The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 8, 1939, Page 3

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1939 4 é b by YESTERDAY: Buff anid Gedrge are of Iris, but can’t figure what her game is, The land she Wought back is worthless, but they think it will soon leave her possession. Chapter 21 Seientifie Study TH BACK you to do whatever needs to be done.” George rose and_rested a friendly hand on her shoulder for an instant. “Of course I know you were joking, Buff, when you used to talk about mar- rying Tim; but golly, how swell it would be if it really happened! I couldn’t wish anything better for old Tim—and he’s one of the best, though I admit he’s ‘acting like seven kinds of a fool just now— than to pick himself a wife like you.” She looked steadily ahead of her. “I wasn’t fooling, George. I'm not now. I’m going to marry Tim.” “He know it?” demanded the startled Mr. Weekes. “No.” Her mouth. drooped. a little sadly. “That is, I’ve told him often enough but he refuses my offer.” “He—why, the silly_ so-and-so, the ... why, I'll make him marry oe if I have to bash his head in! “Calm yourself, George dear. You sound like the father of the wronged maiden in a dialect poem —In Texas, down on the Rio Grande,’ or something like that. T'll handle this matter myself, and thank you so much! Is that clearly understood?” He opened his mouth, shut it, opened it again to say, “Clearly; most clearly indeed, my dear Miss Atlas. Any other little jobs you’ve laid out for yourself? Like shoving Long’s Peak a mile or so nearer to Pike’s, for example?” “You consider my task so diffi- cult?” “Well, Tim—if Tim’s made y his mind either to do or not to ra he’s not what you might call easy to influence. And with this Iris complication again to the fore—but my money’s on you, Buff, every time. And may heaven bless you!” he said at the door. Buff set herself to the study of Iris DeMuth with the cold detach- ment and concentration of a scien- tist. She wanted to knew two things about her: first whether the newcomer was sincere in her pro- testations of innocence about the affair of the summer; second, in just what lay the charm she ex- erted over Tim, as well as over most of the men she met. The second question was moré easily answered than the fiirst. Iris was sex-conscious. It was not in her to allow anything masculine, whether it was Boulder’s most eli- gible young lawyer or the freckle- faced urchin who brought cigar- ettes to her room, to depart without having her mark put upon him. She did it automatically, perhaps instinctively, Buff decided. “She was a lovely little girl,” ran Buff’s thoughts, “Graceful, pretty, with that white skin and those wistful dark eyes. She probably flirted in her kindergarten days. In her teens she got real results. It’s an occupation with her just as Lance must concern himself with the reaction of his public to every new character he puts in his car- toons.” Bag Of Tricks *T sere was nothing spiteful in this analysis. Buff was honestly trying to understand a nature dis- tinctly foreign to her. Her life with her parents had given her a large tolerance of humanity’s foibles. Somehow the discovery that most of Iris’s “affairs” were impersonal, merely the artist’s display of talent before an audience of one and that invariably masculine, served to soften her fault toward Tim in the younger girl's eyes. She discovered that Iris had a bag of tricks, as professionally nec- essary as that of a conjurer. The drooping of jong. ainst a petal white cheek, the sudden wide and radiant smile which so trans- formed her, the appealing hand on @ man’s arm, the caressing little upward inflection in the lovely voice—Iris used them, one after another, impartially. Buff came to know them all, to watch for them. What mystified her was that Iris’s victims remained unaware of her technique no matter how often and automatically it was used. Lance Carroll's daughter, gifted with his own ability to burlesque anything and anybody, took sober counsel with herself on the subject. She knew how delicately but effec- tively she could exhibit Iris to Tim as she was, not as he saw her, The faintest accentuation of that co- quettish appeal could not fail to make it ridiculous. “But I shan’t do it until [ve eer just guessed or be- lieved, but proved that Iris does not love Tim. One part of my.mind says she di ow could she or any girl help it, darling Tim! The other reminds me coldly that when = is said and diet! she did ee ie