The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 17, 1939, Page 4

...-Shat she be given only * “Thve PAGE FOUR DANGEROUS SERVIC E GRACE ELLIOTT TA’ The Characters Peter Mallone: Adventurous netospaper correspondent. Petronella: His accomplished young sister. Tony Lance: British agent, the ‘man Petrel loves. Yesterday: The Mallones spend Christmas in Alexandria as guests of Michael, who wants to marry Petrel. Chapter 24 Cairo JETRONELLA stood beside the window of the flat in Alexan- dria. The room was in darkness except for the small lamp on the desk. Its light caught the sheen of vher satin evening dress. It shone “like ‘a sheath of rich beauty. Shaded lighting cold do much. she thought, glancing down at the material. {t made a dress which J“was tired, rub%ed and old, look lustrous and new. J* made you look younger, it you were getting old, fresh, if you had danced too ~ long, and too often, and were tired. This frock had been new when she came tc Alexandria. Now. two weeks later, though it was to be among her “successful” gowns, it had seen its life. Not far out, at sea, were the lan- terns of the fishing boats; they formed a twinkling circle as they closed in upon their nets. Those were the headlights of Mike’s car. now, coming along the road. Soon, she would be dancing under the gray guns, with rubicunc Lieu- tenant Jim Blake, serious Flag- Lieutenant Andrews, the little surgeon, the charming, impersonal Captain. She would be dancing with Michael for the last time. That thought saddened her. She heard Michael’s ring, and went and let him in. “Hello, my dear. A drink before we go?” “Yes! But don’t turn on the lights. The coast looks good through that window.” He came and stood beside her. His arm slipped round her waist, ane pulled her close to him “There’s something I'd better Tepeat, in case you've forgotten since last night. I love you. Will you marry me?” She shook her head. “No. More fool I! This visit has been heav- ““enly. Toc perfect, Michael. Just one long party. This place. the climate, the life, have all conspired together to make me feel, toc, that perhaps——”. “Perhaps?” ‘Perhaps I do love you. But I don’t know. I want :o be sure. I've fée]t like this before /Mike, for other men. Ax tahy fond, and. ‘happy Bat it passes. Peter has a wire from his editor. | cross a frontier. We find ourselves in a country where the people talk a different. lan- age, where the rhythm of life different. The feeling 1 hoped was going to last, goes. It.is just a Memory, sweet, but trivial. [t hasn't any power to cause me pain. ~ =You haven't the power to hurt me, ike: That is why I don’t think I ou. You see, there is some- one else, who has.” “In heaven’s name, why ask for misery?” he groaned. “Why should love cause you pain? Woman! Stop talking!” He kissed her. Was it possible that he was right? Had she held the wrong conception of love for a long time? Was this all? ‘ She disengaged herself. “Let me cross that frontiez.” “This time you'll come back.” He was very triumphant and sure. Other women had _ rendered Michael quite certain of his at- traction. If only he were right, wished Petrel. She did not want to go. She wished that he would forbid her, keep her here, against her will, until her will was gone. But he released her. “You know, you're awfully odd in some ways, darling. Very young, and immature, if you'll forgive my. sa. ing so, You take life so seriously. t “Someone once said life was a .comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those that feel. I can’t help feeling.” “But do you really believe in spiritual love? Petrel, half the “couples ‘who marry don’t feel that about each other. They take a chance. Sometimes it goes well, sometimes poorly. If it's unbear- able, they pack it up. That is the adult way to regard love. With us, I believe it would go well. And ‘you're’ wonderiul, Petrel. You ave so much. Do you realize that?” ‘International Young Woman’ | FEEL I have very, very little. Just a propensity for being useful and common sense.” His Sas across her mouth silenced er. “No! And you're sometimes