here a pointed jungle scene, there a group of nymphs dancing in the moonlight —above a rickety kitchen table! But Sergeant Mulvey seemed little con- cerned with these details. His flash- light poked persistently and in- quisitively into cupboards and cor- ners and out-of-the-way places. “Nothing Gown here in the shape of any private wires or that sort of stuff,” he announced finally, “un- less they're damn well hidden.” “That trick door opens on the floor above,” Colin reminded him. “Yes, Lknow. Force of habitagain. Well, tet’s go up.” There was only one room on the second floor, and Colin’s eyes fol- lowed the round, white circle of light as Sergeant Mulvey’s flashlight traveled from the threshold slowly. around {t, The room ran the entire depth of the house and had once, it was quite obvious, been the caba- ret’s combination dance floor, bar, and main dining room. Little alcoves, where tables for two, inviting téte-a-tétes, might have been placed, still punctuated the walls at irregular intervals while the walls themselves were adorned with huge plaster casts, de picting scenes even more fantastic than those painted on the walls of the rooms downstairs. The only windows tn the room looked out on the street, and the shutters of these were tightly closed. At the rear of the room and stretching across almost its entire breadth were the remains of a bar, @ decrepit and woebegone affair now, the mirrors above it streaked and blistered until they were almost beyond recognition. There were no farnishings whatever—jast litters of Fpbbish piled, or rather thrown, in Shape: ‘there at: the fidor—a eetitatd oy old pPaékjng easdg, chairs, and various Pieces of furniture broken beyond fepair, and all now covered thick ‘with dust, CAN'T say this listens good to me!” exclaimed Sergeant Mul- vey dubiously. “It looks like this ‘was just another way out, without anybody knowing it, through Kep- pelstein’s front or back door.” Colin shook his head stabbornly. “If that’s all it amounts to,” he Answered tersely, “why did Buck O'Mara use it last night—when he didn’t have to? And tonight—there’s nothing to prevent him from mak- ing a bolt down that private stair ease, If he does that, of course, the only thing that’s left for us to do then will be to go home and begin all over again. “Well, we're here—and we'll see,” returned Sergeant Mulvey crisply. “Where would you say that hidden @oor was?" ‘our light along the wall) again. Not so fast! | Allowing for the stairs on| the other side, I'd say it must be just wbout there.” The light was focused on « plaster barge & la Antony and Cleopatra that was decidedly daring fn its conception, and which floated on what had once doubtless been, in color, though calamiteusly faded now, @ sunlit agure sea. It was about | midway along the wall. “Some dump!” ejaculated Ser- | geant Mulvey. “Before my time on | the force, Those wére the days, eh? when the higifighte were down here, and before they turned the good old Bowery into a morgue! Well, come on! Time's nearly up.” His ffashlight circled again. “How ‘about getting down behind that old packing ase up there against the wall on this side near the bar? It’s big enough all right. We'll be facing that trick door then, and’ll be able to see plenty without being spot- ted.” “All right,” agreed Colin briefly. The flashlight pointing the way, they moved up the room, and lifting the dilapidated case out a little way from the wall crouched down behind it. Given anything to see, by peering around the ends of the case, or even with dae caution over the top of it, the view would be practically unobstructed. “It's ten o'clock,” said Sergeant Mulvey, “but it'll take the bow a few minutes to work their racket.” “Right!” said Colin. The flashlight went out. Tt was Inky black. Colin could not see an inch in front of him. And there was no sound—though he strained his ears te catch one from the other side of the wall. No move ment now from Sergeant Mulvey. Just stillness and blackness every- where around him. And now time itself seemed to have stopped. Had a minute, two, or three, or ten passed since Mulvey had sWitched off the torch? He grew uneasy. This room here, this house, as Sergeant Mulvey had | ‘said, Gia not look very promising— there was nothing to frspire confi- dence in the belief that the link be tween the Mask and the dig shots of his mobs was here. Certainly the Mask himzelf was not here. Sergeant Mulvey and he were unquestionably the only two persons in the house. Surely by now Buck O'Mara would have come if he were coming at all. Was this, after ‘all, merely another exit an trance sacred to the big shots—and Buck O'Mara in flight bad chosen fn- stead the private stalrway? ‘E shook his head doggedly