The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 22, 1936, Page 3

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2: 2, 1936. SYNOPSIS: Lady Frances Dero went, otherwis. known as Franki has finally gotten track of Bassin; ton-ffrench, the perfectly plausible ‘man she insists is connected with the death of one Alexander Pritch- srd, ond an ctiompt on Bobby Jones’ life as well. She tells Bobby that he must sell her a secondhand car, which she will smash against the’ wall of Bassington-ffrench’s house, and then pretend illness so that she will be taken into the place. She is explaining to Bobby how George Arbuthnot, @ young doctar, fits in. Chapter 15 FALSE MOUSTACHE FORGE, being conveniently near,” went on Frankie, “shouts ‘I am a doctor. Stand back every- body!’—that is, if there’s anybody to stand back. ‘We must take her into that house. I must be able to make a thorough examination.’ “I am carried to the best spare room, the Bassington-ffrenches either sympathetic or bitterly re- sisting; but in any case, George will overbear them. “George makes his examination and emerges with his verdict. Hap- pily, it is not so serious as he thought. No bones broken, but danger of concussion. I must on no account be moved for two or three days. After that I shall be able to return to London. “And then George departs, and it’s up to me to ingratiate myself with the household.” “And where do I come in?” “You don’t “But look here—” “My dear child, do remember that Bassington-firench knows you. He doesn’t know me from Adam. And I'm in a frightfully strong position because I've got a title. You see how useful that is. I’m not just a stray young woman gaining admis- sion to the house for mysterious pur- poses. I am an Earl's daughter and therefore highly respectable. And George is a real doctor, and every- thing is quite above suspicion.” “Oh, 1 suppose it's all right,” said Bobby unhappily. “It's a remarkably well-planned scneme, | thiak” said Frankie with pride. “And I don’t do anything at all?” asked Bobby. He still felt injured --much like a dog who has been un- expectediy deprived of a bone. This, he felt, was his own particular crime and now he was being ousted. “Ot course you do, darling. grow a moustache.” a, 1 grow a moustache, do 1?” How long will it take?” “Two or three weéks, J expect.” “Heavens! I'd no idea it was such .a slow process. Can’t you speed it up?” one?” “They always look so false, and they twist or come off or smell of spirit-gum. Wait a minute, though —1 believe ‘here 1: a kind you can get stuck on hair by hair, so to speak, that absclutely defies detec- tion. Lexpect a theatrical wigmaker would do it for you.” “He'd probably think I was try- ing to ne from justice.” “It doesn't matter what thinks.” “Once I've got what do I do?” “Put on a chauffeur’s uniform and drive the Bentley down to Staver- ley. ‘Oh, I see.” Bobby brightened. “You see my idea is this,” sald Frankie. “Nobody looks at a chauf- feur in the way they look at a per- son. In any case Bassington-firench only saw you for a minute or two, and he must have been too rattled wondering if he could change the photographs in time to look-at you much. You wer. just a young golf- i ass to him. “It isn’t like the Caymans, who sat opposite you and talked to you and who were deliberately trying to sum you up. I'd bet anything that seeing you in chauffeur’s uniform, Bassington-ffrench wouldn't recog- nize you even without the mous- tache. He might just possibly think that your face reminded him of somebody—no more than that. And with the moustache it ought to be perfectly safe. “Now tell me, of the plan?” You Why can't I wear a false he the moustache, what do you think OBBY turne.. it over in his mind. “To tell you the truth, Frank- he said generously, “I think it’s in that case,” said Frankie brisk- 's go and buy some cars. I say, I think George has broken your matter,” said Bobby hospitably. “It was never a particu- larly good bed.” AcArna Cnristie — a vague haw-haw-haw. His general appearance was slightly marred by the fact that his eyes had a distinct disinclination to look in the same direction. “Hullo, Badger,” said Bobby. “You remember Frankie, don’t you?” Badger clearly didn’t, but he said “Haw haw haw” again in an amia- ble manner. “Last time I saw you,” said Frankie, “you were head downward in the mud, and we had to pull you out by the legs.” “No, not really?” said Badger. “Why, that m-m-must have been W-w-w-wales.” “Quite right,” said Frankie. “It was.” “I always was a p-p-p-putrid r-r-r-rider, said Badger. I s-s-s-still am,” he added mournfully. “Frankie wants to buy a