The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 8, 1940, Page 3

by Frances Shelley Wees YESTERDAY: Murder, not sui- cide, is Michael’s verdict. Also, Mrs. Murchison is a bigamist, De- woe her first husband. Murchison bought the diamonds to cover Marie's theft of them. War-vet- eran Smith teils Michael he saw Murchison buying an oar-lock. Chapter 42 The Hairpin GEVERAL hours later, on the af- ternoon of the same day, Tuck stood looking out of a window in the living room overlooking the Horseshoe. A car drove up to the Devoe door, and Mrs. Murchison accompanied by Jared Devoe came out of the house and drove away. “Bunny,” she exclaimed. “He's gone. Jared Devoe, I mean.” Bunny looked up from the needlepoint chair cover she was working at. “Well. Tuck?” “Don’t you see? It’s all right— let’s go out and hunt for vour Creeping Man, Bunny! Out where you saw him, the other night! May- he had a ladder, and came up over the cliffs. We could find the mark, perhaps. You know Michael hasn't paid any attention to that story, because he seemed to have his mind just set on Duncan being guilty. Do you believe Duncan is guilty, Bunny?” Bunny laid down her work and crossed her hands over her knee. She looked up at Tuck with a hint of pain-in the clear gray eyes. “I don’t know what to /phink, dear. Michael's awfully cleyer, and aw- ly decent. He wouldn't talk that to me about Duncan unless he some basis for it. He never talks like that without a reason. But honestly, looking at Duncan, listening to him talk, can you be- lieve that he is the... the fiend who is running wild here?” “No,” said Tuck promptly. “I| cannot. I don’t think Michael's tell- ing fibs, but I think he’s mistaken. I think he’s prejudiced, for the first time since I’ve known him. So, let’s g0 ourselves, Bunny, and find out what we can... if we can find out anything. I'll go to Father “orrest- er with it if Michael won't listen.” “Michael would listen. He is fair minded, lamb. I don’t want to ad- mit it, but I must.” “Bunny,” Tuck said, her eyes on the geraniums blooming in the window boxes, “are you in love with Duncan?” Bunny frowned. “1 don’t know,” she said, as if they were discussing a remote question. “I don't honest- ly know. I could have been, | sup- pose, if I'd seen more of him. I'm all upset and sort of miserable these days because it seems as if| it’s no use having faith in human nature any longer if that nice boy turns out to be a dreadful criminal. I didn’t see very much of him, Tuck” “No: Well, 1 liké him: T’d like you | to marry him. You make a lovely | looking couple, both of you so tall, and his eyes so blue, and his hair 80 wavy, and his shoulders so broad, and you slim and gray-eyed | and black-haired and generally | darling.” Bunny laughed in spite of her- self, and jumped up to give Tuck a hug. “You are a lamb.” she said. “I feel better. Do we go to the! woods, then?” “Feeling quite sure,” said Tuck seriously, in a lowered tone, “that the real villain of the piece, as yet unmasked, has gone away—I’m not afraid to go. What could he do to us, anyway? Nothing.” “She could have let him in, that night, couldn't she?” Bunny asked. “It's al] there. Motive, opportunity, everything. You know. Tuckie, I think Duncan believes that too. He’s afraid he can’t prove it. He hates Devoe. It was Devoe he was threatening to kill, Tuck. It must have been. He didn’t mean it, but Aa can't blame him for saying it. | le doesn’t know the truth, and he thinks that woman is his sister-in- law, and”—she paused—“he hates ber too, in spite of what they’re teying to make out. I'm sure of that much.” They reached the pean gate, and stood hesitantly there; behind them the house and security; be- fore them the dark woods, but, per- haps, the unraveling of a secret. Dark Woods T THE moment, Charlotte Jean | came running down the path. “Mrs. Forrester, ma’am, you gave me quite a start, indeed you did,” she said, wiping her hands on her apron. “Mr. Michael said that | $ I was to keep my eye on you, and|‘* if you started off into the woods, like, 1 was to tell you to come back.” | Tuck’s eyes were round and in- nocent. “But way, Charlotte Jean? It’s perfectly safe now.” | The two girls went on down the! ath, reached the fork where the} fainter trail turned off toward the | river and followed it. The woods were dark and full of mysterious shadows; Tuck jumped