The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 31, 1940, Page 3

WEDNESDAY, JULY 31, 1: HIGH TIDE _ DEMROM TICS LATE cemeeyErances Hanna YESTERDAY: While out with Jan, Derek sees Lenore Page but escapes from her. That same night, Lance has a bad fall try- ing to walk. He tells Norma he bates her. Chapter 24 Recognition ‘ (AN led Norma to her room while Derek undressed Lance, examined him for injuries, found nothing but a few slight bruises, ee settled him into the deep, soft Norma huddled down in a chair, staring at the flowered blue carpet with aching, hurting eyes. Her fingers twitched at her sensible gray tweed skirt, picking out lit- tle nubs of wool. “You heard him, Jan. He hates the sight of me. 'd better move my things out and et away from him. School will over in three more weeks and I can go away somewhere.” “No.” Jan was firm. “You stay here, Norma. | know Lance bet- ter than you know him. He'll be sorry, Norma. He’s ill, mentally sick, he isn’t quite responsible now. Give him time to get well and just ayoid him for awhile You love him, don’t you?” | “Yes. But he doesn’t want me.| 1 irritate him lately, get on his nerves, 'd make myself over if I could, but } don’t know how.” Jan thought. “I know how she feels. We're in the same boat, all right. I'd make myself over, too,} I want Derek so terribly.” | “Please stick it out, Norma, if] you can,” she begged. “He really} needs you, even though he doesn’t| realize it now, and I need you.| Will you stay with us?” | Norma nodded agreement, un-! happily. ‘T’'ll try to get some sleep} now.” Jan, returning to Lance, deter-| mined to speak frankly to Rose} in the morning. Ask her to stay away from Lance, perhaps ask} her to move. Derek had dimmed the lights and sunk into a low, comfortable chair beside the bed. He had propped Lance up on pillows and lighted a cigarette for him. Jan shut the door and curled up on the end of the bed. waiting, for she knew Lance must talk this thing out and if he didn’t mind having Derek hear, she must not, either. Her eyes, almost black with sor- row and sympathy and deep ten- derness, dwelt on her brother’s haggard, shadowed face. “You shouldn’t have talked to Norma like that,” she reproached very gently. “I know.” His voice, thin and feverish, ran on: “I'm a little mad, I suppose. I know, jeep down, she’s worth a dozen of Rose's kind. I'll get over this in time. I don’t expect you to understand, Jan. Rose made me come alive. Made me want to be a man again.” His voice died out; his brilliant, shifting eyes grew dull. He'd never talked to anyone, ex- cept a little to Frank, concerning his crack-up. For two years he had repressed memory until now it leaped like fire from the hidden places in his brain to his drained white lips. He had to talk. He had to tell someone. The Crash ‘HE. ship was a beauty,” he , + Said. “A commercial passenger job, twin-motored, designed for conversion to a light bombing plane in case of war. Carried six- teen people. She had a ceiling of twenty thousand and a cruising range of two hundred and fifty | miles an hour. She’d passed every ground test with flying colors, be- | haved perfectly in the wind tun- nel. I asked to take her up. I wanted to feel her come to first life with me at the stick. Test Pilots fall in love with ships, did you know that? Well, I was in love with her before she left the| ground. She was trim and proud and glamorous, Fickle, too, but I didn’t know that. A test pilot chooses his work because his na- ture craves something new all the time, something strange and un- tried and suspenseful. He knows the danger, but he doesn’t think about it. sunny, good head wind. I put her He lay back on the pillow, his eyes closed, his breathing uneven. lis two listeners sat motionless, still in the grip of tragic drama, still seeing in terrified imagina- tion the mangled ship and its mangled pilot. Derek, shaken, observed the tears on Jan’s face, saw the queer, Peaceful stillness on Lance's. THE KEY WEST CITIZEN TO OVERCOME YANKS’ 8-RUN LEAD Cincinnati Defeats Giants And Cubs Lose To Pirates “I think I can sleep now,” Lance * whispered. “Maybe once... with- out dreaming.” Jan _ raised the windows: and turned off the light and met Derek in the hallway. Neither of them said anything. At the door of her room he bent swiftly and kissed her cold cheek, turned and climbed the ladder to his tent on the rooftop. ‘Escape Medium’ A ea before noon the next day, when she returned the suit and hat to Rose, Jan said with mature firmness: “You would be doing Lance a favor. Rose, to stay away from him altogether. You've up- set him dreadfully and—” “Don't look so tragic,” Rose broke in, smiling. “He needs an escape medium. A little laughter and gayety surely czn’t harm him! Are you all in conspiracy to iso~ late him from the world? ['m sorry for him,” she said, a care- less kindness in her bright voice. There was no smile on Jan’s sober countenance. “Yesterday I might have agreed with you, Rose, at least partially, but not this morning. When we were all out of the house lust night he lift- ed himself from his chair and tried to walk. He fell, fainted. Luckily he wasn’t injured. We had a bad time with him. Rose, you can’t be so stupid as not to see he’s in love with you, or at least fancies he is. I've known it all along, but I kept thinking he | had enough judgment to control himself. But he hadn’t. You were too much for him.” Jan’s tone grew bitter and accusing. “You made him want a life he can’t have with your kisses and ca- Tesses and thoughtless favors. You made him miserable and un- happy and I want you to leave him alone. If you don’t, Pll have | to ask you to move.” | Contrition softened the other | girl’s hard eyes. “I’m sorry. Pil | undo the harm if I can, but I don’t agree with you that ignoring him will help. I’ve got to make him understand me, see how worth- less I'd be to him, even if he were well. Even if I loved him, and I don’t, I wouldn’t permit myself to be serious.” Her carefully-tend- | ed face set into harsh contours. “I |had love once, Jan. It wasn’t | enough for a woman like me. It’s | money I want, security, luxury, | the cream of life. I don’t want skimmed milk, even if it's sea- soned with love! Let me help Lance in my way, Jan. I'll let him know just how I feel and if he comes to despise me, well, all the better. Satisfied now?” “I suppose. You should know better than I,” Jan admitted, con- scious that Rose’s self-possession and sureness made her feel infi- nitely naive and gauche. She was glad to end the interview and escape to her roof sanctuary, glad | to find Neptune sitting up beside ing his face. | Neptune. upon seeing her, de- sisted his washing and stared | round-eyed and curious at her jpk toes poking out the end of er gaudy beach sandals. Oblig- ingly she wiggled her big toe and he sprang at it, claws sheathed, and pretended to bite it. Stooping }down she rolled him over and }rubbed his furry stomach. “Neppy,” she coaxed, “I'll treat you to the best can of salmon in Sea Tide if you'll pose for a por- trait in oils.” He meowed agreement, or so she took it at least. Hoping for the best, she got out her easel and | @ new canvas and started work. Derek, guiding his motored per- ambulator up and down the beach front, felt insecure, felt sure that | Lenore, having seen him last | night, would try to find him. He | had run away from her, but she was definitely not the type who | would give up without a struggle an opportunity to marry millions. | For the first day and the second | “It was a perfect day. Clear sky,| and third he was careful and berger, | Watchful, but there was no sign | the chimney industriously wash- | through her paces and she re-| of her. By the end of the week he acted like a trained jumper. I saw | dismissed the incident on the pier photographers and newsreel cam-| 2S unportentous, deciding she ei- eras snapping her when I pulled| ther had thought it no use to find her out of the power dive. She’d| him or had returned east. Passed every test but one—spin-| However, he was wrong. She ning. I took her up twelve thou-| had been searching for him but, sand feet—she was designed auto-| by @ combination of coincidental matically to come out of a spin in| Circumstances, had missed him by a turn and a half, she had had a| Minutes. Rose, a little past noon spin chute on her tail rudder, the| 0n Sunday, rode to the Surf Club Tip cord was in the cockpit—j|in Santa Monica with him, tryin, when I started her spinning down | to pierce his reticence with wo: I never felt so glorious in all my | darts which contained virulent, if life. But she didn't come out of | Cleverly hidden, sting. Before the the spin. I saw she wasn’t going | Club entrance he stopped the tram to. I pulled the rip cord and noth- | to let her off, relieved to be rid ing happened. I saw the ground | of her, when a slim girl in a white Tushing up at me. I tugged that| satin bathing suit and matching cord hard enough to break it, || beach robe came out of the grilled felt