The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 22, 1940, Page 3

MCNDAY, JANUARY YESTERDAY: The young man, whose car crashes into Sue's be- cause of bad breaks, apologizes abjectly. The next day he sends her dozens of roses. Chapter Four ‘Crown Prince Stuff? cr deflected Maggie's inquisi- tive questions by sending her after receptacles for the blossoms. “Every vase we have in the house—and I doubt if they will be enough! Line ‘em up on the kitchen table, Mag darlin’, and fill “em with water. I'll be out to ar- range these beauties by then.” She was trailing about the liv- ing-room in her bathrobe when the telephone rang. “For you,” Maggie said briefly. “I’ve waited just as long as I can!” exclaimed an impatient voice. “I've been sitting here gnawing my nails down to the quick until | thought you were up. How are you?” It was no po- lite inquiry but an anxious de- mand for news. “All right, thank you — but! nearly smothered in roses. Are there any at all left in town?” “Bother the roses! Tell me about you. Not stiff, not the least bit bruised? How is your lip?” “Perfectly all right. Praise be to lipstick, it didn’t show at all last night.” Then the lateness of the hour occurred to her and she said curiously: “It’s noon. Why did you think you'd have to wait so long to call me? You couldn't} have known I went to a party last night!” “I did though. I'm staying at} the Benton Club, and they were} talking of a Miss Webb’s affair:| mentioned you as a friend of hers.” | “But how did you know who— “Looked up your license num- ber, of course! Sue, dear, when may I come up and see for my- self how—” | “Hey!” she said aggrievedly. “You're not to call me Sue, with or without descriptive adjectives. We haven’t met —socially. I'm sure that—” His disgusted voice interrupted her protest. “What the dickens does either of us care about the social end of it? I all but mur- dered you yesterday. If that doesn’t give me a right to call on you. I don’t know what does!” She began to laugh helplessly What a precipitant young man this was! | “I'm tempted to quote a popular | book title and say ‘Stay Out of| My Life!’ You're a violent sort of person.” “Are you dressed? Had your breakfast—lunch? I'll ring your bell on the stroke of three,” he told her, said goodby and hung up before she could refuse her con- sent if she had been minded to. It was, however, two and not three o'clock when Maggie ad- itted m. ight you might give me the slip.” he informed her coolly handing the openly disapproving | old woman his hat and gloves. “There was not the forgiving note in your voice I craved to hear. I take it you're still simmering with wrath toward me?” She shook her head. “1 wasn’t —until you barged in here just now. How do you know I haven't a_ weak heart? One shock right after another like this—” “Don’t joke,” he bade her stern- ly. “I tell you I didn’t sleep a wink ali night! Every time I shut my eyes I saw that confounded river crawling below —so terribly far below!—and you, a little thing with a bit of scarlet silk around your neck, curled up like a kitten in your car!” Without waiting for permission, he pulled forward a chair close to where she sat. and subsided heavily into it. “I've had some scares in my time, but never like that! [If you'd gone over that! you, give you my word!” Sue frowned. Maggie was, she knew perfectly, BOVETDE close to the kitchen door. Ste had been Sue’s nurse years ago and still preserved an attitude of authority toward the girl. She would report this to Allen, and Allen would be annoyed, and there would be an end to the solitary visits she paid to Wyeth Hill. Youne Business Man ““T‘HAT would have been most sensible!” she said bitingly. “And now may we forget the whole affair? You see for your- self I'm whole and unscathed. You've apologized adequately, not to say profusely! with roses.” Her eyes roved about the flower be- decked room. “I take it for granted you're merely passing through the town—” He shook his head, the serious- ness of his manner already gone. “Never take anything for granted in this day and age, Sue darling! Far from passing through I’m about to become one of your most promising young business men. dn’t you heard? Does the name Trenton mean nothing to you? [ll wager it does to your brother. ‘Trenton’s Treadons.’ Do I make myself clear?” “The new shoe factory!” “A bull’s-eye, no less, I'm it!” “The whole factory?” “Practically — now.” His face sobered. “My father died several months ago. He was president of the concern: I’m more or less stepping into his shoes—no pun intended. I was in England — and BOCA CHICA NOTES Guests at Boca Chica Camp last week inclided Mr. and Mrs. S. L. Rebuetta and family of Mexico City; A S Dyer and, party of Nashville, Tenn.; Mr. and Mrs. Fred Schelben of Greensville, Miss.; Mr, and’ Mrs. BY LOUISE PLATT HAUCK Dad's that’s then I was busy settlin, affairs in the East — an how I happened to lend my var to this guy who wanted to do some folklore research in the Ozarks.” He leaned back as though he felt he had completed a detailed auto- biography in those few jerky sen- tences. “Okay, Miss Davenport?” They surveyed. each other frankly, slim, dark-eyed girl and blue-eyed stalwart man. A for- giving grif began to twitch at the corners of Sue’s lips. There was an endearing frankness about this Trenton person; a trustful belief in the goodwill of the world to- ward his appreciative self which was hard to resist. “That’s right!” he encouraged her. “In the words of the song: ‘smile, smile, smile!’ You look much, much nicer when you smile. All dark people do. There’s a touch of grimness in knitted black brows, did you know it? And I have no intention of begin- ning what is going to be one of the -most charming friendships that ever came into my life with grimness.” “You take a Jot for granted, Mr. Trenton!” “Bob.” he corrected. “It’s one of the easiest of all names to pro- nounce. Even a baby can say it. Sue’ now is harder. The sibilant sound presents certain difficulties which do not appear to be sur- mounted’ before the second or third year — or so my married friends tell me. Not that I've ever known any girl named Sue; but I had an Aunt Susan—” She was toc young not to chuckle at His blithe audacity. En- couraged by the sound, he beamed we're getting some Effortless Ease LMOST before his roses were faded, Bob Trenton had be- come an intimate of the little household. It was accomplished with the effortless ease character- istic of him. “Met a peach of a guy today,” Allen had announced that first night. He interrupted himself amazedly. “Golly, look at the flowers! You and Kettle settled it between you?” She dimpled at him as she un- folded her napkin. “Jim? Jim would regard such a display as in the worst possible taste. It’s a new man.” A sudden thought occurred to her. “Maybe it’s your man, Allen--your ‘peach of a guy.’ This town's not. so large that he could remain undiscovered long; not a shrinking violet like Bob Trenton, anyway!” “Trenton! That’s the name! Tterton’s Treadon Shoes, you know. But he’s only been here a day or so, he tells me. How come the lavish floral offering?” “He bumped into me yesterday afternoon,” she answered, pru- dently. suppressing the details. “No harm done. but the roses are a peace offering.” “I asked him out to dinner to- morrow night. All right?” “All right.” she said demurely. She was young enough to enjoy meeting this personable young man before her friends did. The town’s social set was small and closely knit. It would not be long before Trenton was a part of it. And as the days went on, she was amused and a little startled et his whirlwind attentions to herself. He had behaved from the first as though he had some claim upon her. If he had not informed him- self of her activities for the day before he left the previous eve- ning, his telephone call cayght her before she could leave the house in the morning. He made no secret of his devo- tion; rather invited attention to it, If shé appeared at some function with Jim Kettle, or Forest Webb, or any other of the men who had P known her for years, B - bluff ['d have sent my car after | Kno or years, Bob was al ways to be found hovering near the door, awaiting her entrance. He would join her as matter-of- factly as though it had been ar- fanged for him to relieve her es- ieee responsibility toward er. “Who does he think he is, any- how?” Forest would growl. “Just because he’s Trenton of Treadons, with a Harvard accent and Lon- donmade clothes, doesn’t give him the right to monopolize vou all evening, Sue. Unless you're en- gaged?” he demanded. She.shook her head. “He’s just | giving me a rush. earth do. you. let. him. bluff you, Forest? He asked me to come with him tonight and I told him Td already promised you. Wh: don’t you stand up for yourself?’ He grinned, in defeat. “He’s the white-headed boy of the Chamber of Commerce, and Dad and his friends won't have him scared away; not while he’s negotiating for a branch factory here, at all events.” “Tt’s love you, love your job, is it, Forest?” “You bet! I hope to get married one of these fine days, honey chile, and I don’t see old Allen turning you over to a jobless husband. Be- sides, this Eastern guy will be on his way pretty soon—I hope and trust! Just sit tight, and don’t get your head turned by all this crown prince stuff.” “You think he’s amusing him- self with me?” she asked in a voice sweet) enough to have warned him. Continued tomorrow And why on A. Fried of New York; Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Searl of Michigan; Mr. and Mrs. D. McSkimmon of Cranston, R. IL; Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Hildebrant and family of Watertown, S. Dakota; Mr. and Mrs. Smith.of Miami; Dr. and Mrs. P. Grosso and family of Brooklyn, N. Y.; T. P. Stewart and family of Ohio. THE KEY WEST CITIZEN NATURE NOTES By J. C. GALLOWAY Reprinted From Port Allegany (Penna.) Reporter and Argus Presented herewith is another installment of “Naiwre Notes” as| written by J. C. Galloway and! forwarded to his home town; newspaper. in Port Alleghany, Penna. In the last installment, Mr. Galloway was deseribing the scene from atop the lighthouse. He continues from that point: “West and south the city bor- ders the sea, the great Casa Ma- rina hotel on the south shore with a small beach or two beside it; and army reservation grounds to the west of it; then eastward, Rest Beach, for the public, and we have completed the circle. But now let us take a look at the \city itself, from this height. Key West has never had a zoning sys- tem; and while old, has had oc casional revivals of growth. The | oldest part of the city, evidently, | jis this northwest section at our! ‘feet, beyond which is the vacant | land of the Here all the houses are old un- painted wood, close together with narrow streets. But there are other sections similar and in be- tween modern and more or less luxurious residence, districts ,and often the houses are side by side in striking contrast. But all are} half buried in greenery and flow- | ers. “Seen enough? Well, lets go idown then; careful tho, you will need the side rail on these rather dark and wisty stairs. Down again, and our five-year-old vir- tuozo has picked up another bunch of tourists and maybe wil get to sing (?) his five songs this time. Want to visit the Aqua-| rium next? Everybody does. We! can drive the car right down this | foot-walk through the lawn, and | park under the ~coconuts in the side yard. This strange shrub on|there does not sem to be time | the corner? Spectacular, isn’t it, |enough for anything. And it is a | with a seven-foot mound of heavy '!eng road home, too. But you will | feathered leaves and upright | conical spires of yellow peas, the; buds at top round balls like | marbles. You never saw that be- fore? Nor we, until we came to} this city. It is one of the trop-| ical cassias. | “If you are a tourist you will! pay fifteen cents at the door and | go in. Here are some corals on+ one side, some odd dried fish on the other; and a big pile of pink conchs, for sale, facing you. Here | is an open patio; with shaded! walks on either side, the fish-| tanks like show-windows along the walls, open to the sky above them; while down in the middle of the patio also open to the sky is a row of pools in which are | sea-turtles, and sometimes sharks or other big fish. “Let’s go around the walls and | see what’s here. First comes a school of yellow-tails, silver now, but often rose colored with a yel- low band down sides and_ tail. Next a tank of angel-fishes, yel- low and olive some of them, with unbelievably luminous stripes on the head; and here is a ‘black’ angel, made of dull silver bead- work; and various other brilliant- ly colored small fish from the reefs swim among them. And look here! Would you ever be- lieve fish could look like these parrotfishes? Nearly two feet long, here is one with each big scale half red and half green, and half the colors in the paint-box | scattered over head and fins. Odd, too, with his thick. round beak. And watch him, as he) swims over to look at you and! lrolls that fiery blue eye to cock | lit at you! He has character, he | has. | “Here are the remoras, the sharksuckers with the vacuum cups on top their heads, sticking jto the front glass. Two feet long |or more, they should have a white | stripe on the side, but these are} all sooty black. Wonder why? And if you want to get a laugh, come and look at these porcupine fish, swell-fish when they want to be, blowing themselves up like a football on occasion. We never saw any so big, and these are gray-brown, and covered all over with black dots, and corpulent and. baggy, with a funny face. Here are young tarpon ,near a yard long and