The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 4, 1940, Page 3

TUESDAY, JUNE 4, 1940 YESTERDAY: At Judge Har- per’s insistence Brenda per- suades Alaine not to elope with wealthy Ned Barrow just be- cause of @ quarrel with. .her brother, Ned tells Brendg he really loves Alaine. : Chapter 10 AB . | ALWAYS intended to marry Ni Alaine when I grew up,” said. ed. “What weht wrong?” was Bren- da’s sympathetic inquiry, “Ab. He’s jealous—jealous as the devil. As long as I was just a (ts kid that couldn’t handle imself on skates, it was all right with Ab, But when I grew up— when my father died and left me all this money—when I Sega, 12 try in good earnest to get Alain: to marry me... hell pop so far as Ab was concerned.” e told her simply. “We had a fight when we were seventeen and nineteen respectively—I be- ing the nineteen — and I licked the tar out of Ab. That washed me up with Alaine for months, I thought Td lost her for good and all Then she and Ab mixed it, and she sent for me; and it’s sort of been going on like this ever since.” : Brenda’s interest in this urrique} Tomance was acute. She won- dered if after all Ned Barrow might not be the right husband for Alaine. He impressed her most favorably. He was si ¥ ee frank, apparently regarding “his fortune as a responsibility rather than as an advantage, She re- solved to see what she could do to help him where Alaine was) concerned. She told him so, explaining frankly that she had done her best this afternoon to stop the marriage. “But I do think that if I can| persuade Ab his sister will be do- ing well for herself, she may mar- ry you without—without an Ab- ernathy row as a prelude. I’d like to talk to Ab and find out if he has any objection to you other than your ‘licking the tar’ out of him several years ago.” “Oh, he doesn’t hold that against me! Ab’s square, It’s my money,” he went on unhappily. “That and his being so jealous of Alaine. He thinks if she marries me we'll always be off on trips, and she'll have no time to help him at the farm. As a matter of fact,” he went on wistfully, “I'd like darn’ well to help on the farm myself! It’s as much as my life's -vorth to poke at a rosebush in my garden. I think it would be swell fun to dig aro: ind.and plant things. If Ab woul ee lef me tell him——” - “Tll tell him,” Brenda prom- ised, And then because this nice young man still seemed in the depths of depression, and she felt her new responsibilities as a resi- dent of The Street, she added: “I believe Alaine cares more for you than she knows herself! If you'll let me give you a piece of advice, Mr. Barrow——” h, for Pete’s sake, call me Ned!” he said explosively. “All right then, Ned! If you'll let me advise you, this is what you must do; go away from here now without leaving any message for Alaine. Don’t call her tomor- row. Be out if she calls you. Keep her in hot water for a couple of weeks,” said Brenda coldblopded- ly, “and let her realize how she'd miss you if you really went out of her life. In the meantime Pl work on Ab.” She held out her} hand, “Is it a bargain?” ‘A Good Boy’ HE REPLIED doubtfully: “I suppose you know best! Any- one ae dimples like ours must ave had—er—experience, J] mean —well, you do know I dorff mean to be offensive, don’t you? I just mean you aren’t like Miss_Or- mond, or the Ponsonbys, or Judge Harper whose wife died long ago he’s forgotten people /can he in love, . . . I mean you can prob- ably get Alaine’s point of view better than anyone she’s known yet; and if you think I'd better clear out” — he swallowed — “I could go to Los Angeles tomor- row, if hd thought best. As a matter of fact, there’s some busi- ness I ought to see to there, I... I kind of expected to take Alaine with me——” “Fighting like a wildcat part of the way, and perhaps coming