The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 13, 1937, Page 4

PAGE FOUR Oe SYNOPSIS: When Neill, a young federal agent, yets to Baltimore for a week’s vacation with Janet, he finds she .2on’t break a dinner date with Prescot. Fanning. Fivm what Janet says, Neill distrusts Panning, dubs him a crook. They Quarrel and part. To check on Fanning, Neill finds him at his hotel and gets acquainted in the bar. Fanning invites him to joi. his party, but Neill passes out in the taxi, deped. Next noon he Gwakens to find Janet, Fanning @nd Fanning’s yacht gone. The taxi-driver of the night before fells him of trailing them and an- other couple, then losing them. 1 Chapter Six *She’s In Bad Trouble’ Te cab-driver ruefully exhib- ited a pink card. “I’m op, my now to the traffic court.” How much will they soak you?” asked Neill. “A fiver, I reckon.” Neill gave him the money. “That’s white of you, boss.” “Not at all. It’s only fair. When you come up before the judge, say about my passing out, or that you were trailing another car. That won't help us any.” “Just as you say, boss.” “Give me a_ phone number where I can call you if I should you ol had im went away still grin- ning, and Neill began pacing his foom again, hoping Pa ua ope Janet would him up. though they had quarreled, he could not believe that she sail away out of his life a word. The strain of soon became more than he could . He had to be doin; something. He bathed and shave “Haven't seen Mr. Fanning this | morning,” said the clerk. He called up 1410. “No answer,” he said, after waiting awhile. . “Has he checked out?” “Checked out?” echoed the ; clerk, staring. “Cercainly not! Mr. Fanning is a permanent gues’ Neill thought: Fannin: is just fooling them. He’s left a few things in his room for a stall. “Have you got a guest here called David Eyster?” he asked. “Mr. Eyster has checked out.” | Neill suspected that Eyster had | better information than he had. “Say where he was going?” “No information.” Inquiries of the bellboys and the doormen turned up nothing. He called up the office of the lawyer, Kettering, but again failed to find him. Mr. Kettering had gone to Washington for the day and would not be in. Neill taxied back to the Stafford because he had no place else to go. At the desk he was told that his room humber had been called up twice while he was out. His heart leaped up and then sank again. fearing that he had missed an im- portant clue. “The man left no message,” the clerk told him, “but he said he would call again.” Neill ascended to his room and paced the floor half crazy with the suspense of waiting. Three times he telephoned downstairs to make sure that the operator had not for- gotten that he was in. When the bell finally rang, he flung himself on the instrument. A man’s voice asked: “Is this room 704?” It was a strange voice —tenor with a Scot's burr. . es,’ “Are you the guy that rents that room?” “Yes, Who are you?” “Never mind that. I have a mes- nd set out for the Maryland insti- Ee tute, By asking from class to class, he finally found Percita Wales, Janet's friend. “Where's Janet?” he demanded. Percita looked at him queerly bit her lip. before replying. as a quiet, placid sort of girl. ’s gone away,” she said. “Where?” c ont Potent ‘ou're lying!” Percita iuthed. “It you're going out v thought came to h' a telegram?” “Why, yes. How did you know?” “Let me see it.” She fished it out of her hand-| bag. Neill read: Going to Canada for a few days. Don’t tell anybody and don’t worry. Writing. Janet. Neill groaned. “Janet never sent} this! It’s not her style.” Percita’s eyes widened. “Oh! What do you think has happened? Do you know anything?” ep your mouth shut about this until I can find out some- thing,” said Neill. He ran out. The telegram was a night mes- gage which had been filed in the Main office on Baltimore street at nine o'clock the previous evening Neill tonk a taxi to the office, a asked to be shown the eniginal “Sorry, we can't do that with @ut proper authorization.” “How can I get ai zation?” “If it's a police .natter, go to the! police.” Neill went out without answer- ing. He couldn't go to the police for after all Janet might have ngly, and ner to pub- licity. He himself was partly re- sponsible. Their quirrel might have spurred her on to do some- reckless. Girls were like that. Meanwhile she was sw Jewed up. Not for a moment di he believe she had gone to Canada Eyster's Checked Out E went on to the Lord Balti more, not that he expected to Bearn anything there, but just to be doing something. He asked for at the desk. sage for you from a certain girl. | dressed himsel | veyor’s outfit | breeches and knee boots in order 4 SYNOPSIS: Neill, a young fed- eral agent, comes to Baltimore to spend a week wiit Janet. But she won't break a dinner date with Prescott Fanning. From what