The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 17, 1940, Page 3

* he finished Thanks,” said Michae], “That's | the way I doped it out.” “And now {t's my turn,” said Tuck eG “Michael, do you re- member what you said to Bunny about Duncan, days and days ago? When you told her that she mustn't even be decent to him? Not speak to him? What did you mean? Be- cause obviously you have nothing against him now. Bunny under- stood you the other night when you took her to see him. but I didn’t.” “Do you remember exactly what 1 said, Bunny?” Bunny smiled, “Yes. You said if I knew as much about this case as you were absolutely sure of, I'd never speak to Duncan again.” “That's it. Don’t you see, Tuck? Duncan, you know, \:as doin, bit of sleuthing on his own. If Mc- Bain thought we had joined forces, ; own, which he] if Duncan were always hanging t worn at -| about here, he’d be in very grave w Duncan go out | danger. He was already in danger. & only Marie) That's why we had him arrested on in the house; | when we saw how desperate Mc- | Bain was getting. He wasn’t safe for a moment from our clever friend.” Tt wes a it to a y, and jut her face was grim. He ce the silence. “What hi quired, id drew a deep " he repeated, s forgetting. Well, a dead give-away. 1 don’t Miss Lissey knew it was ect that knowing Me- > man with the barrow, as usual, bless affair, although the truth. But rms me that they were the habit of meeting Jate at night 2 2 Profassor was in bed. ould have seen them, and known they were out y that night. So he went dy quietly and struck al blow—a harder blow than ended. Your brother put his} up to his head dazedly | and grasped the paper | desk and tore it. A} inte the drawer We could have pretended — we didn’t need to make him feel like a worm of the dust.” “You couldn't have pretended,” Michael leaned over and kissed the tip of her nose; “you have a very nice face but it’s as open as a clock, Don’t look so bitter. That’s a com- pliment. And Bunny’s no actress. Anyway—you trusted McBain and he could see it. That was a safe- guard, I'd have had to tell you to it. Too big a risk. If I could keep dj you all hating each other it was much safer.” Duncan looked across at Michael, “Ll haven't said ‘Thank you’ proper- | ly.” he said quietly. “I don’t seem to be able to. Perhaps Edgar will when... he gets better. He's my onlys brother. You know how I eel. Bunny said crisply, ut the time element? y said it was two o'clock she saw that} . | ! | don’t suppose the truck so late. Possibly t Murchison drugged, in the shadow of the until he dared take him to 2 t. In the meantime he re- ved all traces of the struggle rom the study. Mrs. Murchison covered nothing to warn her of He frowned. “I said Romance OMETHING in his voice made Tuck bite her lip and swallow tears seemed very near the brim- ming point. Duncan went on. “You know,” he said more light, ly, “I never could figure how you. got untied and got at that... at Mc- about the hat was a/ Bain, just as you did. It sounded ay. What | meant was | impossible to'me. So last night I | dropped a knife into my pocket, tnight, Mrs. McBain | got one of the boys to tie me to a » | ring in the gym and twisted about trying to get loose. It took a long time, but I did it. I was tied only with heavy cord. Those broad bands of bandage certainly must have been the very devil to cut.” Michael's jaw tightened. “They were,” he said grimly. “It took a 1 it was missing, | Million, years and then my wrists ne has been in a| Were numb. I had to wait for the e ever since, you | blood to get to them, standing there | watching him, afraid he’d notice what I'd done. The binding about the ankles wasn’t so bad. crouched there as I was: but the awful part was getting the knife out of my et without rattling coins... a getting the thing open with cramped fing “It sounds like part of a night } mare.” Bunny said with a shudder, Duncan drew a deep breath and straightened in his chair. He looked across at Bunny, and the blue eyes held the gray ones for a long mo- ment. “Oh, dear,” Tuck sighed. "To think it has come to this. All the mystery dissipated as... what was ju said, Michael? As the dew that was nvinced that ed the truth. I 4 the hat to him royed it. When try for her,” happily ‘I'm sorry for J. “She's a very fine} F >rother . that was reasons he was going} e. he couldn't stand wn unhappiness and his ) her husband and “he flushed. natterns on the he said quietly. Bunny said for the I want to know ..” tions And Answers URSE y ." he said; “I realize tnat.