The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 15, 1937, Page 3

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1937, SYNOPSIS: Neill, a you..g fed- eral agent, quarrels with Janet, a comely Baltimore girl, because she won't break a date with Prescott Fanning. Neill suspects him of being a crook. To check up, he finds Fanning at his hotel bar and they get acquainted. Next day Neill wakes up, realiz- ing he’s been doped. Ja: et, Fan- ning and Fanning’s yacht ate gone. A mysterious phone .call tells him Janet’s in trouble on the yacht at Absalom’s Harbor. Neill rushes to the fishing village and rows to the Nadji after dark, In a locked cabin he finds Fan- ning shot dead and Janet un- harmed, but in a faint with o gun beside her. Chapter Nine A Hideout For Janet NEG set his jaw and consid- ered. He was on the other side now. He was hunted instead of the hunter. Quite a different thing. No powerful department tc back him up now. Strictly on his own. Where could he tind Janet a hideout? The obvious thing was to hire a car and drive to town; buta car could be traced and in that case his usefulness as her defender would be over. He must be on the spot in order to discover the truth of this affair. Where could he put her under cover in this unfamiliar neck of the woods? Suddenly he thought of the,dark ship: up river. “Take me away! Take me away!” murmured Janet. “Okay, Jen. We’re getting out.” Running back into the after cabin, he snatched up her velvet wrap where it lay on a chair. It was a flimsy garment. Apparently that and the gauzy evening dress were all she had. Not enough to keep her warm in an open boat. He oe up a traveling rug that lay folded on a seat locker and, re- turning to the saloon, wrapped her in it. She clung to him. Carrying her up on deck and down the lad- der, he deposited her in the stern seat of the skiff. He paused to make sure that eve ing was straight in his mind..Must take food He started back aboard the yacht. Janet raised up, instantly wild with terror. “Don’t leave me!” “Only to get something to eat. Back in a jiff.” ; . In the pantry adjoining the din- ing saloon on deck he found a re- frigerator stocked with cooked food of various sorts. He packed everything hastily in a tin bread box along with the bread and ran out on deck again. “Hurry! lurry!”. murmured Janet in the skiff alongside. “Half a moment!” He gave a hasty glance in the direction of the shore. All Sue there. Remembering a flashlight he had seen on the book-case in the saloon, he ran down to get it. While below he thought of some- thing else. In the after cabin he dropped to his knees beside the dead man and went through his pockets. Finding the little photo- graph of Janet that Fanning had en from him the night before, he transferred it to his own pocket, and hastened up on deck. Casting off the painter of his skiff, he ran out the oars and pulled towards the open water. Sounds From Shore AS NEILL rowed along with the lights of the e on his left, it was still only about nine o’clock and there was plenty of life in the place. He could see shadowy fig- ures passing under the street lights, while the sounds of do; barking, motor horns and male laughter from the porch of Long- cope’s store reached his ears, Fur- ther along he could hear music coming through the open windows of the moving picture theater. At Absalom’s Point he lay on his oars for a moment debating whether it might not be better to row across the bay. It was a calm ps ad and he could have made it in lety. Nobody would think of looking for Janet over there. But it was 15 miles and he couldn’t aged Ret back before daylight. or visit her there. No. Better the ships. he turned the point and rowed on up the wide river, pass- ing along the other side of the vil- he os, of Janet bowed and silent under her blanket wrenched him with pain. After what she had been through what could he say to her? To have tried to make light talk would sound like mockery. In the end it was Janet who spoke. “Where was Fanning when you came aboard the yacht?” Neill thought her mind was wandering. “Never mind him,” he said gruffly. “He won't trouble you any more.” “Did you kill him?” she asked simply. “Don't want to talk about it,” said Neill. “All right,” she said, perfectly docile. “Nothing matters as long as we are together.” He hated to think of leaving her alone in her present condition. But there was no help for that. It would be impossible to trust any- body he didn’t know to take care of her. Travis county, Maryland, being pein eae from the great world an that its | People at best were teed to be Leaves Port Tam P. M., arriving K Leaves Key West Monday for Havana ia. suspicious of strangers. Somenow or other he must take care of Janet and save her too. “Pm so thirsty!” she presently murmured like a child. Neill’s heart sank for he had for- gotten water. He looked along the village