The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 30, 1940, Page 3

THURSDAY, MAY 30, 1940 LITTLE SPITFIRE By Jean YESTERDAY: Brenda learns more about the people on The Street, and is warned about Miss Ormond who minds everybody's business but her own. She quar- rels with Mac ayain, and dis- cusses him with Isobel. Chapter Six Seandal Of The Street eS se THERE something special you want to say to me about Mac, Isobel?” asked Brenda. “Only that’—the green eyes grew misty, the big mouth quiv- ered a little—“only that, as you've Probably observed for yourself, = dear, 'm .. . crazy about im!” It was Brenda who broke the silence which fell. “And he——” “Doesn't know I'm on earth,” ‘was the brief reply. “Or if he does, it’s only to be annoyed that II care. Now you have it.” Her shoulders rose in her favorite shrug. “I thought I might as well tell you myself—before somebody else does, or before you deduced it. Pm so darned foolish about— about wearing my heart on my sleeve. I spend a full hour every single night after I go to bed firm- ly resolving to put it—my heart, ¥ mean—nicely away in a hand- kerchief box in my top bureau | drawer, and leaye it there. until called’ for; and ‘then’ ‘morning comes, and I go down to break- fast . . . hear Mac’s voice . .. seg his face . . .” She stopped and turned her head aside. a Brenda’s warm sympathy’ was aroused by this frank confession. “My dear you remember what Thackeray ‘said: ‘A woman with fair opportunities and without a Positive hump, may marry whom she likes!’” “In Thackeray’s day, maybe! Not now. The competition’s too keen. Heaven’ knows I’ve had op- portunities enough,” she went on miserably. “And I’ve always been a firm believer in _propinquity, too. I've seen girls and men thrown together, and drift into marriage—martriages that turned out happily, too!—who wouldn't have looked at each other twice in different surroundings. But it hasn’t worked with Mae and me —or not with Mac, at any rate. Why,” she finished forlornly, “he won't even fight with me! And he began his acquaintance with you by two rows in a single after- noon. He told me so himself!” Brenda laughed outright. “I should hardly call that a proof of mutual attraction. As a matter of fact Mac and I don’t get on well | at all. He seems always to be in- | wardly laughing at the idea of} my being a writer.” “And that,” Miss Burke com- mented elegantly, “burns you up, doesn’t it?” “It does indeed! I'll tell you something. Isobel—if you won’t tell Mac! I've sold a story—sold it to The Monthly Comment!” She sat back, watching the effect of this stupendous announcement. It was all and more than she had hoped. Isobel grew positively pale with awe. “Brenda Burnham, you haven't!” | The little author’s head nodded emphatically. “Now you see why it makes me so furious—so ab-so-lute-ly furi- dus.” she declared, “to have Mac look down his nose and smile with his eyes when I talk about my work.” Monthly Comment? “No—didn’t I just ask you to promise not to? I’m not gojng to have him know until it comes out. Then,” she went on with youth- ful satisfaction, “I'll just care- lessly hand him the magazine and he'll be good and sorry!” Isobel hugged her knees. “Bren- | da, you're queer,” she announced. “You're so contradictory. _So Randall the cynical way he talks—the way he looks at one!” “And I,” Brenda declared, “find him the most thoroughly worth- while person I’ve met in ages! I mean to cultivate him, Miss Or- mond or no Miss Ormond; Ade- laide, or no Adelaide!” the Scandal of The Street. Miss: Ormond paid a personal visit to Adelaide to discuss the subject. with her. She fixed a steely gaze on the perturbed face of Brenda’s landlady and in- quired: “Are you aware that Brenda Burnham went to that man’s studio yesterday afternoon and stayed two full hours?” Mrs. Rosttetor said feebly: “It was in broad daylight, Miss Or- mond!” The ex-teacher sniffed. “As if that made any difference! Facts are facts, and the proprieties are the proprieties, Adelaide! If you're afraid to speak to Brenda I shall be glad to assume that duty! Perhaps,” she went on, “she doesn’t realize that Hugh Saltus is a married man. Perhaps she doesn’t know his reputation is not —not quite savory?” Brenda, passing the parlor door, overhead the last question. “Whose reputation is not savory? It sounds like roasted poultry, somehow.” “We're talking of Mr. Saltus, my dear!” The caller eyed the tit fresh youth sternly. “You jay not be aware that ft is un- conventional—to put the most charitable interpretation on it!