The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 24, 1940, Page 3

MONDAY, JUNE 24 1940 By Jean Randall Sco cccscccccce sescoscceseresosesesecese YESTERDAY: Brenda comes to really know and love The Street as rallies around to help Adelaide. Even the re- cluses, Mrs. Wick and her daugh- ter, come out of their seventeen wear seclusion, Chapter 27 Crisis “WHO.” demanded Eric, coming in a rew minutes after they had taken their leave, “were those ‘women? I can’t believe yet that I really saw them. They look like— like——Brenda, were they people, er figments of my imagination?” “They were Mrs. Wick and her daughter Frances.” She enjoyed thelookkofstupefaction fh his face. “They came to pay a neighborly call, and to ask if aed could help us in any way. I told them they could. I asked them to go down- town and pay the bills for us.” “You-—what?” He sank into a chair asif his legs would no longer support him. “Honestly, Brenda, I ¢an’t decide whether your reck- ness.amounts to a sort of cour- age; or if.you’re’so simple you just don’t realize the terri fused?” “Ot course they did .no’ such thingy” was her composed answer. “They. took the. bills with’ them, = they would pay them—in cash.” The front door closed softly-and gave,a feeble hail. “Mac! Mac! Come’in here and listen io what Brenda's done now!” ere came a day when Dr. Stern pronounced Adelaide’s ill- ness, critical. It took.them all by surprise, The household had settled into a fairly comfortable Toutine of nursing, of: receiving | callers, of panning meals. Ade- laide’s fever: had been banished and she seemed to Brenda's inex- perienced eyes neither better nor worse, The Wicks were proving a source of unflagging interest to The Street. Staunchly had Mrs. Wick gone forth that first day in her: outmoded. clothes; but upon her return boxes of significant sizes‘and shapes began to be de- livered at her door. A genuine thrill went up and down the block when mother and daughter aj Reared' for the first time in smartest and most up-to-date of outfits, “And I don’t know what we'd do without Mrs. Wick.” Brenda con- fided to Mac. “She runs the busi- | ness end of the house as if she’d been doing it all her life.” Mac’s eyes searched her face. It | seemed to him thinner, it was cer- tainly paler, than when she had come. ‘ou must get out more, Bren- da,” he said abruptly. “With Isobel preparing for her quarterly re- citals, and Eric and me both hav- ing extra work, too much is fall- ing on you.” Making No Effort HE shook her head. “I have a lot of help! As I said, Mrs. Wick is a regular Rock of Gibraltar. She | and Frances come in every day and I simply dump the bills and | budgeting into her lap and she straightens everything out. How a woman of such force could have shut herself up for all those years I do not see.” “T think” —Mae looked thought- ful—“since I've seen her I’ve come to the conclusion that she did it to cure Frances. Giving her a huge dose of her own medicine, d’you see?” “Too big a dose, I should call it!” “But I suppose she didn’t know how long it would last when she began. You know how people drift along from day to day until some- thing wakes them up and they realize that years have passed.” “Well, she’s a comfort and a doy. at all events..I..don’t_ know ‘what I'd do without Her until Ade- laide gets well.” There seemed no question that Adelaide would get well. True, she seemed not to sleep much but as she did not complain, Dr. Stern’s attention was not called to it. In- deed, it was difficult to know whether she was asleep, or lying quietly with her eyes closed most of the time. She tried docilely to eat the dainty meals Brenda brought her, she swallowed her tonic unquestioningly. And then the oy came when a fine line appear young doctor’s thick eyebrows, and he drew Brenda intu her own room and closed the door. “Mrs, Rosttetor is not trying to get well,” he announced bluntly. “Unless she makes an effort I'm afraid she’s not going to pull through this.” “Wh-what!” Brenda whitened, for support. “Not pull through? for si lot pI ‘ough? Why, there’s nothing really wrong ‘ing things | you do! Of eourse the’ Wicks re-j between the| the matter with her now, is there? Since the fever left?” “Nothing organic. But she’s weak, and she’s making no = 3, Instead it looks to me as if trying—unconsciously, you know. —to slip away from. something. troubling her. that’s idenwhat itis?’ “. 2 Ne i Dr, lot the And, Dr. Stern, I do think you're mistaken.” A fleeting smile took the edge from this contradiction. “She’s not a worrying person — anything but! She has no near relatives to be concerned about, no_ financial cares. .. . What on earth should make her worry?” “I don’t know. What I do know is that if something isn’t done to rouse her, to make her want to get well, she’s not — going to.” He eyed her speculatively. “Who is her closest friend? I mean, in whom would she be most likely to confide?” “I — don’t know. You see I haven’t been here very long my- self. But I'll ask the others. She’s lived on The Street a long time; surely somebody will know what’s worrying her—if she is worrying.” “She’s worrying all right; or up worrying and resigned -herself. A hopeless sort of resignation, you j‘know; a sort of death-in-life it- self.” He turned toward the door. “Its up to her friends, Miss Burn- ham. I can’t do any more than I am doing.” After his departure, Brenda slipped back to the sickroom and | stood looking down at Adelaide. Now that her attention had been called to it, she realized that-since the brightness of fever had been quenched in Adelaide’s eyes, a sort of dull misery had replaced it. | The mouth drooped piteously. One | hand, strangely white and soft | now, lay lax against the neatly folded sheet. Trying Days | es wanted to stoop above her and cry urgently: “What | is it, Adelaide? ‘fell me what's the matter and I'll do my best to make it right!” But delicacy restrained her. In spite of the intimate ser- vices she had performed for her landlady in the last weeks, she was after all almost a stranger to Ade- laide. It was for her older friends to win her confidence—if it could be won. That evening she told her fellow boarders what the doctor had said. None of them had the faintest idea what the trouble could be. Not money, both Eric and Mac were sure. The house was clear and what the four young people paid or more than cared for expenses. “Tt must be so ing that hap- pened while she in Spring- field,” Isobel said confidently. “You remember she came back a changed woman from what she used to be.” “She was ill then,” Eric pro- tested. “But Dr. Stern thinks she mightn’t have been — or only slightly, at any rate—if she hadn’t had something on her mind.” Brenda rose decisively. “The thing to do is to ask the older peo- ple who live on The Street: Miss Ormond, and Judge Harper, and the rest. They're far more likely to know than we are.” They began that very evening with the Judge. Eric crossed the street to explain the situation to him, “Any luck?” asked the others | hopefully as the front door opened | to admit the young man. | “None. Judge Harper says thaf | we who are in the house with her probably know more of her than | anyone else. He says he'll be glad | to come and see her tomorrow, if | we think best, and try to get her | to tell him. It might be that being | a lawyer——” |. Brenda was firm in her refusal. | “Not till we've tried some of the | others—some of the women. We | can’t have Adelaide given a sort of | friendly third degree by every- body on Cheyer’. Let’s talk to Miss Ormond about it.” “T’ve got to be on my way,” Erie said. “So wort Isobel. Mac?” “'m afraid I must go, too,” was Mac's reluctant answer. “Can’t we let it go till tomorrow sometime, Brenda? And by the way, who’s sitting with Adelaide now?” “Maud VanNess. Do you think she——?” “Good Lord, no! Don’t mention the idea to her. She’d be scaring | up an imaginary