The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 10, 1934, Page 3

He cuta nis footprints office. car follow. it. On an’ pulse he orders a tazi to follow the 68 two cars. The tart them, but tells Grahame he believes he knowa where they went, Chapter Two ‘THE FIGHT . "i gets shrugged slightly and relaxed. He took a newspaper from his overcoat pocket and read a line or two here and there. Street lights, flashing by, gave indifferent Ulumination. ‘There was a story about Langton who had crashed into a West Indian hurricane some months before. Some new theory, thought Grahame, that the famous-fiyer had not died in that storm. Poor Bill Langton. Why didn’t they let his.name alone? He,was gone and that was the end tol. Grahame began to feel impatient. The brief evening rain had passed, leaving the pavements with a treach- erous sheen. Grahame stirred for- ward in his seat, He, saw, th were swinging Into the hair ae ¢ is the juneture of Laurel and Hol- iywood boulevards. The cab lost.its footing. upon the slick crown> {t skidded for a sick- enlig split second, The héadlight’s giare sworved across stucco house fronts, then flashed upon the lac quered surfaces of two cars at the farther curb. Grahame dropped the. newspaper he held in hisdap. He elutehed at the door nandle. In that brief cam- era-snap glimpse Grahame saw that there had been an accident.Figures of men had been moving about the cars. With a sense of shock he realized that one had been @ black limousine and the other tan in color. He lifted his hand to rap on the panel. Aa he did so, the cab's rubber found trac: tion. Brakes squealed. He jerked at the door handle, fle ran hatk toward the cars. One, he saw was a black and gold-trim med limousine halfway on the. side- walk and against a hydrant, The tan nose of a nondescript car was against the sleek side of the other Nike a slug againet ebony. A trail, yards behind it, showed where tires bad slid over the pavement. , As he approached, Grahame’s “amind registered two facts: he wonld _ have sworn that he'd seen four fig: hres outlined against the tan car— “here were but two,—a large man ‘who lurebed toward a little one. ¢. Grahame's driver bad turned his scab so that the headlights’ glowed the scene. The little man—a Japanese in dark uniform and cap— was retreating; the aggressor ad- vanced with chin outthrust, and an arm drawn backward in a gesture unmistakable. A girl—Grahame's eyes widened at her beauty—leaned forward from the rear seat of the biack and gold car. Her fingertips were pressed against her mouth. “Hold on!” called Grahame. 4 Soe large man pivoted toward Grahame. Small eyes, set in a face heavy and sullen, blinked in the glare. The man’s atm lashed for- ward. Grahame ewerved his head, spoiled the timing of the blow. He countered with a vicious right as swift and as sure as a falcon’s drop. Knuckles slapped against bone. The P& Lin Man’s -eyes went blank. He pitched toward Graliame, . who stepped sideways to let him fall. Grahame looked:at the girl. Her eyes, he noticed, .were blue and wil her-hair was the color of coined gold. He felt suddenly bareheaded and embarrassed, and looked for his hat. He found it, spotted and crushed, beneath the figure of the recumbent man. Pushing. it into some sem- blance of its original shape, thought. | fully-be surveyed it 4 moment, and placed it on-bis head. He rybbéd his right knuckles with the p&im ,of his Jeft hand. He cleared his throat. ‘“Well——” he began inanely, when the imototey- cles arrived. ‘Thé police.kicked the stands be- hind the wheels, and -approached. One of them opened a notebook. 'Whoopee?” he suggested weari- “Names, please. Howd’t happen. Is the man‘dead?” Grahame. explained. Once, .while he talked, he looked toward the black car for confirmation, and s: that although the. girl’s face hidden in the shadow, her head nod ‘ded bridkly. He said nothing of hav- ing followed the cars from the stu- dio, but began his ‘statement as from the.time his headlights had flashed upon the two cars at the curb. “And so,” he, concluded, “Tt hit him.” Epoliceman Jooked thought- - fally-at the slumbering. strang- eb, and back at Grahame, and said. “Ubhuh. What's your hame?” » “Grahame. F. A. Grahame.” The officer frowned and wet the Up of his pencil. His companion, who had complet- ed an inspection of the cars, offered, “That's the guy. Who just come back —a America.” The book snapped shut. The girl |@liowed the light to fall upen her face, and leaned forward toward the men. “Frank Grahame!” she exciaimed. “Oh, knew you were sor-eone im- portant!” “Hullo, Miss Kent,” said the offi- cer. Grahame looked ‘quickly atthe girl. Of course he recognized her now. Janice Kent. Really, she was much more beautiful than her pic- tures showed her. He was conscious at otce of two