front. It would not be too easy for a stranger to obtain wa- ter. If he went to somebody's well it would lead to awkward ques- tions. And he had nothing to car- ry water in. The main and only road into the village came down along the river shore before striking across the neck to the harbor in front of Longcope’s. Midway. alohg this road he distinguished the lighted front of a store. One could always buy something to drink. In front of the store the usual little pier ran out into the river. The water was shallower on this side and it was a long pier. Janet could re- main hidden in the dark at the end of it. He hesitated. There was a terri- ble risk in landing now. If he were seen, he would be remembered. However, it had to be taken. He rowed in and tied the skiff to the end of the pier. “What's this for?” she asked nervously. “T’m going to get water for you.” “No, no. I don’t want water.” “We've got to have water,” “Can’t I come with you?” “Your dress would attract too ; much attention.” “Ah, don’t be long,” she said with a catch in her breath. He walked in over the creaking planks, climbed the bank, crossed the road, and entered the store. It was a much smaller and tidier store than Longcope’s and busi- ness was not so good. The little old man who kept it was grateful to the unlooked-for customer. | Neill bought two bottles of carbo- nated water. On his way out of the store a sedan coming from the direction of town passed rapidly and slid to a quick stop a short distance be- yond. Neill had an uncomfortable feeling that this stop was in some way connected with himself. Somebody was looking out of the back window, the face merely a grayish blur through the glass. There was nothing he could do about it. He hastened down the bank and out over the pier. Janet let out a shaking breatt of relief at the sight of him. The car went on and turned the corner. Present- ly a car came back, but Neill couldn’t tell if it was the same one. Who Could It Be? ‘HEY went on, and finally passed the last houses of the village. Now there was a dark field between the road and the river. Neill had rewed upwards of two miles, but he was still only some hundreds of yards from the yacht across the neek of land. Suddenly from the dark shore a light flashed out over the water and searched the river up and cown. It was evi- dently a Ssupe slesiric torch held in somebody’s hand. Neill pulled the skiff’s head around and rowed further out into the river. He couldn’t be sure whether the light had picked them up, and a nasty anxiety attacked him. Why should anybody stand on the shore casting his light over the water unless he were looking for them? And who could be look- ing for them? Who could guess. that they were about to pass that spot? The light went out, and nothing came of it then, but Neill’s anxiety remained. He rowed on, keeping about a furlong off shore. © opposite shore was invisible in the dark, Here and there at long distances a dim light showed in the window of a farmhouse, and up river the red light of a gas buoy twinkled off and on, marking some shoal. With aeety poll of Neill’s oars, two lit- tle eddies of phosphorescence swirled astern. A soft the south sprang up. reeze from Janet exclaimed: “What’s that?” | Looking over his shoulder, Neill saw the masts and the funnels of | the four great ships cising against | the stars. “The German ships t over to us after the war are m here,” he said. “Wy would expect to find them here!” she murmured. Neill thought it over. It was a desperate chance to take, but any way you looked at it their situa- tion was desperate. If there were only four men aboard, it was not enough to keep a close watch at night. In one of the cabins below he could make Janet comfortable, Where could he hope to find a bet- ter hiding place? “Jen,” he said, “what would you say to going aboard one of the empty ships to hide until we can decide what's best to be done? oa ots be afraid?” “Not if you were with m Neill.” = He pulled up to the outermost ship. Her smooth steel side rose towering over their heads like a cliff, ghostly and awe-inspiring in the night. No sound came from aboard her. “How could we get on?” whis- go Janet. “That's just the question,” sai Neill with a brief laugh. é (Copyright, 1937, by Hulbert Footer) Neill finds a watchmas on the dark ships, tomorrow. Peninsular & Occidental Steamship Company on Sundays i Wednesdays at 4:00 s and Thursdays, Sand Thursdays 8:30 A.M. | aves Key West Tuesdays and Fridays 5 P. M. for Port For further information and rates call Phone 14 J. H. COSTAR, Agent. i GIANTS ADD ONE MORE GAME TO LAND INDIANS; TON SENATORS {Special to The Citizen) appearances in large numbers. | Errors figured prominently in the big scores. In three games teams, 12 miscues were made. Out of eight games in the old- ter circuit, 20 errors were record- ed. | The race {League grew hotter the National among the in ;but