romance for Ade- | laide ... that sort of thing.” | The next few days were trying | ones for the amateur nurses. Bren- da tactfully approached everyone who lived on The Street save the Wicks, who had retired into their self-imposed seclusion soon after | Adelaide bought the Burnham | house, and Maud VanNess. Even | Grenadine was asked if she knew | what might be worrying her mis- tress. In every case they drew a blank. MODERN BANKING: SERVICE The First National Member of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Bank of Key West Serving Key West and Monroe County Since 1891 Perhaps I'd better say she’s given: a Bowman, Doyle, Russell, La-) Swift. res, Masi. ( __ (Special to The Citizen) =|, WANTIONAL- LEAGUE NEW YORK, June 24—Cin-) Chub— cinnati Reds climbed back into € meeaneeet first place yesterday with a mel York _ ble win over the New Yorkic. rouis _ iants, 7 to 4 and 2to 0. A five| Pittsburgh Giants, z ; ss ames run rally in the ninth inning of Philadelphia 3 the first game settled the issue, | . while Gene Thompson stopped the GAMES £ Giants with four hits in the | =a———o«_*«c19»,91k:“ Washington at Chicago. Philadelphia at St: Louis. Boston at. Detroit: New York at Cleveland. NATIONAL LEAGUE Cincinnati at Boston. geueesees PIPLELELIELOMPIPLLL AOL CELL | ga nightcap. Brooklyn Dodgers slipped back into second place when they dropped the first game of their doubleheader with the Pitts-| burgh Pirates, 8 to 5. The sec-! ond game ended in the 13th in-} Se2s Precipitation 24 hours ending 7:30 a. m., inches ___ Total rainfall since June 1, inches __ RB 8 8 © MOM, Sy © wy Ca? ds IITIPIZLLL ELUNE LAL LL Ae hhh bd dd hkde ddd 5 St. Lowis at‘New* York. ning, called on account of dark- | Pi Teh at: Phi phia. ness when the score was a tie, 4-/ Spee ‘a iladel - all. —— Broo: Chicago Cubs took both ends = adelphia Phillies, winning the THE WEATHER first game 3 to 2 behind six-hit 2 pitching by rookie Mooty, and} taking the second 7 to 2 with a joa 75th Mer. Time (City Office) Louis Cardinals twice yesterday. ‘mak Hepa: Winning the first game 7 to 5 : = uel Salvo, the Bees went on to Normal - win the second game, 10 to 5, in ‘ eight innings, the game being | Rainfall, stopped at that point when Sun- Boston Red Sox snapped out of “te : 1 a@ seven-game losing streak by eee See 2 saat “s defeating the Cleveland Indians, Total: rainfall since Jan. 1, 2 to 0, in the second game of aj iithes Bosox lost the opener, 4 to 1. Jim inches poe Tabor personally took charge of| Wind Direction and Vé the score in the nighteap with SE—10 miles per hour ity ipeonea Relative Humidity champion — New York Yankees | Barometer. at 7:30 a. m. today Shnday with a 9 to 2'win as Buek |S. jevel, 30.00 (1015.9 milli Newsom equalled Bucky Walters’ Tiesckeow's Alanesiac current season record of -nin€icunyise C539 _— FeDe lowed the Yanks only four safe- Moonrise ___.11:25' p. as Moonset 10:49 a. Washington Senators won the} Tomorrow's Tides first game of a twin-bill from St. ! Gaval Baad BBBB los their twin-bill from the Phil- 12-hit attack on two Philly hurl- | Observation taken at 7:30 a. m., behind top-form pitching of Man- {Mean ae day blue laws came into effect. double-header yesterday. The ' Neticiency since January 1, Detroit Tigers knocked out the 80% straight victories. Newsom al- ee Louis Browns Sunday, 12 to 5, with five- and four-rum rallies pigh in the fourth and fifth innings, |; oy ‘respectively. Second game ended at the conclusion of the seventh! (Till 7:30 p. m., Tuesday) frame, darkness overcoming the Key West and Vicinity: Gen- contest with the Brownies in the erally fair tonight and Tuesday lead, 3 to 2. except possibly thundershowers Results of the games follow: Tuesday afternoon; gentle to NATIONAL LEAGUE moderate winds, mostly ' south- First Game east and south; little change in At New York temperature. i Cincinnati = 7 Florida: Generally fair tonight! 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