The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 20, 1940, Page 3

THURSDAY, JUNE 20 By Jean YESTERDAY: Brenda learns that Linda left because Hugh ad- vised Linda’s fugitive brother to give himself up for theft. Brenda appeals to Miss Ormond to help get Linda back. Judge Harper comes to Brenda with a strange letter he has received. Chapter 24 Silly Mess EAD it,” the Judge command- ed. Brenda took the letter. “So my dear, I’ll no longer pre- tend with you. I've known your secret for months, I may say for years. My heart’s beloved, free yourself of the shackles of conven- tionality, and come to me. Let the| dead past bury its dead (after all, lover, your wife has been absent from your side for many years), and turn the page and make a new start, I know, you see; I’ve known all along; ever since I was a little} girl. There! Doesn’t that clear the Path for you, dearest of dears? “Maud.” Brenda’s hand with the letter in it fell helplessly at her side. The confusion of métaphors, the ab- surd.taking for granted what wished to believe was emine characteristic of Maud VanN but never would the younger girl | z have believed the prim old maid | would summon courage enough to write the Judge as she had done. A fearful wave of apprehension began to chill her. Maud had said it had been Brenda’s attitude to- | ward life which had broken down | her reserves. Was she henceforth to be held responsible for all that went on in The Street? She tried frantically to remember the sub- stance of her conversation with Maud the day she had lunched with her; but it had been such an |i she | h unpleasant experience that had quickly forgotten it. “Well?” asked the Judge ily. “What am I to do Brenda? How am I to a’ You see, she says you advi: her ——” “I didn’t! I'm perfectly sure I didn’t!” “At any rate,” he con rebukingly but more up impartially the acts for th jury, “I’ve lived on this Street with Maud for nearly half a cen- tury, and never a word did I hear out of her on such a subject until you came here!” “Oh, Judge Harper!” she cried | forlornly. | “I'm not blaming you, child. I know that in New York, and e: pecially with your ge neration, solemnity and deep respec which we older folk have h nued, not | summing | “ | day. Ab’ — one word that would encourage her to write a letter like that!” “No, of course you didn’t en- courage her,” he answered her. | “Back up, Brenda, and I'll prove you didn’t. Remember the g after you'd talked to ? When you and I took a drive ‘together 2 nd rowed a little more fiercely than usual? I've no doubt the fight put all previous conversation out of your mind, but it happens that I remember it clearly. I asked you if Maud had told you about the Judge, and you said she had, and you called her a poor foolish woman; and I said you were a swell sport to let her Tave about her delusions to you— or words to that effect. Remem- ber?” “Oh, Mac, You said you di be a writer beca ested in people—’ “And then you had to spoil it all by declaring you were going to further the match between d Ned Barrow, and we I'm beginning to! think I might I was inter- e was sufficiently cheered to r own endearing chuckle, e did, indeed! I believe we icy silence for something x miles afterward. Buy, . "ll admit I was right— out Ned? They’re having a sim- 'y heavenly time out at the farm at greenhouse. Ned calls |for them every morning and they takea Junch and stay all day. You will admit you were wrong?” He took his pipe from his mouth and or little Brenda! You've got vful shock ed in cacti and lost all interest st in marrying . He’s bought about a Sometimes he gets up in iddle of th ight and drives just to be e the tempera- | ture is right. ” Not Really In Love —how do you know?” telling me yester- tickled pink, of course. He keeps his twin and he gains a gree! se besides—to say noth- ing of those iry, spiky things and Ned go into raptures about. “You see, my dear, Ned wasn’t really in love with Alaine. ! said all along. He was lonely, and he had this genuine interest in fourth, still do hold—love and marriage | sert himself in’ the twins’ part- have gone by the board.” } Now he has, and he’s ‘There were tears in her eyes, but | happy. So's Ab.” she held her head a trifle higher. |_| “B-but Alaine?” she stammered, “I beg your pardon, Judge, but | the full import“of her wrecked you're mistaken—so far as some| Plans dawning upon her. Had she of us are concerned: so far as I|moved heaven and earth to bring am concerned. I respect love