The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 6, 1936, Page 4

PAGE FOUR MURDER TONIGHT BY LAURENCE W: MEYNELL Chapter One HOPE ENDERTON HERE had been a touch of frost during the night and when the tardy sun finally brought in the first feeble glimmerings of Monday the eighteenth of January it showed a mystic world of white. Trees in coppice and hedgerow were miracles of living lace and the ground was frosted over. Round the village of Hope Enderton a good score of eyes peered anxiously out of bed- room windows trying to gauge the amount of bone in the ground and wondering ; whether it would be too hard for hunting. By nine the anxious eyes were reassured; the sun came out, riding triumphantly into a clear sky, and the whole earth, men, beasts and all growing things, felt strengthened. Like all places in which men live close to nature Hope Enderton began its business early,® and by half past ten in the morning most of its inhabitants could look back on three or four hours work already accomplished. , It was at that hour precisely, pre- cisely that is as reckoned by the clock on Hope Enderton church tower, that a broad figure, curiously ‘clad in gaiters and a coat whose greenness seemed to proceed more | from age than design, made its way jdown the centre of the single main street. | Hope Enderton is one of those AY SY eo) happy places which have suffered no great extremes of fortune, good or bad, during their long history. It Hes in a part of England which has been rural since time was, and which surely must go on being so until time ceases. Indeed it is commonly said by the inhabitants of the neighboring, and to their own way of thinking, more important villages of Far Hope and Bundleberry that when the last trumpet does actually sound it will be an even money chance that no- body in Hope Enderton will hear it. Hope Enderton cares little for such innuendoes; it has a cricket team which is supreme for ten miles round; a cruciform church with tho finest stained glass in West Sussex; and, consequent upon the events herein to be narrated, it achieved the unique distinction of “getting into the papers”—and headlines at that. It was, and al- ways had been, content to live its own life, oblivious of sneering neighbors; and on this particular morning of the eighteenth of Janu- ary it was busy, in its tranquil way, about the daily round of trivialities upon which, when all is said and done, all the pretentious, grasping, glittering business of the noisy world must rest. Outside the door of the Hoops, the bigger of the two inns in the Place, Edward Perry the landlord stood, arms akimbo, looking up the street. A fat spaniel shifted herself into a patch of sunshine on the cob- bles behind him and settled down wit a little grunt of good content, and from somewhere in the old fash- ioned courtyard of the place came the laughter éf a serving maid and the cheerful whistle of a man busy about some task. [peRes noted that the scaffolding was creeping up a little higher round the west window of the church; reflected that it was But- faloes’ night that evening and that he must remember the fact when the brewers’ truck came from More- chester; cursed himself dispassion- ately for having forgotten to get in fresh stocks of tobacco the day be- ANNIVERSARY AT COLORED CHURCH tk a with the the This evening at 8& program in connection forty-fourth anfiversary of Trinity Presbyterian Church o’el | will be given by the clerk, i wil! be held in the church on Simon-! ton street. fore, and wondered what sort of a day it would be for trade. He saw the broad-shouldered fig- ure approaching down the centre of the street and, if he had not been so used to the sight, he might even have smiled a trifle. Even in Hope Enderton, tucked right away as it is from main roads and arterial streams of traffic, there is quite a considerable going and coming of motorcars in these mechanized days; but the man who clung so tenaciously to the crown of the road made no concessions whatsoever to traffic; indeed he took no notice of it. If a vehicle wanted to pass him it had to change direction to do so. He looked up as he drew level with the landlord of the Hoops, Ed- ward Perry knew that red face, with its heavy Roman nose and