The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 29, 1939, Page 3

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1 939 by Frances Shelley Wees YESTERDAY: Michael tells Bunny that if she knew as much as he, she would avoid Duncan like the plague. Disturbed, Bunny tells of walking with Duncan and seeing a creeping man on the cbf. The next day, Mrs. Mirchi- son is caught searching the house, Chapter 34 Gordon’s Dugout | WANT my husband’s love let- . ters—from another woman,” said Mrs. Murchison, “I can see that you wouldn’t want us to read those letters,” said Tuck Kae, “But, when we have already seen them, why didn’t you come and ask for them, in- stead of sn—of coming here like this to look for them?” Mrs. Murchison was silent, with heaving bosom and flashing eyes. She stared at Tuck defiantly. “You may as well come down- stairs,” Tuck said gently. “We haven't the letters any longer, Mrs. Murchison. They are down at the Police station.” The shot struck home. The angry defiance faded in a moment, and stark fear took its place. “The police!” she whispered. “Yes, You see—they want very much to know where your husband is, If what you say is true, if you can prove it, then the matter will be closed as far as they are con- cerned. You might better have told them the truth in the beginning.” Mrs. Murchison said nothing. She went slowly down the stairs, her footsteps faltering and uneven. At the foot of the stairs she turned. “I cannot prove it,” she mut- tered. “I do not know who she is.” “Well, then,” Tuck said, “don’t rad about it. Let the police prove it.” They watched her as she went slowly home on the curving path; up the steps and into that other si- lent house. Tuck looked at Bunny, “She doesn’t know yet about Miss Lis- sey, does she?” “She couldn’t know. She wouldn’t dare act this way if she did. There is Michael's car, Tuck.” They met him in the sun porch. He had left the car in the driveway and came striding up the path to the house. As he came through the door he looked at each of them, and said quickly, “Thank God!” “For what, Michael?” “Tuck, you crazy little cat, why did you go out into the woods when I expressly told you not to?” “That's no way to talk to a wo- man, even if she is your wife, Mi- chael Forrester,” Tuck said hotly. “And anyway, how did you know?” “Charlotte Jean. She phoned me at the police station, and said that you were lost in the woods, and that she had the murderer locked in your clothes closet. What did she mean?” I,” Tuck gritted, “will skin that girl. I will flay her.” “Oh, no you won't. I’m going to give her fifty cents, You're worth Nearly that much to me. Tuck, what's happened? You look just busting full of talk.” So he heard the story. Aggrieved FTER lunch Michael left the house for a walk — “to think things over” he told the girls. He thade his way directly through the trees to Freddie's grave,—which he knew to contain nothing but an empty box. Presumably Gordon did not know that the body of his pet had been stolen. That theft was something Michael had not quite explained even to himself; but he did not stop today to think about it. farther, and entered the cave. He looked around him. This was in reality little more than a deep hollow, dug out la- boriously, for the marks of tools were still in the walls. Along the back ran a few boards on top of a clay, ledge left for them, and in front of the table thus formed was Gordon’s ‘chair, On the table stood anvold coal oil lamp, with a black- ened chimney. “Pretty nice place you've got here,” Michael went on with inter- est, “Bet it took a lot of work to make it.” “How'd you find it?” Gordon asked in an aggrieved tone. “Did you eVer hear the story about the lost horse?” Michael asked him as he sat comfortably down on the floor. “What lost horse?” “Well, once there was a horse, and it lost itself, and nobody could find it until a half-witted kid went out and brought it in. And they asked him how he did it, and he said he just thought if he was a horse where would he go, and he went there, and the horse had.” “Hasn’t got anything to do with my cave, has it?” Gordon asked scornfully. “Well, not exactly. Except that you're the horse.” Gordon’s snort was eloquent. “If I had been you, you see,” Mi- chael went on, “I'd have certainly dug me out a cave along here, if I could have got a little help, which I see you