The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 28, 1939, Page 4

Pace roux DANGEROUS SERVICE by CRACE ELLIOTT TA’ The Characters Peter Mallone: Adventurous journalist. Petronella: His sister. James Randall: Their childhood friend. Yesterday: Feeling “she could never stand life with Tony, Petrel returns to England. Chapter 33 James Il on the bright red door of th p rang for the hun- dredth this afternoon. James entered, and stood on the thresh- old of the warm, bright, steamy in- terior, looking satisfaction gay decorations. the hang- s of calendars. the shelves and toys. Outside, , damp and foggy. But tmas rush of Ball- depression. 'HE be d every i lustily. Four country women, with arms els, and bulging bas- engaged in choosing gray-haired Moro- guidance, or were turning over Christmas cards. Tamara, wearing the outlandish, gaily embroidered Russian coat in which she worked in winter time, left her customers, and stood with her back to him at the foot of the stairs. “Petrel!” she called, in that high, fresh voice of hers, which had lost little of its accent. “Pe- trel! Will you bring down three dozen Herald Angels, please!” stepped up behind her. He could never resist teasing Ta- Eve! ng she did seemed ’'d no idea. I hadn’t heard. So young!” “Heard what? “That poor cele: r room, bringing rel had joined the is up in the stock me more Christ- mas cards, because they are all selling out. Hardly any of my mod- ern cards. In Ballfield they are like men, they prefer angels. Iean- not talk to you now. Go away! Help, Petrel——” “With the angels? Certainly!” He pretended he had not under- stood her jealous little thrust. He went up the murky, narrow stairs, that led to the three-room flat where_Tamara and her father lived. Petrel had been home all the week, helping them. She and Colo- going to be at mas. Peter, was still in worried be- Lance. He hat she had ad not been re- uld not help being abhorrence. But ‘e the most of his op- of seeing her. Petrel son, unapproach- 5 vas self-as- ‘vy. With Tamara op downstairs, she e any excuse, this him with his ques- ered. nor ‘packing a tray to 0 Tamara. away, refusing to meet his eyes, and picked up her tray. But he was not going to let her bolt, this time. James blocked the doorway, and took it from her. He felt awk- ward, but determined. Petrel oe not have changed — not 00 heavy for you, and it’s top heavy, because you're in too much of a hurry.” He adjusted the boxes of colored notepaper. He set a round-eyed doll on the top of the pile. “She reminds me of you, these days—that glassy stare.” ‘We Have Changed’ 'E MADE a move towards her, but Petronella evaded his arm. “It isn’t Christmas yet.” “And that isn’t a promise,” he challenged. “Look here, Petrel, when you suddenly came home, and explained why, I thought a lot of apparently foolish things. 'm going to confess them. I thought, ‘At last the girl has come to her senses. She appreciates me as I de- serve. She has come home to me!’” “It was my fault you felt that— at first,” she admitted. “Tt is the way fools jump to con- clusions.” me “No, I saw it like that, too; on the rebound. Now, I see it more clearly. We have both changed, James.” “You mean something happened to make you change your mind.” “In a way.” “Petrel,” he besought her, “soon after you came home, I went fora walk, and looked at that house they are building, on the Ridge. I sold out my risky investments, and bought gilt-edged. I refused to join a party for winter sports. Was I Teally mad?” “I don’t know. That’s why I've| is whyT been trying to avoid having this out. Because I don’t know the an- swer. And I want to be honest. “Instead of behaving to my schedule. you spent most of your MANY ORDERS MINNEAPOLIS—Police of this city turned over to a psychiatrist ' a 15-year-old bedridden boy who had become bored and ordered} the following unwanted items! for a neighbor: 75 bottles of liquor, 6 orders of chow mein, 35 deliveries of coal, 10 grocery or- _ders, 3 radio repair trucks and a tow car. : time in London. Who have you been seeing, there? Colin?” “Yes, He is engaged to Jean Grant. They’re very happy. And I’ve been seeing father, Marigold, Martin Rowdon, Molly and her husband; isn’t he awful? Several people who are home on leave, All my old friends, in fact. I meant to visit Clare Horton. She was sent home, ill. She’s in a nursing home. But I doubted whether she’d re- member me, and-I simply didn’t find time.” “Then that doesn’t answer ‘the question. There is no one special?” “No, James.” “You could have invited them all to the cottage, in turn, and rung the News, at all hours, about Peter, without leaving Ballficld. Why didn’t you stay, and try to get to know me again?” “Because I saw getting on very well without me, while I was away. I didn’t want to spoil pny thing: she said briskly. “I felt what I suppose I am—an outsider.” He flushed. “If you mean Tamara, you're being ab- surd. There has never been a thing Of course, I’m very fond of her. I've tried to instil some or- ganization into this business. That is all.” He was speaking the truth, James told himself thankfully. Not that it had been easy. Tamara was attractive. He had necessarily seen a good deal of her. But he had realized that once started, there would be no going back. If he made love to her cousin, he would lose Petrel. That fellow Lance had let her down, just as he had ex- pected that he would. “I knew you'd come back,” he said. He had always run a strong second. Now, the favorite had fall- en. But because of one or two scenes he remembered playing with Tamara, which she might have misconstrued, he asked her. Kisses “TT WASN'T anything Tamara said, which made you go away? “No, nothing anybody said. Just the general feeling. You’ve been so good to her; you kid her, in a way that shows how well you un- derstand her.” “Yes, it’s a funny thing, that I should understand a foreigner, but I think I do.” “Are you sure she doesn’t de- pend on you more than you imag- ine? “To ask a counter question, has Petronella Mallone anyone to de- pend on, at present?” He was close to her. She let his arm encircle her shoulders. “That isn’t a fair question. But I’m doubtful, James. Although, for the moment, I feel this under- mining urge to be looked after, I may be quite wrong. Up till now, I've been independent. Probably I shan’t feel submissive, for long. Perhaps