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

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8, by Francés Shell YESTERDAY: Mrs. Murchison has received a letter in her hus- band’s handwriting, from Chica- 90, dated six weeks after his dis- appearance, saying that he is never going to return. Chapter 17 Somewhere In Between MICHAEL spoke suddenly. “Let's forget all this conjec- turing, and guessing. Let’s get what we know organized—down on paper. Then we've got some- thing to work on. I’m getting fed up with fiddling about.” “Motives?” queried his father. “Where are you going to start?” Bunny wanted to know. “Whose motives? The diamond hunters, if any, the murderers, if any, or we don’t seem to be dealing with | A lady friend, which we can’t sub- stantiate as yet; and fear of pun- | ishment for some crime the.dis- appearing person has committed.” “What crime?” “As yet, rione, So there’s no use pene about that, although we’l)| keep it in mind.” | Bunny dew a deep breath:and settled, into -her -chair, “You're still talking about voluntary dis- | appearance, Michael,” she said Quietly. “You've broken the ice. | Now go.on.to what’s more likely.” “Oh well,” said Michael lightly, “if you must Have it.” He droppe down into the big chair by the desk. “Murder,” he said. Tuck tioved restlessly in her chair. Michael glanced at her, and went on. * “Robbéry,; jealor hate,” he. said.. “Three possib! motives. Everythin, those three heads.’ “Robbery, the diamonds,” Bun- | | ig comes under | Observation taken at 7:30 a. m. | 75th Mer. Time Temperatures Highest last 24 hours Lowest last night 5 1 ae Normal _... Precipitation Rainfall, 24 hours ending 7:30 a. m., inches ___ Total rainfall since Dec. inches Deficiency since Ap nee Total rainfall since January 1, inches Excess since Jan. 1, inches 1.79 Tomorrow's Almanac Sunrise =. 7201 a: Sunset - . 5:38 p. m.| Moonrise . | Moonset | | —.. 0,00 1 | . “December | | any pn 4559 Pp. m. | Tomorrow's Tides (Naval Base) i “|betweer. the Army and Seafood | . |Grill. - THR KEY-WEST CITIZEN . dae aT ~ nt er : \than recent pay cuts would-indi- 320 Tr Ny jeate that they, receive. PEOPLE'S U Very eral i R | EDW. S. DAVIS, _ ae e Special. Agent. 1,,...200 JEWISH ORPHANS =| The National Board of Fire Un- |Editor, The Citizen: | derwriters, | Some time ago Bishop McGuin- | Tampa, Fla., |ness of Raleigh, N. C., offered to|December 4, 1939. receive at his Nazareth Orphan- | |age 200 Jewish orphans banished | from Germany with the privilege lone Baker and the Key West jof having a rabbi to attend to/| firemen is deserving, but Mr. Da- City Basketball League toirna-|.. 22 2) jtheir réligious duties. This char-|vis errs in including the firemen ment ‘at the High School gymna- |THE TROTH THAT FREE” itv is “the greatest thing in N. C. |i the salary cuts recently made : es .K MEN FREE”; . h Duk Foundatoh” | by the city council since only srGmn, .) |Editor, The Citizen: panos sie sms undaton’s the chief of the fire department First game at 7:30 o'clock will! The American Bible Society ; Writes R. C. Lawrence, Esq., alwas affected. His salary was re- be played between the Lions |was foundde in 1816, “on the con- Baptist, in the North Carolina duced from $1728 to $1500 and cut Club and Coast Guard. Second | viction that no American home | Bat. a further 10° percent, «wien gamie, starting at 8:30 o'clock, is |should be without a Bible”, Sun-; The “Augusta Bulletin” carries | Makes the salary of the chief day, December. 10, is Universal'a full page tribute of praise |#1:850- However, Mr. Davis may eet ;not be aware of the fact that |Bible Sunday. The theme for the !from the congregations of Beth Aer {Chief Baker receives compensa- observance : Truth Th A Makes Men Sere ig ‘at Or and House of Jacob to the|tion also from the county to the The Citizen welcomes expres- signs. of the views of its read- ers, but the editor reserves the Tight to delete any items which are considered Ibelous or..mnwarranted. The writers should be fair and confine the letters to 200 is, and write on. one side of, the paper only. Signature of the writers must y the letters and will ished un! requested