had.” “Help?” “Didn’t you?” ‘Wizard Or Something’ ORDON stared. “Oh, gosh,” he said at last, “are you one of you have to know everything?” “Nearly. Don’t be so dumb, Gor- don, You know wat I’m doing out here. It’s my job to find things out. As a matter of fact, I happened to be on the bank above here one night when you had the light on, and I saw the reflection in the river, I'm not spying on you. But if I did, you'd have to admit that I had a right to. You’ve laid yourself open to it.” Gordon’s face was pale. “How'd | you know...” he was beginning, | when Michael stopped him. | “Can it,” he said staal. “Tn | tell you what I know, and I'll tell hung for it, not for a couple of days anyway.” He ticked the items off on his fingers. “First, you wrote THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Pirates Open Three Gane Series With Tampa Tomorrow| TONIGHT AT GYM By OSCAR L, MILIAN With a three-game series with the Tampa aggregation in sight, ‘Ray Bush’s Pirates will flash back into action tomorrow morn- ing at 10’o‘clock when the Buc- caneers are scheduled to cross! bats with the visitors at Trumbo | hits in 18 innings, will start off on the.mound for the Pirates, ac- cording to the probable lineup veleased by catcher Acevedo with Manuel behind the plate. For Tampa, Longval will no [BASKETBALL LEAGUE CON- 1 TESTS OPEN AT 7/30 WITH ARMY VS. COAST GUARD Island City Basketball League 'Field. The second game will be|doubt get the call for the firing|tournament continues with two played Sunday morning at the jline duty, with Schiro behind | games tonight at the High School same time and same place and | ‘the third will take place in the | afternoon of the same day, pre-| ‘ceding the Conch-Tampa fracas. Monday efternoon Tampa will | clash with Marvin Griffin’s All-; | Stars. { Although the Bucs have not! been seen in a ball game since | their dispute with the Conchs/} lover an umpire’s decision three | weeks ago, the club has been in} the mask. Longval has had very little chance to pitch all he can! and it is expected that he will turn loose tomorrow morning. Pirates’ probable lineup fol- lows: Ed. Garcia, rf; Al. Acevedo, 2b; M. Hernandez, 3b; F. Lopez, ss; M. Acevedo, c; Domenech, cf; Castellano, 1b; E. Ogden, If; I. Salinero, p; G. Malgrat, p; P. Carbonell, p. A strong club representing the |Blue Sox will cross bats with the jTampa nine tomorrow afternoon, (beginning at 3:30 o’clock. Joe Navarro - will receive Robert Bethel’s flings for the Sox. constant practice as they have | been looking forward to this se- | ries with the Ybor City boys and | it can be said that the Pirates | are in first-class shape. Accord- | ing to Manuel Acevedo, the team catcher, they will make the vis- iting club step mighty lively if they expect to win. Idilio Salinero, local youngster, who held the Conchs to just nine CLASSIFIED, COLUMN “OBSERVATIONS FROM. those wizards or something? Do! THE BLEACHERS BEG TO APOLOGIZE, JACKIE— A great number of ball-fan readers of this column have call- ed the attention of this writer to the fact that Jackie Carbonell, } who came to the rescue relieving Harry “Swifty” Wickers in, the first inning after the Tampa club | had scored four runs on the} Marvin Griffin All-Stars last} Monday afternoon, was not men- | fin and Acevedo. While giving Jackie a good line in the game a letter on your father’s typewriter | Write-up, it is a fact he was miss- | to the Police Commissioner asking ed in the paragraph of this col- where Professor Murchison’s dia- umn headed “Congratulations, | monds are. Then, pene Se Com Marvin”. Carbonell really de- | er didn’t seem : i thing about it, you gathered unto ‘erved a lot of ene an ve yourself several dishpans and so |¢lub’s victory, not only for his on, and hung them on the outside fine pitching but for his offen- ; of our doors while you did unlaw- | sive attack as well. fully enter the study and search| aed for them—the diamonds, of course. |HOW: WILL YOU DO IT, All ae Ce yape fiend and TAMPA? satellite, Higgins, did discover a sates ; + gold waich lying on the path with | Fabian’s Tampanians Will have | a piece of bloody paper beside it, 2 busy weekend with games and perhaps for diverse reasons |scheduled with the Pirates Sat- unknown to me. Is it not so, my urday ard Sunday mornings, yonok ae uetia abet, Blue Sox Saturday afternoon, .” Sai 4 “Most inelegant,,” Michael