The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 11, 1940, Page 3

THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 1940 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN PAGE THREE EJ e Cree My stel al FOLLOWING THROUGH |BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT by Frances eae Wees | e N \ . \ i) N : : N } : . ; N e Girl Born To Johnsons | —| Mr. and Mrs. Hubert C. John-| son announce the birth of a girl! ST. LOUIS CARDINALS led yesterday. Mother and baby are the National League in close|doing nicely. The little one has By PEDRO AGUILAR Chapter 45 Twilight and... then he hit me... oh, oh,” Gordon sighed. Then he sat up in bed, and pointed his finger straight A Guide To ToR. lying alone on the big hammock on the sun porch, was puzzled. She had a strange feeling that she had been sick and out of the world for days, that many things had happened dur- ing that time that she did not know of. There were queer gaps in her knowledge; and yet it had been only yesterday that they had arrésted Duncan Murchison. Michael, she reflected, hadn’t been quite himself throughout this mystery. She knew there were a great many things he hadn't told her. For instance, what had he been doing that day on the river with Gordon, drifting along the bank in the gray boat? He’d been looking for something. Why did this murderer—not Duncan, of course, but the real murderer—why did he want to kill them? Was it because Michael really knew the truth, and the murderer guessed? If Michael did know the truth, it was certain he'd found out a great many things he hadn't told. That was like him. What could he have found out? Perhaps he knew at last where Murchison’s body had been taken. Perhaps that’s what he was look- ing for in the boat—a weighted body that had been dropped from the cliff above. And Michael was so strange to- night. He had sat cll through din- ner awfully preoccupied, not an- swering when he was spoken to at all. Finally he had looked over at Bunny, and said, without warn- ing, “Do you believe he’s guilty?” Bunny was pale with great black rings around her eyes. She had been pretty sick after the gas. She had looked up and said, “Don’t ask me, Michael. How can I tell? I don't feel that it’s possible he’s Guilty, if that’s what you mean.” “That'll do,” Michael had said gravely. Then, after a minute, “It's lonely in prison, I’ve heard. We won't let him out on bail. How’d you like to come down and tell him you think he’s innocent?” Bunny had been sort of frozen at this question, and she had stared at him. “What do you mean, Michael?” “Do you remember exactly what I said to you about Duncan? That if you knew as much as I do about this case you would never speak to him again?” “Yes.” “Well . . . can’t you imagine what that means, Bunny?” Tuck’s head hurt again. It had been swir ng at dinner, and she herself simply couldn't imagine what that meant. except what it said. Evidently it didn’t mean that. Bunny saw. She jumped up from the table, her hand at her throat, and said, “Michael! Is that it?” “That's it. Will you go?” “Must we wait for dessert?” Michael got up too. He came over to Tuck. sitting at the foot of the table, picked her up an carried her to the porch hammoc Then he ed her. “You’re sti sick, honey.” he had said. “Lie here in the fresh air until we come back, and we'll explain.” Charlotte Jean had brought an aspirin, then, and Tuck had taken it. Perhaps that’s what made her head feel fuazy. The cool twilight as wonderful . . . it made one There was a rap at the door. “Mrs. Fc orrester," Mr. Deane’s querulous sque: voice said, “is your husband i “No, he trying to ro somethin “Gordon's conscious. I don’t think you can. He is trying to tell your husband something, and w2 can’t understand him.” “What about, Mr. Deane? who hit him?” “No. Nothing so sensible. Some- thing about a ‘creeping r keeps saying it over and ov he’s so anxious to tell Mr. For- rester that we decided we must | get him.” Tuck's brain cleared like magic. She stood up. “I'll come," instantly. “Maybe he w conscious very long.” She led the way down the path and around the hedge. Tuck glanced about her for Hall and Donovan. They seemed not to have come yet; or perhaps they were out in the wood. She felt so safe, knowing that they guarding all the time. ‘1 Saw Him’ GE his head bandaged heavily, was lying on his bed, flinging his hands out, tossing from side to side, muttering. Tuck went up to Gordon as he lay on the bed, and put her hand on his forehead. He flung it off angrily. and looked at her with unseeing eyes. “Gordon,” she said clearly, “what is it you know about the Creeping Man? Have you seen him? Do you know who he is? You must tell me, Gordon.” “No, no.” he muttered. “Only Mr. Forrester. Only him. I said I wouldn't tell nobody but him. The Creeping Man looked at me . .” Gordon shuddered ‘ “Gordon, listen, Michael is away ... trying to find the Creep- ing Man himself. You must tell me. do you hear? We must catch him. Michael would want you to tell me. Where did you see him, Gordon? Out by the cliffs?” He turned his head toward her. “That's it . . . the cliffs. He came in a boat . . . my boat. He came. aeross the river. i can't find where he put the boat I looked for - but. ran to he cliff, and hid in the trees, and came uj right out of the ground. The Teep ing Man. And he walked right up to me, and he looked at me, he answered, | herself. “Can I do | About } | were | before him. “I'll tell!” he shouted. *Tll tell... we'll get you... Freddie . . .” he sank back. The doctor lifted his wrist. “You'll have to go,” he said to Tuck imperatively. “I must. give him a sedative. This can’t go on. Tuck turned and made her way from the room. What had she learned? Nothing except that the Creeping Man really existed . but, if that were so, if it had been he who