The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 4, 1938, Page 5

abel w~ se, a ie a RG, hy Ne ye ge HN, A iy A, “a, a a i i, * oie Ps SATURDAY, IU? pee ee House BY PHOEBE ATWOOD TAYLOR The Story So Far: Quanomet ts aroused when tts citizens are cart- catured in the post office mural, The next night the artist’s wife, unscrupulous Marma Lorne, 1s murdered with her sister's knife. Pamela Frye appeats to Asey Mayo, Cape Cod detectwe, teil- ing him she found $50,000 worth of ambergris which Marina tried to claim, and hid it after dis- covering Marina dead in the garage. Aware that someone, smoking, Turkish ‘tobacco, is tis- tenung, Asey has Pam announce @ false hidino-place for the am- bergris Police arrive with Doe Cummings, .who says the mur derer 13 left handed. After Asey conceals Pam’ in his house the mysterious tistener returns. Then someone knocks at’ the door. Chapter Eight Pleasant Young Man ) salaiadead the young: fellow did not belong to Hanson's outfit, nor could Asey recall ever seeing before that longish face. and the thick horn rimmed glasses. it was possible that he might be a messenger from Dr. Cummings— the doc was always commandeer- ing tourisss to do his errands. and this one had the usual raw and untanned look of the newly ar- rived summer visitor. Of course, Asey thought, there was the possibility that this fellow might be the prowlec who had overheare Pam's story, and crawl- ed off through the pines. The im- maculateness of his white linen suit _ en he couldn't have craw! anything, f siona Lug ae: of dusty sae PRS grove. But that was no conclusive pie He might have a car stuffed full of clean white linen sui “ust such crawlings. f Asey swung the door open’ ere “Mr. Mayo?” the young man smiled. A aienant smile, Asey con- ceded, and a quiet, wel! bred sort ot voice. “I'm Mayo.” “How do you do? My name is Carr, Ln gc ody (me a boarder at Octagon Hor “Yes,” Asey ‘said, in a tone that said perhaps be was Mr. Carr of Octagon House, and perhaps he was not. “The police have been here to ‘ou? And the doctor?” They've been here.” Asey’s grudging her Mr, Cat, did not r to bothe: an. “feats tin ie,” he sali “because itll save of ‘any amount of ex- .planations. Of course, as a matter of fact, 1 knew quite well that they have been here. Mr. Mayo, I'd like to come in and with you about } this affair. | told Mr. Frye I'd talk to you, and—” ak what?” Asey demanded ‘And | intend ‘0,’ Mr. Cair smiled his engaging smile. “I fully se ton sah ot ae ue stand and--yel ous! your s iid paneled door. It would. f to have to yell, but on _ other hand, 1 promised Mr. Frye.’ He spoke very quietly, but he ebvionuls meant what he said. ie pone. “Come on in,” he as an ‘And £ have a verbal message from Dr. Cummings, tao,” Timothy said as he followed Asey into the living room. “He'll be over | you, Shortly.” “If youd told me that fi hones said, “you'd have got at know, but ['d have been en- tering under false pretenses,” Carr said amiably, sitting down on the couch and watching Asey draw the window snades. “I do really want to talk with you about this affair, and the message was incidental. | wes coming here any- way. And T wanted to find out if you were Ned adamant about baile with ease as that man ated to think. Gran mrt —that is, my grandmother faking I, ‘we poth decided you were now T'm sure you are. ran § an old Asey Mayo fan, she Teads every scrap she can find about you in the papers.” BHAT Aid Hanson aye” Asey tered with another ques- tion. Timoth: bee Palais Be his ets feet “ot pre ha redeemi ve some ing teature, and heaven knows his teeth aren't it, or his brains. Look, to begin with, Aaron Frye is frantic Hanson set a copper over him, and forbade his gurdiag Octagon House, which made him more frantic. Gren and f worried about him, and the only way we could