LIONS AND COAST GUARD! PLAY FIRST; GRILLS AND ARMY IN SECOND | EDITOR'S NOTE: Complimen- | Tonight finds resumption of the|. Bone” The Goast Guard and Lions| tary,allusion of Mr. Davis to Fire | are tiéd for first place in the! ts worth remembering that | bishop for “his love of little chil- |extent of $50 monthly, which dren and his never-to-be-forgot-| amounts to a yearly salary of PAGE: THREE BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT Boy Born To Russells A boy was born yesterday aft- ernoon 6:15 o'clock to Mr. and |Mrs. John William Russell at the home of Mrs. Russell’s parents, 625 Francis street. The new ar- rival tipped the scales at 8% pounds, Both mother and son are doing as well as can be expected. NOT LIKELY “Funny my razor doesn’t cut at all”. “Don’t be silly, dear. Your {beard can’t be tougher than the | linoleum”. $1950. While this may not be a commensurate compensation, it is far above the parity paid the firemen and consistent with the present deplorable financial con- dition of this city. what have you?” “The Professor,” Michael said. “If any, of course.” “It’s like ‘button button, who's. ny murmured. | “Yes, And that will take in the | largest circle of suspects. From |LOW Marie Murchison down to Hig, High - _|tournament to date. Tonight’s /Sériator Charles O, Andrews of | |game, however, will settle the | Florida is the proposer of a joint jlead{at. the end of three weeks |Tesolution presented recently in | AM. 2:30 ten gesture of Good Will, etc”. | All this is consoling when we! ‘consider that in the recent Span- | now before got the button?’” Tuck mur- mured. Michael threw her a cold glance. “Levity from here on is out,” he said decisively. “Now we start. This thing probably isn’t much of a mystery at all. There's no use keeping on with all this suspicion if we're barking up the wrong tree, if there isn’t any tree. Sup- ing we start at the beginning, and think about Murchison hi self. He’s gone. This letter appar- ently clears up the question of his whereabouts, but ‘we'll . forget about that letter. Why did he Lbs The District Attorney tapped his pipe thoughtfully. He glanced up at his son, but said nothing. “First,” Michael went on, “his wife says he probably went off to some remote laboratory to con- duct some obscure experiment.” “What experiment?” Bunny de- manded. “Why couldn’t he con- duct it here?” “That doesn’t really bother me,” said Michael; “the question. is, what lab? As far as I’m concerned, that first possibility is out.” “There are labs in Chciago,” Tuck said tentatively. Michael frowned. “I suppose I may as well own up,” he said, “I do riot believe in that letter for a moment. In the first place, it was worded too vaguely. He merely said, in two sentences, that he was not returning to her, and- perhaps she would understand. He didn’t say where he was going or what he was going to do. He told her to forget him.” “And does she understand?” “She says she doesn’t. Although J smella herring there, too. A very bright red herring. But the real question in my mind is—why did he-wait‘for six weeks to mail that letter? Can ‘you answer me that?” The District Attorney nodded to himself. Michael answered his own question, looking down into the interested eyes turned to his face. “Beeause,” he said, “he didn’t.” “Didn't wait six weeks?” “Didn't mail that letter.” “What do you, mean, Michael? It was inthis own handwriting.” “Yes, but—when did he write it? Before he went, or just before he mailed it?” “You think he might have left that note for her? That she had it all the time ... and then...” ‘Tuck's mind was following out the steps. Her eyes shone. “Yes, And, has the lady any friends in Chicago? Suddenly, you see, she feels that she has to ex- ty the Professor's absence. hings are getting unpleasant— or she wants the police out. Per- haps getting them in was only a gesture. So, she gets the bright idea of dating this letter—the date was printed, by the way, and the ex- pat is almost ready to swear it's rchison’s hand but not quite— dating it, sending it to some friend in Chicago with instructions to mail it back to her. Simple. The Professor's