beautiful. You can go anywhere, talk to anybody. You're an inter- national young woman.” at doesn’t sound decent.” She laughed. But she listed on her fingers: “A dictator, an Arch- ishop, a di monarch, an ad- miral, and nists, Fascists, anarchists, atheists, Marxists, phil- osdphers, poets, racialists, film stars and missionaries—I’ve met, or sat next to them all at dinner! But, perhaps, you're right, Michael. anor ont necessarily bring mat oa ra sje gout “We must go; you've spoilt m: and we're missing the party” a fag eas ee it be he here to spoil. What a horrible thought.” | { faces that will be pleased to rem- edy the deficiency. They haven’t been looking very friendly.” “They don’t count.” THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Four Tarzans In A Row But even while he kissed her, she | knew that they would count again, when she was gone. If she-di return. Michael did not under- not | stand love which persisted, even | when you wanted to be free. sale { like that single, relentless love hers, which could cross all fron- tiers, and he with her still. From immediately overhead, in _ the searing blue of heaven, the sun | beat down upon the hot, glaring | pavement of Cairo. It was mid- day. The shaded balconies and lounges of “Shepherds” and the “Continental Hotel” were full of Eurofeans wearing li and drinking long drinks. The jingle of the two-horsed gharries ght suits, | which passed alongside the large | square, with its gray statue, inter- mingled with the clinking of ice in their glasses. Both were lost amid the other sounds of Cairo. | Street hawkers cried their trashy | merchandise as they passed, laden with Eastern carpets, silks, or | beads In the distance, if all other sounds had ceased suddenly, could have been heard another, uglier burble. In a mean street, the fol- | lowers of Nahas Pasha had stood | listening to an impassioned speak- er. Many of them were students, | wild young rowdies, armed_with sticks and brickbats. Now, worked up to a frenzy of excitemeat and resentment, they .turned. In a shouting, jostling throng they rushed towards the mair thor- oughfares. There, they would overthrow more trolley cars, up- root more lamp-posts, break more British windows. “Down with Sir Samuel Hoare! Down with Sir Samuel Hoare! Freedom for Egypt,” were their indistinguishable cries. This was « day in November of 1935. Sir Samuel Hoare’s reply to the Wafd’s demand for a return |to the 1923 treaty, mercilessly modified by Sidky Pasha, seven years later, had just been _pub- lished. It appeared in many Egyp- tian papers and leaflets, in a much twisted version. The mob were not satisfied with such Sapareney) vague promises from the Britis! Government. They did not care to look forward to “settlement at a more opportune moment.” When, for example, Mussolini’s trans- ports had ceased crowding through the canal to Eritrea: :'fhey would continue to demonstrate more violently than ever, until their sproblem, received attention and was solved. .;' ; ‘Love Of A Lady’ But because the police in Cajro, “‘mobnted on their white Arab Horses; are‘some of the finest in the world, the British could con- tinue ‘drinking and playing. Gent ly, the white horses stepped, side- ways, pushing, coaxing, and stem- ming the angry crowd. Standing,.in.the shelter of a doorway, an Englishman, stood watching them, admiringly. “Good werk!” he c ented aloud. He had «.thought! eyes, and long, strong features. He was very brown. Gathering that the agita- tion in this quarter of the town was under control, he turned. He, and his foreshortenea shadow strode in the direction of the Con- tinental Hotel. But a smile came to Tony Lance’s Ps because of the white-robed, slippered little Arab who detached himself from an adjoining wall, and shuffled after him. He thought: “Darn them! Al- ready! They know naka cy He had been here only twelve hours, yet he was being watched. It was an inconvenience to which he was accustomed. As he entered the lounge of his hotel with its chattering mid-day crowd, its leather and chro- mium modernity, he heard.a voice call