home before you got there?” “Yes.” he assented unhappily. “I've thought of that, too. And I don’t believe I could stay in the same town with her and not call her up; so perhaps——” “Much better to go to Califor- nia. I'll act as your agent while Sto gone. I promise to do my est for you,” she heard herself saying with some astonishment. “And ‘ape have ‘to admit what- ever I do will be as much as you've done for yourself!” He took the little hand in both his own. “You're a peach he’ told her gratefully, “I leave Alaine ins care with all the trust in ‘fife = Halfway to the door he turned back. “If you'll believe it, I don’t know your name! Isn't that a/ heck of a note?” She told him and he nodded with satisfaction. ace qa of Ghee ae reet! certainly t able to trust you!” She waited until he had driven off in his car before taking her own a ture, She deemed it the rt of wisdom to go without see- pee Alaine again and she was }ter from i. confirmed in her decision by the silence which reigned above. It might be a sulky silence, or mere- ly a thoughtful one, Brenda mused in ang exent, Ghe: would} take advantage of it She was amused to see Judge Harper emerge from his front door and cross the sarah eyes resolutely avoiding ner, It only when it became necessary for herself to cross that he started. eee and held out his and. “My dear Brenda!” he said loudly, though not a person was | in sight. “So you too are V4 advantage of the late afternoon coolness to get a breath of air!” And then in a whisper: “How did things go? I saw young Barrow drive off,” “They went beautifully—for to- day. Judge, is there any real ob- jection to the hoy—aside from the fact that Ab doesn’t like him, I mean?” “None at ali!” the Judge said loudly; then remember and | sank bis voice to a conspiratorial undertone, “None at all. He’s a good boy—in spite of his money. And it’s not Ab’s objection that stands in the way. Pooh! Pd soon fix Ab if it were only that, No, its Alaine herself. She doesn’t love Ned, and by George, I want Ned to have the best! No girl's going to marry him out of spite, Tll tell you that!” Brenda chuckled. The Judge. was glaring at her as wrat as if she had been egging the fe- male Abernathy twin toward this afternoon’s elopement She re- membered his plea for Alaine earlier in the day, and twinkled as she realized how much of his real state of mind he was now betraying. Then the dimples dis- appeared and she said seriously: “I agree with you! But Ful tell you a secret, Judge Harper! I do really think Alaine cares quite a lot about Ned Barrow. Anyway, I'm going to experiment a bit and see.” ‘Don’t Bandy Words’ E SHOOK his head. “Young people, young people! They play. with emotions 2s they would with toys, Well, well! I enlisted your help in this affair so I su pose I mustn’t complain of the methods you use.” He glanced about warily. “But we mustn’t be seen talking here! I wouldn’t want Alaine to know——” He swept his hat from his head (re+ placing it for that purpose), and went on, turning when he reached the corner and going back to his own _ house. “The dear!” Brenda said to her- self, climbing the steps to her own abiding place, blessed old dear!” Her amiable mood was not des- tined to last long. In the parlor Miss Ormond waited, her: severe gaze'sweeping Brenda’s small fig- ure as soon as the girl stepped in. “Well?” she ee sharply. Brenda nodded blandly. “Good afternoon, Miss Ormond! It’s getting cooler, isn’t it?” “Don't bandy words with me, Brenda Burnham,” was the tart | command. “Even if you are a Burnham!” Brenda sat down and laughed outright. “D’you know,” she be- gan conversationally, “that’s the first time in all my life I ever heard anyone actually use that expression ‘bandy words’!” “Which speaks ill for the lit- eracy of your background!” Adelaide