The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 8, 1940, Page 3

MONDAY, JULY 8, 1940 HIGH TIDE TAKE OVER LEAD YESTERDAY: Beyond saying his name is Derek, the impudent young man will tell nothing about himself..He informs Jan that she is résponsible for him from now on. Chapter Four Tour Of The House ANCE is cheerful!” Jan de- fended. “At least most of the time. He—he has courage.” “And I haven’t. Well, in ease no one ever told you, it -akes cour- age to die. Did you tell your brother about me?” “Not about your trying to—” “Drown-myself?” “Please don’t tell him,” she asked quickly. “Afraid it migat put ideas into his head?: That's childish psychol- ogy. So he believes I'm just a ‘poor devil who overestimated his st gud swam out too far, is that it? Let’s.see, I could be a lone orphan, just kicked off the WPA, with. no place to go.” “Lance and I are orphans,” she said shortly, “and the only things qwhich keep us off government re- lief are two roomers and Lance’s model planes.” “Sorry. I have’ a pershant for stepping on praise toes. So now, on top of all your troubles, you jhave me. Why on earth didn’t you deave me alone? Or do you go dooking ‘or trouble?” - “I hoped you'd be pirate treas- ure or ambergris,” she retorted. “T’'m going ing for some ¢heap clothes for you right now. Maybe I can find something at-the sal- ‘vage store.” As he appeared completely mystified she explained that Sea Tide had five stores overflowing with clothes, furniture, cooking utensils and odds and ends which, purportedly, were salvaged from steamships and railroads. “I doubt if it is, though,” she finished. “That's just.a colorful way to dis- pose of cheap junk.” “What, won’t I have a Bond Street cutaway?” he pleaded. “You'll be lucky to get a pair of blue jeans and a shirt! And,” she added triumphantly, “you can’t go along to interefere with my choice.” “Meaning you're too proud to be seen with a man in a pink gate False pride, I contend. ind if I postpone meeting your brother until I have something besides this padded sarong to wear? I shall try to make a good impression, seeing that I’m to be @ permanent guest here.” “Correction, please—we can’t afford guests. If you stay here, you will be obliged to work for your keep.” He sighed, lugubriously. “I hope dt will be a pleasure.” She didn’t want to say it, but the couldn’t resist. “By the ap- pearance of your hands you have small acquaintance with work of any sort.” Holding up his fingers he squinted at them ruefully, flexing the joints. “Never worked a day of my life. Hurry up with those clothes, will you?” Slipping into a short tan reefer she started out for the store, her thoughts in jumbled chaos. This ‘was definitely the most exciting thing that had ever happened to her. It would be grand to have gomeone gay and young around the house, even if he was a non- eommital potential suicide! Who ‘was it said something about the ‘unknown a:ways-being more fas- einating than the known? Millionaire Wastrel? ‘© he’d never worked! Perhaps that was exactly what ailed him. Her mouth tightened with sudden purpose. Her imagination, Yampant again, had him a mil- lionaire wastrel who had gambled away his inheritance and desired death rather than poverty or hard labor! Derek, left alone, hugged the quilt about him and began recon- moitering. He opened cupboards and peered at stacks ef flowered dishes, shining pans, and grocer- igs on neat, clean shelves. He lied baek the curtains at the hen windows and observed unprepossessing rear of a sandwich stand where old paste- board cartons and tin cans lit- tered the sand. Quietly opening the door lead- ing to the rest of the house, he entered a square dining room paneled with dark oak and fur- nished with a ship’s table and plain, spindle-legged chairs. He ‘went oh, interested now, to the living room whick took up most of the downstairs. Curtains of elose, fine net covered the win- dows, shutting out id@y curious inces of passersby. There were ished cases against the walls led with all shapes, sizes and colors of sea shells, a ship’s com- part of a wheel and a ship’s book. He took this last out and thumbed through it, found it was the log (of the Singapore