the New Yorkers pulled a full game more ahead of the Cubs, making a total of a two and a half game iead. The fight in ithe junior loop remained about the same, with interest slowly waning, except among Detroit Tiger rooters, “King” Carl Hubbell won his 19th game of the season in the opening contest of a doublehead- er between New York Giants and Pittsburgh Pirates. Although his hard, Hubbell was able to keep the Bucs’ runs down to two while his teammates scored 12 off 12 hits. Bianten held the league- leaders to eight safeties as Pirates went on to a 6 0 2 vic- tory. Boston Bees’ pitching was too much for Chicago Cubs. Lanning handcuffed the Bruins with five bingles in the curtain-raiser of a twin bill, which the Bees won by the overwhelming shutout score ed eight-hit ball but Danny Mac- Boston won again, 4 to 2. St, Louis Cardihals pulled up to a tie with Pittsburgh Pirates for third place by whipping Phila- a double barrell affair, 9 to 8 and 1 to 0. The Oards made four errors in the opener and the Phillies, three. This contest went 14 innings. The Gashouse Gang piled up 17 hits. In the nightcap, which was called at the end of the first-half of the fifth inning on account of darkness, Lon War- neke won a 1-0 victory. He held the Phils to five hits, while tke best the Cards could do off ‘the combined hurling of Walters and Muleahy was four bingles. Brook'yn Dodgers jcontests from Cincinnati Reds, with the aid of five errors. Out- jhti 4 to 6 in the curtain-raiser, {the Dodgers won 4 to 2 as_ the |Reds miscued three times. The | Brooklynites hit hard in the final ‘fracas to win 11 to 2. Marrow turned in a six-hit a‘fair for the Dodgers in this contest. New York ‘Yankees |Clveland Indians, 17 to 5. buried The hits and three Indian errors. tattac’: on three Washingon Sena- ter pitchers and scord 11 runs to ‘six for the Nats, who committed ! four miscues, Louis Browns also ran up score with Philadelphia tics as the victims. Final played among American League jthree teams in back of the Giants | twin bill, Caraballo Red Devi! the | of 9 to 0. Bryant and Root pitch-! Fayden went them one better and! delphia Phillies in both ends of! took two! | Yanks scored their runs on 16) Detroit Tigers staged a 13-hit | THE KEY WEST CITIZEN FOLLOWING THROUGH DOUBLE HEADER AT BAYVIEW PARK LEAD; BEES WON} THURSDAY NIGHT |*Sss222" “icca:ny YANKEE BOMBARDED CLEVE-|NEW “CLUB HAS ENTERED DETROIT OVERWHELMED WASHING- SENIOR DIAMONDBALL CIR- CUIT; OPENER WILL BEGIN AT 8 O'CLOCK Double header of diamondball NEW YORK, Sept. 15.—Over-| will be played tomorrow night at whelming scores were numerous|Bayview Park between Senior in the big leagues yesterday.| League teams. This will be the : : -.{opening of the night league as Rookie pitchers also made their|0PC™ns © 8 ene one ee eee pe Tl the contest scheduled Monday evening-was called off because of wet grounds, A new club has entered the league—the Army players. They claim their club will be the dark horse of the circuit. The new outfit has players of the caliber of Nodine, White, Goehring and other stars who will be seen in action tomorrow |night. In the opening fracas of the ;and Quality Food Store will bats for seven innings. The w ner of this contest will lead the league until the duration of the nightcap, which will witness Army club and Roberts Stars, The vic- torious club of the. second con- {test wil! go into a tie with the winning aggregation of the in- \itial game for first place. | Batteries for the curtain-raiser will be C. Gates ‘ and’ Ingraham Acevedo for the Satans. Waite and Nodine wi!l fo « the battery for the Soldiers in the final set-to and E. Roberts and Stickney for the Stars, Lights will go on at 7:30 o’clock and opening contest will begin at 8 o'clock. “Home” clubs will be the Red | Devils and Stars. | A new schedule will be pub- jlished in The Citizen tomorrow. The 1937 softball rules will be jin effect. Ten players will be al- lowed to each team, carella and Lombardi. Second Game | At Cincinnati | Brooklyn ... e Cincinnati < e Or ae | Batteries: Marrow and Cher- ;vniko. Kleinhans, Mooty and | Cmapbell. \ First Game At Chicago Boston Chicago R. H. E. 914 0 eee Batteri Lanning and Muel- ler; Carleton, Logan and Hart- nett. Second Game At Chicago R. H. EB. | Boston 4.822 Chicago ae eg Peay Batteries: MacFayden and Lo- | pez; Bryant, Root and Hartnett. First Game At St. Louis R. HE 814 3 <8 174 {Philadelphia ...... i St. Louis Innings) ri Passeau, LaMaster, Muleahy, Kelleher and Grace; Si Johnson, K ke, Krist and Ogrodowski. qi4 1 Second, Game Av%t, Louis 4 ; Philadelphia i Ist. Louis 2 Ate. | (Called, end of first-half of fi seh, account, pf, darkries Batter : I fe ' jand ' dows! for the Grocers and Ward and M.} of New York ‘Yankees says there will be no dead ball in the American League next year. If there is, the Yanks will be “sunk”. 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