unrelated thoughts: that photography Was an inadequate art, and that hereafter there would be real satisfaction to write on offl- cial documents, “permanent resi- dence: Hollywood.” He observed that the police had Ifted the half-conscious man to the sidewalk, and were shoving the tan ear away from the biack one. “It’s only your. paintwork dam. agéd,” sald the officer of the note book to the Japanese. “Better take Miss Kent home now. We'll take cate of \him.”He pointed to, the ‘Griver of the tan:car who was lean- ing against the lamp-post surveying the scene with stupid eyes. “Grahame .. . report at the pre- cinct station ... tomorrow. will do. Send your driver down, too, Miss Kent.” “Would you mind seeing me home, Mr. Grahame?” askec the gir! softly. The man from the cab took the bill Grahame extended him and walked back toward.his car. Gra- hame got in beside the girl. A few minutes later the car purred smooth- ly toward Beverly Hills. ‘The girl pressed her gloved fin- gers upon Grahame's coat sleeve. “Thank you... very much,” she said. (Copyright, 1934, by Herbert lensen) Tomorrow, Grahame finds a atrange reticence in Janice Kent's Behavior. STEAMSHIP Co. UNITED STATES FAST MAIL ROUTES FOR PORT TAMPA—HAVANA—WEST INDIES Effective April 27, 1933 Leave Key West for Havana Tuesdays and Fridays 12:15 P.M. Leave Havana for Key West Wednesday. and Saturdays 945 A. M. Leave Key West-for Port days 6:30 P. M. Tampa Wednesdays and Satur- Tickets, Reservations and Information at Ticket Office on the Deck, "Phone 7 4. H. COSTAR, Agent. THE NOW AND-THEN ls { Sbbedbcobevdte (Views of Opinions ex- j pressed in The .Forum .are solely those of the writers and not of The Citizen). The trouble is, <we talk too imuch. Just as we had . settled down to anticipating, a future en- livened by Sunday editions of.the. ‘Miami Herald showing pictures of lovely ladies under the caption, “Sports, Classified” and generous-; ly invited the world to share our} delight, they change. the-caption. The issue of Sysiday, Dec. 31, ex- hibits. a gorgeous wedding party all across the page; this time -un- der: the heading, “Society, Sports.” We still think. that, Society Editor would make a wonderful U. S. Marine and congratulate said edi- tor. for. his. or .her. faithful: persual of ‘The, Citizen. * The-radio. transmission and \the | newspapers -have .one “standing head”’ that never fails to »get a play. Taxation. Recognizing the really superior endowment of many’ of. those. who, flood us, with advice, this columnist would ¢on-: sider, himself .disquaified to. eriti- cize their. counsels, if it. were, not. for one feature that.marks the’ diseussion: No: two of them.seem to agree, and the more profound they are, the more widely do they, seem to diverge. Some new way. to tax industry seems to be the’ objective of most of them, ¢oupled with the admission that industry. can catry no. more of @ burden’ than with which it is now Jaden. ‘The dreadful alternative seems to be that our schools, all, our social service, the efficiency of our gov- ernment itself, must: be. erippled, ! to saveindustry and especially real’ estate. The awfol tool that ignor- pance and disease would take in i} 1933 Models _ 10 Days Free Trial ‘USE OUR PUREICE for ‘HEALTH AND (By:STESHEN COCHRAN: SINGLETON) eonacdeen eeece: the next genetation, is.an item on the. debit. side that seldom seems to be considered. | Suppose we were to shift the burden. from industry to idleness. An idle acre almost certainly means idlelabor. : In’ Philadelphia, the home. city of Henry George! who wrote that great book, “Pro-! gress and Poverty,” Professor! Tugwell again proclaims the gospel of the Single ‘Tax, a doctrine that | the logic of events will put into practice‘long after the arguments of the “Single 'Taxers” have been laughed off. “The inexorable law! of economies does not argue. It) merely tells you. And, you being “free, white and twenty-one” can do as you please. That is, you ean conforin to the law—or you! can perish. . * “Progress and Poverty” was) Written in the late seventies of the} past century. We read it as a twenty-cent “Seaside Library” is- sue, in 1881. sentence, it says that the cupied, by the presence of a com- mufity shotild be the source from which the expenses of the com- munity are financed; and that it would .be unnecessary. to take a cent«6f; the, earnings of any man for colamunity expense, if we did} not alloW the values created by the comraunity (tobe appropriated by : individuals+-which leaves: the come! munity very hard up, indeed. ey Of: course the taxation of idle-| ness ig bound to come. And when Boiled down to a! value} added to land, occupied or unoes} KEY WEST CITIZEN || The ship’s on‘ the high seas; the | lads are asleep. ! 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