and|Alaine and Ned together, merely marriage just as much as anyone | to break poor Alaine’s heart in the can do. And—and I don’t think it’s | en fair to hold me responsible for a| letter sent you by—by a “woman | who told me herself that she— she-——” She stopped abruptly, ashamed to bettray poor Maud. The call, she thought afterward. | went from bad to ‘worse. The Judge was gentle with her, was considerate, but it was perfect evident he was convinced in his own mind that the daughter of his | old friend had been acting upon the advice—general or specific as the case might be—of this | young writer from New York who had had a good deal to say ab ing frankly and realist life’s problems. Brenda did her best to discla any part in the affair but difficult to exonerate he: “And he’s wise, he’s kr sorts of people, their moti doing all sorts of thing: mused in surprise. Absorbed In Cacti gue put the question to Mac that night despairingly. da been the last Pp to know about it: ie went sorrowfully away fore noon with not a grain of that sophisticated advice on his} fies that he had come for, she ad planned frantica’ Mac from hearing of the silly mess. But it was one ofthe rare eve- | nings when they happened to be alone for a few minutes in the|? living room. Isobel had gone out} with Eric—dressed in her smartest gown and wearing make-up deli- Cately applied by Brenda’s own expert hand. Adelaide was to re- | turn from Springfield sometime on | the following day. Mac sat smoking in his favorite | leather chair; and suddenly he} looked so dependable, so strong, 80 thoroughly understanding, that the girl found herself pouring the whole sorry story into his ears. | “T’ve gone over what she said to me—what I said to her—that day at Isncheon five hundred times," she finished feverishly ae it Simply oiakt zemember! lly to keep|~ aine’s happy, too,” he com- forted her. “The twins, what with no one else living with them and ically no separate interests, each other’s have Ned to n on, Ned to and other- floral ambi- 4 consequently. is well.” with new w did you know n’t really in love eyes on he was refilling, tobacco down with his pipe tamping alternate he sai id in a small voice e ce fall broken = the d of rain on the panes. windows up?” he in- “Td better go see. And not be down, Brenda. I've got of work to do before I go to Mac! You haven't told to do about that letter? t the Judge? About—about He stood in the doorway, frown- ing with concentration. “Do nothing,” he said_finally. ee ially about Maud. Pll drop hint to the Judge. Now”—he put up a hand to stop her protest t's not a betrayal of Maud’s idence to you. Gosh, girl. de think you're the only ‘con- temporary’ Maud has confided int She’s told me that yarn about the | Judge having adored her since her childhood more times than I car count. You leave the whole thing to ” he reassured her. “Mac, I am grateful! I wish ! knew how to—to return the co suprisingly: “Trot out those dimples for a minute, to through my lonely Continuea tomerrow LEAGUE STANDINGS AMERICAN ao Club— W. Boston 31 Detroit 32 Cleveland 34 New York 27 St. Louis 25 Chicago 25 Philadelphia 20. 33 Washington 21 36 NATIONAL LEAGUE Club— W.: Ls Cincinnati 35 18 Brooklyn 33. «17 New York 31 18 Pet. i 8 20 22 26 30 30 615 607 509 -450 450 377. 368 Pet. 660 660 633 | ‘St. Louis _. 633 Philadelphia GAMES TODAY AMERICAN LEAGUE New York at Chicago. Boston at St. Louis. Washington at Cleveland. Philadelphia at Detroit. NATIONAL LEAGUE Cincinnati at- Philadelphia. Chicago at New York. Pittsburgh at_Boston. (Only games scheduled.) 29 21 18 17 17 27 30 30 30 31 Chicago Pittsburgh Boston NEAR TOP PLAGE WHITE SOX TAKE 1 TO 0 THRILLER FROM. YANKEES: ST. LOUIS BROWNS DEFEAT BOSTON RED SOX (Special to The Citizen) NEW YORK, June 20.—Detroit Tigers thumped the. Philadelphia Macks twice yesterday and as a result crept up to within less than a game behind the Beston Red Sox, who dropped a game to the St. Louis Browns. Buck Newson hurled his eighth consecutive victory of the season NIGHT. GAME NEW YORK, June 20— Brooklyn Dodgers pulled out of their slump yesterday hy defeating the St, Louis Car- dinals, 8 to 3 in a night game played at Brooklyn. - . Whitlow Wyatt was. the winning pitcher, giving up nine hits. Cardinals commit- ted seven cosily errors. os in the opener against the Athle- though the Tigers had to inning to ties, wait until the tenth push across the winning run. Score was 5 to 4, In the night- cap, Schoolboy Rowe pitched ef- fectively