The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 13, 1940, Page 3

SATURDAY JULY 13, 1940 HIGH TIDE YESTERDAY: After securing « job for Derek on 2 fishing barge Jan returns home to find Derek playing the piano with masterly technique but no feeling. Angrily he tells her that a woman has fin- ished his career as a concert pi- @nist and composer. Chapter Nine More Than Consolation AN—” said Johnny. “What?” “Jan, don’t be sore at me. ['m sorry. Gee, you’re a sweet kid and pretty, too, with those big, blue eyes. You'd be a knockout if—oh, hang it all, Jan, I’m getting crazy about you. I guess it took that guy being around here to wake me up. Pjust sort of took you for granted —like a sister, or something. You like me a lot, don’t you, Jan?” “As a sister.” She slipped away from him. “And you don’t need to flatter me just because I’m a creditor!” For several minutes after the kitchen door swung to, Johnny Benton remained in the same spot, his bland face creased with @ process of complicated think- ing. Jan had become extremely desirable to him all of a sudden. He come her virtues roe cae on.a figurative rosary; her figure, small, firmly curved, lovely; her features, not classical, but very good. She was smart, clever, quick. Her carelessness of appear- ance came from living here at the beach and having the bug to be a painter in her silly, curly head. She’d forget her paint brushes quick enough if she fell in love! Johnny had always fancied a rich | wife; that is, until he took the job atthe Surf Club. There he’d had a chance to observe rich wives who, like puppeteers, directed their | Poor marionette nusbands with} purse strings. “Not for me,” he’d decided. “I want a band of my own, money of my own, and a wife of my own.” Still, Johnny loved see a with portant peop! ie became fa- mous like Benny Goodman or Eddie Duchin he would be impor- tant, too. He could change Jan into a polished, sophisticated dar- ling who would be the envy of his friends and acquaintances. He had plenty of confidence in him- self until someone like Derek said: “Scat!” Out in the kitchen Jan, un- aware that she had been chosen to be the future Mrs. Benton, delved into cupboards with anx- ious hands, emerging triun.phant- ly with fruit, eggs, bacon ani pees flour. Not very much ter she took up a plate of steam- ing hotcakes stripped with bacon to Lance. Leaving him, she knocked on Derek’s Soor, think- ing he might have come in, prob- ably hungry. There was no an- swer. While she fed herself she mulled over the few things she did know about Derek, deciding that at least right now, she had better bu her pity and sym- pathy for him, her foolish hurt about the woman he had loved to literal desperation. He needed more than consolation. He needed to get a new and different per- spective on things. He needed to work and earn money and pay his way; to-realize he wasn’t the amd person to fail; to see courage and reality at first hand. Rather a large order and she might be all wrong about him—but try she would! ‘Work Is A Nuisance’ T= next morning she put on her new armor of brisk friend- liness and at nine o’clock marched her man out to Captain Tupple’s | office. | “This is Derek White, Captain | Tupple,” she said, looking very small and brown and determined beside the tall, amused man at her side. “You know, the man you agreed to hire.” Cap grunted. “Looks middling | strong,” he said. “Be here at my | office Saturday morning, White | Early.” Jan saw Derek about to speak | and she didn’t like the twist of his lips. Before he could say a word she grabbed hold of his arm and pulled him out on the pier. | “Just what were you about to/| say?” she demanded suspiciously | His eyes, wide and guileless, met hers. “Nothing. I was Boing to ask if ten o'clock would do. never did like to up earlier than that. Early rising is a virtu- ous verity only to job slaves.” “You'll be up at seven and here at eight,” she ordered. “And if I oversleep?” he de- murred. “Oh, Derek, don’t joke about please. I'm just not in the mood. I—I just can’t feed you, if don’t help out with ex- see. Sorry.” He reached for | hand and tucked it through | “Tve! . Lats of it. Too Lever did have. My its seemed think Unlimited money would make up to me for their neglect, their tabloid divorces and re- marriages, for t> desire to fe, get thewd ever had a child to- gether!” “Why,” he demanded sudden- ly, “didn’t your mother come back to you? Why did she choose to stay with your father? Yes, 1 Tead the log book.” “The remainder of the story was never written,” Jan said so- berly. “She didn’t stay with him: At the last moment she left him to return to Lance and me—but her lifeboat was lost. The other survivors told us. What made you ask?” “Just wondering if there is real- ly such a-thing as ‘mother love’.” “Of course there is. The women who seem exceptions are usually women who, by temperament. were never intended‘ to be moth- ers. If you bothered to study the subject, you'd find just as many exceptions in the animal world.” She wanted to ask him of his own mother, his childhood, but she could not ask, remembering: “Wo- men and their hateful curiosity!’ They walked in silence along the beach front, the climbing sun warm on their faces. Still un- speaking, Derek started out over the sand, taking her along with him. Pausing at the uneven mark left by high tide he drew her down beside him on the deep warm sand. “Work is a nuisance,” he mused out loud. “It keeps people from me everything interesting in e “Such as?” “Baking in a. sun like this. Dreaming. Greediness for mone: causes every trouble in the world. if I may repeat a trite truth. Most of the world endures labor and struggle and poverty so that: the Temainder have riches!” Two Mothers “CoreNt you do better on a soapbox?” she asked. “Is the prospect of working so terrible. or am I the bloated plutocrat who will loll in luxury from the sweat of your brow? Most people find work a necessity to peace of mind and_body.” “They are obliged to,” he said with strange vehemence. “They scurry and hurry and worry to make money and if. by the time they amass some, they aren't dead, they’re too entrenched in the habit of work to enjoy idling Therefore work seems pleasant to them; idling unpleasant.” A grin broke through the cloud on his face. “Don’t worry, I'll take the job. I bet I'll make a swell fisher man!” “If you don’t start baiting old Cap Tupple instead of the fish! “On my honor.” She stirred uneasily, disturbed by his closeness, his young vehe- mence. “I’ve a lot to do at home,” she excused, springing up. “Stay here if you like.” “T like,” he agreed, his teeth shining white against his tan skin Leaving him she trudged off pausing at the edge of the side walk to empty the sand out of her sandals, to look back at him. He lay prone on the beach. his arm< crossed behind his glittering rec head, his long length relaxed as : basking animal. Again she won dered why he had asked that abou: her mother. Ellen Merriner. Jan could remember so much, almos: too much. She had been sixteen when Peter decided this next would be hfs last trip before re- tiring. Ellen would go with him on this final voyage. Ellen, stil! pretty, still adoring her husband after thirty married years, had been so happy to think that at last she would wrest her husband fror her rival, the sea. Peter’s wife had been a quie: little school teacher. She had beer | swept off her feet by big, hand some Peter Merriner. then a sec ond mate on an ocean liner. Her temperament, thankfully. did no permit too much restless unhapp» ness while she waited long weeks for a ship to dock. Lance and Jan had helped, too, although Ellen laughed to Peter, they were much more his children than hers. They were noisy adventurous young sters with headstrong wills of thei: own. Ellen, trying to understand them, not able to, just loved. It was she who patiently taught them appreciation of poetry, of music of art and literature. Some day, Jan thought, maybe [ll tell Derek more about my mother. Derek, lazily sunning, was think ing of his mother, sc brittle, so gay ever striving to be young, to be beautiful, to forget her grown son He could not, even now, remem. ber her without bitterness. The last he'd heard she was the Coun- tess Von Lurwitz. Her third, o: was it fourth, marriage? He hac seen her two years ago. He had nat liked her. For years she had used him asa eee to get more money from his father. But at fifteen, an imereptionstie and lonely age, he hadn't known he was a pawn and he had been pleased and happ; when she took him from Eton to pene at ae summet fy son,” she Say to peo- ple. “A little boy, really, in spite of that gangly awkward length o: - his. I was a child when he arrived!” Te be continued, Teday. gives considerable ver- Satility, and an inquiring mind that will lead to success. There is some lack of perseverance and an undue tendency to worry which, if, unchecked, wil some- times prevent the attainment of MEN ARE SO PRACTICAL (By Associated Press) ZURICH, July 13—Gentlemen may prefer blondes, but they in marry girls with jobs—in Zu- Fich. Statistics show that out of each 100. brides in 1939. only 16 were unemployed. the desires, and even. a due suc- cess in life. |USS. LEA SWAMPS NAVSTA| INDIANS WON NIGHT GAME. 1 TO 0; CUBS. SHUTOUT BEES, 2 TO: 0: PHILLIES:DE- PEATED BUCS, 6 TO 3 (Special to The Citizen) i NEW YORK. July 13.