The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 2, 1936, Page 3

TUBSDAY, We Gypsy. SYNOPSIS: Although it is Ru- pert Joris who has married the mysterious Hope Devine very sud- denly, it is Rupert's brother Dirk who seems to feel most responsible for her. Now, returning late from the theater, he sees Hope take a tazi at the gates of the Joris estate and drive into New York, meet a strange and foreign-looking young mait, and disappear in New York's scrubby East Side. She comes back later, but volunteers no explana- tion of her escapade. Chapter 18 » AMATEUR DETECTIVE OPE did not come down to break- fast, and Rupert had already left when Dirk, later than usual, started for the office. Dirk, having, with mixed motives, taken on him- self the office of spy, visited Rupert’s room before leaving, as he had vis- ited Hope’s the night before. Hope might safely have brought the gems back with her, but he had no way of looking in the cache this morning. There was a chance that Rupert Wad them now. In that case, he knew where to look. He found the jewel-box in the inner drawer of Rupert's desk, the strand of pearls lying loose beside it, the contents intact. Hope’s com- panion had not robbed her, nor per- mitted her to be robbed. Hope, herself, when he saw her that evening, seemed much the same —a bit tired, for, as she explained, she had been shopping again. She and Rupert had lunched together, They had also looked at cars, and they had a disagreement regarding them. Rupert wished her to have a town-car and a chauffeur. Hope wanted a coupé, and to drive it her- self. “What do you think?” asked Dirk at dinner. Dirk was in favor of the chauffeur. Hope's eyes met his with the shadow of surprise. Apparently she had ex- pected him to take her side. She had shown no inclination to confide in him, though there, had been opportunity. Before dinner Dirk had sat with her in the library. She had shown him the guitar she had bought that day, had played and sung for him. He would not soon forget the picture. He had not known the room could be so beautiful. The presence of Hope had seemed to draw out its latent colors, to warm and kindle it. And now she filled it with song. Her voice had for Dirk the d turbing quality of her eyes. A rich voice, liquid and warm and deep. She sang plaintive things, a little dark-haired Lorelei, in a blue dress, in the firelight. Dirk had not let the vision, the song, lure him to com- plete forgetfulness. He said, when she had stopped singing, and sat plucking cords, looking at the fire—said with every intention of disturbing her: “I saw you last night. She gave him her swift glance, and he added, “At ‘The Black Swan.” wonderful.” Her eyes had gone back to the fire. She a “Was that the one in pin! So she had seen him,: too. And who had told her about Isabel? Ru- pert, no doubt. Yes, it was Isabel, he said. “She wants to meet . i waited around last night after 1 got home. Wanted to ask what you thought of the play You must have got in first.” She said that she was not sure. At any rate, she had been sleepy, and had gone straight to her room. Which was no doubt true. Rupert dark You looked abel beside you— UPERT came in the library then, and must be shown the new gu . must be sung to. She sang again in Spanish, the most tender, the most passionate of all her songs. Her eyes moved now and then to Rupert's face, ecstasy and pathos in her glance. Rupert liked the song. He asked what the words meant. “It is a song,” she said, “about a little turk: Dirk laughed outright, feeling a distinct relief. He supposed it, of course, a love-song. Rupert too laughed, asked her to sing again. She sang a cowboy song, swinging and valiant, tapping her small blue- slippered foot. A song full of hi-yi's, and git-along’s, that ended in a fine, clear whoop. Rupert was delighted. At dinner it was learned that Elinor had called that afternoon, Elinor and her aunt, Mrs. Raeburn, Isabel's mother. No one had been at home, and Elinor had left a note. She wished to give a party for Ru- pert's wife. Would dinner a week from Thursday be agreeable? ithe’ vy MARGARET BELL HOUSTON Rupert affected indifference. If Hope wanted to be entertained, he had, he said, no objection. Dirk knew that they would go. Later, alone with Rupert, he brought up the subject of the car. ! “Hope probably knows nothing { about driving in New York. I'll find H the right chauffeur, if you like.” | Rupert was glad to be relieved. He agreed that Hope was safer with | a chauffeur. | “It’s the formality he wants,” Dirk { thought. “So much the better.” ! By Saturday Dirk, who had had | no difficulty in tracing the green taxicab finally found its driver at home. He and another lad drove the cab for a man in Harlem. 1 The day driver had been easy | enough to find, but the night driver appeared never to take time for sleep. Dirk caught him, however, a toughened bachelor with no mem- ory for dates or places. Dirk, who had discovered this lack by obscure processes learned at the bar, finally said: “Suppose I told you that last Mon- day morning at exactly three o'clock you wrecked my car, parked in Loc- kett Street in Brooklyn. I'll say you didn’t know it, since you were going so fast, but here’s your number.” Three o'clock was the moment when Dirk, detained by a red light, had seen the green cab vanish in the direction of East River. But the driver could be forced into no en- lightening alibi. “Well, suppose you told me,” he remarked. “I'd say see the cab-owner, or the bonding company.” Dirk replaced the notation of hour and number in his pocket. “Since you recall the accident .. .” he ob- served. “I don’t recall no accident. I run this cab all over Long Island, New Joisy. If I remembered things I'd go nuts. You see the bonding company.” | Dirk said that he