off the path, when a rabbit hopped out of the} underbrush. “I don’t have the slightest idea} what I'm afraid of,” she whispered, “but the place gets me. Oh!” “What is it?” Tuck put her hand over Bunny’s, “Something moved ... I saw some- thing there, in the shadows... it moved against the light ... just ahead in that clump of trees. There!” She clutched Bunny’s arm as she spoke. “Don’t you see?” Bunny did not need to answer, for just as Tuck spoke the figure in the shadows resolved itself into Dr. McBain, wandering along the path toward them, head down, pipe in his mouth. He looked up quickly and was obviously as startled to ace them as they had been to see ‘im. “I hope I didn’t startle you?” he said in a moment. sort of place, and we weren’t look- ing for anyone to be here.” “Eerie? I’m afraid I hadn’t no- ticed it. 1 come here frequently to think out any problem that comes up.” He looked at them kindly, and yet inquiringly. “You're both pale,” he said sharply. “I suppose it’s this air of mystery and terror surrounding us. My wife is really ill with it all.” “It’s been awful, hasn’t it?” Tuck said. “I thought Mrs. couldn’t be well. She looked dread- fully pale yesterday.” “T’m glad she isn’t living as close to it as you are,” he said, tapping his pipe on his boot heel. “Your husband is working hard, | sup- pose? I haven’t had z long talk with him for several days.” He dropped his voice. “I sincerely hope he is making headway,” he said. “I think he is, He’s down town working this morning. He doesn’t tell us very much, you know, It’s a very complicated business.” McBain’s face was stern. “It is that,” he agreed heartily. “We shall be more than glad when it is cleared up. It is terrible—terrible. Ido not...oh, I shouldn’t say that . ; 1 did not believe that Dr. Mur- chison could possibly be dead, 1 am beginning to change my opin- ion.” He drew a deep breath. “Oh, well. I mustn’t burden you with my feelings. I’m thankful that it’s Mr. Forrester, and not I, who has to deal with it. He is a very keen lad. I noticed how very cleverly he concealed his real knowledge at the inquest, regarding Miss Lis- sey’s last talk with you. No one who didn’t know ... or who hadn’t suspected the truth... would have guessed that he didn’t tell all he knew.” “No, I don’t believe they would. Of course he couldn’t possibly tell everything she told us.” “No. Poor soul! I detested her heartily in life, but it seems a very small thing to cost one one’s life. However I must be off.” He looked at wrist watch, have a lecture. Good afternoon... anda pleasant walk.” Big Log 6 lees two girls went on only a few steps until they came to the end of the path, or, rather, to the edge of the wood. Perhaps at some time the trees here had extended to the water’s edge, but they had been cleared for a distance of an eighth of a mile along the river and per- haps twenty feet back from the edge. This was the rocky stretch of ground ... although Michael had not told them ... where he had seen Miss Lissey with her reading glass. This also was the place, just at the end of the path, where Mrs. Devoe’s body had been found. Not knowing the exact spot, they did | not shiver, and avoid it, but went on, slowly, up the bank. “Do you see that big log, about | half way up the clearing?” Bunny asked quietly, “It’s just under the overhang of the trees. Look... that | big stump is almost directly be- tween it and the water. Tuck, that’s where we were sitting the night we saw him... the Creeping Man. On that log. You know...” she stopped suddenly, and turned to Tuck. “It never occurred to me be- fore. How stupid we were! That man... he could perfectly well have been hidden on the other side of the stump. Perhaps not hidden at all, Tuck. Perhaps just some- | body sitting there enjoying the sunset. And then we came along, and sat down, and perhaps he didn’t like to startle us by getting up suddenly. So he just crept away quietly when it got dark. Oh, Tuck, of course that’s the explanation!” Tuck said nothing, although her rueful face betrayed her feelings, They had reached the stump, now, and leaned against it, Bunny looked behind her swiftly to the fallen log, where she and Duncan had sat. “Tuck, you slip down on the other side of the stump,” she | commanded, “and "ll go and sit on the log. Then, we’ll see if that idea would be possible. It would cer- tainly