The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 4, 1936, Page 3

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, NEVER MIND THE LADY - NEVER MIND THE LADY 1938, NEVER MIND THE LADY NEVER MIND THE LADY NEVER MIND THE LADY NEVER MIND THE LADY Chapter 44 ; BLACK WATER “Z>~ NORRIGAN had lanterns lighting ‘“" the way from the storehouses t» the dam. They were shielded by st-el guards stuck ‘n the ground, (but even at that their light was un- certain. That dam! Willett plowed through to the edge of the river. The dam was going, all right. He went into action on the spot. “Sandbags!” he shouted. “And matting! On the run! Come on, (Bucky, chase ‘em along. The women too.” He was in six places at once, di- recting, ordering, slinging the heavy sandbags around as though they were filled with cotton, and the gang got into it as though they were fighting for their lives. The women joined the fight too. ‘There was a worse fury than the \storm abroad tonight—it was the fury of that tall figure who snapped back viciously at the wildly surging river. How they fought! Sandbags but- |tressing the dam at vita! points to withstand the,tremendous pressure of an, unchecked river. Water was spilling over the top. That was all right, the half-finished construction work below could stand anything but the sudden wild break of the whole tivér. Willett was out on the dam, the watt Dilaine afl around him, bidck Water’ that sucked at his knees, and poured into his face a3 he knelt and gripped the edge. And as Willett fought, he thought of the girl back in the hut with only Rosa, saw her hand groping for his, felt a deeper courage somehow. But if she didn’t make it—! : “Look down, look down that lonely road—!” He knew how his father had felt. Life had gone out of his father too, left him staggering, stunned. He’d never been able to love anybody else but Vic, and Terry knew from the moment he’d seen Allaire she was the only girl he could ever love either. Fight, you quaking wretches! Your boss has to be strong no mat- ter what happens. He has to look down that lonely road and he has to travel it alone, gallant and strong. And so they strained through the hours, Corrigan a wild man with the Chaikis hopping before his blasts, and Willett keeping the res- “cue work traveling surely and swiftly. Governom you're going to be served this job in Valhalla, and you can thank a girl for it. But he dared that surging river's force once too often out there on that quivering dam. His grip was torn loose as he tried to get a sand- ‘bag into place. He felt himself spun around in the wild water and an instant later his head was driven against the dam with stunning force. Lights flashed before his eyes as a terrible dizzi- ness overcame }‘m. He gasped for breath and the water poured into his throat. He was going down, exhausted, stunned, half dead. ‘HE water seemed very soft sud- denly, soft with the heavy muf- fling feeling of a woolen quilt thrown over the head. And the bot- tom of the river was soft too, oozy, shifty, soft muck that had been | Stirred into a putrid cloud that blind- ed and strangled and obscured his sensefJ Tae, Willett céuld find no breath, po strength. . Hisy 6 ety } rag ebbing fast. You'll have to fook down, Allaire, Jook down a lonely road—the guy "you married is through. ¢j Allaire! He seemed to see her ** hand as it had reached out for his in those shadows caused by the flick- ering lamp. A girl who had followed jhim to Pluto’s Playground and was standing between life and death herself now. Allaire! Willett stopped right on the threshold of unconsciousness. With @ terrible effort of wil! he roused [nimseie to battle, to find some more \s trength from somewhere. He \couldn’t leave her alone, he couldn't. ;Allaire was fighting for her life too. { From somewhere his dispersed forces rallied. He snapped the mind- paralyzed spell of the water that whirled him around and blinded and deafened him; he fought for the surface, holding grimly to the last of his ebbing strength, straining for (What seemed to him a white hand by David Garé NEVER MIND THE LADY NEVER MIND THE LADY NEVER MIND THE LADY stealing toward him out of the stormy shadows. It was closer, that hand, closer—' closer, beckoning him out of the Dark Places, showing the way. He reached out for it and held on. His fingers