in the pinches and the Tigers won 9 to 4. THE KEY WEST CITIZEN. BOWLING SCORES, ‘The Aronovitz bowling team this time was. determined to do LEGALS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE an JUDICIAL CIRCUIT STATE OF FLORIDA, ix AND FOR MONROE COUNTY. IN CHANCERY. A. PARRISH, Complainant, SUIT TO QUIET TITLE. WILLIAM PATTON, et al Defendants. ORDER OF PUBLICATION It appearing by the sworn bill of complaint filed in the above stated cause that the complainant therein does not know and has not been able to a ain after « diligent search and inquiry whether the de- fendants, William Patton and Patton, his wife, married, M. C. Mordecai and Mordecai, “his wife, if married, Edward H. Crain, and —— ¢ his wife, zied, believed by the complainant to be interested in the property on which the complainant. seeks to quiet the title to in said bill and which is herei fully described, or if dead t interested therein, ar: and dead his, w known; married, Known Broadway And it furthe diligent search and inquity that the defendants, Joe Thorn Jackson and cksom, his wife; if mar- ried, are non-residents of thé Staté of Florida and their*placé of resi- dence as is particularly known to complainant is 1011, North.Grande Avenue, defendan Janie non-resident of the ida, and her plac icularly kr after Fannie H. non-residents ida and their pla jis particularly Chicago White Sox contributed j 45, to the champion New York Yan- kees’ fourth consecutive loss yes- terday, when they defeated the ; Yanks in a thrilling 1 to 0 con- test. Sox bunched four hits in the! eighth inning for their one run which may have been more than that if a fast double play hadn't stopped them. Thornton Lee was the winning pitcher, giving up seven hits. St. Louis Browns defeated the league-leading Boston Red Sox, 6 defendants twenty-one years no person in the the service of a cery upon whom defendants. And it further diligent search and inquiry for their names that the complainant verily believes that there are other persons other than the na and appearing after to 4. The Browns came from be- | fe hind in accomplishing the win, overtaking a four-run lead with two-run rallies in each of. the fifth and eighth innings. Walter Judnich aided the el with a home run and a single with the bases loaded. it Cleveland Indians kept in the |} narrowing American League top- position race by defeating the Washington Senators yesterday. Johnny Allen was in top form,! allowing the Nats eight hits. Score was 4 to 1. Hal Trosky hit his 15th homer of the season in this game. Pittsburgh Pirates turned loose! on the Boston Reds yesterday and traded positions with that team in the standings, moving up to sixth place by virtue of their 5 to 1 triumph. Joe Bowman scattered the Bees’ hits well, while Dick Errickson was charged 1 of complaint and fter described IS THEREFORE ORDERED that the defendants, William Pat- ton and Patton, his. wife, if married, if alive and if dead, their unknown heirs, devi legatees or grantees, M. C. cai and ‘Mordecai, his wi married, | alive and if dead unknown | devisees, legatees or gran- jward H. Crain and wife, if married, if alive devisees, Thorn Jackson his wife, if. m: olmes, a widow, and Fainie H. Alan M. Cohen and Elizabeth Cohen, his wife, and all unknown persons having or claiming an in- terest in the property and one or__ less. with his first defeat of the sea- a son. Results of the games follow: AMERICAN LEAGUE First Game At Detroit Philadelphia Detroit (Ten Innings) ' Potter and Hayes; Newsom and : Sullivan. At Detroit. Philadelphia Detroit Caster and Wagner; Benton and Tebbetts. At Chicago New York Chicago Russo and Rosar; Tresh. At St. Louis R. HE Boston eS S St. Louis — 61: 1) Hash, Heving and Desautels, Peacock; R. Harris, Lawson and Swift. At Cleveland Washington Cleveland - Haynes, Chase, Krakauskas | and Early; Allen and Hemsley. NATIONAL LEAGUE “At Boston R. HE, Pittsburgh Boston = 1 Bowman and Lopez: Errickson and Berres, Masi. Night. Gan Game At Brooklyn St. Louis R HE 181 490 9, 2 Salvo, Oyen Padgett: ‘Wyatt and Phelps. | Today's Irish Joke, “Tis a hard worrld”, said Tim-/ othy, as he quit his task for the’ day. | “It is that!” said Michael, “and/ I think T put me or before Monday July, A. D. 1940, legations of $ FURTHER ORDERED that rder be publi I week forfour consecut The Key West paper Fi NE AND ORDERED tae 3 A. D. 1949. Sa.) Ross C Sawyer Clerk of the Circuit @Qert. AYMOND R. 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