her nose lift, a scant hundred / iron gate and saw him. feet above the ground. ! knew the, Despite uniform, cap and sun chute had opened and checked the | glasses, she knew that arrogant spin, but it was too late too nose and flaming copper hair. late!” Todav’s Horoscope Taylor Branson of Washington, D. C., retired U. S. Marine Band leader, born in. Washington, 59 years ago. 2 Prof. John T. Murray, Harvard professor of English. emeritus, noted authority on Shakespeare, born in Brazil, 62 years ago. Arno B> Cammerer, director of the National Park Service, Wash- ¥ To be continued. ington, born at Arapaho, Nebr.. 57 years ago. Dr. Herbert E. Ives, noted Montclair, N. J., physicist, born in Philadelphia, 58 years ago. Dr, Emanuel Goldenweiser of ‘Washington, noted Federal Re- serve System economist, born in Russia, 57 years ago. Edwin R. Embree of Chicago. president of the Julius Rosen- wald Foundation, born at Os- ceola, Nebr., 57 years ago. (By Associated Press) NEW YORK, July 31—Detroit Tigers staged mighty seventh- and eighth-inning rallies in their game with the New York Yan- kees yesterday, netting six runs for their total of the day, but fell two runs short of the total amassed previously by the Yanks. Final score was 8 to 6. Red Ruff- ing gave up five hitis hefore he retired in face of a Tiger rally. He poled a three-run homer in the sixth. Rudy York hit two four-baggers and Pete Fox one for the Tigers. Chicago White Sox, paced by five-hit pitching by Knott and Appleton, defeated the Phifadel- phia A’s yesterday, 3 to 1. Sox made-ali of their runs in the sec- ond inning while the Athletics were held scoreless until ninth. Two other games seheduled in the American League were play- NIGHT GAMES (Special to she Citizen) NEW YORK. July 31.— Bob Feller pitched the Cleve- land Indiens into a tie for first place in the American League with a 2 to 1 victory over the Boston Red Sox last night. It was the 17th win of the season for Feller. Washington Senators shut- cut the Si. Louis Browns, 4 to 0, in the other junior cir- cuit night game. Leonard gave uv seven hits to win the contest for the Nats. In the National League, the plugging Pittsburgh Pirates took the starch out of the struggling Brooklyn Dodgers, defeating them to the tune of 8 to 2. Brooklyn slipped eight full games behind the Redlegs with the loss. ed last night between Cleveland and Boston and Washington and St. Louis. Cincinnati Reds came to life! following two-straight losses to win over the New York Giants, 6 to 3. Paul Derringer was cred- ited with the triumph, though he was removed for a pinch-hitter in an eighth-inning burst of hits | and arguments with umpires, which brought four runs in for the Reds. Philadelphia Phillies turned on the Chicago Cubs yesterday and came up with a7 to 5 win. Cubs outhit the Phillies, 16 to 11, but the latter nine made their as- sortment of bingles count when needed, with many doubles and triples thrown in for good meas- ure. St. Louis Cardinals held their position at the head of the sec- ond division and pulled up to within two full games of the Bruins with a walloping 13 to 5 veitory over the last-place Bos- ton Bees. Lon Warneke was the winning pitcher. Pittsburgh-Brooklyn game was played last night. Results of the games: NATIONAL LEAGUE At New York RHE Cincinnati 613 0 New York 3 8 0 Derringer. Beggs and Hersh- Becker; Schumacher, Melton, Brown, Lynn, Joiner Danning. At Boston St. Louis Boston Warneke and Padgett, $ Posedel, Javery and Berres, Masi. R. HE. 13 19 At Philadelphia Chicago Philadelphia 715.4 Lee, Root, Page, Passeau and Todd; Higbe, Si Johnson * and Warren. 516 0 Night Game At Brooklyn Pittsburgh Brooklyn Sewell HE 12 0 262 and Lopez; Tamulis, R. 8 the gs, and | LEAGUE STANDINGS AMERICAN LEAGUE (Major League Baseball) Club— WwW. £ Detroit 38 Cleveland 38 Boston 43 New York 43 Chicago 43 Washington, 55 St. Louis 57 Philadelphia 56 NATIONAL LEAGUE (Major League Baseball) WwW. L. Pet. 61 28 .685 54 37 593 48 39 552 49 48 505 St. Louis 42 45 483 Pittsburgh 42 46 477 dei 31 56 .356 29 5ST .337 Cincinnati Brooklyn New York Chicago NATIONAL LEAGUE (Key West Softball) p Sox AMERICAN LEAGUE (Key West Softball) Club— & West Conchs Sta S. Marines Merct ccc SOFTBALL SCHEDULE (Bayview Park Field) TOMORROW NIGHT First Game—Blue Sox vs. Pep- pers Plumbers (National League). Second Game—Marines Merchants (American League). vs. FRIDAY NIGHT First Game—NavSta vs. Key West Conchs (American League). 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