silvery; and wow! | Look in this tank at these green morays; horrible. greeny brown eels, slimy and slinky; and big as some of your legs. and split at the front into narrow sneering jaws. Just. as horrible as they look, too, for they lie in wait in | Deficiency since |west‘and ‘west-central searred hands around town from them’: To top it all, the bite of these green ones is poisonous, too. “Plenty more; but let us stop at this tank where the Queen Trig- gerfish sails around. Yellow bod- ied, with gorgeous blue and pur- ple stripes on the face like a clown, and other gay colors with them, and the eye way back on the shoulder it looks as tho de- signed for a carnival parade; one would not believe there could be such a thing. And these Scor- pion fish; here is one like a grass- hopper, swimming; and others, like lichen-covered stones on the bottom, but with marvelous grass- hopper-like ‘wings’ black and yellow, when spread. And did navy reservation. you notice the vrown fringe alk| over the rocks? Those are sea- anemones. And that big, quilled ivory chrysanthemum? That is a sea-anemone, too; we can show you some in the rocks along shore sometime. | “What’s going on back there? ; Oh, that lady wants graph a hawksbill sea-turtle, from., which ladies’ back-hair combs once were made. boys. lift it from the pool, and one carries it with back against his breast, kicking and flapping, over into the light. The lady snaps it, to photo- } ;and back he is dumped into his} pool. Accommodating folks they are at the aquarium; they will do anything for you. “What! You have to be going? | How fast the clocks go down here; | FOURTEEN-FT. V-BOTTOM) be down again, won’t you, maybe next week? We will go out the boulevard with you, as far as the bridge and the arch, which now says “ADIOS COME AGAIN”. THE WEATHE Observation taken at 7:30 a. m., 75th Mer. Time ‘Temperatures Highest last 24 hours Lowest last night . ean ee Normal 61 56 Precipitation Rainfall, 24 hours ending 7:30 a. m., inches —_.. Total rainfall since Jan. inches Jan. inches Total rainfall since Jan. inches Deficiency inches Seen Temorrow’s Almanac Sunrise ~ 7:13 a. Sunset 6:05 p. Moonrise _.. 5:03 p. . 5:42 a. Tomorrow's Tides (Naval Base) AM. Low 2:43 2:02 High - 9:15 8:36 Barometer at 7 30 a. m., today Sea level - 30.20 Wind Direction and Velocity NNE—10 miles per hour Relative Humidity 65% N.B.—Comfortable humidity should be a few points below tmean temperature FORECAST (Till 730 p. m., Tuesday) Key West and Vicinity: Mostly cloudy tonight and with rain Tuesday; not quite so cold; moderate-northeast to east winds. Florida: Mostly cloudy, rain Tuesday and beginning in north- portions not quite so cold to- since Jan. P.M. tonight; jnight, and in extreme south por- tion Tuesday. CONDITIONS Pressure distribution through- lout the country has changed but little during the past 48 hours. with strong high pressure cover- ing, most. sections. Light snow has occurred dur/ jing the last 24 hours in the Lake region, upper Ohio Valley, northern New England, and there / BRING YOUR. VISITING friends freight, one and has been light to moderate rain or snow on the north Pacific coast and in Texas. Temperature changes have been unimportant with readings So the! = $$ PERSONAL, CARDS; $1,25 per} Tuesday, | CLASSIFIED COLUMN LOST — Yesterday somewhere! between sunrise and sunset, | two golden. hours, each set with | sixty, diamond minutes. No re- ward is offered for they are, gone forever.—Horace Mann: | | AGENTS WANTED | AGENTS—Large Profits! Sell ; complete line Oiled Silk Prod- ucts; Shower Curtains, Sham- | poo Capes. DONNIE, 1265 Broadway, New York. | jan22-1tx | { FOR SALE. | i ; TWO-STORY HOUSE AND LOT. | 616 Francis Street. $2500.00—| $500.00 down, balarice $25.00; monthly, 6% interest. Price re- | duced for cash. Apply Box | R.L., The Citizen. jan22-s | |COMPLETELY FURNISHED) HOTEL AND APARTMENT | HOUSE, 1104 Division Street. | Everything new, all conven-} iences, 13 rooms, 4 batlis. $9,- | i 500.00—$2,000.00 down, balance $60,00 monthly 6% interest. Price reduced for cash. Apply Box R.L., The Citizen. Jan22-s | COMPLETELY FURNISHED} | HOUSE AND THREE LOTS at} } corner of Patterson Avenue | and 5th Street, facing north | side boulevard. $7,000.00—$1, ; 500.00 down and balance $40.00! ; monthly, 6% interest. Price | reduced for cash. Ideal loca- tion for Cabin Camp. Also, | several vacant lots—low prices, | Apply Box R.L., The | jan22-s | | terms. | Citizen. BUICK SEDAN, good running order, $50. Large ice box, good | ‘condition, $10. 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