car,” said Bobby. “Two cars,” said Frankie. “George has got to have one too. He’s crashed his at the moment.” “We can hire him one,” Bobby. “Well, come and look at what we've got in s-s-s-stock,” said Bad- ger. “They look very smart,” said Frankie, dazzled by lurid hues of scarlet and apple green. “They look all right,” said Bobby darkly. Badger cast his partner a look of réproach. “That Standard is pretty much on its last legs,” mused Bobby. “But I think it would just get you there. This one is a bit too good for the job. She'll go at least two hundred before breaking down.” “All right,” said Frankie. have the Standard.” Badger drew his colleague a little aside. “W-w-w-what do you think about p-p-p-price?” he murmured. “Don’t want to s-s-s-stick a friend of yours too much. T-t-t-ten pounds?” “Ten pounds is all right,” said Frankie, entering the discussion. “I'll pay for it now.” “Who is she really?” asked Badger in a loud whisper. Bobby whispered back. “F--f-first time I ever knew any- one with a t-t-title who c-c-c-could pay cash,” said Badger with re- spect. Bobby followed the other two out to the Bentley. “When is this business going to take place?” he demanded. “The sconer the better,” said Frankie. “We thought to-morrow afternoon.” “Look here, can’t I be there? I'll put on a beard if you like.” “Certainly not,” sald Frankie. “A beard would probably ruin every- thing by falling off at the wrong moment. But 1 don’t see why you shouldn’t be a motoreyclist—with a lot of cap and goggles. What do you think, George?” George Arbuthnot spoke for the second time. “All right,” he said. “The more the merrier.” His voice was even more melan- choly than before. said “Tn ‘HE rendezvous for the great ac- cident party was fixed at a spot about a mile from Staverley village where the road to Staverley branched off from the main road to Andover. All three arrived there safely, though Frankie's Standard had shown unmistakable signs of de crepitude at every hill. The time fixed had been one o'clock. “We don’t want to be interrupted when we're staging the thing,” Frankie had said. “Hardly anything ever goes down this road, I should imagine, but at lunch time we ought | to be perfectly safe.” They proceeded for half a mile on the side road and then Frankie pointed out the place she had se- lected for the accident to take place. “It couldn't be better in my opin- ion,” she said. “Straight down this hill, and then, as you see, the road gives a sudden very sharp turn round that bulging bit of wall. The wall is actually the wall of Merro- way Court. If we start the car and let it run down the hill it will crash straight into the wall and something pretty drastic ought to happen to it.” “I should say so,” Bobby agreed. “But one of us ought to be on the lookout at the corner to be sure no- body is coming round it from the opposite direction.” “Quite right,” said Frankie. “We don’t want to involve anybody else in a mess. George can take his car down there and turn it as though he were coming from the other direc- tion. Then when he waves a hand- kerchief it will show that all is clear.” “Your’e looking very pale, Frankie,” said Bobby anxiously. “Are you sure you're all right?” They descended to the garage where a nervous-looking young man with a curious lack of chin and an agreeable smile greeted them with (Copyright 1933-35-36, Agatha Christie) “Unconscious,” Frankie is ca tied into Merroway Court Mondi Today s Hor oscope; | To native has good abil with intuition, and a taste for! high living and the luxuries ofj| life. tendency toj petulance with some disposition to be headstrong, and you are judged, which will for your instinets bottom, . ty. There is a apt to be mi be a mistake, are good at COMING EVENTS The following events cover the week of February 16 to Feb- | ruary 22: SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22 Habana-Madrid — Dancing to- night. Rest Beach—Swimming and Raul’s Club on the Boulevard —Dancing tonight. sun bathing. Sail boat rides. Duval Street—7:30 P, M. until 9:30 P. M., Promenade, SPORTS THE KEY WEST CITIZEN ) BY JOVE ‘LOCALS WON THIRD FIVES; SCORE, 46-24 CONCHS CINCHED CONTEST IN SECOND-HALF, SCORING 28 POINTS; KNOWLES WAS LEADING SCORER As has been shown, the Key West (Conchs have a hard shell to + break. The Ft. Lauderdale bas- keteers found that out last night |at the High School gymnasium, as five and the Ida M. Fisher High School quintet before them. The local boys made it their seventh straight victory over in- vading clubs during the past two years by defeating the Tarpons last night. 