The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 2, 1939, Page 3

THURSDAY, MARCH 2, 1939 DANGEROUS S | y GRACE EL! } One afternoon Petronella tele- Peter Mallone: A potential newspaperman. Petronella: His loyal young sister. Tony Lance: Famous foreign corr te Yesterday: Petrel flirts wildly, but realizes she will never forget Tony, now in China, Chapter 11 Cable From England PBOnELLA was dancing with one of the A.D.C.’s, resplendent in his full dress uniform, with its golden epaulettes, and crowned by iper hat, when Mather, of the Po. tapped him on the back, “May I speak to you a moment?” She heard her partner’s low ex- clamation of concern. He returned. “Sorry, Petrel, I shall have to leave vou, for the rest of this dance, Perhaps you will carry on with Mather?” “Has anything happened? You look queer.” He half smiled at her. “Yes, small news-hound. Some kind of trouble at Tharawaddy. You'll know soon enough.” phoned her brother at his chum- mery. The butler answered. Mister | Mallone had “gone out very quick- Wee She smiled. That described eter’s customary state very well these days. He was always rushing | off somewhere, n search of news, | to obscure parts of the bazaar, to distant villages. Every now and then he was granted a few days | leave, She had interceded for him | with his boss, the day after he | entrained without leave for Tha- tawaddy. His boss had goods | naturedly given him more free- dom, Even as she replaceé the re | ceiver, believing wistfully that she probably would-not see Peter for at least a week, she heard a car | in the drive. Whoops, shouts, and heavy feet rushing into the house left her little doubt that she was mistaken. It was Pecer. | “Petrel, where are you? It’s! come! A job on the News. I've got | it.” i He picked her up and whirled her round the room. She cracked | an ankle on a chair, in the course | of their dance of joy, so that her | 4 | laughter was mixed with tears of | pain. Stop, it and tell me, you fool, | With faltering.steps they went| tell me! once more round the room, Then they stopped. Petronella was not the only lady left partnerless. One by one, all the older, and official men, left the floor. The rest of the dancers clustered together in groups. “What has happened, what is it?” Somebody made an .an- nouncement from the platform. “There ig no cause for alarm, Will you all go on dancing, Please?” But the atmosphere of anxiety sharpened, Rumors started. Her Partner knew the trurh, but she could not ask him. When the music rest. cpa she escaped, joined Colin, and crowced with others, down the staircase, and into the hall. All pretended to be on their way to the refreshment room, or the gar- den. There was no outward ae et of curiosity. Somebody behind said: “They are holding a cabinet meeting in the dining-room,” The door of the dining-room pense, just_ as Petronella and ‘olin passed it. Bas saw the Gov- ernor, the Chief of Police, Colonel Mallone, and all the official men responsible for the welfare of Bur- ma, seated round the long, polished table. Their faces were grave. But some of them had forgotten to re- moye the bright paper caps from their heads. “It’s like the ball before Water- loo,” she flashed. It was not until an hour later that she learned the reason for that now historical, hastily summoned conference, which marked the be-7 ant of the rebellion. Colin rought her a scrap of paper. “Peter left this for you.” She read it. “Petrel, dear, a Forest man murdered by rebels near Tharawaddy. The military, includ- ing father, are going out by train at once. Somehow, I’m going, too. Shall hide on the train. It’s a chance in a hundred that they'll let me stay, if they find out, so keep quiet about this. Love, Peter,” She handed it to Colin. She was thinking fast. It was useless to try to stop him. He must go. But ap- peeserly it had not occurred to jim to wonder what his firm would say about it, or that he might possibly have wangled a ticket, and traveled legitimately. “Colin, I may be able to fix this for him. The editor of the Rangoon News said he was interested in Peter, the other day. Come on!” In a dark, quiet street in Ran- goon, they stopped the car, dived into a doorway, and ran up bare wooden stairs, past the silent presses, to the untidy outer edi- torial office. ‘Rather A Risk’ ‘HEY