close-set beady bright eyes, almost as well as he knew his own. He raised a forefinger to his hat. Rain or fine, indoors or out, Edward Perry always wore a soft homburg hat with the neck feather of a wild duck stuck jauntily in its band. “’Morning Mr. Burdett,” he said in his quiet tones, The man in the middle of the road shot a glance at him with his restless eyes and then suddenly, just when it seemed he intended to give no answer at all made a most curjous response. Out.of the folds of his inde¢ently antiquated coat he produced @ fat, flabby. white hand, strangely im eontradt to the ruddi- ness ‘of his {aeé: “Standing there trying to get ‘em to come in and spend it, eh Perry?” he called out in a high, mincing voice. “Well, you won't get any of this” (the white hand vigorously slapped his trouser pocket which responded with a jingle of coin) “that’s what they're all after. Ha.” Edward Perry permitted himself a slow, grave smile. “It'll be a clever man as gets any of it,” he said under his breath, “without he steals it.” He did not really object to the other man’s colossal rudeness. Squire Burdett was an eccentric; everybody recognized that, and there was nothing to be done about it. Burdetts had been at Enderton Court time out of mind. If the old men’s memories and traditions were to be trusted there had been many a good Burdett in the past. This one was a bad one, that was all. It did not look as though there were going to be any more Burdetts to carry the place on in future, and for that Edward Perry was sorry. He was an Englishman and he liked to think that in England things would go on much as they always had done, fol- lowed by a short program. A ial hour will then be held in the schoolroom ad. i church. Seats are ors. Harry F. Sincla‘r of New York, oil man, born at Wheeling, __A brief history of the church’ Va., 60 years ago. As for the present man, if he wanted to get along without the vil lage Perry reckoned that the village | | could very well get on without him. But he reflected a trifle bitterly that his own none too prosperous till could well do with a few of the; many hundreds of pounds which were popularly supposed to be hoarded in Enderton Court, RTHUR BURDETT made his way into the so-called square, where stood the market place which on every alternate Wednes- day enjoyed a few hours of thronged and busy life. Through the half-open door of the post office he spied the voluminous and untidy Mrs. Jennings the postmistress, and standing beside her, like a neat chicken beside a somewhat be- draggled and blowsy hen, was Ettie her fifteen-year-old daughter. Ar- thur Burdett’s eyes ran apprecia- tively over the girl; another year or two, he thought—his lips moved in pleasant anticipation. Immediately, and as though ma- ternally aware of some threat in the air, Mrs, Jennings glanced up from her task of reading through the morning batch of postcards, and seeing who was passing, pushed the door to with a vigorous and sanctl-| monious shove. { Burdett laughed; if he ever had; —— cared what people thought about him he was certainly long past it now. At the age of seventy-three he found it simpler to disregard other People’s feelings in life completely. At this moment another figure entered the square from its oppo site side, in point of fact, from the grocery and general provision shop of John Fenton; a figure seen re- spectfully off the premises by the combined forces of John Fenton and his wife, who had done all the important things of life in unison for so long that they had formed the habit almost unconsciously. The visitor was none other than the Reverend Peter Steeble who for thirty-eight years had been rector w.!! of St. Leonard’s Church. For thirty-eight years, therefore, Hope Enderton had enjoyed a double advantage; in the first place it had been the possessor of a sort of living pun (“Why is Hope Ender ton different from any other village in Sussex? Because it has a church with both Tower and Steeble”); and secondly, during all that time, it had enjoyed the ministrations of a Saint. In other days Peter Steeble’s name had been known in the scholastic world, and famous in at least two fields of sport; but these things he had deliberately put behind him when his wife