hit Gordon... then Dun- can was innocent! Duncan had been with Bunny when they saw the Creeping Man. Out along the cliffs ... then perhaps Michael and Gordon had been searching for him that day .. . certainly they had. And that meant that Michael knew ‘Duncan wasn’t the fiend he was looking for. She stood on the path behind the Deane house and thought. Her brain raced. To find him! But she would never dare go out there alone. It was foolhardy ... and she wouldn’t dare. The Creeping Man! He might come up behind her, and do what he had done to Gordon .. . or to old Mrs. Devoe . or to Edgar Murchison . There were cautious footsteps out in the wood. She looked up. Out in the darkness of the trees stood a tall figure with the short policeman’s cape that told its identity. waved a reassuring hand. Tuck waved back, and started for her own gate. Agamemnon came racing to meet her, and walked by her side, brushing and arching himself ag. her skirt. She did not notice . What was it Gordon had said’ of the ground.” How? And then Tuck stopped short in her walk. the hairpin . . . the hairpin and Bunny had found that out by the stump. Mrs. Devoe’s | hairpin. Supposing . . . why had that hairpin lain where it did? Supposing it lay there because o!d Mrs. Devoe had fallen there? And supposing, — supposing she had been murdered . . . becai she had been standing right there when the Creeping Man came up | out of the ground! That was why | he had murdered her. ‘T've Found Something’ ‘UCK glanced up at+ the sky swiftly. Another half hour be- fore dark. It would still be light out on the cliffs. Her mind was made up. She couldn’t wait until tomorrow to know. She turned toward that dark figure out in the wood, leaning | there against a tree, and called out softly. “Mr. Donovan,” she said, “I'm going out along the cliffs. Will you come behind me in the trees, and see that noth- ing happens to me?” He raised his billy, and straight- ened up. She went up the path on flying feet, and looked his way only occasionally to see that he followed. Agamemnon came too, dashing ahead of her happily. They reached the fork of the path, 1 Tuck raced madly through darkness uike a flash she ran up to the big stump where she and Bunny had remembered he had seen the hairpin. She scanned | the ground all about it, with care- ful search, to distinguish, perhaps, a trap door set into the earth. It seemed a little ridiculous, now that she was here. Trap doors do | not open into the earth... The earth was perfectly solid, as far as she could see. Agamem- non nosed around her, s g. was getting dark very rapidly, it seemed. It was strange, eerie, out here, with the sun. dropping out | ahead, with the water surging along so blackly .. . not a bird was singing. She turned swiftly to look for Donovan, and he was standing tall and straight under j the edge of the trees. He was keeping her safe. Then she looked at the stump; and her eye was caught and held by the straight line of a cut run- ning around it very near the bot- tom. She caught her breath, and moved closer. She bent over and looked. She saw one cut running half round the stump on the river side and another transversing it across the top, and running down both sides. It was as if half of it had been sawed loose and never removed | An idea came to her. She stood | up and beckoned to Donovan. He | was already coming toward her. | “I think Pve found something | .” she said, and stopped. She stared at him. This was not Donovan... this was... __ He was laughing, a dark, sneer- ing laugh. He came straight on to- ward her. She was paralyzed. “Yes,” he said smoothly. “You've found something. I thought you would.” Her eyes were fixed on his face. It changed suddenly. He was half | crouching now. He reached out one hand, and seized her wrists, tore her hand away from her mouth. He. held her at arm’s length. : “Another body,” he said even- Y, a wooden pin from the side of the stump, and lowered the side next the river. Tuck glanced down involun- tarily. There, beneath the stump, | was a narrow, dark flight of steps. | He lifted her, and set her feet on them. “Go down,” he commanded roughly. There was nothing to do but go. fused to carry her. Half a dozen steps. A ledge of rock. Another flight of steps, wind- ing this time, and then a narrow cave. The flashlight glinted on the floor, and she saw that it was water; and on the water, floating there in the dark, a boat. Continued tomorrow :|to which he was He did not move, but | ‘ame up out | y. “might be a little inconve- | nient.” And so saying, he lifted | . her knees almost re- | wins. run verdicts failed to hold good in 1939. The Cards set the pace in one-run decisions yet it finish- ed second. Of the 616 games played no less than 100 were de- cided by the lone run. There " were six tie games played and one of them was the now-famous 23-inning affair between Bees and Dodgers. LOU GEHRIG was honored by the New York Yankee outfit. He will remain on the voluntary re- tired list and keep his locker as before. The No. 4 uniform used by Gehrig will be laid aside in respect to Lou and his name will remain on the locker door. Lou, who ended his remarkable endur- ance record of 2130 games last May 2 in Detroit, is now a mem-} parole | ber of the municipal board of New York City, a job appointed by Mayor La Guardia for a term of! 10 years at a salary of $5,700 a The old adage about one-jbeen given the name of Janet | Lois. CLASSIFIED COLUMN will be inserted in The Citizen at {the rate of one-cent (Ic) a word |for each insertion, but the mini- | {mum for the first insertion in every cents (25c). street address as well as their {telephone number if they desire results. tisements is vance, with ledger accounts may have their advertisements charged. 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