The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 23, 1940, Page 3

THURSD 2s LEAP B MAY 28 BEFORE YOU LOO! By Peggy O’More Chapter 33 Look Before You Leap SD pale it agin’,” toothless Abe, man thish time.” “My man?” echoed Tomi and shivered with something nearer ecstacy than cold. She savored accused the “losht your the words. And he had gone = c the mountains. Tomi sped in his wake and ar-| rived before the house just in| time to see the tail lights of-her own coupe give one malevolent wink -before they disappeared. “How cah I catch him when he’s in my car?” she wailed. “Take hish,” advised Abe, pounding up behind her. But Bartell didn’t leave keys in ignition sockets as Tomi did. “Reckon he was sho exchited he forgosh it washn’t hish no more,” offered Abe. The world dropped away from Tomi— “Abe, which are his mountains.” Abe didn’t know. She could} call a cab but by the time it reached the farm and turned “Abe,” she said firmly, “you're going to have to drive after him.” “Not wishout : Abe, stubbornly “Then back the fool thing out| and I will.” Miraculously, Abe’s car stayed in the road, benevolently it didn’t break down on the bridge and | n it reached Central Avenue. | ‘as still going strong: Tomi marveled at both, the car} and herself. She. Tomi Toland was funning after a man and that | man. of all men, was Allen Bar-| tell. What she was going to do when-she caught him she didn’t} know, she just didn’t want him to| get away from her . ever. A traffic light bloomed red be- fore her. Tomi pressed stockinged | ny teesh!” stated it feet to brake and clutch. They |* stood up on & slithered | came to a ing stop. clutch and brake had and having given the Batch remained ,pressed to the] floor boards. is sounded, traffic bells rang. a ipolles whistle shrilled and Tomi went down un- der the wheel to work on the elutch with h hands. It came up suddenly and she the| er watching und ,admiration a . Risso,” offered | of Allen Bartell Abe's car gurgled,| gave a jump and went ‘oss the intersection. high hat smacking the h leap, the Bartell darker and darker have asked that est you for steal Tomi offered She Had To Leap urned to glance ou ‘could t George and 1 went | last fall. Be-| your word for any-| g the way vou do?” in’t help it, she don’t look like I'd with the milkman.” still, in his wet c lothes r vour car.” he was up to the curb, “the/ er's on. I was just returni: ng| whatever it ‘was es “was going| to do to hold him. = I can't drive,” she of-/| sudden inspiration, | dangled a wrist} “pulling the clutch} fered wit! wrist, before him, un—” EATHER __ THE W ion taken at 7:30 a. m.,! er. Time (City Office) Temperatures Highest last 24 hours last night Precipitation 24 ending , inches al rainfall since May 1 hours 7:30 a: m iciency since *May\, 1, inches Totai rainfall since Tan. L inches 4 Deficiency since January 1, inches 1.03 Wind Direction and Velocity SW—4 miles per hour Relative Humidity 90% Barometer at 7:30 a. m. today Sea level, 29.96 (1014.6 millibars) Tomorrow's Almanac Sunrise 5:39 a. Sunset 7:09 p. Moonrise 10:09 p. Moonset 8:33 a. 7.54 ¥ m. m. m. | after a moment. ~ 4 | proposing to me, a girl like you Bartell looked at her suspici- ously but he helped her out of one and into the other car with a certain gentleness. Now, she decided as they rolled back along Central, she’d tell him. But he only rolled the car two Tillman’s,” he ex- | plained, starting to get out of the car, “your wrist—” Doctor Tillman. Anyone but that doctor with an x-ray eye. “—this is my final act as your guardian,” Bartell was ine A “it you must leap before you look, you're going to have. to find someone else to pick you out of the mess—” Tomi’s hands closed firmly on Bartell’s coat tails. “Allen,” she pleaded. He’d sai leap . she’d have to. She’ have to leap into the darkness ahead of her without knowing what lay there, joy or humilia- tion. He was looking back over his shoulder