absence quite satisfac- torily sened, and the police called o: 4 6 * AND what precipitated this bit of finesse, Michael?” the Distrief Attorney wanted to know. Michael shrugged his shoulders. “Perhaps she really heard from the Professor and he gave her the devil for starting this search.” He avoided his father’s eyes. “Or perhaps she discovered that the diamonds were really here in the house, and she wanted to get | them,” Tuck said. “And more likely,” Bunny add- ed, “she began to think the police were finding out too much. The key question in my mind is, of course, what happened to the Pro- fessor? Where does he give her the devil from? How did he get there? I think you're guessing there, Michael.” “Well, perhaps. Next, then; supposing the letter is authentic, He sey have gone off with a lady iend.” “We've talked about that,” Tuck objected. “It’s no use going over it again.” ¥ mh “Not any. Very well, en. Thete’s something we haven't discussed. They say there are usu- ally three reasons for a man’s dis appearing. Loss of memory, wh ‘Three Reasons An Easternher stood on the ver- anda of a little western hotel and 4 Patron of an Alabama market, | watched the sun go down. “By George!” he exclaimed to the native sitting nearby. “That's certainly a gorgeous sunset, isn’t it?” “Not bad”, was the answer. “Not bad for a little place like| Hobdpvilie”. | ins —and beyond. An unknown thiet | could have murdered him for the diamonds.” | “Scarcely,” the District Attor- | ney said with a twinkle. “You! can’t go too far, Michael. You'd | have a lot of little fine threads to pick up if you start talking so.” “Very well,”. Michael conceded. “No unknowns. Well, then . .. Higgins is the most likely sus- pect.” “Piffle,” said Bunny. “Not alone, Michael. He hash’t the brains.” “No. Well, to fe on. Jealousy.” “The lady's husband,” mur- mured. Tuck. “Yes. But first we'll have to find the Tad, far there doesn’t seem to be any. The District Attorney sat forward suddenly in his chair, and gazed intently into the fire. Bunny was watching him. She frowned to herself. Michael was watching | her. “There is, of course,” he said slowly, “another possibility there. Mrs. Murchison is a most attrac- tive woman.” Gray Box Bory shut her eyes. Tuck stared at Michael. “You mean «...” she began. He shook his head at her. “Any- one might be in love with Mrs. Murchison,” he told her. Her eyes were still fixed on his. He glanced at Bunny. “Of course,” Tuck said quietly. “A perfect stranger might. Some- one_we haven't heard of at all.” “Someone who lives in Chi- cago,” muttered the District Attor- ney. went on hastily. “Hate.” .His father turned and looked at him. “Where do you put revenge, my lad?” he asked, “It’s a funny, queer, fermenting thing. It grows often on unlikely soil.” ‘Hate takes in all that,” Michael decided. “All types of enmity and revenge. It gives us a wide course.” “T don’t believe he was the sort of man one hates,” Tuck said swiftly. “I think his brother is a perfect darling. So there!” “T wish,” said Bunny slowly, “IT wish we could find the diamonds.” “Oh, as for that,” said Michael loftily, “it’s very simple. I know where they are.” Three astonished faces turned toward him. Two mouths fell open. One pair of shaggy brows bent, over keen gray eyes. “Michael!” With elaborate leisure he got up from his chair, and turned around. On the floor at his feet was the grating of the .cold-air register. “Of course,” he said, “I may be mistaken. But I don’t think so. Certainly they’re somewhere in this room, if there are any. And this is a fairly new house—no secret passages or sliding panels in it? SO—” , “The pipe!” Tuck cried, com- ing to stand beside him. “The cold- air pipet!” They were all beside him now, ering down 4 oe th the grating. Milde ne ie ers: knife from the desk anh | id. He applied it to the screws on cach side of thé rating, and after a few seconds of breathless silence lifted (ie grating out, and laid it beside | im. . The pipe just below the grating | formed a square and ran along under the floor. Joining with it at the back was the pipe that came straight down from the dressii room above. At the juncture