to him: “Hi, there, Tony!” #Why, Mike, this is fine.” “Where have you sprung: from?” “Abyssinia and other places.” “Same old’ dark’ horse, eh? Come and have a drink. Kither they mix them well here, or Cairo gives me a better thirst than Alex- anaria.” “T might as well ask you the same question. Why are you here?” “Business for H.E., and the love of a lady.” “I see.” “You do not,” Michael responded gloomily. “What’ll you have?” He ordered their drinks. “No, I was a fool to come, and I’m leaving soon, Wish I'd done the whole bisiness over the telephone.” “I'd like to see the girl ‘who can cast you into such despondence. You jook almost sober.” “Trouble is that when I tell my- self there are plenty of others it doesn’t work. There aren’t any Pony laughed at him, ‘ony laughed at him. “I should like to see this stopped. He unique——” Tony was staring. But Michael had not ; ticed, etalk of fees an, mean Apres -—just coming in thro! . we hat, in her handf Looks as if she were in a hurry, so kwon’t stop her. News for the the look of Ler. In a minut Jy see them all come tumbling out of Se elevator. ays v4 ba (jon Wi probably heard of her; heard some of the legends about her. Petrel Malone? ~ ‘ony Lance answered casually. *I ‘don't think so. What kind of legends?” (Oopyright, 1939, Grace Eliott Taylor) | “TIrthink I know several other ‘Tomorrow: Petrel and Tony. ORDERS SMALL AMOUNTS - PARIS — Because his wife BROOKLYN — When he was “goes not appreciate the value of tunable to sleep, John Makela of money,” Georges Marteleur this city provided amounts each month, of | this city demanded that his wife, in his will Minnie, stay awake to keep his snail company, When she refused, he beat her, she told police. TA Ross Allemand Newton We |ture “Tarzan in Exile”. tures, Allen and Perry were Grandma, who, like the captain, which until today seemed to defy contradiction. . “I will never cross the ocean”, | said. Grandma, “until I can do sO} in my buggy”. | Grandme unfortunately died} some few years back, or the good modern. engineering and the PWA have evolved substitute adven- ture for those born too late for buccaneering, or with stomach too weak for a cruise—you can now drive the Spanish Main in the family car. Reclaiming what didn’t go with the big wind of ’35, the State of Florida and the Federal Govern- ment have gonstructed a concrete ridgepole along the coral archi- pelago which curves like a sting- aree’s taii from lower Biscayne} Bay to this weather-worn, de- | jected outpost in the Gulf—Key | West. | The Florida Keys route, or) Overseas Highway, extends 166 miles from Miami to Key West, is linked by a score of bridges, has been open since last April, although but gingerly used, and actually permits an ocean voyage direct from the garage. For miles; !the Atlantic figuratively splashes one fender while the Gulf sprays | the other. Actually, the waves| don’t touch'the roadbed. | We drove ‘it'in approximately | three and one-half hours, abiding | faithfully by~Pennsylvania’s 50-| mile averégéhd wish to report| no seasickness whatever, al-| though you do get a sunburn. The ‘rays, reflected off the wa- ter, have the same sizzling effect as when out fishing. Pulling down th curtains spoils the view, and the barren rock nurtures in-! sufficient trees to cast shade. We | can’t have everything, of course. | Many Inquiries j Although in use for nearly a) year, Floridians still ask return- ing tourists what the trip is like. and of a dozen Miamians, only | one we interviewed had made the} drive. So perhaps a little history | is in order. 1 This is not the firssidand hook- tup between Key West:and the | Coast, of course..