I’ve wandered too long to settle.” James stooped and kissed. her forehead gently. “So long as this mood lasts, why worry? Poor sweet, life isn’t altogether kind, is it?” “Not altogether, James.” The next moment, she was. holding him, and he was kissing her. But there was no passion, only com- fort in their kisses. He thought, “She has been gone for a long time. We shall grow together. She is still the Petrel I knew as a child. But she is older in experience than Iam. Those experiences will fade.” He remembered the pile of her let- ters, which he had kept. He re- membered that she had _ seen shooting and revolution. In Spain, she had seen massacre and hang- ings. Petrel knew the face of cruelty, disease, famine, human suffering. Yet, although he had known none of these things, and was a little timid of his own igno- rance, he believed that he and Petrel could find happiness to- gether. So long as her fear of her own restlessness was mistaken. So long as, within her new, evolved Personality, there was still her old simplicity. So long as life had not given her a craving for excite- ment, which their home would not satisfy. They heard footsteps on the landing. Tamara stood in the door- way, staring at them with her dark e ou had been yes. “Hello, there! I see you are very busy, doing much good hard work!” She did not look at Petron- ella, but at James. Although her lips smiled, he felt uneasy because of what he read in her eyes. “You have always loved Petrel, haven’t pls she asked bluntly. “Yes, I think I have. You know how often I've talked to you about her.” Tamara strolled into the room. She shrugged her shoulders. She answered with flippant, out- spoken hardiness. “Oh, yes! You told me often enough. But in Russia, when a man tells a girl how miserable he is, for love of someone else, who is an angel, she knows he is not far off consoling himself. But in Eng- land, I suppor it is different. You are dull, cold blooded and faithful! Don’t you think I care!” she shout- ed. For a moment her face was dis- torted. An thought smoothed it. “There are other men; yes, even in And I do not feel about men as Petrel does, about her Tony No, thank you! It is not happy to love like that. That am glad, Petrel, if you are now sensible.” (Copyright, 1939, Grace Eliott Taylor) H = Rap | | BUFFALO, N. Y.—Firemen of | this city rushed their colleague, | William Denney, to a doctor) shouting that he was bleeding to death from injuries received. fighting a fire. The doctor wiped | can of red paint had burst in-his face. NEW. MURAL FOR FLORIDA EXHIBIT “The evolution of transportation” will be the title of a new mural painted by Byron Stevens, Hy AT, THE NEW, YORK WORLD'S FAIR THE KEY WEST CITIZEN | | chief of the art department of Florida National Exhibits, which will adorn one of the walls of the main Florida building at the New York World’s fair during the coming summer. Every known means of transport from the caravels and ox carts of the time of Ponce de down to the present stream lined age with its fast trains, will be shown. discoverer, steamships, automobiles and airplanes, KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY Happenings Here Just Ten Years Ago Today As Taken From The Files A legislative measure, which would permit the catching of crawfish during the open season and placing them in cold storage to supply the trade during the closed months or prohibitive pe-! riod, was the object of a confer-' ence between the Monroe coun- ty representatives to the legisla- ture and Paul Petrich of the; Coronado Fish Co., at Islamorada, Fla. Mr. Petrich shows that every state has a law similar to that suggested except Florida and believes that it would be of great benefit to the state if the legisla- ture should pass one, and should also bring great benefits to those who are in the crawfish industry. } The representatives told Mr. Pet- |Tich they were very much im- pressed by his suggestion and that they believed that there was a probability of such a measure being put through at the coming session of the legislature. He was’ assured of their interest, aid and cooperation in the movement. Hy ——— i That the fame and worth of The; Citizen is not confined to its own particular territory is shown by a letter received in this office re- cently from London, England. The letter was from the Cosmo- politan Features, Ltd., of that! city, advertising agents, who evi- dently have the idea in mind of placing advertising copy in this! section. The information request-! ed has been forwarded to Lon-' don. | The New York State $12,000 monument to be erected in Key! West will soon be completed and} will be shipped promptly to this; port. The monument is to be erected to the memory of the New York soldiers, who died in Key West at the army post dur-; ing the civil war. Thirteen fine tarpon ranging in weight from 30 to 80 pounds were! captured by Colonel Robert Thompson’s’ guests aboard his houseboat Everglades yesterday. : The catch was made about 12 miles from Key West. In the: ;Party were Charles Thom, Gen-; eral Harry C. Hale, Miss Hilda Sykes and Colonel Thompson. At a recent meeting of the board of directors of the Key | West Woman's Club, it was de- cided that the regular meeting of "GF OPO Ha Oa aS Ds to every Sunday, 3 P.M. to PHILADELPHIA . every Wednesday, 3 P. M. to BOSTON .....- direct Norfolk connection every Sunday, 3 P.M. toNORFOLK.... every Sunday, 3 P.M. Through Also, Of The Citizen the club will be held on Tuesday, April 9, instead of April 2, The! change wes made because of the fact that the Firemen’s Conven- tion will ke in session on the sec- ond and the women ‘have been asked to assist in entertaining the guests. discovered about 7 o'clock this morning completed Flames the destruction of the Ruy Lopez. factory, cne-half of which was destroyed ‘yesterday. It was at first thought that the flames re- sulted from smouldering embers dents of the community said that the fumes of gasoline were strong all about the place. Editorial Comment: The board of public works sis being highly praised for building piece of roadway connecting the south end of the city boulevard with White street. Those who ! wonder why it was not done be-! fore are no less delighted with the knowledge that the long de- layed convenience is finally pro- vided. 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