Moon, a cargo ship plying be- tween the west ‘coast and tt : or- fent. The captairx was one Peter triner!:The last entry read liefly: “June 8th, 1935. les off San Pedro ling, fear bad stokm ‘wo hundred Barometer Storm sinking. I will put the crew in the two lifeboats with papers and rec- ords. There is one seat left, but my wife refuses to leave me.” “An example of true love,” Derek .muttered. “And what of the children left alone?” He re- Placed- the book, observing how stained and warped it was from salt water. So this, briefly, was the tragic story of Jan’s parents. Had it ever puzzled and hurt her, he wondered, the fact of her mother’s deserting her children for her husband? On the mantel over the stone fireplace he-saw a framed photo- graph of a trim merchant ship. “Singapore Moon” was scrawled in bold vertical letters. across the bottom. He. went on to the tall bookease, literally erammed with books, at the right-of the fire- = Stevenson, Kipling, Jack Emerson, Dickens, Bal- zac, Shelley, Byron, Milton, Shakespeare, a King James Bible —and all looked as if they had been read and re-read. “Cheerful morning,” he grum- bled and went on around the room, touching his finger-tips to the comfortable davenport, the slip-covered easy i aa rine - pat parehment lamp shades, but ignoring entirely, as if by determined effort, the most beautiful piece in the entire room: a concert grand piano of lustrous polished mahogany. Touch Of Pugnacity Fret on the stairway arrested his tour of inspection, Johnny Benton swung around the newel post at the bottom of the steps and stopped dead to atthe apparition in the pink- puilt. “What the deucel® “he -ex- claimed, his eyes’ ‘popping. “Who're you?”. “Might I inquire the same?” “I belong here,” Johnny assert- ed, a touch of pugnagity in his tone. Derek regarded Johnny’s spot- less white beach ensemble with morose eyes. “So do I belong here,” he said. “Since when?” the other man demanded, advancing into the room. “Since yesterday afternoon. Do they actually have clothes like those in these salvage stores?” he baited joyfully. His bait was ignored. “It’s darned funny Jan didn’t tell me about you. Theze’s something queer going on around here. What are you nen that quilt?” - ing to keep warm.” Disre- garding him, Derek picked up a magazine and appeared absorbed in its pictures, irritatingly at ease in his trailing quilt. “Look here, fellow,” said John- ny, reaching Derek and grabbing hold of the pink covering. “I’m looking out for Jan and I want an explanation from you!” Derek said nothing, just looked down at Johnny, measuring him. A squirming, hateful sense of in- feriority curdled Johnny’s insides and his hand dropped to his side. “Well, it all seems pretty thick,” he mumbled. “That's better,” Derek compli- mented. “Since you are the self- professed protector around here it’s only fair to inform you Miss Merriner rescued me from pelagie waters yesterday.” “Pel—what? Say, you: ” The front door opened and Jan said: _ “I see you're up, Johnny. This is my new handy man. And Derek, this is Johnny Benton, one of my roomers who plays a swing trumpet at the very ultra-ultra Surf Club in Santa Monica.” Johnny turned his eyes suspi- ciously from one to the other. He didn’t like the way things were going at all. He did not stop to rationalize his sudden bristling belligerence, but there it was. Then he spied the clothes over Jan’s arm. “What you got there, Jan?” “Some clothes for Derek.” She extended white duck trousers, white cotton polo shirt and tennis sneakers. “Do get off tirat ridicu- lous quilt and put thesr;@n,".she ordered, smiling against her bet- ter judgment at the storm brew- -~ on Johnny’s face. jerek took the articles, hoisted up his “sarong” stairway. “So,” Johnny accused, tussing with the green silk scarf at his neck, “you pulled him out of the ocean yesterday and this morning you're fee 3 him clothes and calling him by his first name! Who is he, anyhow? Where di he get off with those airs of his’ “Oh, for goodness’ sake, John- ny, calm down,” she scolded. “I know nothing about him except he had to have clothes and food.” “Well, now he’s got em you can send him on his way,” he