com- |Conchs Sunday afternoon and mented. “Isn’t that all true?” |Pirates and Griffin’s All-Stars | Sordae gulped. ane gua so.” Monday afternoon. | “Where'd you get the key?” eee | Gordon did not answer. |RAYMOND LONGVAL “Very well,” said Michael. AND BABY MORGADO— CWbat were you going andor mak Feeling much better now than ret out the mystery, and fin '€ when they first arrived in -Key | jewels, and claim the reward?” |’ | “There ought to have been one.” | West last week, these two boys} “Ab-solutely. But is there? I |tell us that they can take care of doubt it. You see, Gordon,” Mi- | the situation for the visiting club | chase) said, “the diamonds are on the firing line. They will | noes SOunO, em. split the six games. Wait a min- | i ute, how "bout Manuel Lopez? | “Honest and true.” “Shucks, Oh, well.” FLOWERS “SAY IT WITH FLOWERS’— Beautiful shipment New Year’s Flowers arriving tonight. Glad- iolas, from $1.25 up; Pompons, 75c bunch. Lovely Corsages for your New Year’s parties, $1.00 up, gift boxed. Lovely original table center pieces. Pay us a visit. BRAXTON’S FLOWER MART, Cor. Simon- ton and Angela Sts. dec29-1tx LOST you too that you're not going to be | tioned in this column as was Grif- |LOST—Black Mixed ' Pekinese and Scotch Terrier answering to name of “Beauty”. Finder notify 527 Olivia street. dec29-1tx LOST—Watch Fob with 'Horse’s Head at Postoffice. Reward if returned to Ray Navarro, 613 Caroline Street. dec27-3tx REWARD FOR RETURN OF ‘WATCH AND CHAIN lost on South Beach, foot of Simonton street. Return to Manager, Gibson Hotel. dec26-6t MISCELLANEOUS OPENING FOR THE SEASON, Key West’s loveliest Gift Shop. OLD ISLAND TRADING POST, at the Water Front, North End of Duval street. dec13-1mo FOR RENT ee Re iieeaan SIX-ROOM UNFURNISHED HOUSE. 1403 Albury Street. Apply 1402 Olivia street. dec29-2tx gymnasium. In the opener, starting at 7:30 lorclock, the Army plays the; Coast Guard. Following that game, the Lions and Seafood Grill take the floor. Coast Guard team is out in front in the tournament by a full game margin. Lions will have to win their fracas to hold second position and a chance to gain first place when they meet the Coast Guard five next Wednesday. A loss will bring the Seafooders up to second position. GOLFING NEWS By CLUB REPORTER Blind Bogie event yesterday was won by Melvin Russell with the combination of 81, 10—net 7 Tied for second place were Dr. W. A. Spitzley.of Detroit and C. B. Cole of the Casa Marina with 94, 15—net 79, and 99, 20—net 79, respectively. Other scores in were: E. S. Gillette, 84, 6—net 78; John Pinder, 86, 10—net 76; Pe. ter Schutt, 88, 22—net 66; Dr. Wm. Kemp, 90, 12—net 78; C. W. Caulkins, 90, 15—net 75; Mrs. C. W. Caulkins, 106, 28—net 78; Al- ton Parks, 86, 10—net 76; W. eg Harris, 80, 8—net 72. the feature | eoecccececcovescssceccoce Today’s Horoscope Today’s domineering spirit will prove a bad handicap, unless held very severely in check. There is a good measure of ability and the nature is capable of strong at- tachments and wise planning, but the arbitrary desire to dictate may cause disappointment if not actual failure of plans. PI OCPOCOL LOLOL CLL ‘As Taken From The FIVE YEARS AGO 1 Business was ~ exceptionally | good yesterday for the commo- dore plane of the, Miami-Key West Airways, Inc. The plane ar- rived with seven passengers, later went to Tortugas with a sight-| seeing party of 12, returned sev- eral hours later and left for Mi- ami with, 15 passengers. i After spending a night in Key West the Fantasy Follies, a the- people, Cuba for Havana to fill an en- i agement at one of the larger “saeaa The company arrived iThursday night in the troupe \bus. left yesterday on SS. Approximately 100 invitations {have been sent out to lovers of itennis to witness the games be- ling staged on the courts at the Casa Marina Hotel. The singles between the men and the women are to be played. this afternoon jbetween 4 and 6 o'clock. Steamship Cuba sailed for Ha- vana yesterday with 232 first jelass passengers, 18 second class, |10 automobiles, four tons of freight and 165 sacks of mail. Many of the passengers on the | boat were arrivals by train. There |were 218 by train and 105 went jon the, boat. | | TEN YEARS AGO | A party of 35 or 40 Boy Scouts will arrive in the city tomorrow | from Miami and Jacksonville and | jafter spending a short time