The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 18, 1939, Page 3

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1939 eeoccqceaeosos After A Man’s Heart by JEAN RANDALL Sewavrececevescscacccscesces YESTERDAY: Buff goes to the ranch and finds a young man there. He says he has rented the place for a month. Chapter Three Return Engagement “BUFF CARROLL,” Buff told the young man, “is the hardest boiled proposition you'll meet west of the Mississippi. For example, she hasn’t the remotest intention of letting Atkins—G.S.— get away with this sort of thing. Whatever you paid him will be refunded to ae And Atkins loses his job. ‘onto!” That brought him upright as she had intended. . “Don’t tell me you’re the Carroll girl! The one who climbs the high- est peaks, rides the meanest horses, bosses her r parents within an inch of their lives!” She winced but said valorously: “*'Tis true ’tis pity; and pity ‘tis *tis true.’” He finished it for her with mournful relish: “And ‘that he is mad, ’tis true.’ I must have been mad to believe a cowboy and a ranch owner could be named At- kins. An English butler in a play, yes; or even a Cockney clerk in something by Walpole; but nevera Colorado rancher.” He sighed. “I thought you Carrolls were safely in Chicago. You're a restless lot, aren't you? I suppose your father will be along tomorrow——” “No. I came alone. To—to shut up the house, and one thing and another. Now I suppose I’ve got to go to the bother of finding a new foreman. Damn Atkins!” He slumped back once more in the long chair. “Your profanity, my dear child, does not shock me —if such was your intention. It bores me. But then everything ‘bores me at the present moment. Most of all, the terrible silence of this place.” Her brown eyes studied him closely. He looked ill, she thought; ill and Space His clothes hung loose on his big frame, there were deep lines plowed on each side of his mouth. Her fingers itched to sketch that mouth. It was at once cynical and sensitive, though she jwas confident it had been made for laughter. She wondered what had Set it in its present grim lines. “I like the silence,” she offered. “You will too when you've stayed lang enough.” “Stay? But I can’t. Didn’t you just offer to refund my money? Anyhow I couldn't stay. now if I wanted to.” This aroused her natural per- versity. “I don’t see why not! There is certainly room enough for us both. If you're afraid Pll ask you to climb, or ride, or—or do any of the strenuous things you men- tioned a while ago ——” “The conventions,” he inter- rupted curtly. ‘Pooh! Who cares about ‘em out here? Anyway, there’s Mrs. Webb. She's chaperon enough for a dozen if one weighs the conven- ie added for her own ate amusement. turned a lack luster eye in irection. “I remember now— written some one-act plays ts for smart magazines. I I'm strong enough to bear up u r that sort of thing. Take it ail all, you don’t seem vhat the doctor ordered. I'll y way as soon as I can said cordially. “And > noticed that the sun h a bang up here, his time of year. I don’t o hurry you——” The screen door slammed on his retreating back. b combined de- lighted g to Buff with re- grets over losing the latest tenant | of the ranch. | “I'd promised myselt, Miss Buff, to put a little mgeat on them big bones of his before he left,” she said earnestly. “If you ask me, he's a sick man—or will be, if he don’t —e of himself. You send him ©! Buff shook her head. “As a matter of fact, I asked him to stay. But he didn’t seem to care for my looks, or style of conver- sation, or something. What's his name, by the way?” “Corliss. Timothy Corliss, his mail's addressed. From Boulder. He ain’t leaving without his sup- per, I hope?” “Depends on your powers of persuasion, I should think. I’m go- ing now to freshen up a bit for a meal of my own. I'm starved. Bis- cuits, Webby? With fresh butter | and strawberry jam?” Tm Of” WHEN she came down twenty minutes later, Tim Corliss awaited her, his bag at his feet. “T'm off,” he announced. “As you pointed out, it’s getting late and that road of yours is pretty awful. Goodby, Miss Carroll! So have—”" “But the money!” “What money?” “The rent you paid Atkins. You can't go without letting me refund it. You haven’t had value received, you know. Why,” she demanded PY to} G crossly, “can’t you be sensible and stay over till morning at least? Then you could get a good start— | if you're perfectly certain you j want to go.” He eyed her a bit uncertainly; not as though she figured at all in his plans, she realized, but as though he were turning some vague idea over in his, mind. He | oe | “2 jin the High School Intramural FURNISHED HOUSE, 5 rooms seemed like a man to whom noth- ing was of any great importance at the moment, at least, “No,” he said finally. “Might as well get along, now I've got start- ed. That’s the worst of feeling like tais: the initial impul is— dimmed, if you know what I mean. Getting UR steam’s about the hard- est thing I have to do.” He shook hands ceremoniously with her, with Mrs. Webb who appeared promptly in the hall. Buff caught a glimpse of a