slid in a soothing re- mark. “It is getting cooler, as you say, Brenda. | remember——” “Adelaide!” Miss Ormond. lift- ed a hand, and it was exactly as | if she had said: “Report to the principal at once!” Mrs. Rosttetor took refuge in an abashed silence. “Now, Brenda, you will please tell all there is to tell about Alaine: Alaine and Ned Barrow.” “Certainly, Miss Ormond! Mr, Barrow has driven away in his car. I don’t know where, He didn’t volunteer the information and it | never occurred to me to ask him. When I last saw Alaine, she was | working with her hair in front of Lee ted spurt of laugh: unexpec! of laugh- Adelaide them If most all, perha: greatly. Miss Ormond snorted and renewed her attack on Brenda, “What did you say to that mis- | guided child? “That she needed a wave and a manicure,” Brenda replied sweet- ly. “That tho usually I don’t believe in facials for the yor I think in her case she would ‘be benefited by one. Her skin is real- ly in bad shape,” she went on | confidentially. “She tells me she | has been working a lot out on the farm and of course that is very hard on one’s complexion.” _ Miss Ormond rose, displeasure in every line of her angular fig- ure. : “I see you are determined to keep me in the dark about this matter. Very well! I shall go to Alaine herself. I bid you both good afternoon!” “What will Alaine do?” Brenda | GAIN ON BOSOX sce uxvav 5-5: TIGERS DE- \BEES' EDGED OUT BY 3 TO 2! | i SMI SIE: SOR RREAT Park Tigers won from the RED SOX THE KEY WEST CITIZEN H j | TEN '¢.C.C. Campers by a 15 to 12 wgseore last mght and Key West (Special to The Citizen) nati Reds scored three runs to the mn Bees’ one marker in, the | League tournament at | Bosto: y NEW YORK, June 4.—Cincin-jtests were Conchs and Blue Sox played a} 10-inning 5-5 tie game. The con’ regular scheduled. games of the Island City Softball | Bayview | | Park field. | first inning of their game yester- + In the opener, the Parkers got day, and that was all the scoring! onjy seven hits but scored 15 ‘done on both sides, the Reds. ‘again winning and keeping al firm hold on their first position; in the senior circuit. Paul Der-| ringer’s sixth victory of the sea-} son was chalked.up in this con- test. Lou Fette pitched master-! ful relief ball for the losers, but | his teammates couldn’t score a run to help him. Brooklyn Dodgers gained a one-run margin of victory over the Chicago Cubs for the third) |consecutive time yesterday, scor- ling a 3 to 2 win on Hugh Ca-! sey’s five-hit pitching. Pittsbutgh'’s ‘ninth-inning rally} fell oné-ryp short of tying the} New York Giants in their game, the Bucs losing out, 4 to 3. Bill; Lohrman went the route for the Giants allowing eight well-scat-| tered safeties. j New York Yankees scored an- other win yesterday, their fourth in a row and tenth in their last; |11 starts. This victory was over! the last-place St. Louis Browns. {Final score was 7 tol Atley Donald parcelled out G6nly five safe blows to the Brownies, the} Yanks amassing eight off two moundsmen. Boston Red Sox lost their game with the Chicago White Sox, 7 to 4 Bosox now are only one game out in front in the junior circuit, with the Cleveland In- dians coming up fast. Boston! outhit the Chisox, 14 to 10, but committed four infield errors, which aided the Chicagoans. The Indians blanked the Phil- adelphia Athletics, 4 to 0. Dean! was the losing pitcher, giving up eight hits, including a homer by |Ray Mack in the fourth inning. | | Washington Senators recovered frorm theirrecent slump to defeat |the Detroit Tigers, 9 to 3.. Gerald Walker and Jimmy Bloodworth pounded out homers in} the 12-hit attack on two Tiger hurlers. Results of the games: NATIONAL LEAGUE | At Cincinnati RHE — 2 *8-t 2 5 22 Boston Cincinnati - es Sullivan, Fette and Lopez; Der-/ ringer and Lombardi. | Brooklyn Chicago - ae | Casey and Phelps; Passeau, {Root and Todd. ‘At Chicago . &. 