o: the two, on a little shelf formed of a bent.sheet of gray tin, stood a box; and hanging over the top of it eae» rosy corals, Was. my idea, you young scalawag,” his father said. “Your idea, my clever parent. Somewhere in between, you said. It bothered me. I thought about it. Bhey are.” He lifted out the corals and handed them to Tuck. Then he leaned forward and picked up the gray box. It, too, was made of tin, like the Pipe. It was perhaps six in long, by, three le, and deep, and the lid was covered thick dust and fastened down a hasp and.tiny padlock. NOT BAD FOR HOOPVILLE j “Look here, Boss”, said a color- “dat ham you sold me last night was spoiled”. “Impossible”, said the butcher, | “And the last point,” Michael | | Barometer at 7: |Sea_ level ___ 5 .18 | of play. \the Senate, and is Wind Direction and Velocity NNW—16_ miles per hour Relafive Humidity 73% N. B.—Comfortable humidity \should be a few points below mean temperature FORECAST. | (Till 7:30 p. m., Saturday) Key West and Vicinity: Fair tonight and Saturday; not much change in temperature; gentle to moderaté variable winds. N.B.—Forecast indicates winds between 8-14 miles per hour | Florida: Fair tonight and, Sat- lurday; slightly cooler in ex- treme north portion tonight. CONDITIONS A dsturbance of intensity is central this morning over New England, Eastport, {Me., 28.98 inches, causing gales along the north Atlantic coast, |New York City reporting a max- |mum wind velocity of 56 miles an hour. A moderate high pressure area crested over the Middle |Mississippi Valley, overspreads most sections between the Rocky ‘CLASSIFIED COLUMN PERSONAL { OLD AT 40! GET PEP! New OSTREX Tonic Tab- lets contain invigorators, stimu- lants. 73-year-old doctor says, “I take Ostrex myself”. $1.00 size, special today 89c. If not delighted, maker refunds this price, Call, write Gardner’s| Pharmacy. 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Tempera- | inhabitants of ithe United States; | Richard Reid, editor of The! tureg-have fallen from the cen- land | Bulletin, Augusta, Ga., for about tral Plains §States north east- rr eG |twenty years, has been appointed | wards over the Lake region, but | yo Fe ie Separent bara Se of the Catholic News of | \a; revitalization of the moral and . { readings are near or above spiritual. life of this nation and of New York, succeeding the late normal in moést sections this \the world ‘is greatly to be desi teditor, M. J. Madigan. 9 ee | ESEARCHER. morging. \ed; Therefore be it | Ri f& G..S. KENNEDY, © | Official In Charge. | House of Re | “Resolved by the Senate and Key West, Fla., | presentatives of the | Dec: 6 1939. United States of America in Con- | LEGA L S ‘gress assembled, That this Con- In SMD ce once TEA QOUNTS. sUDGRS COURT gress reaffirm the original reso: 1N AND FOR MONROE COUNTY, ff CHIEF BAKER’S SALARY |The Key West Citizen, Key West, Florida. |Gentlemen: jlution adopted in 1782 and’once |more commend to the people of jthe United States the principles and precepts contained in the | As a regular subscriber to The \Holy Scriptures as America’s |Citizen, I venture to suggest that | lgreatest textbook on right liv-|(the public advocacy of equity | ing”. jand justice to all being consistent i |. May the purpose of the Society | with your established policy) the | |and the motive which prompted matter of commensurate com- | the resolution captivate every one pensation for the firemen of Key and challenge us to right living. ; West receive such treatment as | |God grant that more will believe seems to you proper under the ‘in Jesus who said, “Ye shall ;circumstances. know the. truth and the truth,| My association with Fire Chief | shall make you free”. ;Harry Baker and his men has) SIGISMUND A. LAING, jconvinced me that they are loyal, | |Key West, Fla., Minister. |faithful, highly efficient and} Dec, 7, 1939. imost worthy of. better treatment! | } i Deceased. NOTICE OF INTENTION TO MAKE APPLICATION FOR FINAL DISCHARGE Notice is hereby given that the undersigned will, on the 20th day of December, A. D. 1939, present to the Honorable Raymond R. 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