- Back-in 1912, | Henry Flagler, far-seeing pionéer! and promoter -of Florida, ‘toy-| nected the “flién-thriving Cigar! capital ‘with’ ‘Miarfii;>Wuilding an | overseus railway: costing an aver-| age Of $50,000 a milé. The 1935 | hurricane washed almost all of} it away; leaving a gaunt fill and} | some pilings on which to start the | | motor route. Service was irregular and all but abandoned even before than, | however, and the last run was) the memorable rescue train which | tried vainly to” Save the bonus! veterans on Islamorado, one of the Keys«" °°” $ | When the highway was con-| ceived, Florida for $645,000 pur- | jchased the’ ehtire railroad right-| of-way, little more than one-| mile cost. An additional $3, | 000 was borrowed,-and with Fed- eral funds the job went on. It is DOWN TO THE KEYS IN CAR; OCEAN VOYAGE ON WHEELS By Cy Peterman in The Philadelphia Inquirer e ‘ Barcelo, Perry of ‘Silver Springs, Johnny Sheffield and Johnny muller?6f? Hollywood, all of ‘whom are working at Silver Springs in the new pic- Underwater and jungle scenes are. being-.made at Silver) Springs in the new film and, because of their previous experience in underwater pic-' Aguilar. ) 5A—Joan selected as directorial and technical aides. IN KEY WEST Friday Second game of championship {basketball series between Army | High School Gym. “PUBLIC SCHOOL NEW Division Street School Honor Roll Pupils on the Honor Roll of the Division Street School for the past six weeks’ pe- riod follow: 1B—None. 1A2—Betsy Bell Cates, Althea Zaida Diaz, John Craig Grammar Russell, Nath- falie Valdez, Patsy Hampton, Ter! ‘esa Arias, Norberto Diaz, Rose ; Garcia. 2B2—None. 2B1l—William Pinder, Kermit Kerr, Adolfo | Avila. | 2A—Edward Bethel, | Cameron, Jack Larsen, Smith, John Williams, Carol Boza, Carolyn Camalier, Edna Jean Gardner, Mary Louise Pent, Doris Faye Roberts, Evelyn Rob- erts, Dolores Washington. 3B—Donald Skelton, Spencer,» Anne Doughtry, Roberts. 3A2—Elaine Albury. 3A1—Tom Villavisanes, ,cedes Bernal, Elsie Mora. 4B—Rose Marie Kerr. 4A2—None. | 4Al—Gerry Albury, Carrie ‘Gomez, Mildred Walden. H ‘5B-Elizabeth Gardner, Mary Spenter. BAQ-Bertha Perez, Harry Jacitie Jack Fay Mer-| Anita Doughtry, Frances |Mora, Lauriette Russell. | 6B—James Miller. Division Street School | Perfect Attendance necesceeeeusaacenscenoes:| Perfect attendance record of; Spencer, the Division Street Grammar School for the past six weeks’ period list the following pupils: | 1B—Onelio Alvarez, Melvin) 166-Mile Highway Speeds Motorist To Key West; ana Seafood Grill scheduled at!Roberts Bell, Ronald Hendricks, | Hurricane Scars Remain |Gilbert Pazo, Beverly Selph, | | Key West Boat Club meeting, | Joan Sessions. open to visitors. house Building Three. | a good road now; although rough} Sale Day of Sponge fishermen Streets. 9:30 a. m. Sunday Biweekly handicap golf tourna- Ties, remains. : Travel Southward The motorist,. moving’ south- | 8 p.m. Light-| soul could have her wish. For} rich truck and vegetable farms in| with towns like/ { Florida City and 'Princetoh, scene of the McCall} kidnaping. Fifty miles and he’s; ‘crossing to Key’ Largo, largest of! the islands and home of the: |Angler’s Club, ‘popular ‘ fishing | | Tesort. ‘ | | Here the drive takes on new interest, with mangrove swamps on either side offering, as one of |the native “conchs” described it, jthe only sure anchorage “when | ithe bottoms, | Homestead, [ward from Miami, first traverses | ment. ‘1:30 p. m. Key West Golf Course. Monroe County Baseball League doubleheader. Pirates vs. Key West. Blue Sox vs. Seafood Grill. 1:30 p. m. Navy Field. Play for Eddie Bush golf trophy by Key West Golf Club starts. 1:30 p.. m. Key West Golf Course. turns to blue and drops sheer 500 feet off the reef, More immediate are the lights the wind comes up hard”—by of roadside stands, or the occa- which the “Conch” means hurri-| ‘ional trailer on an atoll where cane. ,i's not uncommon to see camp- Even this menace has abated, ers. Some cast fishing Tnes off however, for-if the last tragedy | the bridges, taking a few steps brought the Keys anything, it! if they're not biting in the Gulf | was improved weather service.