greatest possible jury last summer. And I don’t think she’s such a fool as she wants us—par- ticularly Tim—to believe. She knows too much about men to have let that Latshaw deceive her. All that business of switching ore. specimens on Tim—it sounds dis- tinetly phony to me. However, I'll wait e sure!” So Boulder was ited to the unu: ight of Buff Carroll and Tris DeMuth, Tim's erstwhile fiancée and his present friend and comrade, going everywhere to- ether. Buff lunched at the spl lerado with Iris. Iris, with Ti and George—a George who exhib- ited‘an nespected avity toward the girl ‘hi liked and distrusted —dined with Buff at her apart- ment, The took ina weekly movie er. They drove, when the roads were clear of snow, up into one after another of the sev- eral canyons opening out of the University town. Tea‘in Buff's livirig room became a daily function; with Iris, always lovely, always a trifle mysterious and remote, back in the chair which best framed her dark head, while Buff presided oyer the table, and the town’s younger set came and went. “No chance at all to see you alone these days,” George grum- bled. “I’ve béen wanting to tell you that the jand still stands in Tris’s name. Whatever her game is she’s going to play it slowly and cautiously this time. She needs to, in view of the rumpus that busi- ness kicked up here last sumnier.” “You're still convinced she's playing a game?” They were talk- ing in undertones in the Small din- ing room. Buff had slipped away | to stick her head through the | swinging door and ask Webby for more sandwiches, George had fol- lowed her, and detained her in consultation. Thrill Of Danger ‘ T else?” he inquired sim- YY ply. “It’s not in her to léve Tim, or any other man. She might be devoted _to a bully, the sort of man Latshaw is, for instance: but it’s more fear and admiration, the thrill of danger, than it is affection she feels, even for him. She has no inner resources, if you understand what Lmean, Two steps lower in the social scale and she’d be the typical gangster’s “mo!l.” She loved io | the feeling of power it gave her to be catspaw for Latshaw—golly, it rhymes! SOrey Buff! If she had more brains she’d make a dandy spy for some European country. As it is, she’s not bad, she’s not clever. She’s a darned sight closer to be- ing the sweet clinging vine she’s always portraying than she real- 3” “You think this man Latshaw Sent her back here? Gave her in- structions to make it up with “Exactly, They figured he fell so hard for her last year that it wouldn’t be a big job to get hold of him again, It’s.exactly the sort of thing: to flatter Iris’s vanity. Lat- shaw knows that and is making use of it. For some reason best known to himself, he wants that land back... . I wish to heaven I knew why! If it is merely to get postes- sion of it legally, he could have bought it at the price Tim and I had. set on it. But no, Iris must neéds pay what we'd lost, and therefore renew her hold on Tim. Tim’s the stone of the deep dark plot—if plots have keystones. era needs him for some- thing.” He scowled all the way up to his bij seith retreating hairline. “I wig I knew what!” Buff put a question she had long hesitated over. “Tim... what do you think about Tim, George?” “You mean, is he back in Iris’s toils?—We sound like characters in a melodrama, Buff! — That’s hard to say. If I had had the sense in the beginning not to sail into her, that wouldn’t have beer aroused. As it is he’s looking for trouble every | Arthur Sawyer Post Will "pana ara epee aca | Stage Sports Show Sunday In connection with the Armis-, stagea series of races THE KEY WEST CITIZEN and ex- tice Day observance this year, | hibitions on Trumbo Field. Las‘ | | Arthur Sawyer Post No. 28 of the !Sunday two representatives of} American Legion has arranged a'the riding organization visited sports program to be held at! the field and made some sugges- | Trumbo Field at the foot of Eaton tions for smoothing out some} stréet beginning at 1:30 p. m.'rough’spots and arranging suit- ! H felt able \it inadvisable to. hold the sports’ acts. "= 'Sunday. The ionnaires levents on Saturday immediately | following the parade and cere- ‘drill monies to be held at Bayview on m : baties; leaping through fire tun- | the nels; observance humanjhyrdle; running over a Key ‘man; using a man as a hurdle, | is ar- and other stunts that are certain! i Park, In _ co-operation Legion’s _ patriotic committee, Roy Hamlin, West sports impresario, with Tanging