at her wrists, both of hem. “Allen | know, they ... or it is all right. But I had to talk to you. | Allen, you’re right. I do leap be- |fore I look because if |I'd never never-dare ask ycu to I didn’t marry me because if I did ask you and you said yes, think what an | awful life we'd live.” Bartell folded his length back into the coupe, turned on the top light and stared at Tomi. “Did I hear you say something about asking me to marry you?” he asked. increduously. Tomi nodded miserably. She’d made the leap and it was dark ahead—“if you should go to the mountains maybe 1 couldn’t find you to ask you beiore leap year was over and—” “But you hate me!” ‘I've Been Looking’ KNOW,” agreed Tomi, sol- emnly. “but hating anvone as h as I’ve hated you takes a lot of thinking about until by now . well I just can’t face the fu- ture without having you to hate | |for wanting my farm and my frogs—” “Frogs,” snorted Bartell. Tomi understood. “I know | they don’t like you, Allen, frogs are fussy but I'm not.” Bartell’s head went back and the little car shook with his laughter. “Are you serious?” he asked, “Are you really proposing to a man like me?” Tomi stiffened. Every nerve stood on protesting edge. Every ingrained inhibition clamored for revenge. Words, slashing seath- ing words. drummed at-her lips. A girl like you.” dark window threw back her reflection, mud caked hair, mud streaked face. mud sodden ae She looked like a gamin. That’s what she was, half this half tha: and nobody loved . really. clean up well,” she offered, Js darling, 1 didn’t ean—" Tomi sank her head into suddenly se shoulder, it to receive an ambrosial javored with tulle and pond “I meant that it took courage for a girl of your spirit to pro- Pose to a man who kad talked to jyou the way I talked after my submersion.” Tomi nodded. It had taken courage. But Allen Bartell was th it—“and you'll teach me to k before I leap?” she pleaded. issively. Look before you . . . listen, re getting right back to the farm and inte dry clothes, [ve a change at the’cabin. And then we're hopping a plane for Reno.” Reno.” gasped Tomi. “Allen. we're not married yet— “And we have to wait three days after filing intentions if we marry in this state. I'm not tak- ing any chances of you looking | before you make this leap—” “But . . . shouldn’t you?” “I have been louking ever since you slid into my arms in the Toland parlor. And what’s more, I-think our friend and great unele Timothy Toland looked for both of us and prayed we'd leap.” THE END oan Tomorrow's Tides (Naval Base) AM. 11:21 4:40 FORECAST (Till 7:30 p. m., Fridav) Key West and i cloudy tonight and Friday; much change in temperature; light to moderate variable | winds. TF Florida: Partly cloudy tonight} and Friday, probably scattered thufdérshowers Friday afternoay in extreme north portion, net much, change in temperature. TRAIN CREW SAVES 11 GETTYSBURG, Pa.—The crew} of a freight train saw fire burn-} ing in the first floor of a two- | story farm house, occu] by} eleven people—John Staley, 75,! his son-in-law and daughter, Mr. | and Mrs. Milton Sits and their eight children. The engineer of the train, G. A. Bragan; stopped} the train and sounded the whistle | until the family was aroused.| The house was totally destroyed. j High Low | sixth, with {camp, 8 to 2. | Philadelphia ‘St. | Brooklyn {QD vs. Newsom (G3- ~UP FIRST PLACE WITH DODGERS GIANTS DEFEAT CINCY. 