in the blackness. There was too much to point the other way. It must be here, somewhere, somehow, that the contact between the Mask and his Heutenants was made. His brain churned on, The silence grew heavy and op- pressive. It began to palpitate audi bly and finally to thunder at his ear- drums. In spite of himself, un ness and misgivings were begin to obtain the upper hand. There had ‘been more than time enough by now, and— - There came a faint sound from across the room—indefinable, And then suddenly a cluster of celling lamps went on and the room was ablaze with light. His blinked in the glare. The ba bearing Antony and Cleopatra seemed to have bobbed up and down as though it had ridden on a swell. His vision cleared. A figure was running across the room in the direction of the bar Buck O'Mara—and Buck O'Mara Was tearing off his coat as he ran. And now there came; another sound—a distinct click this time. Colin, ing around the edge of the’\ packing case, mechanically rubbed his eyes. The bar was re- volving upon itselfana now it pre- sented the reverse site. It had become a huge wardrobe. Rows of clothing. wige-and ‘hate hung there from end to end—and tn the center, below @ mirror, was a sort of shelt, waist high, strewn with smal! pots and jars and tubes in endless variety. Something was thadding at doth Colin’s heart and bratm. His eyes swung back to O'Mara. O'Mara’s outer clothes were off now, sandy hair was gone—and the back of a shortcropped, black-haired tf |: SPORTS THE KEY WEST Crriman ° SENATORS DEFEAT i CUBS RALLY IN NINTH TO BEAT GIANTS AND MOVE CLOSER TO LEADERS (Special to The Citizen) WASHINGTON, Sept. 15.—The Washington Senators defeated the Detorit Tigers, 4-3. A sparkling three-run rally in the ninth inning gave the league-leading Nats the victory. The Chicago Cubs in-a last in- Giants by a score of 4 to 3, and moved closer to the leaders in the National League pennant race. The Phillies came out victorious over the Cincinnati Reds, 2 to 1, | with A. Moore on the mound for the Philadelphia aggregation, All other games were rained out in both major leagues. The summaries: American Leniae At Washington Detroit R. A. EE. 315 0 Washington .410 0 Batteries: Sorrell and Hay- “worth; Whitehill and Sewell. Cleveland at New York, rain. No others scheduled. Nattonal League First Game At Chicago New York .... Chicago .. os 410 1 Batteries: Fitzsimmons and Mancuso; Root, Malone and Hart- nett. R. I, FE. eS yg Second Game Rained out. First Game At Cincinnati Philadelphia Cincinnati ‘. (Called end of seventh, rain) Batteries: Moore and Davis; Derringer, Kolp and Crouch. R. H. E. ie ae Second Game Rained out. Boston at Pittsburgh, rain. Brooklyn at St. Louis, rain. Sa axed 8 AMERICAN LEAGUE Club— a, Pet. 47 .662 54 = .600 66 69 «614 73.486 78 .443 83.411 88) i741 NATIONAL LEAGUE We 1 Pet. - 92 : New York | Philadelphi: Cleveland ~ 53.610 564 “6h B42 e5 80 412 80 .398 87 374 the | head presented itself to view. He j could not see the face. Again Colin’s eyes shifted and, as though drawn by a magnet, fast- ened, amongst the rows of clothing, on an inch-square checked suit of light fawn, and, hanging on a peg above it, a brilliant red tle and a straw-colorea wig. That was Helnie Schwarm! (Copyriaht, 1038, Frank 2. Packera) Many row. tec . AMERICAN LEAGUE Chicago at Boston. St. Louis at Philadelphia. Detroit at Washington. Cleveland at New York. NATIONAL LEAGUE games. Boston at Pittsburgh. DETROIT TIGERS, ning rally downed the New York) 2. the radical or on the conservation | “|a fellow they are afraid of. 518] [ems rm Wane 526) i SOME BREAKFAST | aimee | CHARLESTON, S. C.—One, jman eats a porterhouse steak, 25) jslices of bread and a piece of pie jin a restaurant on King street in {this city every morning. ZACHARIAS AND EL FENIX! TO BE SEEN IN ACTION {that there will be a large crowd in attendance. AT BAYVIEW PARK The line-up: Zacharias—A. Castro, P. Cas- j tro, A. Acevedo, M. Acevedo, P. 1 An exhibition : and ill be played tonight at Bayview Molina, Leon and Hernandez. Park, sartieg at 8 o'clock ohicn| =! Fenix—Park, Sterling, Me- ‘ark, starting at 8 o'clock, which/ Gee, Traynor, L. Acevedo, Nodine, i gives promise of being an interest-| F. Castro, Sevilla, A. Perez, Fruto, ‘ing contest, and it is expected! Machin, O. Lopez and Jones, | i s@ecccee Sevccvccccoovsseces ee eevecece NOW AND THEN (By STEPHEN COCHRAN SINGLETON) SCSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSHSOSISSSSSSVOLE | (Views or opinions expressed an Sat we do something about it. the Forum are solely those of the | More than that, he did do some- writers and not of The Citizen.) | thing about it when he imposed A friend writes to ask my opin-|the severence taxes in Louisiana. ion