46 to 24. The contest was fast and fu- rious during the first-half, which ended 18 to 15 in Key West’s} favor. At the termination of the third quarter it was found that the Conchs had increased their lead, and was now on the top of the score of 30 to 23. In the final quarter, the local High School basketballers won the game by the overwhelming score of 46 to 24, the visitors ringing up one point in the quarter. Leading scorer was Knowles, with 15 points to his credit. Saun- ders made 11. For the visitors, Kaykendall scored seven points and Seestead six and Deblois six. A record was established for fouls during a game. Eighteen were made for the visitors and 11 for the locals. Also two tech- nical fouls for the visitors, or a total of 31 fouls in one game. Score by quarters: Total Tarpons 510 8 1—24 Conchs . 9 9 12 16—46 In the opening contest of the evening,: the Convent girls sim- ply “swamped” the All-Stars by a 17 to 5 score. The Conventers made as many points in the first quarter as the Stars made in the whole game. Miss Acevedo rung up 11 points while Miss Bernice Brantley scor- ed the other six for the win- ners. For the losers, Norma Yates Dopp rung up one point, Clara va three and Miss Gomez the Only one field goal was made y the Stars and six by the Con- The other points were free throws Score by quarters: Convent 5 6 4 2-17 All-Stars 110 35 This gives the Convent girls two victories and one tie game. Monday evening the High School sextette will play the girls from !Cuba. This game is -scheduled to start at 5 o’clock. Tuesday aft- ernoon the Convent girls will meet the visitors at the same time, as | will the All-Stars on Wednesday | evening. The teams to play on Thursday jand Friday will depend entirely on the outcome of the akove con- tests. Today’s Anniversaries 1@ecececccccoocces 1732 — George Washington, born in Westmoreland Co., Va. | Died at Mount Vernon, Dec. 14, 11799. e e 1778—Rembrandt Peale, cele- brated artist, son of a noted art- ist, born near Philadelphia. Died ‘there, Oct. 3, 1860. | —— 1788 — Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher, born. Died Sept. 1860. 1810—Frederic F. Chopin, Po- |lish“composer and pianist, born. Died Oct. 17, 1849. | 1819—James Russell Lowell, | tanred New England poet, editor ae author, born at Cambridge, *Mass. Died there, Aug. 12, 1891. | 1838—Margaret FE. Sangster, | noted poet, editor and author of her day, born at New eens) N. Y. Died at Maplewood, N. June 4, 1912. did the Miami Military Academy , only} | GAME OVER VISITING! ‘ else’s ball while Eddie S. says he|tache remembered his navy days | was just trying to knock the ball Just in time and after taking the ‘Sam says he has won so DOINGS AROUND THE GOLF LINKS (By GRAVY) Last Thursday a good many on “Why don’t you get a left hand the boys were seen wading} ball?” Naturally, Willie has been around in water holes, thinking | of no value since. perhaps that they might have been cranes, yellow grunts or perhaps an ancestor. Sam H. says his was a new ball; Sam G. says he was looking for someone | Mr. Robert Franklin’ Spotts- wood elected to beat Mr. “Mus- tache” Emmerson but Mr. M three 2zimuth angle on several putts !came in with 88 while Mr, Spot | had 89, all of which caused much congratulations to Mr. Emmer- ‘son. ' across the pond and took hits to make it. But let us get: on with our story As hereinbefore stated, our, genial Postmaster was on the los-' ing end of a 13 to 0 score. Now; Mr. Charlie Ketchum arrived jnot all this was due to good play-’ in time to play with a couple of ing on the part of Sam and pal fivesomes but decided it the bet- nor was it because of bad playing. | ter part of valor to hunt and find many} Bascom Grooms and Curry Har- games lately that he got to ris. And after locating them be- thinking about same so very much gan the game and finished with and knew how many sleepless 101 strokes while Curry got 47 on nights his friend Cookie spent and} ene round. The other was spent so he and Old Bye Sands gave the! in hunting and hiking and also j electric boys a chance. Of cour: 57 strokes. Mr. Bascom took Cookie Mesa and Louis Cruick-| some 115 but says that if he took shank claim that all the blarney, less strokes he would have to is just vitis vinifera of an as-! play more holes in order to get tringent action. The score of the usual amount of exercise. hole-by-hole was unobtainable on! Who made that last remark? account of Cookie took the score-{ e hi ! * eardehome tor isie st Mr. Bloomer (not gymnasium) z | and Mr. Stewart of the local win- Now it seems that Winsome | ter colony went along to see what Weary Willie and Samuella Wea-! cach could do. Mr. Del Woods ther took it upon themselves to| also went along but Mr. R. A. S.