found the editor in his evening dress shirt sleeves. He ‘was preparing a special edition. His telephone was ringing. But it took more than that to excite jumor. “What can I do for you, Miss Mallone?” “Give my brother Peter an offi- cial press card, asking for a pass to Tharawaddy,” she said frankly. “He's going, ee: For the Lon- don Daily News. he went for he'd evoid get =~ as well, ito trouble, and you'll get a hot account.” “That is asking me to take rather a risk. I've never employed him before.” He blinked at her. Already, while he objected, he was considering her proposition. “But you now—please?” smiled at one another. He hand. after them, and smiled. “What made me do that?” he When 1930 had changed to 1931, Peter had become a ial cor- SPEED PRODUCTION WELLINGTON — The central! CHORLEY—There is a custom| executive of a bureau of indus- try has been found to concen- trate on working out plans for “A cable!” He showed it to her: | “Burma's rebellion no longer | news (stop). Hand over to Cal- cutta man, ‘brief reports only | (stop). Offer you job on staff com- | mencing £250, with damned hard work. Rowdon.” Narrow, Blind, A Fool | “pater. oh, Peter, it’s true!” She | hugged him. The next moment | she said blankly: | “You'll go home! I shall have to | stay here. When will you go?” He | knew that her heart was crying out, that she wanted to go too. “I shall hate leaving you. If you | like— —” “No, of course. you must go. I'll be all right. What do you think | father will say?” “I can guess,” he grinned. “I thought of giving a month’s no- tice, because they’re overworked already in Mallers, It will give | them time to get someone else. I | shall have to repay my passage | money gradually, unless the old man comes across,” | She broke the news to her father, | gently, “Leave Mallers—ridiculous! For a-precarious job on Fleet Street? T won't hear of it, they'll fire him | within a month, and he'll be out | of work again. ‘He shan’t have a single rupee from me towards his passage, e accepts.” | At that, something mercile: young and very critica: in Petre] rose in ioep peninst her parent. He-was he ty-but he was nar- Tow, blind,.a fool. | “It is all settled, I’m afraid, Fa- | ther. He has his return ticket, and | if he asks the firm to trust him to refund the money, gradually, I | | think they’ll agree. They like Peter. He’s reserving a berth on the ‘Stirland,’ sailing a month to- | morrow.” | Maisie Mason received Petrel’s third unhappy letter at the “Forest | House” on a Saturday evening in | early March. Usually, she had to | wait till Monday for the Burma | mail. Only, occasionally, it came through quickly. __ When she saw the familiar writ- ing, the mauve stamps, her heart moved with excitement. ‘She smiled. But she took off her coat | and hat, unhurriedly, closed the door ard sat beside the fire. She tore the letter open, But as she read, the smile left her lips. An angry flush rosé in Miss Mason's withered cheek. She stiffened re- | sentfully. “The blind fool!” the words | snapped themselves out. She rus- | over to the next flimsy page oi fast flowi: girlish writi angrily. The chil was miserable Having the time of her life on the | surface, with all this gaiety, till she was worn out. But suffering secretly. Sh of Peter’s dep: . Marriage in- deed! She was eighteen. There was no need. Pat was criminally insen- sitive, as he always had been. He was trying to persuade the ra to violate both body and soul. To fol- low his head, instead of her heart. With Peter gone she might give in. But with Peter gone there was no oint in her spending her life in jurma. “If only I could come wil home with him, away from it all, Auntie, and | wait till P’'ve seen this man again, I might feel differently about it. Free! But, of course, it is all so flimsy. Probably I’m just a fool; perhaps he never cared at all; pos- sibly father is right——” Exaspe: ratedly, Maisie put down | the letter. For five minutes (os sat bolt ea yey sare at the », thinking. Then she stood Determination and resolve set me features grimly. She stalked into the hall, and picked up the tele- phone. # fo het edond at the want to send a cable, rate, to Burma. I hi dear?” lin this city to hang shoes on | Strings in the kitchen to keep jcockroaches away. 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