would, and left, calling himself a sorry detective. Had he roused the man’s suspicions? He could not tell. Certainly the man | had increased his own. It had been no casual taxi that Hope had sig- naled. UPERT had bought a fashionable town-car that morning, and Dirk went from the cab-driver’s house to call on Genevieve, his one-time nurse. yenevieve had married a moderately successful plumber. A widow now, she lived in the Bronx with her son Martin, a steady, clean-eyed lad of twenty-one. Martin and Dirk had played to- gether as children and often in the last two years Dirk had ridden out of his way to turn in at the garage where Martin worked and have the boy look at his gas or change a tire. It was Martin he had in mind when he promised Rupert to find the right chauffeur. Martin could hardly believe his luck at the prospect of work in Mis- ter Dirk’s family. Dirk knew his love and loyalty, and while Rupert might find some fault with his youth, Dirk knew, too, that Martin’s skill with a car, his good sense and habits, and perhaps most of all, the appear- ance of his fine young figure in the Joris livery would have their effect. When Genevieve had gone out he gave Martin a brief version of the situation. Mrs. Joris, without her knowledge, was to be guarded and protected. Martin, also without her knowledge, was to make careful note of what places she visited, or whom she took into the car. These were to be reported to Dirk. Mr. Rupert Joris was in no way concerned. “You are doing this for me. And you are to keep absolutely quiet. You are also Mrs. Joris’s chauffeur, and at her command. You will be paid for both jobs.” Martin said that he understood, and believed that he did. It was, he considered, like the job of a friend of his, chauffeur and guard to a child whose wealthy father had re- ceived threats from kidnappers. Mis- ter Dirk had no doubt got wind of some such conspiracy against his sister-in-law. “You can depend on me, Mister Dirk Martin, Dirk felt, was enough for the daytime, but, a chauffeur at her command, or not, nothing was to prevent Hope from making noc- turnal excursions in a taxi, if she felt so inclined. He therefore sta- tioned two detectives near the Joris gates at night. Dirk knew that Hope had not been out at night since Monday, except in Rupert’s company. He had him- self kept watch. Now he could sleep. (Copyright, 1935, Margaret Belt. Houston) { \ { { | is t Hope passes, tomorrow, through a difficult situation. + | York, 50 year Mrs. William H. Taft of Wash-| nigton, D. C., widow of the Presi- | dent-Chicf Justice, born in Cin-| cinnati, Ss age. | | 75 Bishop James C. Baker of the Methodist Episcopal Church, at} , born at She!don, | } | Dr. William H. Tolman of Rhode Island, noted social eco- nomist, born there, 75 years ago. , York! its Grover Whalen of New City, merchant, director of ¢ | Central 1929 World’s Fair, born in New ago. Frank E, Weymouth of Los| Angeles, noted civil engineer, born at Medford, Maine, 62 years! ago. Dr. Henry J. Christman, presi- dent of the Reformed Church’s| Theological Seminary, | Dayton, O., born at Massillon, O..; 67 years ago. ' Rev. E. Graham Wilson, secre- y of the Board of National: ons of the Presbyterian | New York City, born in Philadelphia, 52 years ago. | Prof. Winifred C. Cullis, noel ed English physiologist, born 61} years ago. ta {Uncle Samuel advance the dough | ito build # couple of bridge decks, the point: this very | Horace O’Bryant into ‘strokes cach. | mood to play golf against a cou-| {ple of tough boy {split a couple each while Melvin P- ‘ lower | However, | heiner jhad a job getting less than 46-47 they count match play and when) se BY ae Doings Around The Golf Links (By GRAVY) Cocreccccccccccccoseoee® | () "| PARK BOYS BLANK FERA NINE, 13-0 The Stowers Park teara all the Because it is election day and / outfit yesterday because a lot of guys have not ing the opposition, yet recovered from the celebra-| p,, tion in honor of having your) | times. Stanley , bat, ances at the i} | | \ romp- over Administration afternoon, 13 to 0. hit winners safely had a perfect day at hit plate. this column will be short and to securing four hits in four Kerr hit three safely, two good for two- instance, on Saturday aft- Timotheus Pittman got: good friend Handsome a match inst Pious William and Char- lie Ketchum with the result that; Tim and Horace were lu get a half-way even bre seems that Willie and beat the others by a half dozen Anywa once on {number three the Handsome Hor- ‘e guy knocked his ball into a palm tree. From then on sister” O'Br was in no For ernoon, rers, The FERA club wa with only hit by Score by innings: Administration— 000 000 0— 0 Park— 304 42 HEALTHERS VS. STOWERS PARK De- credited one safety scratch Domencch, . H. E. Stowers nt like Pious and; Tim. When the O'Bryant person {got to the club house he was very ! ‘much wroth at the antics of Tim) land Pious and even Charlie had! partment will play j words to s about Horacita. {F and the fur | bi clubs It seems that on Sunday Willie; #eainst each other, | Kemp took to heart all that has The Healthers will been said about allowing him to, avd Gebricl for their be trimmed by Eddie Strunk and! the Park will friends and so Doc got three skins | Walker and Hoptins. for himself. Eddie and Kirsch} The will be m. Tomorrow Sanitary the Stower will f battling for h are boys game called ‘LEAGUE STANDINGS Russell got a measly one. In the partnership business Willie and \Kirch got up to 12 up and then topped counting, Not only that but Willie beat Eddie by two} strokes which shows that the AMERICAN LEAGUE bridge business affected Willie Club Ww. either more or less than Eddie,’ New York 30. depending on the way you look at Boston 26 same. 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