were gripping the edge of the dam, and as he hung there, his body was flayed against its surface as though caught between the Immovable Object and the Ir- resistible Force. Let go, let go, something whis- pered. Let go, and Nature will take care of her own. But Willet. wasn’t holding des- perately to the edge of a groaning shaking dam that was ready to break up. He was holding to the out of the Shadows to fight again, get a toehold and shove. He pulled himself slowly, labor- iously out, struggling to get free of that sucking, swirling water. He got up halfway and then as a hand the rest of the way, he lost conscious- ness. H® came to lying on the ground with the rain pelting into his face and the thick slimy silt of the river oozing up under his clothes. him, Bucky, with his face white and his hand shaking as he held up Willett’s head and stuck a flask at him. “It almost got you, fella,” he said hoarsely. “When you were knocked loose I thought you were finished.” Corrigan’s square fighting Irish mug was twisted with the agony of his memory. A man had lost his grip in-that black water, sure death, and yet a man had fought his way back again. The Chaikis were huddled all around him, staring, their black hair in drenched mops over their brown faces. Willett took a deep breath. He waved the flask aside; too much liquor inside of him already. He started to get up. “Take it easy,” ordered Corrigan. “You can’t strain yourself, fella—” Willett flung off his restraining hands. He stood up and eyed the paralyzed construction gang all around him. Work had ceased! And the river was still threatening break through at any minute. What the hell were they standing around for? “Come on, Bucky, let’s go!” “Hey!” yelled Corrigan, “you can’t go back there. That thing’s ready to break up. By God, if you try it, Pl slug you, Terry, so help me, I will.” He drew back his great brawny fist and his face was wild. Terry Willett, wasn’t going back to flirt with death again, job or no job. “Come on, you Irish lump,” he shouted. “Chase these guys along. Let’s go!” And he grabbed up a sandbag and went back on the dam, stumbling a little on his precarious path, but back in the battle again, and the trembling Chaikas looked after him with eyes popping out of their white hand of a girl, and he came : gripped his shoulder and pulled him j Bucky Corrigan was leaning over | THE KEY WEST CITIZEN f DOINGS AROUND | Sunday being such a nice golf-| ling day, a great many-of the boys }came in with ‘the best scgre of their career while a couple of other guys (no one could be so cruel as to mention their names) had too many strokes from out of the rough. But read below, !my gentle gazelle, and see for | yourself: 1 Mr, Willizm Hokey Pokey is a| {bogey golier if you must know. Pious knocks out 44 hits the firs' round and then proceeded to re- peat himself. As a partner hej jhad Mr. Otto Kirchheiner who is ‘beginning to feel his oats again. He had the same score as Pious only divided a little differently (47-41). Of course, that 41 did not go too well with William but inasmuch they licked Li Plum. | j mer and Russell Kerr by the neat; | score of nine up, Mr. Watkins did | not mind. Mr. Li Plummer got to the half century mark of the first round while his pal Russell got better the longer he played and also made 88 strokes like the opposition, i If you should accidentally see] Doc William Percival Kemp he will tell you exactly how he made that eagle on number one. And if that was a “shinnicock” then Doc should go hide somewhere. ; ! However, to the writer’s know- | ledge that is the first time that number one has been eagled. Once our genial postmaster made an eagle on number six and number | five has succumbed to several play- ers. In case you do not know gentle readers, an eagle is two} strokes lower than par which i supposed to be perfect, If you ask} how can you be better than per- fect, then that is a question that no golfer can answer. All things} are possible in the Royal and An-} cient pastime, including a few! nit-wits who play the game se riously. But let us get on after Doc’s eagle. It seems that Doc and his old friend John J. Kirsch- enbaum were representing the Navy while Eddie Strunk and Mel- vin Russell called themselves the! Army. Also it seems further that the navy sunk the army by 11 shots and