Janet says, Neill distrusts Fan- ning and labels him a crook. They quarrel and part. To check on Fanning, Neill finds him at his hotel cnd gets acquainted at the bar. Fanning gives him knock- out drops in whiskey and then searches Neill’s papers, taking a snapshot of Janet. Next noon Neill awakens to find Janet, Fan- ning cnd Fanning’s yacht gone. A mysterious phone call tells him Janet is aboard the yacht in Absalom’s Harbor and “in bad trouble.” Chapter Seven Bus To Absalom’s T 4:45 that afternoon the bus for Absalom’s pulled out of | the terminal on Redwood street, and headed south. Neill Tryon sat by a window looking out with a wooden face. Now that he had an | objective, he had steadied; he could wait. After thinking it over, he had decided to handle this matter by himself — quietly. He wished to avoid Saeeane Janet to any ugly pepe. ie had f in a rough sur- including khaki te be ready for anything. The bus was a small one for local traffic, and the passengers were all residents of the southern counties who had been to town for a day’s shopping. Neill as the only “foreigner” aboard received many a : 1 | i 1 “No. Never been there before.” “What's your business there, may I ask?” “No business. Thought I'd like a couple of days’ fishing.” m “You ain’t brought no tackle.” “Well, I wasn’t sure what I'd need. I’ll get it there.” “Ain't often a fellow comes down alone to go fishing.” “Oh, reckon I can join on to some party.” i “Where you going to stop?” “There’s a hotel, isn’t there?” “Sure, there’s Wickes’s hotel, but you'd do better in one of the boarding houses.” “Well, I'll go to the hotel tonight and look ‘round in the morning.” “What's the name, mister?” ‘Ford, Wheatley.” “Where from?” “Baltimore.” £33] “Who you work for there?” 0); “I represent a New ‘York firmi?; And so on, And:so on. 16t? As they came over the top of: low hill, Joey :pointed:out: their destination far off to the left. Neill saw, on a little promontory almost surrounded by blue water, a vil- lage of white houses dazzling in the level rays of the sun. The wide mouth of the river lay beyond, and still farther off, the misty expanse of the Chesapeake. Neill hardened as he looked at the pretty scene. There lay his job. Four Gigantic Ships Ae they turned the next corner in the road, four gigantic shi loomed before them moored side by side, and making a little forest of masts and funnels. It was a sur- prising sight to come upon in that simple countryside. “See them ships?” said Joey. “Them’s what we took from Ger- cs The trim little yacht was lying there. ! curious glances which made him | slightly uneasy because he didn’t | want to be too well remembered afterward. He had to adopt a new | name and character for this expe- | dition. A Ford car passed at the | moment and he noticed a field of wheat darkening for the harvest. ; So be it; he would call himself } gers addressed as “Janet never sent this wire! It’s not her style.” I don’t know her name. Here's what she looks like: brown hair; brown eyes with a kind of sur- prised look. Was wearing a pink silk dress and a black wrap.” “Sure! Sure!” said Neiil shakily. “What's her message?” “She’s on the yacht Nadji in Ab- salom's Harbor, and she’s in bad trouble.” “Where's Absalom’s?” “Southern Maryland. miles south of Baltimore.” “What are the circumstances? What kind of trouble. 5 a8 Neill heard a click as the re- ceiver went up. The line was dead. An Unknown Enemy, Too S Neill went through the lobby, a well-meaning clerk said: “Is = wrong, Mr. Patton?” eill had no notion of confiding jin him. “Why no,” he said easily “What makes you ask?” “There was @ man came to the |desk at 8 this morning asking for jyou. When I said you weren't up, | he wouldn't let me cail you.” |. BWhat sect of man?” | ig fellow; roughly dressed; | stoop-shouldered. 1 went off duty at nine or I would have told you. When | left the building he waz waitiog outside. Di | Robes f | rink you | The clerk laugh This added to his uneasiness The stoop-shouldered man again! Tt looked as if he had a fri an enemy both It was ce: shouldered hi | high~ ‘e, whereas the big fellow’s voice as he had heard it the night before had a subterra- nean rumble. spectéd that wed all around excitement had failed to ice it. In the street he looked sharply up and down but | the big man was not visible then. (Coterie’s, 7, ty Belbert Fogimer) Eighty i | news to his passengers and | Joey said: ; come into the harbor | out in the bay. Ford Wheatley. The driver, whom the passen- “Joey,” ap- peared to be the mair. circulating medium of gossip for the counties. He was a well-set-up young fellow with a snappy fedora on one side ' of his head, and he thought well of himself. He imparted the local Te- ceived what they had in return. | Neill paid little attention to the | talk back and forth. The Briacipel subjects