The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 25, 1939, Page 4

PAGE FOUR by GRA The Characters Peter Mallone: Adventurous journalist. Petronella: young sister. Tony Lance: British agent, the man Petrel loves. His courageous esterday: Rene buried the Papers in the sand near the wrecked plane. Peter is too ill to get them. Amazed that Tony asked him, Petronella determines to do the job herself. Chapter 31 Dangerous Mission PETREL leant forward. “Where did it come down?” “Over there.” Said the driver, “in a moment we shall see the lan- terns. There are two sentries guarding it. In case thieves take the instruments.” Her eyes strained across the hillocks of sand. They went in waves, almost white- silver, in the moonlight, black in the shadows. The wind had shifted and fashioned the sand into the lines of its own movement, as it passed. “Is_it high, or in a hollow?” ». “They told me in Cairo, that he hit the bank of a rise. We should see the lanterns any time now.” Suddenly her hands gripped the back of the driver’s seat. “I can see the plane, but there are no lan- terns,” she told him, hoarsely. _Against the sand, she saw the silver of a wing, and a darkness which must be the wreckage of René’s machine. Hassan stopped the car. “Turn off the engine, and wait here. I will walk.” Had the police or military guard not arrived yet? They stood still for a moment, lis- tening, staring at the distant plane. There were two dark blots moving DANGEROUS SERVICE ELLIOTT TA’ was the door to the reversed cock- pit. It was swinging open. Scat- tered on the ground were split cushions, instruments, maps. She had interrupted a search of the wreckage. René could have crawled out. There! To that round headed rock. The others were too far away for a seriously injured man to reach them. Down on her hands and knees, she buried des- perate hands in the sand. She sought. The sand was loose. Her heart leapt, in amazed triumph. She had them! She pulled out the small, black mackintosh case, for whose contents one, perhaps two men had died. panding. she kicked back the sand with her foot. A rifle lay at a little distance from the dead guard. She picked it up. She looked to- wards the lights of the car. She needed its refuge desperately. She ran, at an angle, towards the road. Hassan would be gone, unless she could reach him. A shot! She dropped flat. But they were not firing at her, Near the road she saw the car, headlights stil] burn- ing, come to a slow standstill. Has- san was dead or wounded! But she was within two hundred yards. If only she could reach it. Petre) crouched, planning her own salva- tion. The car was her only hope. She must distract the two Egyp- | tians, from dragging Hassan out, make them tear back to the plane. Pointing the heavy riflle skywards, she fired. .She heard shouts. | Hassan’s enemies turned, and ran back to- wards the plane. They passed so close to her, crouched behind a shelf of rock, that the sand dis- placed by their thudding feet fell rattling on her back. When the time came to run, would her legs refuse to move, as a part of this nightmare? But somehow, fear seemed to have little effect on her actions, tonight. The ruse could not have worked more simply, and _ BELABORS PRESS; successfully, had she been un- | \miniature copies of fullsized SECRETARY ICKES If hats get,this small—well! |see several hats before deciding on one. " HE KEY WEST CITIZEN IN KEY WEST ‘ANSWERS TO TEN | SATURDAY, MARCH 285, 1939 BRING SMALL AMOUNT TEST QUESTIONS) LYNCHBURG, Va.—Slugs and Ceececcescsaceeeseceecoe | E i ian etead Bose | Below are the answers to test | mutilated coins which ha n Monday Sale Day at Municipal Sponge | Dock. ; New W.P.A, Adult Education class in Practical English starts. ‘6:30 p. m. 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Seredy. H H not too rough. I think I can drive| difficult target. She opened it. Has- Lic jcert given tomorrow afternoon,| Valse Irtermezzo, Springtime, | ere.’ san was lying slumped over the : “No, they will see the car com- i | beginning at 4:30 o’clock, on the |G. Drumm. ‘ : i gone they have sean us ol wheel: gee - | (Special to The Citizen) Fes adjacent to the Art Cane aes Floto’s ‘Triumph; Fred. | r . I'm going to find out if there ursu | | Tewell. H is anyone there or not. If there | WASHINGTON, March 25.—‘ter on Front street by the Key} Finale, Star Spangled Banner, | Fy ” But hi ti ry - | “CQET over, Hassan. I’m going to | g; = | seni: 4 pt nay ‘She Gate pats Sri drive, We'll get away.” | Simon pure Harold Ickes, who! West Hospitality Band. The pro |Key. She had distinctly seen the figure | Afterwards, she realized that she delights ir. attacks upon the press, ——————________—| of a man detach itself from the| $Poke in English. 