| Duncan, you ening to kill Jared De-| © ‘ou. if the woman you i to-he your sister-in-1. at g ve him up?” n, and I said after, which is ht, There’s nothing left but the art, and that’s so overdone ays." She propped her d elbows on the table and | brushed the honey-colored »euris | out of her big brown eyes. She fell don’t) silent, musing. 2d by| Agamemnon came into the.room t ; on Michael's chair and his chin was duly tickled and his whiskers pulled, He got down and stalked over to Puck. Charlotte Jean came in for the empty plates. As she put her hand down in front of Tuck the sun gleamed for an instant on a great ink pearl whose. near-authentic luster almost put to shame the sparkle in her eyes as Tuck looked up. Tuck gasped. “Why, Charlotte Jean Soames! Isn't that an engage- ment ring?” s @ was more or less Duncan said ruefully. ‘Tnat’s what was making me so Michael replied. “It helped. We had to do it hing more; what exactly did Miss y to you that Sunday af- e told us just amoment D 4 died that this thing would spoil your life for you; was under some mistaken lotte Jean said with @ fiery blush. “Ain't it beautiful?” “My sainted shoe buttons.” Mi- chael looked at the ring. “Higgins has wonderful taste. Congratula- tions, Charlotte Jean. it wishes and all that, but I hope you decide not to get married for twenty-five years. s did when any mention was je of the tangled domestic af- fairs of his brother: “She said,” he replied slowly, “that Devoe and were carrying on scandal- y. She knew taey'd been slip- g out on Edgar for months, and was determined that something ust be done. She thought... Forr _ do well, you’re right, she thought I} that, sir, And it ain't Higgins after was in love with Marie too. She'd] all, sir.” “Not Higgins?” Tuck said in be- wilderment. “Then who... who on earth is it?” Charlotte Jean blushed egain and straightened the silver, “Lowe heard me threatening to kill Devoe, you see, and she didn’t think that was just the way to go about it. She wanted Marie to be driven off the campus and if I didn’t do it she was going to, and she was con- vinced that such action would! V bring me into a most unpleasant publicity and cause me to be dis- Mrs. Forrester, ma’am, Mr. il was married.” THE END CAMERA THAT SHOOTS FOOLED YOU (By Associated Press) (By Associated Press) LEXINGTON, Ky., Jan. 17— RICHMOND, Va., Jan. 17.—The Dr. A. S. Hendrick has two hob- trial was over—but the evidence bies—photography and the col- lingered on. Court attaches ex- on of old firearms—so he plained, in response to puzzled the two in a new tele- sniffling about Justice Elben scopic camera he now. uses to Folkes’ bench, that contents had take pictures at long range. The been spilled from a jug used as camera was made of a can old flashlight. It is charged with selling withoyt a constructed so it can be held and license. The jug cohtained high- aimed like a pistol, powered perfume, “But why didn’t you tell us?