of the NIRA. My opinion| Hence, he is a rough-neck, a mon- : \tebank and a clown, as alas, so {or yours) on the best type of; But, bad as we (many of us are. boat for navigating the canals on! may be, no one offers gold medals |the planet Mars would be just! to the boxer who will punch us in lasout ‘as valuable. {the eye. The Great Interests of. The nation is like a swimmer! ‘he country can stand our bad Ss | manners indefinitely so long as we swept down stream by a strong) ao not interfere with their racket. current. It was impossible (even! lif it were desirable) to get back jto the old Janding place. Wisely enough, led by our President, we about him. But I do know some- swim with the current, keeping|thing about the methods of the an anxious look-out for some solid) people who hate him and who footing; but whether it shall be on| would feel safer if you and I hat- ed him too hotly to consider any- I hold no brief Long. I don’t know enough for Senator. of diamondball| Garcia, C. Garcia, E. Ward, 0. Pr. SHOW BIG SURPLUS IN SWEDISH BANK, (Ry Associated _ | STOCKHOLM, Sept. 15.—Be-| 1788—(150 years ago) Luther | Cause of large cash deposits, for Bradish, New York statesman and which, it is announced, sufficient aiplomat, born at Commington,|safe short-time investments can Mass. Died at Newport, R. not be found for the present, the} Angust 30, 1863. | Stockholm Enskilda Bank, one of! |the largest in Sweden, has re-' Levi duced the interest paid POCODSOEOOOSOSOECECES Today’s Anniversaries i ee) 1783—(150 years ago) sor of Latin and philosophy, born, half of one per cent. at Ipswich, Mass. Died at Cam-| The fact that the check ac- bridge, July 9, 1822. count deposits of the ‘private | banks at the Central Bank of 1789—James Fenimore Cooper,iSweden amounted to the un- America’s first great born at Burlington, N. J. at Cooperstown, N. Y., Sept 14,) ther large Sweden banks are con- 1851, eres by the same problem. famous | eommission has 2, quail at $1.50 each for distribu- *tion on hunting preserves. 1830——Porfirio Diaz, Mexican soldier, statesman lent, born. Died July 1915. j [Clermont Co., Ohio. in New York, Sept. 8, 1909, i Died 1834—Heinrich G. Von Trit- schke, famed German historian,' born. Died April 28, 1896. 1 1857—William Howard Taft, {27th president, 10th Chief Jus- 1842—Henry C. Corbin, Lieu- tice, born in Cincinnati. Died in tenant-General, U, S, A., born in, Washington, March 8, 1930. i Harvey S. Firestone and Daughter Elizabeth Welcome 5,000,000th Visitor to Firestone Factory and Exhibition Building bank, no one can tell. One thing we may be sure of.’ {The problems that our children must solve will be very different| from the ones that have puzzled us. Huey Long, George Norris land Norman Thomas are working, {working, working. So is Andy Mellon, Mills and perhaps Hoover. lit he is, the Great Engineer is in- terested in working below the sur-}); a face. . All are,able men, playing} ceawti ee of the Louisiana for high stakes. But none more} fs ; interested in the game than you In A Washroom It is not news when a_loud- should be. mouthed roughneck gets a black eye. But it is news when a U. S. on account. A crack in the vean.| Senator in his cups commits a There must have been scant satis-|nuisance on the trouser leg of a {faction in fighting him so fer, cuest at a Long Island party. judging by the exuberant glee dis- That fact accounted for the played by the respectable racket-| columns and columns of space the eers over the fact that a two hun-| Press of the country gave last dred pound boxer was able to take| Week to the bruise which Huey offense and resent it. A gold) Pierce Long, Louisiana’s _ tousl faneal for the man who sph seemed wae sagpongensay cig ages | Long! It somehow reminds me, received on his left eye in the lof the wild expressions of delight| Washroom of the Sands Point Bath that comes from a group of small) Club a fortnight ago. ‘boys when something happens to} ag re ge igh dhlie rahe n charity show a’ .60 per | plate. Some 600 guests attend- ed, among them Senator Long. His host was Songwriter Gene Buck. The senator had been drinking thing that he might propose. I can dislike a mechanic and still see that he can do a good job. Editor’s Note: In his concluding paragraph, Contributor Singleton admits he does not know enough about U. S. Senator Long. The following from “Time” in its is- sue of September 11 will add to Senator Long draws something Now, whether “we-all” like him ,or not, Long is to be reckoned with. Maybe he is as bad as they} say he is. * Most of us are. May-| before he arrived at the club. His bbe desperate racketeers want to/ strident voice rang out louder than keep our attention on his deplor-| usual as he barged