calm him at ali was to prom- ise that we'd come to you and ask your help. Hanson said we "t go, but the doctor took our part, and gave me that message when Hanson was otherwise oecupied.” He paused and pulled a . cigarette case. The initials, Ase: noticed, did not stand for Timothy Carr, Oey Mr. Carr spelled Tim- id Carr with an M. weaitnats Acer t you're smokin'?" filthy things?” Timothy got up and offered him the case. “They're Gran’s fault, she has an elderly beau in the tobacco business who gives her these in carload lots.” Asey declined the cigarettes and jighted his pipe. Mr. Carr, he thought, was as left handed a bs, Poa man as he had observed in some ti “What “he asked casually, you say your name was?” “Carr, Tim Carr—eh, you saw those initials? That’s Gran again. She gave me this case when 1 was 21. She brooded a week to find a suitable sentiment to have en- graved. on it..and with great sim- plicity she landed on G Grown Man,” he explained. “I see,” Asey said. “You're quite a southpaw, ain't 2 Tim Carr stared at him. “You certainly take everything in!’ he said with admiratign. “I’m left handed, but f'm really not grist to your mill, you know. Gran and 1 are alibied by the movies. But that left handed item is one of a number of odd and instructive de- tails | wanted to talk with you about, if you'd care to hear ‘em. Things lilke how | fell in love with Marina, and my offering | to kill her. and all--shall 1 go on? “Just why.” Asey inquired, “are you so lush an’ lavish with your information?” “Whenever it seems likely that 1 shall] become involved in a situ- ation,” Timothy said, “I find it’s simpler to tell than wait to be found out about.” “did for! “Won't vou have one ~o the First sale of tax certificates under the provisions of the Mur- pny Aci tor the month of June. was held yesterday afternoon, and was conducted by Clerk Ross C. Sawyer There were but 29 applications and the total number of parcels were 40. This is the smallest sale since the bill became effective. “A noble an’ high-minded senti- ment,” -Asey commented, trying ate to wens a the pine needle that push sole stitching of rr's ee and white sadd!e. shoes. "Almost lofty,” Bellowing With Rage’. ES,” Timothy agreed;, “it’s the ty} of homely. honesty 1 try to inplex in the young, and it gets me promoted to a mastership over much worthier folk. I’m a teacher * of mathematics, by the way, in. Banks and Webster's swanky little prep school on upper Madison Avenue. Everything pointed to- ward my becoming an architect. originally. Everything except the depression, and that pointed to a job. Once I got into this quadratic surd business, I never dared leave a regular salary. Just another square I'm quite sure.” he added, “that you don't care a rap about my career or my early youth, but if going into them will melt those hase suspicions gleaming in your eyes, 1 certainly asad go into them, at great Jength: ‘eg “Just what. makes you feel that you'll be involvéd in’ ye busi- ness?” Aséy asked tasual “All themnurdérs I’ ve. Pe? about’ in fiction‘and ini the ope “° Tim- othy said, “alyyays: -up--vast quantities of deta’ aa Eocene bystanders, AI kien: inno- cent oro! is ran and J,are Gyatasrasrac he ee tiaahe: how ane-slips imto tite lanj age murder, isn't-it? Gran just called it Fou) Deed , whenpeo- ple » begin - ae nto. Marista.’ they? 2g bes Dome rage an ung mynderpus , threats. It at sing) Jer to, tell you oy ia wodk grand grand ihbther,” Azey, said reasonably, mst Marina si een. i ge ef time did yo cactienttet xt door to her for? hat made made yaa" comé to, Quanr. omet?” “You don’t think we knew she was here!” Timothy said. “Perish the thought! We came because Gran had flu last month, badly and expensively, and we needed cheap country for her to rest in. Gran found the Fryes’ ad, and we both liked .it. It said, ‘Old fashioned boarders wanted, for impossibly inconvenient ‘house with no mod- ern improvements whatsoever. Oil lamps, outhouse, pump. Prunes for breakfast, catch your own fish, dig jo own clams.’ It had a curiously onest ring. And titen when I found out it waS an ogfagon house, that elinched tatters. I've plese fan gy rs a ated n lon't know why. ve collected a lot of junigal ieaboue § them. Pictures, photographs, floor plans, the old Orson Fow book, So Gran and I came—” Fee hy me ” Asey séla oud ht- “That aame seems fami liar. ne: was Fowler?” * He knew perfectly’ well who Fowler was, for up in his attic were : eonger odd cine books, the legacy of a great-uncle. Most of them concerned logy, but the rest covered practically every- thing from bee-keeping to the evils of tight laci “Fowler, Timothy said, “was some lad.” And forthwith he em- barked on a discussion of Fowler, his inventior of the octagon house, the grave) wall mode of buildi and the general sanity of Fowler's architectural ideas. “Yes,” Asey said, a little disa; pointed that he had not been able to catch Mr, “but let's get back to Marina Lorne. You knew Marina in New York. You must have known where she came 2 | from.” (Cobrright, 1938, Phoste Atmocd Teyler) Mondo News of Octagon House, AL EATS EGGS egon—As a demon- iBtratiom.of the fodd value of eggs, T. S. Easton, “high school principal of this city, ate dozen raw eggs before his two class. WwouLD SAVE PENNY ST. PAUL When sued $14.01, Mrs. Clara McKay city admitted that she but engaged a lawyer to claim for the extra cent. fight the «» Washington rselves ! * pany , ago, and this was the first THE KEY WES? CITIZEN YANKS SWEEP SERIES WITH | DETROITMEN CUBS GAIN GAME ON GIANTS | AS BIG BILL LEE COMES WITHIN ONE GAME OF REC- ORD ON SHUTOUTS (Speeint to The Citizens NEW YORK, June 4—New| York Yankees swept the three- game series with Detroit Tigers | as they defeated the Detroitmen | yesterday, 5 to 1. Red Ruffing| turned in an excellent pitching | performance, giving up only sev- | out of a cae and blasted a home | run to aid’ Ruffing. lind * Indians ‘lost however, as, they pg al “Philadelphia Athletics, 10 to 5,/ amassing ‘15 safé blows: off-a trio | ‘GP ‘Athletic pitéhers: - 1 Senators barely | missed blanking Chicago White| Sox. Final score was 5 to 1. Wes) Ferrell was on the mound. for the Nats, and turned in a six-hit af-} fair. And still Big Bill Lee continues | to be very stingy with runs. Hej} lacks but one game for a shutout record. He let Boston Bees down yesterday with but three hits to | blank them, 4 to 0. In a battle of 11 innings, St. Louis Cardinals came out on top, | play visiting teams during the © 7 to 6, as Moory knocked a single with the bases loaded and two in the Cards’ half of the second ex- tra frame. Enos Slaughters gar- nered four hits and made the big six, the sixth man. | New York Giants are now only a game and a half ahead of the Cubs. The New Yorkers lost }to. Pittsburgh Pirates, 6 to 5, as their pitching staff collapsed as well as their hitting. Although «the Bucs made four errors, Kling- _er, a rookie, still defeated the »New Yorkers. Brooklyn Dodgers edged out Cincinnati Reds, 5 to 4. Results of the games: National League At St. Louis Philadelphia St. Louis 816 1 Sivess, Smith, Mulcahy and Atwood; Weiland, Davis, Harrell, | Macon and Owen. R.H.E. 5 We ee At Cincinnati R.H.E. Brooklyn 1 Cincinnati 472 Mungo, Posedel and Phelps; Derringer, R. Davis and Lom- bardi. At Chicago R. H. E. Boston 030 Chicago 48 \) Fette, Errickson and Mueller; |Lee-and Hartnett. rs 4 ae Seenecnamn apenetl 3 Aé Pittsburgh RB. HE. New ‘York it: 5 8 0 Pittsburgh (4 re 612 4 Gurmbert,'Lohrman, Brown and Danning; Klinger and Todd. American League At New York R. * . Detroit 1 New York 5 H 0 Git, Coffman and Tebetts; Ruffing and Dickey. At Philadelphia R. H. E. Cleveland 1015 0 Philadelphia 511.0 Allen and Pytilak; Thomas, Pot- ter, Williams and Hayes. At Washington . 