- | -| beware of him, and he’d have got | hard. Since that dreadful night the | h before the coming of the | e | majestically. He put his paws up | “Yes’m, Mrs. Forrester,” Char- | “Oh, Mr. Forrester, don’t say | Miami Champion Quintet ‘ALT. @T. LINES To Play Lions On Friday"? ™ SF | SHRNGE MADE IN ORDER NOT TO INTERFERE WITH AIR- PORT BUILDINGS: By ULRIC GWYNN, JR., Island City Sports Writer Friday night at the High School league’s schedule from the High Gyml local basketball fans will School Varsity. be treated to an interesting game Initial fracas.of the evening i " will be played between the Ma- when the Key West Lions Club, rines, newcomers to the local} first-half winner of the Island jeague, and. the Air. Squadron jences concluded today, arrange. City Basketball League split;/VP53 club. These two service schedule, meets the Westminster |teams are well-matched and it: ™ents were reportedly completed Presbyterian Church five of Mi-|should prove to be an interesting | Whereby the lines of the Ameri- ami. The Westminster boys are and hard-fought contest. jcan Telephone & Telegraph Com- last year’s champions of the Mon- | Games Tonight pany will be shifted on Trumbo day Night Basketball League of) The City League continues with |Island so that they will not in- Miami and are in the lead so far ja doubleheader tonight at the |torfere with construction of the this season. ;gym. In the first game, the Sea} 1 ili 1 Ps Lions Club was winner of the | Food Grill five meets the Ma-|D@V@l auxiliary seaplane hangar first-half of the local league with irines. In the nightcap, the Lions and other structures. a percentage of .700 and last Club tangles with Plane Squad-! City council recently granted Monday night won its first con- |Zon. VP53. First gume gets under |the A. T. & T. an easement along- test of the second-half of the; way at 7:30 o'clock. side the outfall sewer on Trumbo 2 |for the proposed new telephone fline, but the question of expense |involved in making the change |was another question. reportedly . | This problem was VP. 3 B soivea at conferences in which naval officers, telephone com- | | | CONCHS OPEN PL AY SUNDAY = jpany officials and W. E. Price, of AY lsox TACKLE PARK JUNIORS|Trumbo Properties, Inc, owners ——. | IN CONTEST THIS jof the land leased to the navy / \for the seaplane base, partici- | MEET IN FIRST OF BEST FOUR| AFTERNOON OUT OF SEVEN GAMES. FOR) |pated. Price was in the city to- | day. CITY CHAMPIONSHIP; LINE-! At Bayview Park yesterday UPS GIVEN |afternoon, Caraballo’s Blue Sox, Following a series of confer- TROJANS AND SOX SOFTBALLERS lin a return game with Navy Pa- | itrol Squadron VP53, defeated the | IN; be 7-1 in nine innings of | ByjOSCARLIMEAN= — [ee eRe nn ne PRE | Circulated rumors around the | Score by innings: R.H.E| | + Myrtland Cates, official busi- vntown district that efforts to|VP53 -... 000 001 000— 1 4 4) tg (soe own iBlue x 123 100 00x— 7 9 1/2088 census: taker for Monroe |prolong the Key West Conch-' In today’s contest, the Sox will Cee eae as pet Be Trojan post championship seven-|™meet Rosam’s Park Juniors for! jeyg and that he would now pro- the first time. These boys are all|.o6q with the census in Key young but play a good game of | West, |diamondball. They may not beat i | proved untrue as groundskeeper |{p0 an eoxtaut ancy wall ol Mr. Cates stated that it took . approximately three weeks to Roy Hamlin announces that the| put up a good fight. _ |get all the business information | | WPA recreation department is ss ‘ rane required on the keys. He did not | first game to decide the city title helping with the games at the ae at (ial stl ee ont Park, take to conduct the census in the city. The population census does ‘not get under way until April 1. game series until mid-February jis slated for Sunday afternoon at) |Trumbo Field, play to begin at} | | This decision was reached last | — = : | night following A. A. Navarro’s Sheraton ee as a Ee | statement that the Trojans were| Temperatures Jready to play. Nayarro is the |Highest last 24 hours - |team’s acting manager when Earl |Lowest last, night | ; Mean | Adams is absent. IN A . jormal | According to reliable sources, |Adams’ Trojans have been prac- \ticing in preparation for the title | series for some time and the alert manager, who brought the court | yard park boys from the cellar \right up to the top and second- jnalf pennant winners, will trot |out his complete line-up against | Hamlin’s Conchs to make a fight-| ing attempt to defeat last year’s | champions. | Meantime, Roy Hamlin has been keeping his mighty little man, Joe Casa, warming up and remaining 1n shape for the much- salked apout series. Trojans While no official announce- ment has been made as to ithe starting line-up for either club as yet, this’ column has _ been. tipped off by some one in the linuw that Adams will list the \following players Sunday after- |Moon: Evelio Rueda, lf, \fielding .976; John Navarro, ss, batting .292, fielding. 