as- serted. A flush of temper tinted her cheeks. “Did. you ever t=} really hard to mind your own business, Johnny?” He said aggrievedly, his thick lips sulky, “You don’t need to get sore. After all, Lance can't look out for you and I'm just thinking about your good. This fellow might be a thief, a dangerous ma- niac. anything. Maybe he escaped ‘rom Alcatraz!” and ran up the DODGERS DROP TWO - CON- TESTS TO .BEES: CLEVE- LAND FALLS BEFORE. CHI- SOX ATTACK 4Special to, Rhe > NEW YORK, July. lead in both. the Natio yesterday won. Brooklyn Dodgers dropped: two: games to the-Boston Bees in.giv-! ing up their position. First con- test ended_1 to 0 as Manuel Sal-j vo dished up a meager portion | of seven hits to blank the Broek-} lynites. A Dodger rally in the} last inning of the nightcap was! halted by selief -pitehez ; Dick; Coffman with only one run scor-| jing—the Bees gaining a 2to 1 de-! cision i Cincinnati Reds -moved_ into! first place in the senior loop | with a 4 to-3 victory -over the’ slipping Chicago Cubs. The win-; ning run was fereed in when-Bill) Lee walked a man with the bas-, es loaded in the eighth inning. j Detroit Tigers limited the St. ; Louis Browns to five hits ..with! Schoolboy Rowe the pitcher, yesterday, and won the game, 5 to 2, to move into first position| in the American League. The | Brownie runs resulted from two homers, one each by Walter Jud- nich and Roy Cullenbine. ; Cleveland Indians dropped to ‘second place in the: -standings with a 3 to 1 loss to the Chicago White Sox. Bob Feller was_the losing pitcher, being wild in the pinches. Sox scored the winning runs in the ninth inning. ‘ New York Yankees took the opener of a twin-bilk-from the Philadelphia Athletics yesterday, 6 to 3. then caved-in in the nightcap when Nelson Potter al- lowed them only six hits. In the latter game, the -A’s.got 12 safe blows off three Yankee pitch- ers and gained an easy victory, 10 to 5. Boston Red Sox and ‘Washing- ten Senators split their double- header yesterday. Boston won the first game, 7 to 1, Bob Grove being the winning pitcher, giv- ing up seven safeties to the-Nats. In the nighctap, the Senators opened strong against the. Besox and were never headed after a three-run first inning, taking the tussle, 7 to 4. New York Giants and Phila- delphia Phillies split .a twin-bill, the Giants taking the first.game, |6 to 4. and bowing in the night- cap, 4 to -2, .as-Si Johnson held them to eight hits the while Joe_ Marty was collecting two home runs to head the Philly attack. Pittsburgh Pirates swept the four-game series with St. Louis Cardinals yesterday by taking both ends of a doubleheader, 7 to 6 and 4 to 1. Cards opened up strong with a five-run first-in- ning in the opener, but faded when Buc rallies overwhelmed four of their moundsmen Iate in the fracas. In -the _ nightcap,; Pittsburgh opened with two runs; in the first.and second innings and pitcher Heintzelman held the Cards to five safeties. Results of the games: NATIONAL LEAGUE At Chicago R-H. Cincinnati <3 Chicago 10 Hutchings, Shoffner, Beggs and Hershberger; Passeau,. Lee, Todd and Collins, Hartnett. E 0 1! First Game At Boston Brooklyn ‘Boston é Wyatt and Mancuso, Salvo and-Berres. Phelps; Second Game At Boston Brooklyn Boston R._H.E. eee ey 2.38 Ameri- New-York can Leagues switched yesterday/Ghieago —__ as Saturday’s leaders lost games Pittsburgh and the runnersup; THE KEY WEST CITIZEN - —= - Lien a ee ’ sacks of mail, and for Havana,/New York to jone automobile and 238 sacks of discharging shi j for-Havana with 65 first-and 43) i second cabin passengers, five Bek cet eee ate ona Pe. — qutontobitel Sell get a | pee re > seh” il, all booked at this port. ‘g0g | Pg from Tampa at 6 o'clock with |), @! "569 |Our first and. four-seeond cabin s. 5. ALAMO passengers for Key West, 27 irst_and one second cabin pas-, Steamer Alamo, ef the Clyde- 499 /S@ngers for Havana. Mallory Lines is due to arrive-at “403! Arrival at Key West were:!an early hour tomorrow morn-/ "395 Eddie Callahan, Buddy Rose,| ing with 160 tons.of-freight from} é Mrs. E. Chavez, Eufemio Chavez, j Carlos Perez, Rose K. Castaneda, | H Pct. 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