6 TO; 4; BROOKLYN EDGES OUT PIRATES, 3 TO 1: INDIANS PUSHING BOSOX (Special to The Citizen) NEW YORK, May 23—First place in the National League is all tied up today with equal per- centages possessed by the Brook- lyn Dodgers, who won a game yesterday, and the Cincinnati Reds, who lost a game. Big Paul Derringer had an off- day when he toed the mound against the New York Giants yesterday. He gave up 10 hits and saw two three-run rallies defeat the Reds, 6 to 4. Der- ringer held the Giants hitless for five innings, but a combination of grief descended on him in the two singles and a home run by Harry Danning .ac- counting for the first three-run barrage. Three singles in the eighth provided the winning ‘markers for the Giants. Brooklyn Dodgers helped vet- eran Fred Fitzsimmons to his third victory of the season when| rookie Ernie Koy singled in the |fifth inning of the game with the Pittsburgh Pirates to drive in two Tuns and provide the winning margin of a 3 to 1 final score. In the American League, Bos- ton Red Sox’ lead was whittled down to a game and a half when the second-place Cleveland In- dians knocked out three four- baggers against them yesterday and took the contest, 9 to 6. Hal Trosky, Roy Weatherly and Ken Keltner were the homer heroes in the 15-hit attack of the Tribe. Chicago White Sox moved up a peg in the standings with their victory over the Philadelphia Athletics, 10 to 1. George Caster gave up 18 hits and provided the Chisox with their third-straight win. New York Yankees kept pace with the advancing White Sox by taking Detroit Tigers into Marvin Breuer while allowed but six safeties, 'George Selkirk and Babe Dahl-, gren hit the ball for circuit runs {for the Yanks, the latter adding four singles to his collection of safe blows. Washington Senators pounded three St. Louis Browns’ pitchers yesterday to win the game, 9 to 2. It was “extra-base-hit” day, as a home run by Buddy Lewis and six doubles were smashed out. Ken Chase held the Browns to seven bingles. Results of the games: AMERICAN LEAGUE At Cleveland RHE Boston _ 616 1 Cleveland . 915 2 Ostermueller, Bagby Nonen- kamp, Hash and Peacock; Hard- er, Eisenstat, Dobson and Hems- ley. RHE oe 1018 1 Smith At Chicago Chicago Caster and Tresh. and Brucker; At St. Louis Washington Louis <a 2 Chase and Ferrell; Kramer, Whitehead, Niggeling. and Swift, Susce. R. 9 At Detroit New York 16 | Detroit 6 Breuer and Dickey: Newhous- er, Benton, McKain, Rowe and | Tebbetts. HE R. 8 2 NATIONAL LEAGUE At New York R. HE Cincinnati "ee. New York 610 0 Derringer and Lombardi; Hub- *}bell and Danning. At Brooklyn Le Pittsburgh 1 0: Lanahan, Klinger and Berres, | Schultz; Fitzsimmons and Franks. pe new «GAMES TODAY ba a New vane at Detroit Rusfing | 1). } at Cleveland—Wilson | |(2-0) ys. Feller -2). Philadelphia at Chicago—Ba-! bich (4-2) vs. Lee (2-2). Washington at St. Louis— Leonard (4-3) vs. Coffman (2-1). NATIONAL LEAGUE Cincinnati at New York— Walters (6-0) vs. Schumacher (1-4). Pittsburgh at man (1-2) vs. Hamlin a. St. Louis at Boston—Warneke jf1-4) vs. Posedel (2-2). \St. Louis THE KEY WEST CITIZEN General Motors Corporation, | ee SES ‘SAWYERS SWAMP ‘Yeday’s Birthdays born in New Haven, Conn. 65 MARINES, : 23 10 O “Sees Otero trans Ee. U.S. Minister to Lithuania, born 4°" Stuart, president, Quaker at Sioux City, Towa, 38 years Oats, Chicago, born at Cedar €OCA-COLAS DEFEAT yP53' ago. Rapids, Iowa, 63 years ‘ago. SOFTBALLERS LAST Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., chairman,' Chester Beach of New York NIGHT. 18 TO 3 ee casa City, born Francisco, 59 years age Prof. Allison Gaw of versity of Southern .Californie noted English scholar, bars m= = Philadelphia. 63 years age James Gleason of Hollywood noted scuiptor Un Two softball games were play- | ed last night.. Football ‘score fea- tured the first game when Saw- yers won over the U. S. Marines bya 23-0 score. In. the second game .the Coca-Colas won from the VP53 by an 18 to 3 count. Each and every batter on the Cokes hit safely at least once and every one on ‘the Sawyers’ club but Sterling poled out safe- ties. In the opening fracas the leaders at’ bat were areas who hit four out of five, and J. Walker, who hit three out of four. Grooms hit two out of two for the Marines. Score by innings: R. H. E. Sawyers 534 470 0—23 21 3 Marines 000 000 0— 0 4 9 J. Walker and Hopkins; spare ca 9 and Waysack. 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