— to visit him at his studio. On the other hand, I must bear in mind the fact that you come from New York where, I am given to under= lationships prevail in professional circles. All I can say,” she added warningly, “is that this is not New York and that The Street has its own standards which even a Burnham will do well to ob- serve.” Adelaide turned pale with ap- prehension: at this dictum, but Brenda laughed. ‘Advice And CounseY Y DEAR Miss Ormond, you don’t mean to imply that calling on Mr. Saltus—in the afternoon and with his middle- aged housekeeper in the adjoin- ing room—is something The Street frowns upon? If it is, I’m afraid it will have to frown—even to scowl! For I mean to drop in on Hugh as often as he’ll let me. I find his studio fascinating.” She added, with a serene glance out of the window: “And Hugh him- self even more so!” Miss Ormond’s sharp chin quivered. “This,” she announced, “is the work of Those Twins!” “Of Ab and .Alaine?” Brenda shook her head, the deepest of her dimples denting the corner of her mouth. “I give you m: word they never mentioned the studio to me. It was all my own idea. In fact, I practically got down on my knees and implored Hugh to let me drop in on him yesterday.” She sat curled in a deep chair, the fingers of one slender hand clasped closely about her left ankle. She looked about sixteen, and so mischievous that Adelaide eyed her uneasily. “Haven’t you ever been there yourself, Miss Ormond? Oh, that’s a pity! Perhaps if I begged Hugh very hard: ws “Please don’t put yourself to any trouble! Nothing would in- duce me to visit that most un- | fortunate young man.” “Unfortunate?” Brenda sighed gustily. “I could’ use his special brand of misfortune! Everything he does selling at top price— magazines and syndicates clamor- ing for his work- T referred to the loss of his wife!” Miss Ormond informed her stiffly. Brenda’s blue eyes widened. grown up.in some ways, sb awful- ly young in others; so—so sophis- | ticated, and at the same time so— | well, I @uess you'd call it sweet!” | T Don't Like Him’ he dimplés flashed ‘amusediy, “Tm more than willing you should call it that! Not all my friends do. you know.” To her delight, Isobel told her: “Yes, I can understand that, too! You can be pretty frank and de- cisive when you wish, I haven’t a doubt. Mac said so,” she added unthinkingly. The dimples disappeared in- stantly and the dark brows drew together. “I really don’t see why Mac should be so interested in my manner, one way or another! I tell you, Isobel, I don’t like that man! I'm sorry if it hurts your feelings, my dear, but I honestly think you're in luck—that he isn’t in love with you, I mean. He’s opinionated, he’s so frightfully Has he lost her? He doesn’t think so! Are you quite sure, dear Miss Ormond? So many impossi- ble ramors get abroad——” he caller rose, pointedly ad- dressing her hostess. i 'y dear Adelaide, I sympa- | Mi: with you! I thought your cup was full and running over when you took that homely Burke girl and the MacKelvey man; but 1p cither of us knew what the ‘e held for you! Remember— my advice and counsel are always yours for the asking!” Halfway to the door she paused and eyed the graceless child in the deep chair. “Even you,” she finished pontifically, “may consult me if the emergency becomes too great. |Christian charity!” “What cn earth did she mean?” Brenda laughed when Adelaide, sighing, had rejoined her. “What emergency is she talking about?” “Oh, Brenda child, I don’t know!” Adelaide shed a few sure of himself, he’s downright|tears into her folded handker- conceited — “No. No, he isn’t, you little spit- fire! He’s sure of himself—he has a right to be. Why, if you knew = he’s gone through to get where e is. es “I haven't the. slightest desire to know. Let's talk about Hugh Saltus instead. Now there,” she continued, warming: to “her “sub- ject, “is a man who: is really in- teresting! I'm amazed that this neighborhood doesn’t appreciate him more. He'd be a riot in New York. I can’t imagine why he stays on in this quiet place.” “He stays because it is quiet, I think. I know he said he could get more work dome here tham any place he’d ever lived. His cartoons are clever. I suppose: but I hate chief. “But I do wish you hadn’t started out by antagonizing her! She keeps her fingers on the pulse of The Street—as one might say—and it was most unfortunate that she knew of your visit to the es yesterday!” for the opportunity! And who is Miss Ormond that she should ex- ereise any kind of censorship over The Street?” She crossed the room and patted the older wo- man’s shoulder consolingly. “Just don’t pay any attention to her, that’s the best way!” Continued tomorrow And cultivate him she did, to . stand, incredibly free and easy re- | BUCK WALTERS PITCHES EIGHTH STRAIGHT WIN WITH 2 TO 1 TRIUMPH: CARDS DEFEAT CUBS (Special to The Citizen) NEW YORK, May 30.