were crops and fishin’. But he pricked up his ears when he heard a voice ask Joey what was the latest from Absalom’s. little yacht fore dawn. fe or something fetched her engi- meer up to town this morning to have a new one made. He calcu- “There was a dand: She busted a | lated to go back with me this ev ning, but he ain’t turned up, so reckon it wasn’t finished in time. Good! thought Neill. The yacht | is still there. “What's the yacht’s name?” asked. “What the hell's that mean?” “Dogged if I know, Henry.” “Who's her owner?” “Gent named Barrett from New York.” New York was too far away to be of any interest to them, and the conversation passed to other mat- ters. Neill Gets Quizzed “ JOEY, did you hear that Jake Stivers hauled seine at Battle Island yesterday and pulled in 3,000 pound of rock?” “No kiddin, “Gemmen, it’s a fact! At 10 cents a pound that’s $300 at one haul.” “That money will burn a hole in Jake's pants, certain. Bet he comes , out in a new automobile, Sunday.” As they bowled down the con- crete road, the afternoon shadows lengthened and the passengers got off one by one. Finally there were y two left for Absalom’s. The t kept turning his head to an inquisitive eye at the At last he said: ester a short badly many after the war. It’s the Mont- elier, the Montmorenci, the Co- lumbia and the Abraham Lincoln. Looks as if they was moored right in the cornfield, don’t it? ‘The river's there, but you-can’t see it from here. Once they was the big- gest and the fastest ships on the ocean. I been aboard ‘em. Jehu! What grand saloons and cabins with the walls covered with hand- — and all! It’s a sight, mis- rt “What are they doing down here?” asked Neill. “The shipping board keeps them down here because there’s good shelter and deep water, it aN agi cgay ale “3 “Are they just rusting “No, indeed: Old Contin Poked and three men lives aboard, they want by the days Tospire apt they want by't! rs. it in Al shape all right. Oneea phe 9 they turn the engines over with “a air.” “What good are they?” “I don't know,”. said Joey. “Some say they’!l be wanted for transports in the next war. Others Say it would save the taxpayers mae | if they was sold for scrap.” “I dare say,” said Neill. A minute or two later they were in the village. The river lay on one side, the inlet that constituted the harbor on the other, the mouth of the river and the bay out in front, The simple frame houses of the fishermen and the lack of trees, the all-surrounding water and the boats at anchor gave the place a sea-going character. There was a tang of salt in the air. il light when they pulled up in still light w! pu! in front of Longcope’s general s! which faced the harbor. Neil?s eyes instantly fastened on the trim ie yacht lying there. A crowd j had gathered on the porch of the store to greet the bus and he de- cided to wait a little until dark | before going out to the yacht. It | would attract less attention. | “Hey, Wickesy!” shouted Joey. | “Here's a lodger for you.” | The — was next door to the i store. It was a staring cla - ed building of several Satins ont of keeping with the old vi | The proprietor, a slack-looking fat man, came forward and Neill sub- mitted to being shown a room, but | declined dinner. It was impossible to think of eating until he had done what he had come for. (Copyright, 1937, by Beibert Foateer) Neill finds Janet and a corpse en ‘the yacht, tomerrow. on ai neighbor's . they were thought be ne discovered apparently by to ciret radio, They were destroyed tue. PERSONAL MENTION. Seceeccesocesaesooesocee Miss Barbara Taylor, daughter jof Colonel Hugh K. Taylor, U. S. A. retired, and Mrs. Taylor, left! eseecececescsoeeseeoeeceees:|French under Montcalm, {on Florida Motor Lines bus this!Mme. Chiang Kai-shek, Chinese|commanders being killed in the morning for Miami, en route to ; Madison, Wisconsin, to resume her studies for her last year of] study at the University of Wis- consin. | Miss Cleo Kemp, daughter of !Dr. and Mrs. William P. Kemp, left this morning by bus for Mi- jami and will from there go to Tallahassee to take up her course of studies for the sophomore year at Florida State College for Wo- ; men. Moreno Wallace, who is em- ployed with the S. J. Groves and !'Sons Company at Little Duck | Key, left this morning for his, |station after a short week end vacation with his family. Mrs. Atugusta Roberts and daughter Joy Louise, who were tspending a vacation with relatives and friends and were guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Sefe- rino Almyda, Jeft this morning by {bas for Miami and will there en- i home in New ews n Acadio, Henriquez, wha. js, thak-| {ing ‘his home in ‘Tampa, was an! argival from , city this sae [ing op; the, SHpamnship Cuba, far a visit wit relatives and, friends. ® mipp Teen Mrs. Antonio Martinez and daughter, Adweni, and son, Tony, who had been Spending some time. in Cuba, have retyrned to Keyi West. Mrs. Martinez was for-) merly Miss Theresa Boll. 1 ‘Harry Rue, formerly of Key West, but who has been making his home in Miami for several years, was included in the recent. arrivals here on a business visit. { ! Lester Archer, son of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Areher, who was spending about two weeks ~ vaca- tion with his grand parents, Mr. and Mrs. George F. Archer at the home on Newton street, left yes- terday morning over the highway for his home in Homestead. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. M. Atnold,; who were in Miami for a™'vaca-' tion of several days, were return-| ing passengers on the Florida Motor Lines bus last evening. | Stanley F. Saunders, first as- sistant keeper at Dry Tortugas; lighthouse, and A. Canalejo,| second assistant keeper, arrived} Saturday for their regular quar-; ‘terly vacation. Paul Mesa, Jr., who was enjoy-, ing a vacation in Miami, Fort Lauderdale and Madison, Fia., and had a fine time, was a re- turning passenger over the high- way Saturday night . i j Peet Sota ae i Miss Dorothy Knowles, who had; been spending a while with rel-; atives and friends in Miami, was al returning passenger on the plane; yesterday morning. | Miss Francis Cale, who was ® visiting with_relatives and friends | for a, while, was .a,passenger on the, afternoon plane, yesterday re-! pe glee earns =| i 6 OTT Mrs, res; ‘Thompson, whe! was 8 while in Miami With friehds,” returned the morning plane yesterday. on Mrs. Rose Kirchik, who was in Jacksonville to attend the wed- ding of her daughter, Miss Ann Constance Krchik to Harry Col-! chin which event was solemnized in the Hebrew Center Sunday, September 5, returned on the i APPRECIATION I wish to publicly thank Ignacio Agramonte Castle of the Knights lof Golden Eagle and the Commit- tee of Festintias for the sponsor- ing of the Grand Verbena on |Laber Day for the benefit of | Mercedes Hospital. Net receipts ; amounted to $108.35. I also wish | to express my appreciation to the | public for their support of this ; Worthy cause. { MARIA GUTSENS, i President Mercedes Hospital. septl3-1t y What They Say Whether Right Or Wrong First Lady: “What Japan is doing is against both the law of God and of na- ture.” James Gordon Gilkey, preacher: “Keep trying new things, keep undertaking new ventures, keep; place to be NewdYprk, City, assuming new responsibilities.” Arthur MacNalty, of British Min- istry of Health: “Nervous breakdown and men- tal diseases give us cause for an- xiety, and cannot be disassociated from modern conditions of life.” Seiichi Kita, retiring Japanaese Military Attache in China: “China is ruining herself for the sake of face.” William Green, president, A. F. of “There will be no third party in 1938 or 1940.” Samuel B. Pettingill, member of Congress linois: “I think four terms in Congress is enough for any man.” retiring from Il August Heckscher, capitalist and philanthropist, on his 89th birthday: “The worst thing on a birthday is to give a man a present; probably doesn’t want it or need it.” READS POEMS TO LIONS PARIS.—Louis Calgrara of this night, and reads his poems them to prove the theory that animals have an artistic sense. RITES IN COURT ROOM CARTHAGE, Mo.—In obedience to a clause in his will, funeral rites for Judge J. D. Perkins of this city were conducted in the court room where he presided more than twenty years. plane from Miami morning. yesterday Henry B. Haskins, assistant superintendent of lighthouses in this district, left on the plane yes- terday afternoon for Miami and from there proceed to Jacksonville to meet an official from Washing- ton, D. C., and with him discuss matters pertaining to the Tender Ivy, now in dry dock. Leonard Warren, son of Mrs. Florence Warren, who was spend- ing his vacation with his mother VIEWS AND REVIEWS|‘Today In History| fk | | icity goes into a cage of lions each! street, Miss Gwynette | to; and Orlando Henriquez were join-| and other relatives, left yesterday by plane for Miami and from there went to St. Augustine to re- sume his studies at the sch0o! for' the blind. SCeecceccacsesecsosecos: | CLASSIFIED COLUMN FOR SALE OLD. PAPERS Five bundles for 5e. wen Office. FOR SALE~ The Citi- may19-tf FOR SALE ‘OR SALE—19-foot boat, 2% Palmer; Boat and Motor in per- fect condition. This is the best boat bargain of the year. Own- er leaving city. Sacrifice for $50.00 cash. 1407 Pine street. F MONKOE THEATER Jeanette McDonald and Nelson Eddy in —MAYTIME— Matinee: Baleony, 10¢; Orches STAR »* BRAND CUBAN COFFEE Is Deliciously Fresh! —TRY IT TODAY— On Sale At All Grocers Effective May 30, 1937 8. 8. CUBA Leaves Port Tampa on Sundays and Wednesdays at 4:00 P. M., arriving Key West 7 A. 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