The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 24, 1934, Page 3

SYNOPSIS. Although Frank Grahame, the explorer, is convinced that Raoul Ortega engineered the abduction of” Janice Kent, movie star, which Frank just has blocked, Miss Kent refuses to believes him. Frank ia in love with Janice an has told her 20; now, at a meeting in the office of Myberg, famous ‘movie producer. it has been decided to proceed with a Mexican film for which Ortega was negotiating— without Ortega. Janice tells-of the abduction. , Chapter 14 FRANK'S CALL EN Paula, my maid, said that he had phoned and asked if 1 ‘were home, construed that to mean that Ortega wanted to be sure} that I was available for abduction— ‘but I don’t think so. Perhaps he just wanted to call to say good-bye; but changed his mind, “When those two men came in, he wasn’t with them. They—” She.re- pressed. an involuntary. shudder, “They held me so I couldn’t scream. One of them gave me a hyperdermie. Another man—I neyer did see his ftace—was outside. I was. conscious that he was there when they put me im the car....” “Did he have a beakish nose?” asked Frank. Janice shook her head, “I don’t re- member.” Greene made a little sound. He breathed: “What a story! What a story! T've got most of it here." Hoheld up a sheaf of paper. “When U break this what a—” “Giff. them: here,” said Mybers, looking coldly at Greene with his obs! eyes. Greehe passed them oyer. Myberg grasped them with his pudgy ‘haunts and ripped the sheaf across, He dropped the torn paper into a waste- paper basket. Greene made a small, strangled sound. Winslow chuckled. “Greene,” he observed, “considers that vandalism. He is an artist.” “So wass Munchausen,” grunted Myberg. “But the newspapers get nodding of this. The public wouldn't believe it. They would laugh at it for a lie, I don’t mind if they laugh at you, Greene, but Miss Kent iss no joke.” Greene looked miserable. Frank said kindly, “Don't take it so hard, old man. You'll get other chances. You're a good publicity man. Miss Kent told me so herself. She couldn't do without you, really.” At Janice’s nod, Greene looked pleased and important. “I work hard,” he said. “In fact, I go to considerable time and expense to develop these stories. I—” Janice interrupted ‘him with a swift look. “He gets a perfectly stu- pendous salary for developing these stories, and I couldn't do without him, really. That is, he would be most difficult to replace. Wouldn't you, Mr. Greene?” She smiled at him engagingly. At the fleeting expression of dis- content that arrived and vanished on Greene's face, Winslow laughed aloud. Myberg drummed his knuckles im- Patiently on the desk. “There is nodding to do now ex- cept to get on prodooction. We will mot try to find out any more whys and wherefors. With the police in it, the newspaper fellers would coom out with stories, I will get some men from an agency to watch oudt for Janice. That . . . iss all.” ‘HE discussion had been conclud- ed early in the afternoon. Janice had gone home and rested. She had eaten a light dinner, and thought once in a little flurry of agitation that she might run over to a friend's house, and not be at home—actually when Frank Grahame called. But this device, sho realized, would be useless, Sooner or later she must talk with Frank, She.sus. pected also that it would be a little, cowardly, She'd see him’ tonig! since he wanted it and :’.’. Her com? pressed. lips relaxed. .What! woulé she tell: him? s It was’ nine-fifteen when she en; tered the drawing room on the lower floor. Frank stood before the log fire that burned cheerily in the grate. His wide shoulders bulked against the glow. He held a newspaper clenched in his hands; he seemed to be hypnotized by the crackling logs, 80 intense was his concentration. twice before her. He turned the fixed, absent stare of the thinker upon her, It was apparently an effort for him to bring his thoughts back to this room. “Janice, have you read the eve- ming papers?” “No, I— What is it, Frank? Is it something about last night? ... Tell me—" He shook his head impatiently. “It’s about Bill Langton. The dead fyer. My friend. But perhaps he eeseesccoeccooovcooooe >: isn’t dead. ... See—” He shook the paper. “They’ve found a bottle pa- per. Washed ashore on an obscure reef in the Gulf. In Bill’s handwrit- ing, if it's not a hoax. Maybe he’s alive—after all these months—down in. the jungle somewhere. But why—” His brow drew together ina frown, little tanned. corrugations; Janice thought, that made him look curiously. like a boy. with.a vexing school problem. | “—but why a drift bottle. There are no rivers down there to float a bottle out to sea: None mapped as I gemember that coast. I wonder...” Janice felt an odd sensation of excitement and of unease. Frank, she: remembered, was an explorer, familiar with jungle trails. Could it be that he was considering that this story in the evening paper might contain a clue that would induce him to leave’Hollywood for the south to search for his lost’ friend? Her heart beat a little faster. Per- | haps