—Rob> Feller added game number four- | teen to his string of victories for | the season last night when he pitched a marvelous one-hit vic- tory for the Cleveland Indians, enabling his team. to take the Philadelphia Athleties- into camp, 1 to 0. The victory, however, as the score indicates, was a hard one, as Bob was matched up. with the, A’s leading hurler, rookie Johnny Babich, who gave up only six hits and pitched masterful ball IN, NIGHTCAP AT BAY- VIEW PARK A. very good game of softball was played last night at Bayview | Park. between the Pepper's! Plumbers. and the Sawyer’s Bar-' bers. Both pitehers were in rare form. Castro, who started for the’ Barbers, had one bad inning. A triple by Barcelo and a. homer by Higgs gave the Plumbers two runs. ins the second frame— enough to win the ball game. In the third inning they added their last run ona bunt. by. Jackie Carbonell.and a-deuble by Mc- Carthy. Johnny Walker went to the mound in.the fourth canto and from. then an the Plumbers were held scoreless and hitless. Clarenee Gates. went the route for the Pepper ten. He held the Sawyers to four hits and struck out six. in the pinches to hold down the Indians. The victory moved Cleveland out in front of the American League procession a full-game ahead of the Detroit Tigers. Three other scheduled games in the junior circuit were rained out yesterday—St. Louis Browns at New York; Chicago White Sox at Boston and Detroit Tigers at Washington. Barbers scored their lone tally in the sixth on a dou- ble by Walker, who stole third and_seored on an infield out. In the field, Kerr and. Navarro | |for the losers and J. Carbonell, | Cates and C. Gates for the vic-| tors were. the stars. Leaders at. bat, were: Carbonell, | who hit-safely twice; Barcelo, one safety, and Higgs and. McCarthy, alse one apiece. In the National League, the Johnny Walker, who hit safe- Philadelphia Phillies defeated ly in his only appearance at the the Pittsburgh Pirates, 6 to 3.) plate, and Hopkins, M. Tynes and Art Mahan’s brilliant: stick work |p, Sterling, one hit each, were provided the winning margin. 'the leaders with the stick for the His hit with the bases loaded in jogsers the fifth inning brought home Score by innings: RHE three runs and broke a one-all Sawyers _ 000 0010—1 4 2 tie existing up to that point. piymbers _ 021 000-x— 3 5 1 Both teams got two runs in the’ yw, Castro, J. Walker and Hop- ninth inning. kins; C. Gates. and Ingraham. Chicago Cubs were hard put to | eral it to win over the Boston Bees yesterday, but Verne Olsen turn- ed the trick with a five-hit per- formance while his teammates knocked out six hits against Bill Posedel for a 2 to 0 victory. Brooklyn-Cincinnati game was postponed on account of rain and New York and St. Louis had no game scheduled. Results of the games follow: NATIONAL LEAGUE: Nighf Game At Pittsburgh Philadelphia 612 3 Pittsburgh — eee | Mulcahy and Atwood; Bow- man, Lanning, Bauers, Lana- han and Lopez. LEAS SHOW REVERSAL OF FORM: WON; 18 TO 5 Showing a complete reversal of form over the previous night ‘when they went through 14 scoreless innings. and secured just two hits and. suffered the humiliation of having a no-hit, ino-run game being recorded against them, the members of the U.S.S. Lea ten last night in the nightcap swamped the newly-or- ganized NavSta team, 18 to 5. NavSta boys scored first, three Tuns in the initial frame, and held the lead until the second; jinning when the Leas shoved lover five runs. From then on the defense of the naval station ten went to pieces and the Leas 1 | Kept piling up a huge lead. REE. At Chicago R. HE. Boston ae ; Chicago - = the stars for the losers on the Posede] and Berres; Olsen and ‘fieig, and Jones, Reese and Sul: Hartnett. 22 livan performed outstandingly | for the winners. Klink, of the Leas, poled a home run and a single in three R.H.E. trips to the plate. Three other Cleveland 1 6 0 teammates; Williams, Fricke and Philadelphia 0 1 3 Maloney, also. secured. two hits| Feller and Hemsley; Babich, apiece. Curry blasted a double Caster and Hayes. for the NavSta. On the bases; Maloney and ——— | Reese stole two each. 3 SOFTBALL SCHEDULE _ Klink held the losers to five hits and struck out six. _(Bruvinw: Peck: Se —_ by innings: RHE a. . 054 031 5—18 12 3 MONDAY NIGHT NavSta __ 300 001 1— 5 5 9 First Game—Merchants vs. Key Klink. and Jones, Tow; L. Cas- West Conchs. tra and Allshouse. Second Game—Sawyer’s Bar- bers vs. Blue Sox. j Encampment Noi wr tae | LEAGUE SEANDINGS | The 265th Regimental Band, AMERICAN LEAGUE Night Game At Philadelphia junder the leadership of Warrant Officer Caesar La Monaca, was{ AMERICAN LEAGUE heard in concert at the Marine! (Major League Baseball) hospital at 10 o’clock this morn-! Club— WwW. L Pet ing. Cleveland - ~47 29 618 —— |Detroit __ Mrs. E. E. 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