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Free Pick-Up and Delivery Service Full Cargo Insurance Office: 813 Caroline St. Telephones 92 and 68 Warehouse—Corner Eaton and Francis Streets near it. RENDERED BY HOSPI- | Waltz Hesitation. Valse de-Ma-; |Coeur, W. K. Jerome. TALITY BAND | Indian Characteristic, Fe: Passing | | Cia 1 ENTERS SUIT | pace : | sponded at once, when she pressed the self-starter. They were going to get away! The car bounced for- ward. Where was that brake? Has- san put one hand down, and re- leased it for her. They were going to get away! Petreél heard shots. She knew they were being pur- sued. She felt a sharp sting in her shoulder, glanced at it, saw blood, and knew that she was lucky to be sitting here alive, able to drive on. them, listening. Now a second figure joined him. They were com- ferring together. The guards? Was her fear absurd? Had they, for some reason, decided against showing any lights. It was possible. But, since she came without escort, were not guards or thieves equally inconvenient? Why hadn’t she thought of that before? They would never allow her to take Papers found near the plane, with- Or, AL agreeq jthat an automobile accident! | including Congress, mapmakers; out proper authority. She turned to her driver. “Re- member how -;e drove this eve- ning, over the desert? Turn on your lights, and go towards the Plane. Seem to see the, guards, suddenly, and bear away in a circle, fast, back to the road. They will probably chase you. Will you do that? It will give me a chance to get what I want. I'll reach you farther down the road. Drive right away, with headlights. Creep back as near as you dare, without them.” “T understand, Mademoiselle.” “T'll stand on the step, and jump off.” She opened the door, stood on the running board. The headlights snapped full on. The engine start- ed. Clinging to the door, as the car rocked, and plunged across the uneven ground, Petronella rode, till they were within a hundred yards of the aeroplane. Then she dropped off, fell into soft sand. Her heart was hammering. She picked herself up, and ran, crouched and flounderingly towards the plane. As she had hoped, the guards looked only at the car, approach- ing at the direct angle. They stood, pre the ar ey waiting ‘or it. They were tia: noticed vaguely. mirage Murderers S THE car swerved and bore away, they raised their arms, yelled, and ran after it. Petre! stopped abruptly. within a few yards of the tragically smashed machine, which she had seen in the sky such a short time ago. She stared. Lying on the ground, near the stolidly munching camels, were two figures in uniform. One was gagged, and tied with rope. His dark eyes rolling sideways at her, caught the light of the moan. The other was neither bound, nor gagged. He lay, with a knife buried j | gruesome figure beside her. Blood The wounded man lurched against her. The dispatch case slipped from her lap to the ftoor of the car, among the gears. The cold barrel of the rifle leaning against the door beside her knocked to and fro, hit- ting her arm. She drove fast. Fast- er than she had ever driven before. She was near the Camel Police | ing that the huge dam out on the Colorado River was Boulder Dam and not Hoover Dam, Letter Hidden Away Long kidden away in the archives of the Interior Depart- ment—since January, 1935—was a letter from the Adminigtration’s {highest legal authority to Mr. Ickes ruling that the secretary had illegally changed the name to Boulder Dam. Mr. Cummings | said the name was still officially “Hoover Dam” in honor of the chairman of the committee who brought the Colora@o River states into the water compact to make this, greatest of, water projects possible. The chairman was Herbert Hoover. | The Ickes attempt to continue the “smear Hoover” campaign would never have become public |had not the attorney-general turned over his public papers for compilation of a book, now pub- lished by Charles Sdribner’s Sons. Station, when she saw the head- lights of three cars traveling to- wards her. Fear again! She had thought she was safe, but now there were more of them—going to try to prevent her escape. Fast- er, faster! But as she passed them, she heard a shout, caught a glimpse of khaki police uniforms, and tin hats; saw Tony’s face, white in the moonlight, straining out of the leading car. Tony! Petronella found the brake, and pulled to a gradual standstill. Stooping, she picked up the dis- patch case, Yes, he should have it. But that was all. Never anythin, else; never again, her love an trust. She remembered his ring. She slipped it off. She threw it away into the sand. “Thou art my Woman.” She laughed, a short, | hard eee That was what he ha thought. She had been soft enough to agree with him. But it was not true any longer; after tonight, Tony. had played his last game with her. This time, it was her turn to walk out. She looked at the oozed between the fingers which | covered his eyes. Another sacrifice to Tony’s ambition! She