died. Poor, lovely laughing Jennifer. Peter Steeble never passed a day, even now, with- out thinking of her, without miss- ing her. When a man has reached that philosophic outlook on life there ts little room in his heart for hate, and yet when Peter Steeble saw Arthur Burdett a hatred that burned in him like a flame visited him; parched his throat a little, and made him feel slightly sick and unsteady, He knew all about Arthur Bun dett’s avarice and open blasphemy and laughter at the things of God; but it was not these that ne hated him for; there were other things, of which Peter Steeble knew some and guessed others, that made him hate Arthur Burdett. (Cobvrrets 1930 Lawence W. Meynell) Squire Gucett retreats home, tomorrow, in haste, Subscribe to The Citizen—20c weekly. ‘MONKOE THEATER Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler i —in— | COLEEN Matinee: Balcony, 10c; Orches- i tra 15-20c; Night 15-25¢ THE KEY WEST CITIZEN ‘BAND CONCERT | GIVEN SUNDAY | PROGRAM PUT ON IN AFTER- NOON BY WELTERS CORNET BAND There was a large number in attendance at the band concert i given yesterday afternoon at Jack- son Square by. the Welters Cornet !Band under - the direction - of “Sheddie’”” Hannibal. The choral singers of the’ or- ganization are ynder the direction jof Ellen Welters Sanchez, The following is the program jthat was rendered on the occa- sion: America. March, “Thunderer”—Sousa, Descriptive Overture, “The Fall jot icho”—Maillochand. { Spiritual, “Don't Get Weary, Children”—Boatner. Med! Overture, “A Night In New Y '—E. Broo! Spiritual, “Certainly Boatner. Lord” — =. McCoy. Valtz, “Blue Danube”—Choral ingers, accompanied by Composed by Johan Straus, Overture, ‘“Lustapiel’’—Keler- Beler, arranged by Laurendean. March, Hostranser’s — Cham- ber: Star Spangled Banner—Key. Today ° evececceccesce 1 — Continental Congres adopted dollar as vnit of renecy and dec!mal ratio of today. 1819—Marie M. Blanchard, French balloonist and widow of a balloonist, killed in crash of her balloon in Paris. 1854—A numbcr of mass meet- irgs held threughout country by those isting the extension of slavery culminated today in that held at Jackson, Mich., and often referred to as birth of Republican! Party. 1858—Lyman Abington, Ma: R. Blake of s., patented so-eall- ed Me stitching machine which r utionized the manu- facture of shoes. 1928—First all-talking picture vroduced in New Yors—“The Lights of New York.” Quintuplets born in Nic- ua—four girls and a boy, All SHOWER IS HELD FOR COLORED BRIDE-TO-BE (Contributed) Idalene C honored with a miscellaneo hower Mon- day evening, June 29th, on the beautizu! lawn of Theodore Sands’ home, 324 Di playing whist refreshments were served consisting of ice cream, cake and fruit punch. Those who served the refres' ments were Lurlean Mingo, Pres- cilla Florine Str France n Dyke. Elise The shower was arran Julia Rion, and the were made in an angle shape. With a white bel extending from the top which was tied at the bot- j bride’s maids were Frances Van Dyke and Prescilla Carey who un- tied the bow and the gitts were showered over the bride-to-be. THOMASINE M. MILLER —BEAUTICIAN— Latest Air Cooled Method Permanents: $2.50 to $10.00 Hair Dyeing a Specialty 407 South St. Phone 574-. 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Died in Paris, July 18, 1792. | 1759—Joshua Barney, officer fin America’s navy of the Revolu- ition before 17, commander in ! War cf 1812, born in Baltimore. Died in Pittsburgh, Dec. 1, 1818. j = | 1831—D. | president. aniel Co't Gilman, Univ. of California, first president of Johns Hopkins Univers and first preident of | Carnegie Institution, Washington, among our great edtcators, born |at Norwich, Conn. Died there, | Oct. 13, 1908. | 1831—John C. New, Indianap- | olis newspaper publisher, finan- jcier, U. S. Treasurer, born Ver- |non, Ind. Dicd June 4, 1906. 1832 — Maximilian, Austrian archduke whom the Fernch made ‘emperor, of Mexico in 1864, born. j Executed, in Mexico, June 19, | 1867. 1852 — Fatherine Tingley, world theosophist leader, born at | Newburyport, Mass. Died in Swe. den, July 11, 1929. Maj. Gen. Edward M. Mark- them, chief of army engineérs, born at Troy, N. Y., 59 years ago. 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