| deliver a beating to none other! Bloomer got a 42 on the back| than Tim Pittman of the smil-|nine and when you can do that ing countenance and George | you can play the Royal and Dodge, he of the ability to earn} Ancient. his daily bread by the game of; ‘cow pasture pool.” Anyway, the| first round was going to be a} pushover for Willie and Sammy because they were going to play Georgie and Timmie low and ag- gregate. Well, it seems that aft-) er the first round Will and Sam were the large score of 10 points down. Naturally that did not set very well with the “pap-suckers and so they argued for a change in the method which the opposi- tion very gladly agreed to do. Then after seven holes of high and low ball it seems that Mr. Watkins and Mr. Goldsmith were still losing but after a consulta- tion decided to shoot the works and did manage to get a tie with Tim and George because on the last putt Mr. Pittman was think-:°f those scores fit, Mr. Strunk ing about some irate subseriber Will give as the prize the | two of his talk emporium who could; balls in number two water hole. not talk when they wanted to. Of! course, after some young man on! The handicap tournament will number five tee (and not a play- be played tomorrow and _ next er) watched Willie get ready to Thursday, so turn in your card to make a drive called out and said,| Mr. Dodge. Many and varied are the argu- ments of whether Eddie Strunk jand Melvin Russell could hold Willie Kemp and Chas. Salas to a win or tie. For instance, on the round we are now discussing it turned out that Eddie and Mel- vin would have won but then Hur- rieane got a 38 on one round while Doe got a big 47. During the course of the afternoon Mr. Jones (not Wimpy) who happen- ed to be a visitor to Mr. Strunk went along and had a nice day at the expense of Doc, Me! and Chas. The total scores read something like the war debt in it was as follows: 81, $5, 88, 91 and 87. If you can guess to whom each 5 eh —SITIOTT TESTO DON'T BUY-TRY FREE FOR THREE MONTHS 1 fd CALA A hd dodo dade dia dade ddd didi ddd, Cele aude whe ile ihe uke ue ull ude alle ad he le ude ual The Company will install a three or four bur- ner ELECTROMASTER range on a free trial for three months without any obligations on your part. Be modern and cook by wire. It’s clean, fast, and economical, for the more you use the cheaper the rate. After trial, when you have found out that an electric range will do everything that you expect of it, you can then start paying at the rate of AS LOW AS $1.25 PER MONTH with a liberal allowance for your old equipment SEE US REGARDING THIS PLAN The Key West Electric Company WOOT IIIIIDOIIIIISS. N N N ® N =f ah) LLLLLALEMALL BELLA L FOLLOWING THROUGH Everything is ready for the baseball series between the Cuban | Navy champs and the Key West nine. So far the players on the local squad are: C. Griffin, Salinero, Casa, Bethel, Wickers, Griffin, Pena, Barcelo, A. Acevedo, Cates, Baker, Mayg, M. Acevedo, Hale, George Acevedo. Rogelio Gomez will manager of the locals. Today and tomorrow the play- ers will practice all day and will be in tip-top shape for the series. All the boys says they are be the ready and raring to go, and Key} West fans will witness the best; *” baseball games of the year when these two teams meet. Manager Gomez will probably start the following line-up: Baker, ss; Hale, ef; Cates, 3b; Griffin, c; Manolo, If; Capote, rf; Pena, 1b; This leaves Mayg or Al Ace- vedo in eighth position, with Joe Casa, Bethel or whoever will pitch, in ninth place. Manager Gomez still has Bar- |a young boy who is batting at } | Capote, Rueda, Vidal, Gabriel and! @ | Is | | Weekly, celo, who is a hard hitter, for one! * out the outfield positions. Rueda, What They Sey Sey Whether Right Or Wrong sceccceseses sceeee George W. Norris, U. S. Senator, Nebraska: “The people can change the Congress but only God can change the Supreme Court.” present better than the majority on the club, is also available, as are George Acevedo, Gabriel and a few others. The official umpires will be Se- villa and M. Gonzalez. The first game will start 2 o’clock Monday afternoon. the 1 be open in commencing y of March. day thereafter until Monday, the 6th day excepted, “The most pleasant recollec- tions I have on checking up on my life deal with the people I es met.” Rimes: Tanglie, poychelegist: “It is easier to recall facts in a state of relaxation than when one is trying too hard.” M. until twelve o'clock } from two o'clock P. M. until five e'clock P. 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