—Bucky Walters won his eighth straight game yesterday at the expense of the Pittsburgh Pirates, giving up just four measly hits and playing a stellar role in the hit- ting department by connecting for two singles which had direct bearing on the Cincinnati Reds’ four runs. Final score was 4 to 0. Cincy has won 23 games this season to date, more than any other major league team, and are in a virtual tie for first place with the Brooklyn Dodgers, al- though the percentage keeps them a few points behind owing to more games played. St. Louis Cardinals, paced by Lon Warneke's effective pitching | i ; THE KEY WEST CITIZEN LEAGUE STANDINGS AMERICAN LEAGUE Club— w. L. Boston 2 69 Cleveland _ 21 13 Detroit 1s New York - 6 7 Chicago 15 19 }St. Louis -__ 4. Washington 15 | Philadelphia Brooklyn Cincinnati - lew York - Chicago __ St. Louis - Philadelphia Boston Pittsburgh 12 Ww 20 17 18 21 Three straight wins by the Three Spares, Howard Pinder, Bob Averette and Bert Buckley, over Aronovitz Store, was the or- der of play again last night. Every match in the new tournament~has been wort‘or lost decisively in the abovemanner. Four teams boast of their per- centage of 1.000 with for games and hitting and timely slugging | Still to be played this week. by Mickey Owen trimmed the Chicago Cubs, 8 to 2. Warneke’s contribution was a home run with two men on base, while connected for two doubles good for four runs. Boston Bees had a_ three-run 7th inning yesterday, and that ‘splurge was enough to gain vic- tory over the Philadelphia Phil- les, 3 to 1. Four of their six hits were collected in that inning. Dick Errickson gave up only five safeties to the Phils. { New York Yankees pulled one of their typical games yesterday with a 2 to I triumph over the Washington Senators. The Yanks’ drive’ for league leading honors continues, the game yesterday marking their fifth-straight vic- tory. Both Yankee runs were homers—one by Charley Keller and the other by Bill Dickev. Bob Feller annexed his seventh victory yesterday and the Cleve- land Indians knocked out a 7 to 4 win over the Detroit Tigers. Bob kept eight hits well scattered and was never in serious trouble in that his teammates had started the game with a six-run lead, three runs in each of the first and‘ ;second innings. Chicago White Sox rallied in| the eighth inning of their game! with St. Louis Browns yesterday, knocking in three runs to take the contest by a 4 to 3 score. Fifth place was at stake in this fracas. Boston Red Sox contributed to the sixth straight defeat of the Philadelphia Athletics yesterday when rookie Wilburn Butland pitched his team to an 8 toe 3 vic- tory. Tabor helped the Bosox’ cause with a home run in the first inning. Results of the games: NATIONAL LEAGUE R. 4 0 At Pittsburgh Cincinnati Pittsburgh s i Walters and Lombardi; man and Davis. HE. 8 4 Bor we At Chicago R. HE. 'St. Louis 810 0 Chicago : 210 0! Warneke and Owen; French. Dean and Todd, Collins. | At Boston R. LE. Philadelphia £3 3} Boston eee ee Beck, Hoerst and Atwood, Mil-, lies; Errickson and Lopez, Masi. AMERICAN LEAGUE At New York .E Washington New - York Owen Adams Dairy meets Thompson | Marine Hardware tonight and Floyd Six Contractors meet Rest Beach Friday. | Observation taken at 7:30 a. m., 75th Mer. Time (City Office) Temperatures Highest last 24 hours Lowest last night Mean formal - ae Precipitation Rainfall, 24 hours ending 7:30 a. m., inches te Total rainfall since May 1, inches aaa Baa Deficiency since May 1, inches eee ee Totai rainfall since Jan. 1, inches eevee ae Deficiency since January 1, inches = = ies 0.22 Wind Direction and Velocity S—6 miles, per hour Relative Humidity 96% Barometer at 7:30 a. m. today Sea level, 29.91 (1012.9 millibars) | Tomorrow's Almanac Sunrise 5:37 a. Sunset _ 7:12 p. Moonrise 2:01 a. Moonset 2:36 p. Tomorrow's Tides (Naval Base) AM. - 5:56 VAITFIPFIPFIAPPLLLPLLLLEPLIZELAPAIPPPOATIPOD P.M. 6:31 | 12:15 11:46 High «ORECAST (Till 7:30 p .m., Friday) Key West and Vicinity: Mostly cloudy with showers tonjght and Friday; moderate variable winds. 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