|to try their luck in the Atlantic \From Aug. 15 through Nov. 15| Ocean. It’s wonderful, this drive the U. S. Weather Bureau pro- | into the sea. vides daily hurricane service,|_ By day, however, when the and while there are only 10 or 12) trip should be made, there is con- | telephones along the Keys, all on/| Stant reminders of that awful La- one line, radio keeps the resi-|bor Day. Uprooted buildings, dents in close touch when storms | °vergrown with vegetation where mutter. |they fell, deserted groves and Thé road turns sharply at Key | fatms whose owners were never Largo, taking a generally west- | found after the storm—and. the wal & direction for , 100 miles | 2!most. complete newness of what through Florida Bay “into the} Structures exist—record a story Gulf. Here is marine adven-;2OW nearly four years old. 1: ture on four wheels. | Such jis the trip to Key Westy For as the islands become nar- | 2 new thrill on Long Key Bridge; rower, until the roadbed is es-/ 0M the seven-mile concrete cross- sentially the island) itself, you! ing at Moser Chanriel (where the behold brilliant coral ‘Teflections | aluminum, painted rails of Mr. on ‘both sides, the many-shaded | Flagler’s “old line form the green of the sand bottom, the|8uards), at Bahia-Honda, where distant blue of the Gulf Stream, |¥°U 80 up on the highest span. smudged by pasing steamers be-} Florida tourists find, it the most yond deep reef. jinteresting since Tamiami Trail Near Gulf Stream lars cats For the faithful Gulf Stream is} Subscribe to The Citizen—20¢ no more than seven miles off weekly. shore at any point, lapping 4 treacherous reef marked by the! BRADY'S POULTRY IS BEST. numerous lighthouses. At fight,! Roasters, 1b 30c: Fryers, ‘th 35c: | for such nocturnal birds as thread | Hens, tb 30c: Stews, Ib 25c: Bat the Keys, they form something |tery-raised Fryers: Guaranteed of a false beacon,. twiinkling| Key West Eggs, doz..40c, 1214 false assurance where the water! White St. Phone 540-W. , marl7-1t eg--+4 ae, Ati Ht TRIP MEALS AT SEA via P & O Steamship CUBA Te Key We, 8:30am. Mondays-Thursdays 520 po CUBAN TOURIST TAX soe 10 DAY LIMIT ‘To PORT TAMPA, Tuesdays and Fridays, 5 p. m. | | 1A2—John Craig Smith, Betsy | Bell Cates, Loudre Diaz, Altha} | Haskins, Shirley Fay Spencer. | | 1Al—Murray Harris, Nathalie | hated the sea, nad a declaration | in spots where the old macadam/at Municipal Sponge Dock, cor- | Valdez, Carmen Avila, Norberto jartery, formerly linked by’ fer-|ner of Grinnell and Caroline Diaz, Allan Mora, Teresa Arias, | Marlin Cranor, Jennie Mae Rus- | | sell, Francis Gomez. | 2B2—None. 2Bl—Kenneth Albury, Adolfo! Barcelo, Glenwood’ Carey, ~ Cor- | nelius Carey; Eugene Carey, Vin- | cente Molina, Beverly Arthur, Isabel Avila,"Ondina Thrift, Edna! Harris, Claudia Roberts, Onelia| Casada. 2A—Mrvin Boza, Edward ‘Beth- el, John Cerezo, Charles Knowles, | Jack Larsen, Billy Roberts, Jo-| seps Riviera, Jackie Smith,. Em-; mett S. Walden, Jr., Diana Aux-| ier, Carol Boza, Carolyn Cama-) lier, Hilda Collins, Betty Jean Cruz, Edna Jean Gardner, Anna} Dell Patterson, Evelyn Roberts, | Aleli Villavisanes, Dolores Wash- | ington. | 3B—Pat Russell, Donald Skel- ton, George Villareal, Jack Spen- | cer, Anne Doughtry, Nellie Gar- {cia, Fay Roberts, Vilma Thrift. 1 lie Your Business Write. accurately, quickly and Turn the crank. One copy refolds neatly others come out. That’s transcribing. That saves prevents loss. reason for arguments. CASH SALES CHARGE SALES RECEIVING ORD! STATEMENTS INVOICES ? PHONE 51 Isabel Protect Them With A == Sturgis Autographic Register sion. Identical copies for all purposes. No chance for lost slips. No FRIDAY, MARCH 17, 1939 | James Ogden, Hary Parks, Odilio | Rodriguez. Kenneth Solomon, Armando Sosa, Wilfred Under- wood, Mary Gonzalez, Josephine 3A2—Hamilton Williams,/Hernandez, Marjorie Knowles Elaine Albury, Audrey Roberts,’ Rose Marie Sands. Cleora Roberts, Rose Marie San-} Harris School Honor Roll Honor Roll of the Harris Gram- mar School for the six weeks’ pe- riod ending March 10: | 6Al—Daniel Lujan, 4B—-Velma Cates, Percia Fer- | Bien epi STmnaver. nandez, Rose Marie Kerr, May- | nme illy oe field Knowles, Helen Noreissa, | p.iriuin nn Se oat apes ,Evélyn Skelton, Antonica Smith, | V2yiCi# Duane, Dora | Henviay ; Mary Louise Spencer, Oscar Cruz, | Lm —: apr a Joseph Lowe, Enrique Rojas, |tano, Betty v0 scapes ign "ianuk® Savids. 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