answer a big question in my mind.” j “No, we better trade places, You’re bigger than I. This stump isn’t so awfully tall, Bunny, You come. A man would be more your | size.” | So Bunny went over and dropped down behind the stump | if she were a man smoking his | after-dinner pipe, Tuck surveyed her from the log. “I can almost nearly see the top ur head, but not quite,” she ‘But it might have been done. ill... I don’t see how you and Dunean could possibly have come of jall along the bank and not seen | him, if he were sitting there all the time. There’s no underbrush around at all.” Bunny got up and came over to her. She bent down and picked up something from the ground. “This must be yours, Tuck, this hairpin,” she said, “Pearl gray shell? Who in the world wears pear] gray shell hair- ns in this day and age?” The answer came to both of them at once, “Mrs. Devoe did,” Bunny said quietly. “She must have walked along here just before . . .” Tuck jumped up. “Hush, Bunny. Don’t say it.” And then they heard, quite plainly, the murmur of voices. Bunny swung around and gazed into the woods, where all was still. Tuck. keener of hearing, perhaps, went forward cautiously and peered over the steep cliff. She gazed down incredulously for a moment, then tiptoed back to Bun- ny. “You know what it is?” she de- manded. “It’s that Michael For- rester, with Gordon Deane, drift- ing down-stream in a brand new gray boat. Cushions and every- thing. Isn’t that terrible?” She looked at Bunny tragically. “Bun- “I'm afraid you did,” Tuck’s voice was shaky. “It’s such an eerie SUBSCRIBE FOR THE CITIZEN—20c WEEKLY. ny, do you suppose he’s lost his mind?” Continued temorrow McBain ! Frank Caraballo’s Blue Sox| batted out a 13.to 6 victory over | the Key West Conchs in an ex- | hibition ball game played at) Trumbo Field yesterday _after- | noon. | Two Conch rookie moundsmen ; wild in a seven-run rally. Conchs were unable to over- take the big lead, although they | _did, put across three runs in each | of the first and seventh innings. Outside of getting a kick out lof seeing Leo Stanley back in | the game, the fans sat quietly |during the contest and at times not a whisper was heard from | the small crowd that saw the | game. Box score: Blue Sox v ° RWUNNMOSSOS Player— E. Acevedo, rf . 4 Av. Acevedo, 2b 5 J. Garcia, lf Molina, rf-p G. Garcia, c Castellano, 1b - Gates, p-cf Arncld, ss - R. Garcia, 3b HOM ON wm em - CNOANOARHE eccooocoors Totals— Key West Conc! Player— ABR Baker, 3b-p Offutt, 2b Acevedo, ss Barcelo, 1b-p Sterling, rf-1K 0 0 Naval Base and C. B. Cole of the, were sent to the showers in the /Casa Marina carried off top hon- second round when the Sox went /jors yesterday | Blind Bogie at the Country Club, | |the lucky number being 76. Clem Price, and in third position | was T. Escobar. pion, was all | place. Emerson, 91-12—79; Curry Har- |ris, 89-6—83; Melvin Russell, 87- | 10—77; Dr. William Kemp, 91-12 |—79; T. Escobar, 82-10—72; Lt. W. C. Kaiser, 104-28—76; Dr. L. | W. Netz; 89-19—70; G. L. Penton, |96-19—75; C. B. Cole, 96-20—76; | | Joe Lopez, 74—74; Gilmore Parks, | | 83-4—79; Robert Spottswood, 78- |7—71; ;Clem Price, 81-8—73. Country Club yesterday after- noon. 1)die Bush, winter professional at |} {the club, paired up against Joe} E| Lopez and Gilmore Parks, sum- 0\mer professional. The match was; 2'won by the Spottswood and Bush j ljteam. A return match will be! 0\played next sat 2:30. THE KEY WEST CITIZEN GOLFING NEWS By CLUB REPORTER Lt. William C. Kaiser of the | in the Sunday; In the runner-up slot came | Joe Lopez, former city cham- | % alone in fourth! Scores were as follows: E. B, Caulkins, 92-15—77;. P. L. | John Pinder, 89-10—79; A match was played at the Bob Spottswood and Ed- | Sunday afternoon Menendez, c Gonzale: Stanle’ Last: | Albury 0} o! OWN hOO Ah HooCOHMROUD 0 ‘ing on portions of the west Gulf 0 ‘coast. a G. S. KENNEDY, Official In Charge. | T 38 3) Score by innings: Ri Blue Sox 070 110 004—13 | Key West Conchs 300 000 300— 6} Runs-batted-in: Acevedo 2, R. Garcia 2, Barcelo, Sterling, E.! Acevedo %, Av. Acevedo; two-! base hits: Offutt, Barcelo, Baker, |! |E. Acevedo; stolen bases: Baker | 2; double play: Arnold to Cas-! tellano; time of game: 2:00; um-} pires: Griffin and Vidal. | THE WEATHER |Observation taken at 7:30 a. m, | 75th Mer. 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