greenback chang- ing possession in the latter act, and again she reminded him of his rental money. “Tll write you about it from Boulder. Got to be going now!” He hurried out of the front door, circled the house to the garage and presently drove out a smal) car which, Buff knew at a glance, had seen long service. It chugged away purposefully, seemed to leap as it met the first boulders of the road, then disappeared from sight. Buff was somewhat pensively consuming her fourth biscuit when she heard it returning; or at all events heard a car approaching the house. use. “Atkins,” Mrs, Webb said, ap- ; pearing at the dining room door. “And late enough, too! It’s almost dark. Mygoodnessgracioussakes- alive!” she added. “He’s got Mr. Corliss with him!” “Or possibly,” Buff said with a |, touch of grimness. “Mr. Corliss has Atkins with him! There's a little |C matter of renting this ranch— | heavens!” She broke off abruptly and ran | out on the porch, followed by the portly housekeeper. Atkins was supporting the late tenant of the ranch, who limped and put a hand occasionally to his bandaged head. “That road!” ejaculated Buff. “What happened, Atkins?” “He busted a tie-rod, Miss Car- roll. Car turned over and threw him out. Messed him up a little. Now, Mr. Corliss, if you can ne- gotiate the steps, we'll soon have you comfortable.” The girl ran down and placed her shoulder beneath Tim’s arm. “Lean hard!” she commanded. “Come on now—up you go, and up —that’s fine! Open the door, Webby!” They got him into the living room before he eollapsed. Bue For A Smash ey was long after midnight before the ranch house settled itself to slumber. Atkins had done yeo- man’s service, calling a doctor from Loveland and driving to the highway to meet him. “He sure can’t make that road after night,” and conducting him without acci- dent to his patient. “Ligaments torn from the ankle bone,” was Dr. Westland’s pro- nouncement, “Head? Nothing to worry over; just a bump. But this Corliss fellow—how come he hap- pens to be out here, Miss Carrol]? —is about due for a smash if he | doesn’t slow up. Maybe this acci- dent is a blessing in disguise. It will keep him quiet for a while, anyway. He had attended Eleanor during one or two of her chronic head- aches, and was at ease with the daughter of the house. “Your folks coming back? I thought they’d gone to Chicago for the winter.” Buff explained; asked how long it would be before the invalid could be moved. “Not that there’s any reason why he should, but he was bent on it tonight.” “Oh, well,” said the doctor com- fortably. “He’ll not be bent on much of anything for the next few days but catching up with his sleep. I'm leaving him some sed- ative pills, Miss Buff, and I rely on you to see that he gets them. I want him—for every reason—to relax and snooze.” “Does he need a nurse?” He shook his head. “You and Mrs. Webb and Atkins can look after him. Not much to do for him, at that. I'll be out some time to- morrow, if I can get over that con- founded road of yours. Why don’t you have it fixed?” __ “I will,” Buff promised. “That is, I'll have Atkins hire some men to haul out a few of the largest boulders. The fall rains will un- cover a couple of thousand more but by that time no one but Atkins himself will be using it, and that not often.” This reminded her of the fore- man’s villainy, and she considered her intention of discharging him. She decided she would talk to him, first. Just how they would manage without him for the next week or two, she didn't know. Atkins himself was disposed to let bygones be bygones, she noticed with amusement the next lay. He made no reference at all to the fact of his fraudulent rental of the ranch to Corliss. The man might have been—and was, Atkins implied by tone and manner—a guest of the Carrolls, given the freedom of the place in its owner's absence. Continued tomorrow. DREAMER (my ciated Kress) HOUSTON, Tex., Oct. 18.—For years Marion Dzierzanowski, _a farmer, dreamed that he would become wealthy fom oil. He died four years ago with no trace of “black gold” having been found on his homestead. Now his heirs are planning to divide a tidy in- come from a producer that has been drilled on the Dzierzanowski place. PLANE FACTS tity Associated Presx) TUCSON, Ariz. Oct. airplane sowed 200 pounds of 50! varieties of grass seed over range land near here to test that method of restoring the range for cattle. The University of Arizona andj the U, S. soil conservation service | cooperated in the experiment. Re- sults will not be known for sev- | cral months. 18.—An} PANTHERS LEAD | | SCHOOL LEAGUE | | THE KEY WEST CITIZEN _ CLASSIFIED COLUMN LOST Fede SOLE LEL LEELA Oe | 'MONGOOSES WON FIRST ;LOST—Pair silver-rimmed glass- | HALF; HIGH BATTERS. | | LISTED ! | | According to records yesterday Baseball League the Panthers are eading the second half. In the} irst half the Mongooses topped ! the league. | | J. Aritas is leading the batters | with a .529 batting average. ! !There are six more |schedule for the second half of | {the league. 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