for a nine inning base-'to create thrills and chills, ‘ball game between the Key West; Conchs. and the Pirates. both teams are in top outs. Immediately following Miami 1 This destroyers in port next Sunday | should be a bang up game, for | are being formed to attend the! shape baseball gamie and motorcycle after a number of recent work-!races and exhibition enmasse. | Proceeds of the admissions will |, the go into the Legion’s child wel- game, the daredevil riders of the ' fare Motor Cycle club will fund. erties for the various ogram ‘will inelude the | am formations; clowning | rcycles; motorcycle acro- ‘Thi 4wall crashes; leaping a! i Sevéral liberty parties for the CII ST TE EES SI and community _ service TRANSPORTATION 16 Arrivals From Havana Arrivals on the Steamship Cuba from Havana yesterday aft- ernoon were 23 passengers, of whom there were 13 first cabin! land three second cabin for Key; | West, six first and one second cabin for Tampa. | Key West arrivals were: Ramon |Mestre, Antonio Tourmil, James |Salvador y Valls, Virginia Gas-! | ture Salvador, Westervelt D. Mid- dleton, Emily D. Middleton, Ar-| nold Gehring, Marie Gehring, | Charles H. Wiman, Maud Wiman, | Cecil Wiman, Charles H. Wiman, Jr., Ady Fernandez, Persia Fer-| nandez, Jose Moreno, Hugo Pflei- | derer, Cora Pfleiderer. | Manifest of the ship six tons of freight, three mobiles and five sacks of mail’ showed | for Key West, 13 tons of freight! 2. and 47 sacks of mail for Tampa. | The ship sailed at 5 o'clock) for Tampa with one passenger, ' seven tons of freight and two} sacks, of mail. . FORGOT TO REMEMBER (By Associated Press) | ROANOKE, Va., Nov. 8.—A) |Roanoke attorney doubts very} seriously that the information he | gave a young man will ever be oo 8. any practical value. | | Awakened from a sound sleep |at 11 p. m. by the telephone, the; 9. attorney was asked the qualifica- | tions for becoming President of! 10. the United States. He explained | politely and after hanging up the} phone thought of one thing he had omitted to say—tact. fernal chivalry of his | time I open my mouth about her. | You two are queer,” he mused aloud: “You and Tim, I mean. Neither one of you is happy unless you are protecting somebody. Tim’s doing a knight-in-armor act for Iris, you're on guard for Tim’s sake. I wish,” he finished plaintive- ly, “somebody would yearn to look after me a while. Is it because I'm not tall and sort of gaunt look- ing, like Tim? Or is it becausé his hair is so thick and waruly? Why does nd one long to rush to my de- | fette itted his thing], he ite arm soothingly. “You wel to the Leamic of Sy: fense lf, George dear! Who saw Tim through that bad time in August ho came out to the ranch and fussed anxiously about his health, his oe cate worry’ now, you just said so!” He acinned sheepishiy and Mrs, Webb appearing at that moment with a replenished sandwich plate, he took it from her the living rodém, o! nance to Buff's guests. The first part of Buff’s problem was solved for her unexpectedly, and by Iris herself. It was a bitter day in February, with a wind that howled like an agonized soul about the campus, hard pellets of snow drivent down from the high peaks making walking almost impossi- ble. The two girls had lunched to- gether in Buff's dining room and afterwards Iris had appropriated the softest chair and drawn it close to the fire. She had a cat's talent for making herself comfortable; also a cat's daintiness about her erson, Buff thought, watching her touch her hair ee deft ‘ahgessr smooth, the folds of her wine-col- | ored corduroy velvet, relax in just the position which best displayed the ertated slender ankles.» Continued tomorrow. id went about | Ting suste- There‘s a big differernice in the comfort and convenierice of Florida Motor Lines travel and that of other public trarisporta- | tion, Individual “airfoam” re- clining chairs that are posture correct, indirect lighting that is | dimmed or extinguished at night so you can sleep, wholesome, popular-priced meals atselected | restaurants; modem, up-to-date made Florida TODAY’S COMMON ERROR .All words denoting the Diety, except who, whose, and whom: all names for the Bible or other sacred writings, and names of re- ligicus bodies and their adherents are capitalized; as, Heavenly Father: Scriptures: Koran: Chris- tian; King’s Daughters. ‘4 TODAY’S DAILY QUIZ Can you answer seven of these auto-| 1. weekly. | ten Test Question? 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