0 1 At Pittsburgh HE. New York 0 Pittsburgh 8 2 Lohrman and Danning; Butch-/ er, Sewell, MacFayden and Da-} vis. Philadelphia-St. Louis, not scheduled. = ee | AMERICAN LEAGUE | At New York R.H.E. St. Louis _ 1S 2 |New York 7 se 3 Niggeling, Trotter and Susce, | |Swift; Donald and Dickey. ' At Boston. R. Chicago 38 Boston — Dietrich, Brown and Ostermueller, and Peacock. H. E. 10 0 14 4 Tresh; | Wagner, Bagby! At Philadelphia Cleveland asked, when the caller had sailed | out of the front door. “I. gup- ea I Wasn't very polite to her met ith ss Ormond. It isn’t quite as straightforward as yours but it’s about as effective. I declare if it weren't for you two girls I don’t know how anybody on The Street would get along with Miss Ormond.” “Alaine’s method?” Brenda prompted. ° _ “Oh, she criest Simply retires into her handkerchief —Ab de- an- Swers all questions with a sob, It ares 5 pees ee Ormond. Ab Says ii ine keeps’ it up enough it will cure Miss O: of her—interest. . . * Navy strength again prevailed in the U.SS, Lea-S, H Kress Co. bowling match at the Terrace jlast night when a record gallery | } watched the flagship trio,” Ber- |not, Fricke and Humphrey, win | |two games out of three by 378- | | 295, 375-303, 351-381 scores. | | A doubleheader featuring Star | {Cafe and Six Contractors, White | |Star Cleaners and Cheely Lum- | ber Company is scheduled for to- | jnight, bringing on the floor in| fone evening four teams, all close {rivals. jOCC. i __ 304 113 @-A2 11 4 0|VPs3 Tuns. C.C.C.’s secured 11 safe- ties for 12 markers. Tigers shoved over six runs in the third frame on just two hits. / In the sixth they scoréd five runs on three safeties. i Barrs, with three out of four; Campbell and Fralish, with two out of four, were the leaders at, bat. For the winners, J. Pent, one for one; Ogden, Thompson and/ M. Rosam, one out of two, led with the stick. -C, Rosam and Alonso for the Tigets and Fralish and Hamilton far the Conchs were outstanding im the field Score*by innings: RHE; Tigers’ i. 106 205 1-15. 7 6 Malgrat and J. Walker} C. Ros- am; Harris, Fralish, Barfield and Pardo. In the nightcap, Key West Conchs and Blue Sox battled 10 innings to a tie. The game was! called on account of the time ruling. Sox scored two in the first on three hits, and the Conchs ac- counted for three in the third on! a trio of safeties. In their half of the third, the Sox knotted the count and scored their last two runs in the fourth | on two walks and a single. In the sixth, the Conchs tied the score when a walk, two er- rors and a single by Albury sent home two runners. From the sixth on, only two Conchs reached first base, and from the fifth on just four Sox got as far as the initial bag. Albio Acevedo and ~ Molina} poled two safeties—one—of Mo- line’s hits being good for a double. | the only extra-base blow of the game. In the field; Molina, Caraballo! and Gates for the Sox and A. Thompson, Aritas and J. Men- endez for the Conchs were the RHE. Conchs_ 003 002 0000—5 7 5. Sox 201 200 000 0—5 8 6 Thompson and Menendez; Ward and G. Garcia. | Standings of the clubs: Club— W.L. Pet.; Sawyer’s Barber Shop 625 Park Tigers 625 375 -250 -250 -125. PIPLLLLLLELLEZLELLLLLLBALLALLLLEALL ALLL LLL AL a Key West Conchs : = U. S. Marines Games scheduled for Thursday night: Park Tigers vs. Key West Conchs; Sawyer’s Barber Shop vs. VP53. Friday night’s games’ U. S.; Marines vs. Park Tigers; VP53 vs. Key West Conchs. [EAGUE STANDINGS mr woaoao PO FILLLLLLLLLL LAE Clevelgn BEELER a? _W EBebaES: CPL LLL LL Le Cd. Chicago at New York. Cleveland at Washington, two | games. | St. Louis at Boston. Detroit at Philadelphia. 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