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

Chapter 34 Out Of Danger As I turned to leave I heard the Sergeant calling me from the stairway. Explanations were get- ting to be second ‘nature, so it took me only a few minutes to tell him the little I knew. I said I wasn’t at all certain when I first heard the sound of the engine. I was afraid to ask who had been found in the garage. gowell, that’s that,” he said. “It’s rood thing, you heard it. He’ll be 1 ee he man was alive. “Who is wt ‘finally said. | “Whitefield.” “Why—how—?” “That's what I'd like to know.” The Sergeant shook his head an- | grily. “His car wasn’t in the garage at six o'clock. There’s supposed | to bé someone watching this house every minute, yet he drives in,| d leaves his motor running to com: | mit suicide and no one sees him.” He stamped down the stairs, leaving me in a ferment. White- | field had tried to commit suicide. | And for what reason? And where was Dirck? And when I thought | of him, I knew why Bermuda had | lost caste. New York with its mur ders, blizzards and mysteries w: a better with Dirck than fields of fragrant Easter lilies and sunshine would be with Toby. And then | thought, “That law A has a high regard for you iss Howarth. He -goes dashing off, leaving you to the mercie: people who break into rooms roam around fire escapes.” That Wednesday night, the third evening I'd spent in the house. was the longest I've ever put in I sat up in the wing chair by fireplace with the lights on, nately furious at Dirck and melting. 1 got snatches of slvep. | suppose, but ‘the little I had was interrupted by dreams. and ! would start up, my eyes going first to the fire escape and then to the door. In the morning about eight o'clock Dirck appeared without word of explanation, looking a though he'd been up all ni After breakfast with him at Knife and Fork he brought me back to the house and left again. | He had said nothing excepi fo ask me how I'd slept. The shop was still closed, of | course, and Ishi wandered around | the house following the reporters who had arrived in droves. Tix attempted suicide scemed to nm more impression than the mur ders. Mary Ann and Adricnt were both out and Mrs. Ev Was among the missing for a change. Sarah finally showed up andj gave my apartment more of a lick and a promise than the thorough cleaning that it needed went about her work in sullen silence and departed with a backward | glance of disapproval. Mr. Kimball called me half-past ten. He asked me if | minded sitting in the shop for a little while in case any | The reporters had nearly driven | him mad and he wanted to tak short walk. Ishi had to stay with | the reporters while they were in Whitefield’s apartment. The reporters subsided a little after he left and the house was shone brightly on the street. I had the feeling you ha AV after a funeral when the sh are still drawn and voices are muted. Ada’s Mother BOUT eleven o'cices a wor came to the shop and asked for Miss Wells. I calléd up t stairway, but neither of the had come in yet. And the woman I took her to be about Mr. Kim balls’ age, asked if she m wait She took a chair by the w and sat there until Mr. Kim came back, and then I too! up to my apartment. She took a chair by the window sitting on the edge of it and look- ing at me timidly from time to! time without speaking. | tried to talk a little, but she didn’t seem to be listening, and suddenly sh¢ interrupted: me in the middle of a brief survey of New York weather, the papers. Adrianne Wells, it said. Her name is really Ada. But I said to myself, maybe she’s changed her name. I hoped and pa this Adrianne would ‘be er. I was confused and she must have noticed it, for she said, “You see, I'm Ada Wells’ mother.” I murmured something inau- dibly. There was nothing that I could think of to say. It seemed almost incredible that this pleas- ant, home-like person could be the puOber of a girl like Adrianne he all right?” she asked, “Well, I me “Why, yes, of course.” I man- aged that much, She hesitated. ; it in the “1 re d all about tataer to ae here yesterday. He isn’t ver She isn’t I mean,” s! d, “the police do they? It right in the papers.” >, of course not,” I told her a on everyone just a formal- guick in the | ity.” The woman was int naar Te- lie ved, | I c she'd ne but not hez knowing have been upset,” J Staken ned forward con- s alw r hen her fat f rbade her to goon quarreled with hi rah a I I thou if we'd be little more mpathctic shed 1 to reaso i e as York. But ay where she was afraid ee But she § e always soon s made him a fo'd be glad to have » open doocr- ianne W 1 osed my 1 in the mood for n about | a delicious ved it with hat gave red if the "t been in the house “Do you know Miss Wells?” she | @ asked. “Yes,” 1 said. “Not very well though: I’ve lived here for only three days.” | She was silent again and | looked at her curiously. She w rather attractive in a faded sort of way. Her clothes were un-| pretentious, but she held herself with a quiet pride. “I wonder,” she said after a moment, “I wonder if you would mind describing her—Miss We'ls —to me?” I was surprised. It seemed odd | that she had come to see the gir! without knowing her. But when I finished a very lame description | Le em nodded her head vigor- | and a smile lighted her face. | ‘ou don’t know what this | means to me,” she said, drawing, her chair closer to mine. e | worried for months not knowing where she was or what she was doing. Then I saw her name in! COTTON IN SURGERY NEW ORLEANS.—Surgeons of Tulane University’ and Lousiana State Medical Schools are ad- vocating the use of cotton thread, which can be purchased at any department or ten-cent store, to stitch wounds and surgical op- erations. They say it is smooth- er than either linen or silk, ties easier anc lasts longer than cat- gut which has been used for years for this purpose, 1 little after two when it to talk to a shi young anne be d him to be My mother is in there,” joning to her room. quely. fol owes him down d@ Mary Ann passed 1p. does he want with her? W hat did she do?” she gasped to . If Whitefield wa with Joan's and Richard Adrianne would be mixed n them too. She’d been w artist that evening. Continued tomorrow SOME TEMPER ST. LOUIS.—Becoming “she during conversation, Wil- liam J. Baldridge saw “red”. He as arrested later. charged, with disturbing the peace, destroying (he had torn the tele- wall, driving and passing angry at something said” a telephone in the careless four stop i signs. FLOWER ARRANGEMENTS—A HOBBY 1an Can Make Fascinating Arr: oges Of Flowers, Says Author the idea of ; become in among wom- indeed, with now thew favorite possible combina- mar lus 1s nobvy. 4 LE tions an Je 1d the tun comes in the ality with which one’s own t and Biownlec president of ihe Coca-Cola Bottling Compan of Atiante, Ga. states, “Undoubt- ediy this interest in flower ing is responsible for the phenomenal popularity of a book called Flower Arranging—A Fascinating Hobby’ recently pub: lished, aad being distributed by The C Cola Company, Atlan- ta, Georgia”. The boc is written in a light and ia vein by Laur Lee Burroughs, one of the reeog- nized experts in this field. Her suggestions are illus- 48 photographs of flow- angements exquisitely n full color. It is id that literally’ thousands of “posed” for their pictures fore the final groupings were ected At first glance one would*think wer combinations are only experts l are the arrange: Burroughs . comments grouping in a Ss very easy to under- 1 it isn’t long before osins to see that the only the pleasure and variety jon in this hobby is owr imagination. a Burroughs sums up whole matter very neatly “Thi, flower lovers . {fer Aunt Jane who loves flowers but never knows what to do with them; for the beginner who still thinks roses and asparagus ferns are inseparable; forthe hostess; of the little hotel where one stopped lest summer, who rarely has an opportunity to see what others are doing with flowers; for Garden Club members who have long been studying this subject; in short, for every wom- an with a few spare moments who wants to make her home a pleasanter place to live. | “For Flower Arranging is aj fascinating hobby. 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