hereafter they will heads. The man wasn’t human, por Dios! And hope grew stronger with the passing hours. They staggered through with that creaking, patched structure to do what Corrigan wouldn’t have thought possible— bulwark it against the adverse de- cision of the river. But then Corrigan hadn’t foreseen the possibility of Terry Willett stick- ing with it right on the brink of eternity, holding on the job by the skin of his teeth, with the law of averages and the odds of Nature against him. He had fought, and he had made them fight, as the Crusaders must have fought before Jerusalem, in- spired, with the inspiration that ignores the law of averages. With the light of dawn they knew they were coming through. The river would be held back. The storm had spent itself, its fury gone, and in its place was only the stolid rain. Willett’s hands were torn and bleeding, he was drenched and muddy and briused from head to foot and he stumbled with exhaus- tion as he stepped on shore. He rubbed a hand across his face and took a deep breath. “We'll beat it now, fella,” Corrigan was sayimg at his shoulder. “Over the wire, and a hip, hip, hooray!” Willett nodded mechanically. “Bucky, my thanks to you—and to all.” He put out his hand. Cor- rigan gripped it briefly, and then saw him turn toward the hut, and it was the longest, hardest, most agonizing trek Terry had ever made. (Copyright, 1935, by David Garth) Allaire and Terry start on a long Journey, tomorrow. erccccccccccccccccccccns | Today’s Horoscope} pecocccccccacacccccecoce , Today brings an_ enterprising and adventurous spirit, with a fluent tongue and ready pen. A benevolent and sympathetic ture is combined with an ambitious mind. you should not succeed in busi- ness, for success and comfort, with more of the world’s goods than you need, are indicated. Women born om this day are oft- en blessed with twin children, na- Subscribe to The Citizen—20c weekly, | There is no reason why BRIDE EIGHT TIMES 9 | NEW YORK.—A bridé for the eighth time Mrs. Virginia- Overshiner - Patterson - Stark - | Seeger - Gilbert’ + Kahn - Cogs- | well - Gould - Porter, of this city. is ANNOUNCEMENT DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY ELEC. TION, JUNE 2, 1936 Supervisor of Registration JOHN ENGLAND take names that do not sound so martial. Mr. Melvin got his usual 103 while skins were zero.) Eddie got a couple from each of; the other guys. THE GOLF LINKS Mr. Handsome Horace O’Bryant and Mr. Timotheus Pittman pro- j took advantage ‘éf same and some| ceeded to play in the tournament; with the result Mr. Handsome got 49-53 while Mr. Tim got 49-49. Let us hope that both were sat- isfied. Mr. Charlie Salas is a man of! iron or concrete or some such stuff on account of he played 18 holes in the a, m. and 14 more in the afternoon. Mbybe if the oon was shining brightly enough i@ would play at midnight some time but his wife admits that he is happy when on the golf course. She says he must be on account of that is where he is most of the time. Well, anyway, ®Chas. got 86 hits during the morning but he did not do so well in the afternoon. His pal Louis Cruick- jshank.,had 90 and Cookie Mesa,! the champion ‘“gum-chewer” had 92 socks at the ball. Mr. Clem Price made a couple} of 42’s while Mr. George Dodge was making a 38 and a 42. Mr. Josie Lopez was going great guns all but one hole which he forgot to put down so he called himself 32X oh the back nine. As stated before; Mr. Chas. Salas was mak. ing a few too many shots. Mr. Bascom Grooms was hav- ing great sport seeing how many golf shots he had in his system and he came near making all of them since he was 113 hits. His friend and golfing mentor, Beau Brummel Ayala, was -. few 97 but g| then yesterday was such a nice; day that he didn’t have to worry very much about appearances. Mr. Grandpa Bob Stowers has been saving up a few good games to play against his pal Daddy Ber- lin Sawyer and Daddy was having a great argument with Bob on number three green about some shot J. R. forgot to count. Now this is known because everybody in the clubhonse (three miles dis- tant) heard the &rgument All the words Daddy flung at J. R. came right vack though because Grandpa got 96 strokes to 98 for Mr. Sawyer. Mr. Sawyer says that the next time, he will keep the score and you will read where Mr. John Robert