and) being entertained by local scouts | will sail on SS. Cuba for Ha-} vana, where they will join the delegation of scouts from Fort} Myers. A polecat is said to have been | killed this morning by parties living _near the cemetery on| Grinnell street. This is the first of its kind to be encountered in many years, according to the} residents. There were many peo. ple viewing the rare (in Key West) animal. Monroe county tax redemp- | ‘tion receipts for December were | increased to the extent of $403, clearing a piece of property on! which the taxes had been delin- atrica! company consisting of 24; ~~ KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY Happenitgs Here Just Five, Ten and Fifteen Years Ago Today Files Of The Citizen quent for the past '35 years. In 1904 the taxes were $5.14, ac- cording to the records in the county clerk’s. office. The Key West Athletic Club court will be the scene of a dou- when the Alumni and the Ath- {letics meet for a starter, which will be followed by a setto be-| tween the Sea Scouts and the Junior Athletics, Both games will be good. j FIFTEEN YEARS AGO Arrangements have been made for a football game to be played on New Year’s Day between the High School team and the team {from the University of Florida |School team did not have much trouble defeating the basketball team, but how will the football game end? Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Curry were passengers arriving on the steamer this morning from Tam- |pa. The young people had been there spending their honeymoon and will spend a few days here |with relatives and afterwards go to Miami, where they will take jup their residence. Grand Council, Order of De-| Molays, with headquarters in Kansas City, has set aside Satur- day, January 3, as DeMolay Day of Comfort throughout the world. DeMolay and is in line with the cheer wherever possible. sors and members of their fami- ilies who are attending the Flor- in } ida Edueational Association Daytone, arrived yesterday and were entertained at supper by Cuban Consul Domingo Milord and his staff and members of other organizations. oy Gene Autry, and Smiley Burnette ci DO SUNSET —also— COMEDY — SERIAL bleheader of basketball tonight | jon the barracks field. The High! This is an annual day with the! order’s objective to spread 800d | Delegation of Cuban profes-} ‘THE LOWDOWN — \FROM HICKORY GRC When Christopher came over, the money hi was wampum. Mr. Indian fa string of it around his n And if Mr. Indian rolle town cigarettes, and his jhalf did not hang out too” jat the beauty tepee, he maybe accumulate an string or so—now and then. when he did so, he would |’em in a bee-tree or under a ifor safe-keeping—and a iday. And I got to thinking wampum on account I see the Govt. is burying all the it can get its hands on, do Kentucky. In Columbus’ ‘time, if you up a string of wampum it coin of the realm, but if you up a five dollar gold piece day you are on a limb. It is less. Also you land in the ei ‘ boose. Something is squee-gee ‘place. Our Doctors of jthere at Headquarters on the ‘Potomac, they should maybe ,in a coupla Indian Medicine 3 {—for consultation. | Yours with the low down, | JO S$) $14,000 FOR MISSING PO! JERSEY CITY, N. J.—The liff's office is holding about $ }000, the proceeds from the fore sale of 56,760 pounds of wi clover seed shipped to this try by David Spiro, a seed porter of Krakow, Poland, for |exporter who has not been hear from since the German-Russian ‘invasion of Poland. aR RT NO NAME LODGE Directly on Beach Famous Bahia Honda Fishing - f — Tarpon — Permit Bone Fishing COTTAGES $2.50 AND UI Stone Crab Dinners a Speci PHONE NO NAME KI | Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Craig, O ! inal i For Fitty Years a NAME STRONG ARM BRAND COFFEE THAT'S A REPUTATION | | { i POOCCLILOL LOCOCO LO OO Gu Ae SERVANT § He had another "nission. “Very philosophical indeed, LORENZO PRIETO— |PRIVATE HOME FOR HENT, Beyond the grave he stood a m6- ment at the edge of a little path that ran along the edge of the trees—a very faint little path that might have been made by ani- mals going down to the water to drink. The river swirled and splashed below him, and the wind Made a gentle singing in the tops of the pines. Michael stepped into the little path ‘and-followed it. It was not so easy to follow, lying as it did along the steep clay bank. His-weight