617; William Cates, 2b, batting .389, fielding .938; Clayton. Sterling, .359, fielding .926; | Anthony Kelly, 3b, batting .279, | | fielding .868; Joe Navarro, c, fielding .950; Joe Domenech, cf, batting :' fielding .969; farry Wickers, p, batting fielding .978; Tony Alonzo, rf, batting | fielding 1.000; | Tony Davila, utility, | 333, fielding .818; Dickey Navarro, utility, batting -125, fielding .888; Izzy Rodriguez, utility, batting 313, fielding .848, 67 61 | will be inserted in The Citizen at 64|the rate of one-cent (1c) a word 69 |for each insertion, but the mini- Precipitation \7aum for the first insertion in ih since Jan. 1, since Jan. batting .265, FOR SALE—1938 Ford Coupe; low mileage; radio; excellent condition. Apply, 323 Elizabeth, street. : jan17-3tx) OLD PAPERS FOR SALE—' Three bundles for 5c. The Citi- zen Office. nov2§-tf. 1b, batting batting .303, FOURTEEN-FT. V-BOTTOM CYPRESS BOAT; Four Horse Johnson Outboard Motor; Four Life Preservers, One Fire Ex- tinguisher; Pair of Oars and Row Locks; Anchor with Rope —all for $150.00. 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Phone 883-J. imean_ temperature janll-lwkx (Till 7:30 p.m., Thursday) Key West and Vicinity: Partly somewhat warmer tonight; light to moderate variable winds. and Thursday; not quite so cold} tonight. | Pressure is low over the north- | eastern portion of the country) sure areas, crested over the northern Rocky Mountain States} spread most other sections. | Light snow has occurred since northern Rockies eastward over | the Lake region and upper Ohio si f Wash-| garage. All taxes paid, furn- erate rain on the coast of ph Teele etie < ee. Conchs é Conchs’ line-up will read as | ington CENSUS FINISHED PAGE THREE starring ALLAN JONES and MARY MARTIN For more smoking pleasure enjoy (CHESTERFIELD'S Feature Attractions = REAL MILDNESS ond BETTER TASTE, Mildness and Better ‘Taste are Chesterfield’s Feature Attractions The Right Combination of the world’s best cigarette tobaccos in Chesterfield gives you two features you can get in no other cigarette... Real Mildness and Better Taste. 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Jack Carbonell, lf, batting .316, fielding .885; Joe Casa, p, batting .133, field- ing .964; Al6, fielding .727; John Torres, utility, 323, fielding .944, batting | Temperatures have moderated | |somewhat in the Gulf and South | |Atlantic States, but frost oc-| curred this. morning as far |south as central Florida; while! ‘colder weather has overspread | |the northern Rockies and upper | Mississippi and Missouri valleys, | |with readings below zero in many localities. | | G. S. KENNEDY, | Official In Charge. | ete. $4500 cash or $2500 down, balance in 1% years. Robt. J. Lewis, 1611 Von Phister street.|if not in the United States, is. decl1-s. TWO LOTS on _ Washi street near White. $750 for quick sale. Apply 1219 Pearl. street. ii AT LAST | (By Aanociated Press) | CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo., Jan. iter 98 years the Kearns 1%, ‘famil has completed its hand- sardine evidence in the case of a man Marvin Griffin, utility, batting made quilt. Mrs..O. B. Kearns’ ‘husband’s grandmother started it! jand Mrs. Kearns has just finish- | ed it. —- . Thursday: “One of the most pleasant motor trips in Florida, that which takes one from Miam; to Key West. in about three and ington j one-half hours.” : Friday: “Before returning don’t fail to see the island jan5-s} city of Key West and ride over | Most scenic highway in the | Mr. Taylor arranged with Wil- FAST DIRECT IGHT ‘Boston, New York, Miami’ | Jacksonville, Galveston | | New Orleans and Beyond,