around among able dearacter to prevent us from! the other diners. He sat down with giving any, consideration to the) strangers, made himself objection- quality of' his opinions. | able with vulgar greetings. . Spot- For these ave the opinions of! ting a:plump gir) with a full plate; before her, he marched t6 her table, snatched the plate from her,, i weds. 5¥ fat already, onomics werk c i ett ZjMe danced now, that book upon Sih ou uh e——uihft his partner's husband law-makes take their oaths and) took the lady away. He thrust nevet confult when they frame! himself behind the bar, shoved its our laws. jtender aside, loudly proclaimed ; that he would show the world how Suppose some man should an-'they mix and shake them in nounce that the forests, the min-| Louisiana. The Sands Point Bath erals and the fish in Florida wat-! Club is not noted for decorum on ers really were our COMMON-)Saturday nights but Senator WEALTH, and then proceed to! Long’s behavior was far over its educate our children, build our} mark. roads, endow our colleges and re-| When about midnight the lights form our insane asylums with! went down for the amateur floor money not derived from taxes on show, Huey Long went shuffling our cit?kens, but from “severance! off to the washroom. There were taxes,” paid by the great corpor-, others there. The raucous sena- ations that were taking this COM-, tor was impatient of any delay. MONWEALTH of ours out of the Imperiously he ordered a young state ahd making huge profits out) man to stand aside for the “King- of the operation. Would the’ fish of Louisiana.” “Take it easy great corporations argue that this! —take it easy,” replied the young course was unjust? Not so you|man. Unable or unwilling to re- | of the Bible | New York at Chicago, two] could notice it. They would mere-| strain himself, Senator Long pro- ly’set up some bright minds to dis-! ceeded to commit a gross indignity ,cOvering the defects im this man’s! upon the young man. When he Exhibition rua at ean (left) of Wilmington, California, was pr bouquet of flowers and a set of new Firestone High Speed Titres for her Studebaker car. Harvey S. Firestone, pioneer rubber faciurer, and his daughter, Miss Elizabeth Firestone, made the presentation, 1x4 No. 1 Flooring, clear yellow pine and easy . § 50.00 working, per M 1x4, No. .2-Flooring.,: A cheap and Economical § $ 5.00 Flooring, per M. of ‘floors, UPSON WALL BOARD, per M. ARMOR WALL BOARD, per M. Vena Aa dA Ad ddedodidididododidedede | : ; clear $4.35 Marnot Varnish, best varnish, per gallon grade Flo Lac Varnish Stain. 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D DLE PB EB SLA dhddta Philadelphia at Cincinnati, two' make-up and then to laughingly; felt what was happening to his leg games. jremark on the absurdity of pay-ithe young man wheeled around,; { Brooklyn at St. Louis. jing any attention to anything that’ drove his kmucktes with al! his! { | such &@ grotesque character might might imto the offender's face. 4 Twenty-nine states, the District have to say. The mearer such. The senator staggered back grog-| rail-/ {My Associated Prem {of Columbia and 10 foreign coun-| a Man approached to the sublimity gily, brought up against the wash-/ and} OKLAHOMA CITY, Sept. 15.—/tries sent stadents te Marquette of the Sermon on the Mount, the, basins. Blood streamed down his {A year of experimentation has! Wniversity, Milwaukee, during the} nearer he would come to chucifix-. face from a cut over his left eye. feonvinced E. H. Davenport that! last school year. tion. Attendants and friends put him! 1857—Third of the historic! tobacco will grow in Oklahoma. ——_—— wa} back on his feet, iced his eye, but- | Lincoln-Dougias debates, at Jones-} A former commercial raiser of| mercial value to him will be smailj Patrick Henry, Thomas Jeffer-)towed him up, ushered him from Phoro, Mi. | tobacco in Kentucky, Davenport! 4s there is no market here. on, Woodrow Wilson, and others, the club. He was put into a taxi- 4 jplanSed an acre near here as aj Oklahoma's chief agricultural) have pointed out the fatal effect|cab, sent back to his Manhattan Ms Family Paint, imterior white gloss, Decotim—<cold water wall our best seller, per gallon $2.55 popular shades, 51 pkg. South Florida Contracting & Engineering Co. Phone 598 White and Eliza Streets Key West, Florida SHOP IPIDILSIDPSIEODDEDEDDIDD DD. Ms “7p ee 1830—First European Tead—between Liverpool Manchester, England—opened. | ar MOMS LS a 1917—Russia proclaimea a Re Hy public. test. The crop exceeded his ex-| products are cotton, wheat and/of the accumulation of wealth up-| hotel where a house physician | pectations, he said, but its com-! broomcern. jon government. Long proposes patched him. CLIPLIIMISII IETS