kept Sislodeng. the tufts of grass and roots which had been the. footholds, and he was forced to grasp at the over hanging bushes to keep his balance. In a moment the bank angled out to an- other small promontory, and Mi- chael flattened himself against the bank as he slipped around the cor- ner. The pa was not more than a narrow ledge of rock here. As he turned the corner he came upon the object of his search; but not quite aie In the angle of the bank hung a big piece of heavy burlap; it had been looped back with a nail, and there behind it was a cave, hollowed out of the clay; and inside the cave, on a chair which immediately disclosed itself as half a barrel, sat Gordon Deane. Michael grinned. Gordon looked up and their eyes met. Gordon was stunned. He opened his mouth and shut it again. He stared. “Hullo,” said Michael. “Any ob- jections if I come in? This ledge makes me dizzy.” “Holy sufferin’ codfish,” said Gordon. in,a hoarse voice, “how’d you find this place?” “Looked for it,” said Michael pleasantly. He went a few steps Quite a commendable attitude.” | Michael looked at him keenly. “How much do you know, young: stet?” he demanded. “What about?” “Oh, about everything. Do you | happen to know who murdered Edgar Murchi: for instance? That might be helpful.” “Nope. I don’t know that. But I | bet I could guess without much trouble.” | sGyeaste are quite, quite use- | less. I've been guessing for some time now, with very little success, Supposing you tell me.what makes How's that?” | Gordon looked at him shrewdly. | “Why should I tell you what I/ know?” | “Well, wy shouldn’t you? Is the murderer a frierid of yours? Or do | you enjoy livirfg in this blood- thirsty atmosphere?” The boy’s jaw tightened. “He | sure is not a friend of mine,” he said bitterly, “After what he did to | Fred? I'd like to get some of that | dope he had and put it in his meat. | Td like to kill him, I would.” “I don’t feel exactly that way about it,” Michael said candidly. “But I'm not exactly anxious to wake up some morning, and find out that he’s killed me. Are you?” “Nope.” “He's killed Ed, Michael said, “and Fred. And ae Lissey. Why should he hesitate ai piling us? No reason whatever, articularly since I think we im=" pede his progress somewhat.” Continued tomorrow HONESTY OAKLAND, Md.—Taking her | aged, recluse, uncle-by-marriage, Jesse Lorraw, 78, into her home, Mrs. Sylvia Stewart cared for him until he died. Deciding to make over a pair of his trousers for one of her children, Mrs. Stewart found $1,400 hidden in secret pockets in the pant’s legs. She turned the money over to his | through the visor of his cap when | estate and, not being a blood rela- tive, she will receive none of it. Fifty-four of Loraw’s kin have filed claims on the find. NARROW ESCAPE SCOTTSBLUFF, Neb. — Wells Harshberger, farm worker, nar- rowly escaped death recently |when his clothing caught in a buzz saw. Part of his clothing ‘was torn off in his desperate ef- ! ‘fort to escape but he was drawn} steadily toward the whirling | blade, The saw had snipped |some of the torn cloth ing wrapped jaround the Saw shaft and ar Murchison,” | we in the Blue Sox game | Who received a split finger in| the fifth inning of the Blue Sox game, will be out of the running | His absence will undoubtedh, felt by his club because of hitting and fielding. BIG QUESTION MARK | OVER FANS’ HEAD— | After watching the fast field-| ing of Norman Artman at third | base in the Tampa-Blue Sox ‘frac- | as last Tuesday afternoon and his ly be | his | | run, fans cannot figure Roy Ham- | lin’s reasons for keeping the lad on the bench Sunday when he/| had two outfielders in the lineup | who were misjudging fly balls. | As a hard hitter and a fast in- | fielder, Artman should be in the | lineup of every game. | CATCHER SCHIRO— | Is really going to play Mon- | day afternoon when the Tampa | club meets the All-Stars. Schiro | |has been cutting up a little just for fun in the last few games. There will be no base _ stealing | \hereafter and that goes for that | fast bird, Armando Acevedo, who | while’ ner Hill held the ball in his So states Schiro. | WE'VE HEARD THIS |ONE BEFORE— Earl Adams may desert the Tro- jans after the five-game series | |with the Conchs after the city jwith the Conchs to decide the; city championship. 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