shud- dered. She had been a fool. She was appalled by her own lack of insight into his character. She had had two proofs of his hardness, but had refused to be- lieve. But for that fluke of hearing | Fleur wide § in ‘her room, she might never have discovered what he was really like, till it was too Ickes’ Letter The letter from Secretary Ickes | complaining about the use of the | word “Hoover”, dated January 17, | 1935: “Dear Homer: “On page 4 of (your) bill of complaint in the case of the U. S. zona, defendant, there is a ref- to its hilt in the stained jacket covering his back. It was a sight which terrified all thought of he: task from her mind. She almost turned and ran for the road. But anger preserved her purpose for her. This was what Tony had sent Peter to find! She looked after the murderers. They were still pursuing Hassan, who was driving slower than she liked, to encourage them. Even as she realized it, she heard two shots crack through the night. She turned. There were only three boulders, thank heaven, any- where near the plane. Instinct guided her. There could be no other explanation, she thought, with that part of her mind which was sick and hysterical with ter- ror, for the cool, matter of fact way the other part of her brain was functioning. The plane had buried its nose and somersaulted. There TWO VESSELS ARRIVE Twoyvessels of the Clyde-Mal- lory Lines arrived in port during the past 24 hours, the Ozark from New Orleans and the Brazos from Galveston. The Brazos reached port at |10:15 o’elock and at once began | discharging late. She might have married him before she found out how little love meant to him. Wearily she climbed out of the car. She felt RS . Her shoulder was not painful, but the sight of her own blood made her feel faint, and afraid. She walked down the moonlit jiously to take from it, for which Toad somect vey tore Lead \praiseworthy and — meritorious Saat ed Pais és nected (to iene act Ihave been roundly tower over her. He was as angry'as ‘Condemned by. reactionary Re- she was. publican papers in all parts of the Midag cop what the devil do you country, I may say that the ref- mean by doing such a thing? What crence in this bill of complaint in heaven’s name indu you to a pays. th. take a risk like that? Oh, my dear, to ‘Hoover Dam’ gives me noth- ages wounded!’ Hetriedtocatch ing at all to cheer about. I should er in his arms, but she stepped have been glad to point out what back. She ranged herself beside was undoubtedly merely an in- advertence but I lacked the op- jerence to ‘water discharged at Hoover (Boulder) Dam’. Having gone to great lengths to give to Boulder Dam its original and |proper name, which my _pred- Michael. (Copyright, 1939. Grace Eliott Taylor) had been printed and filed with | the Supreme Court”. light freight. At 12:30 the ship cailed for New Attorney-General Cummings: York with shipments of live turtle “Dear Harold: and canned turtle, bottles and a| “This acknowledges your letter miscellaneous assortment of art-|of the 17th of January about icles. Boulder Dam, and I am not sur- movies and the press into think-| A, plaintiff v. the State of Ari-; ‘ecessor in office attempted felon-; portunity, since I did not see the; bill of complaint until after it, PHONE Cummings’ Reply The following is the reply of in the bill of complaint, neverthe-! jless the drafters of that docu-} ‘ment seemed to feel it necessary | jin describing the dam to use the | title employed by Congrss in acts ; | appropriating money for its con- i | struction. j | “I believe these acts refer to’ the dam as ‘Hoover Dam’ (see 46 | | stat. at large 1146:47 stat. at large| |118; and 47 stat. at large 535). | | Moreover, the dam is referred to | jas ‘Hoover Dam’ in the contract i between the United States and| | the Metropolitan Water District, | under which contract, I under- | | stand, the dam is actually being | | constructed. Our department was ;not aware there had been any change in its technical name | |since the order of Secretary Wil- } bur made on the 17th of Septem: jber, 1930. | “I rather doubt whether it “is | feasible to do anything about the i ‘matter at this late day, even if it | ; Were deemed appropriate to do ;so. In other words, it looks to {me very much ‘ike water over | | the Hoover (Boulder) Dam. When | | I see you, I shall extend my) jcommiseration in person”. model General Electric Range sold | “SPEEDSTER"—G-55 i i ! { j i | 1} STATIONERY ;| OFFICE FORMS '} at Reasonable Prices (CLLALALLLLALZLLALLLLALLLIZLZLLLZLLALEZLALA LAA AA db bde Annual Electric Range Sale! A set of electric Cooking Utensils will be given away with each 1939 so—-a liberal allowance will be made for your old stove. you can now enjoy the cleanliness, cool kitchen com- fori, the speed and economy, and the better results of modern electric cookery. 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