1. EB Chicago 6 2 Washington o:4 Lee and Schuleter; W. Ferrell and R. Ferrell. MANY TIRES WILL BE SHIPPED 0 Approximately 200 automobile tires were on the Mallory dock awaiting shipment by the WPA to the Apex Manufacturing Com- of Providence, Rhode Is- R. 1 5 land Workers on WPA projects said r that there had been another lot of used tires disposed of some time fot which had been shipped to the present consignee Sports Editor, The Citizen: Following is my choice for ! the All Star Baseball Team, | which will play teams from j other sections of the state and + from Cuba during the Celebra- ; | tion of the formal opening of i the Overseas Highway July | 2-4: 4 -| | | i a ALLSTAR BLANKS FORFANSTO VOTE AT GAMES SUNDAY’ SLUGGERS WILL PLAY TWIN BILL WITH STARS AND RED: DEVILS; OPENING CONTEST STARS AT 1:30 P. M. All-Star Team blanks so that fans may vote for their choice of | players to be on the club that will Highway Celebration wil be dis- tributed at the doubleheader at Navy Field tomorrow. The twin bill tomorrow will be the final games of the Monroe! County Baseball League’s first- half. Sluggers, under Manager Roy Hamlin, will play ‘the double- header. They .will tangle with the Stars in the opener and Red Devils in the nightcap. Sluggers will use the follow- ing line-up: Gonzalez, cf; Mul- lins, ss; Al. Rodriguez, c; Cates, 2b; Geo. Acevedo, 3b; Goss, 1b; J. Roberts, If; Stanley, rf and Bethel, p. Stars will use: Al. Acevedo, 2b; J. Garcia, 3b; M. Acevedo, ss; P. Carbonell, rf; J. Navarro, c; Bar- celo, 1b; F. Acevedo. cf; Malgrat, p; E. Acevedo, Stone and C. Gar- cia, reserves. Sluggers will use practically the same lineup in the second contest, with Salinero in the box. Red Devils will have: C. Grif- fin, c; Gates, p; Sterling, 1b; Sweeting, 2b; Baker, 3b; A. Ace- © vedo, ss; Molina, ef; Gabriel, lf; M, Griffin ,rf; Villareal, reserve. Opening fracas will begin at 4:30,p..m.., + Standings; Adasen MONROE, COUNTY LEAGUE (Baseball) Club— Sluggers Stars Red Devils 3 HOW THEY STAND MAJOR LEAGUES (Baseball) American League Club WwW. L. Cleveland 26 «13 New York 23 15 Washington 25 18 Beston uv Detroit 19 21 Philadelphia 15 22 Chicago 12 21 St. Louis 1 3 National oer. Club— L New York = 13 Chicago 2 16 Boston 19 15 Pittsburgh i9 18 Cincinnati 2 20 St. Louis 17 @ Brooklyn 16 26 Phildaelphia now 08 pon as yin nr BEAUTIFY YOUR HOME In Bath, Kitchen, Porch Sanitary, Decorative, Colorful Cuban Tile. Resilient Tile, Marble Terrazzo. See— Overseas Tile Company 706 White Street BALLOT COUPON | | j_ bell (6-1) vs. _ LIGHT KEEPER LEFT YESTERDAY B. F. Sasnett, second assistant keeper at American Shoals light- house, who had been spending his ‘quarterly vacation in the with his family, city left yesterday morning to resume his duties. TODAY’S GAMES AMERICAN LEAGUE The trip to_the light was made on Power Boat 31 in which John N. Roberts was a passenger. Mr. Roberts went to the light to do St. Louis at New York—New- some partieular work for the de- som (5-2) ys. Gomez (3-5). Chicago at Philadelphia—Lyons (2-1) vs. Caster (4-5). Cleveland at Washingten—Fel- * ler (6-1) vs. Hogsett (2-2). vs. Grove (8-1). NATIONAL LEAGUE }partment. REFUNDED TAXES CHICAGO.—Mrs. Bell Watson of this city paid taxes on a lot in Detroit at Boston—Bridges (1-2) | Spokane, Wash.; when she decided to visit the spot. She couldn’t find and was given a tax refund. for five years the property, New York at Cincinnati—Hub- Grissom (0-3). Boston -at St. Louis—Turner (4-3) vs. McGee (2-3): Brooklyn at Pittsburgh—Ta- mulis (0-1) vs. Tobin (3-3). Philadelphia at Chicago—Mul- | cahy (3-6) or LaMaster (1-3) vs. French (3-5). 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