Stowers was de- feated. PARK BOYS WON FIRST-HALF FLAG TERDAY 3 TO 2 TO GAIN HONORS Stowers Park outfit. won the first-half flag of the Seeial League schedule when they <de- feated the Sanitary Department aggregation 8 to 2 yesterday aft- ernoon at Bayview Park. t The hero of the game _ was, Cyril Griffin, the Old War Horse. } With two outs in the ninth inning and McCarthy on second base, he smacked a home run over the! centerfielder’s head to bring in} the deciding run. i In the fourth frame, the Health | boys scored two runs on Maitland; Arias double to right and Gabriel’s ; homer to right center. The hitting of Armando fea- tured the game. He connected safely three times in four chances at bat. Gabriel and Peter Castro hit two yt of four. For the losers, Molina, Salinero and Gabriel played a great game in the field, while E. Ogden, Cates and M. Hernandez were outstana- ing forth rs. Scot b; Ings: SahitaFy ent— 000 200 000—2 11 1 Stowers Park— 000 000 102-3 7 3 Batteries: C. Stickney and A. Castro; M. Tynes and Hopkins R H. E. Standing of the league: Club— W L. Pet. Stowers Park . 8 38 .792 Administration 6 .500 Sanitary Department 6 6 .500 Research Department 3 8 .297 The last game of the first-half held to keep the averages of the league straight. Batteries: Joe Hale and O. Caraballo for the Department ten, and Tynes and Hopkins for the Park players. The contest will be held at Bayviéw Park, beginning at 4:30 o’clock, as usual. CLASSIFIED COLUMN wececcceccoscoooeseeoeee TRANSPORTATION LEAVING WEDNESDAY for Mi- ami and Orlando. Will take two passengers. “ Apply, 807 Eaton street. jan4-1t FOR RENT FOR RENT—Furnished apart- ment, five rooms and bath. Ap- ply 514 Margaret street, phone 152M. jan24 FURNISHED APARTMENT FOR RENT. Apply 1029 Fleming street. feb3-6t BICYCLES Sheen BICYCLES—WE RENT by the Hour, Day or Week. Repair all makes and paint them with Nu‘Enamel. We carry a full supply of parts. Agent for the Rollfast and Dayton Bicycles. And sell them as low as $5.00 down and $1.00 per week. Phone 276. J. R. Stowers Co. dec18-tf FOR SALE SECOND SHEETS—500 for 50c. The Artman Press. aug? TYPEWRITING PAPER — 500 al will be played this afternoon be-} PERSONAL CARDS—100 printed tween the Researchers and the Park boys. This contest is being cards, $1.25. The Artman SPORTS BY JOVE POCCCOCOCEOSOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSOSESOCS FAST CAGE GAMES EXPECTED TONIGHT HISLAND CITY LEAGUE WILL PLAY ITS REGULAR TWIN BILL AT SCHOOL GYM | | | Tonight at the High School | gymnasium, the Island City Bas- ketball League will play its reg- |ular doubleheader. Fast and : hard-fought games are expected ‘as a win or a loss may change the league standing. In the curtain-raiser, the High School five, fresh from an over- | whelming victory against the Mi- :ami Military Academy outfit, will | tackle the strong Park Tigers, winners of the first-half of the jleague’s schedule. { This contest means plenty to | both clubs. If the Park boys win j they will be in first place, tied ; with the ABC quintet, and if they lose, the School aggregation will jbe in sole possession of the top rung of the ladder. In the nightcap, the lowly WPA five will meet the Busy Bee Bak- ers, another strong basketball outfit. This game will also be ,exciting from start to finish as the WPA boys are going out to- night to make their most determ- | ined fight to gain a victory and jclimb out of the cellar, if pos- sible. If they win, they will have company in the bottom of the league’s standings, as they will i then be tie with the Bakers. The | latter five has got to win to keep in the race. So, there you are! What ex- ;hibitions of basketball will be seen | tonight! 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Bobby, peering disgustedly after it, drew back in shocked ‘surprise, hurried down to what he saw below, found himself enmeshed in a tangled web of mystery, adventure: and romance, BOOMERANG CLU BY AGATHA. CHRISTIE F isthe story of what happened when Bobby ‘and. Lady Frances Derwent refused to accept the coroner’s jury verdict of “accident” as an =expla m of the tragedy“ on the golf course. In their role of amateur detectives this lively young couple soon found need of all the inspiration, and quick-wittedness they could command. The climax is startling, the Starting Thursday, Feb. 6