she could suggest that he go. It would bean admirable solution of her problem, or rather the problem he might prove to be. “But Frank,” she said. “He’s dead. They proved that months ago. If he | was not drowned when his plane. went down into the sea, he must have been killed if it crashed in the jungle. This happened months ago. It he'survived, surely he could have reported—” “\What: was the matter with her? ‘This was not what she had intended to say: She wanted to encourage him to go;, yet her words would indicate nothing to him except that she did did not think there was any use for him to believe Langdon alive—and leave Hollywood to search for his friend; ‘HE continued, “Mr. Myberg is hav- ing a contract drawn for you, I heard. We are about to begin a pic- ture, You are needed now that Mr. Ortega—” He tossed the paper onto an adja- cent chesterfield. He said something to the effect that evening. paper had just the bare details of the bot- tle paper—he would know more in the morning. He smiled’ and stepped toward her; had/her life depended upon it she-could not have moved. She stood transfixed, looking at him, His arms were about her. She suffered him to tilt her chim and kiss her. “Remember: last: night? I knew, you cared. -You don’t want me to go away, do you? Oh, Janice, I love you pa eee Words tumbled! from his lips. Strong words, masculine words. Something about the non-marriage clause in her contract being drivel, that the idea of her working was drivel, He had enough. money. for both of them. Love. Love in a cottage. A gay ad- venture. He would. take her to strange places he had been. Where he'd been lonely. Where they could sit under the stare before a camp- fire... dinner over, and the dishes washed— She was away from him. The width of the fireplace was between them. Almost hysterically she real- ized that she had struggled out of his arms and had struck his cheek with her open palm. She saw the bewildered hurt in his eyes, and.the unconscious ges ture he made of lifting his hand to touch his cheek. Her palm burned from the slap; her heart pounded with a curious and delicious excite- ment, her lips still tingled with the firm warmth from his kiss. And she had struck him! She wanted to cry out, “I didn’t mean it!” But the words would not come. Frank said, “Oh... I'm sorry—” Even in the firelight his face looked pale beneath the tan. It was as if a mask had been put upon him, so still were his features. The blue of his eyes had become a deep gray. Only his mouth had a strange twist to it. ©) Ste. was: conscious that he was Jedting.. She: was unable to do or say anything that would prevent him from going. But he was gone before she realized how desperately she had not wanted him to go. The need for activity descended upon her. She flew upstairs to her boudoir. She dialed a telephone number. There was no answer. She realized that Frank could not possibly have arrived back in his apartment in this short time. She thought of telephoning the apart- ment manager, and leaving a mes- sage. But she would try again in half an hour. During the interval she walked about the upstairs floor; she descended to the drawing room and flung herself upon the chesterfield. She phoned again. Still there was no answer. (Copyright, 1934, By Herbert Jensen) Tomorrow, Frank learns more about the “bottle paper.” STEAMSHIP Co. 140 PASSENGERS, Steamship Florida: sailed shortly after noon yesterday for Havana with 150 passengers, 119 sacks of mail, four automobiles and one ton of freight. | Ferry Parrott arrived _ yester- | day. 5:40 o’clock from Cuba with two cars of tomatoes, 73 sacks of mail and five empty cars. Don’t let. them get. a: strangle hold. Fight germs quickly. Creo- mulsion combines 7 major helps in one. Powerful but-harmless. Pleas- ant to take. No narcoti Your own druggist is authorized: to: re- your cough. or cold is not relieved by Creomulsion. ‘ (adv:) “Ger-umph,” says the ’gator, “this gives me a hunch, I’ve always’ heard. tell wonderful.Iunch.” | , Puff’s off while the ’gator first roars and then’ rants. He didn’t get Puff, but he sure got. his pants. LEGALS: COURT, STATE OF TWENTIETH JUDI-) vIT, MONROE COUN- \CERY, FF, pork’s, 2 IEF, Complainant, z REGINALD C. CUNDIFF, Defendant. the sworn bill tated cause that the defendant It appearing by filed in the abov: Reginald © Cun therein named is a nonresident of |, State of Florida, and that his nknown and that he of twenty-one years; ordered that’ said nonresident defendant be and he is hereby required to appear to the bill of complaint filed*in said cause on or before Wednesday, the 10th day of January, A, D. 1934, other- the allegations of said bill will taken as confessed by said de- fendant. It is further ordered that this or- der be published once each week for four consecutive weeks in'the Key West Citizen, a newspaper pub- lished in said County and State. This 10th day of January, 1934. (SEAL) ROSS: 0. SAWYER, Clerk Circuit Court. J. F. BUSTO, tem Solicitor for Gémplainant. 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