The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 2, 1940, Page 3

FRIDAY, AUGUST 2, 1940 YESTERDAY: After Lenore finds him, Derek resigns from his job, feeling sure she won't be able to trace him to the Merriners, Jan suggests that he practice the piano until he gets another job. Chapter 26 Blow-Up ‘WICE now Derek had met Le- nore at the Club, talked with her a few moments at the en- trance, yet refused, uncondition- ally, to go inside with her. If he’d known that both Rose and Johnny saw him on both occa- sions, he would probably have told Jan about it himself. As it was, he thought it unnecessary to say anything to anyone. Frankly, he was worried. Be- cause if Lenore did find out where he lived, and with whom, she would undoubtedly make trouble. She was not taking his abandonment of her lightly. She was employing every means she w to win him back, to in- ue his interest once more. He | j ot tool enough to think it possible, either, even though usted and disliked her. If worried him, she was also healing the hurt in him, making him heart-whole, for she had lost the power to shake his emotions. Yet, Lenore was shrew. and clever as well as beautiful and charming. In short, to insure his integrity, he wanted to put dis- tance, plenty of it, between him- self and her, but he did not want to leave the Merriners. He was caught, almost literally, “between the devil and the deep blue sea.” Rose, coming into the house to change clothes on this first glori- ous day of June,.met Jan on the stairway and remarked care- . “Better watch Derek, rling. He’s having heart trouble with a gorgeous blonde!” Jan stopped. “What do you mean?” “T’ve seen him a couple of times talking ardently to a girl at the Surf Club. I don’t know who she is. I'll try to find out, if you want to know?” “I don’t want to know. It’s his business, isn’t it?” She went on downstairs, her spirits leaden. Not, she assured herself, because of Derek and a girl, but because her prized sketches of Neptune had been returned this afternoon with a not too unsympathetically worded rejection slip. She went out and sat on the porch with her small, round chin cupped in her hands. Until the return of the sketches she hadn’t quite realized how much she’d counted on selling them. And| now— She felt suddenly weary of try- ing to manage everybody and everything around her. Resent- ment, long supposed, began slow- ly to rise rebellious in her small body. Why should she have to carry the whole load alone? Dinner that night seemed ill- omened. She burned her fingers painfully taking a pan of rolls from the oven; Lance remarked that Norma must be glad school was nearly over and she, taking it that he would be glad to be rid of her, jumped up from the table and fled in tears to her room, leaving her dinner untouched. Jan, washing the dishes, was aggravated beyond all control when Derek rushed into the kitchen with her sketches which she had left on a hall table. ‘Spineless Failure’ Spa marvelous, Jan!” he exclaimed. “Keep this up and you'll be famous. I knew you ed_crossly. “Earn a neat rejection slip?” “Poof! One rejection means nothing, puss. You might get six rejections and still sell them for a coo] thousand. I tell you they’re good. I know what I’m talking about. You really have something here.” “If you think they’re so mar- velous, take them!” She pulled her burning, smarting fingers out of the dishwater and turned on him with gusty, violent temper. “You know a lot, don’t you? You know, too much for people like me. I'm sick of listening to your advice. Why should I listen to you? Who are you? You won't tell. You’re ashamed. You won't do anything for yourself or for anybody else. You won’t work and you won’t try to make any- thing out of yourself or your life. You were right. I should have left you in the ocean that day—you aren’t even good salvage! You're worthless, shiftless and complete- ly irresponsible! You're entrench- ed in your tight little castle built of wounded ego and self-pity. You shirk your duty to yourself and to society. You don’t belong here, Derek somebody or other!” His face was as white and angry as hers. “What possible difference does it make to you what I am?” he demanded. “What do you care? What does it matter to you?” Her eyes blazed like night fires through rain. “Because I tried to TIDE wonder, took its place. He said, loudly: “Well, I'll be damned! So that's what she thinks of me!” With the hypnotic intentness of a man in the grip of a grim de- termination, he strode in to the piano, his proud head lifted, his eyes brilliant with emotional re- birth. His fingers sought keys and a glorious, rushing flood of music filled the old house from cellar to rooftop. He played on and on with the hunger of a man break- ing fast. It was as if a torrentiat sea of music deluged the house and its inmates, drowning out the pettiness of everyday troubles, breaking the bonds of little slave worries, sundering the chains of everything mundane. laying bare the inner spirit of all existence with the sheer, awful magnifi- cence of sound. He stopped playing as sudden- ly as he had begun. “It has come back to me,” he whispered in a tone of prayer. “At last P've found my soul!” Still in a trance, not even see- jing the white-faced huddled fig- jure at the top of the stairs. Derek ed up the bundle of sketches | and went out in the night. | Air Mail Letter yan woke late, sat up and peered from her window. The sky was overcast, gray, depressing. No |sound disturbed the quiet of the jhouse. The tin alarm clock an- nounced the hour to be eight- forty. Either she’d forgotten to set the alarm, or it hadn’t wakened her, she thought. At all events, Norma must have prepared her own breakfast. Queer that Derek hadn’t knocked on her door be- fore now with a demand for food. Suddenly she remembered their quarrel, and its aftermath. Remembered she hadn’t heard him come in last night even though she’d lain awake hours, miserable and wretched and re- morseful, repenting the horrid scene. She shouldn’t have lost her temper and flared out at him like that. And she had been wrong. He had repudiated her accusation of failure by leosing a flood of vital, living tone. He had told her with his fingers of his recovery. of his gift reborn. He had been a conqueror playing his own tri- umphal march! ‘Tl find him and apologize, with trimmings,” she promised herself. She jumped out of bed. looking about twelve years old in her pink, flowered pajamas and tumbled curls. Neptune lifted his head to stare at her curiously, decided breakfast was not too imminent, and burrowed his nose }once more under the plume cur- tain of his tail, keeping one eye open, however. His mistress certainly appeared upset about something this morn- ing, he observed in his sphinx- like fashion. She seemed to be having a difficult time deciding what to put on. Much as he loved her he thought her verv foolish and feminine of late. Arising used to be a matter of jumping into those blue pants of hers, giving her hair a lick and a promise. dousing her face with cold water and hurrying to cook breakfast. He sighed an inaudible cat sigh. Recently life had become increas- ingly difficult painted and fussed with her hair. and sometimes changed clothes two or three times before she was satisfied. “Neppy.” she said, tickling the furry white patch under his chin. “stop glaring at me like that. vou fickle animal. This is the first | time in weeks you've deigned to |sleep on my bed. Didn’t Derek allow vou on the roof last night?” On the wav downstairs. sedate- ly accompanied by the cat. Jan rehearsed her sveech of anology. | Going hesitantly into the kitchen |she found it empty. everything j neatly in vlace as she'd left it the |nicht before. Norma must have taken her breakfast in a cafe Mavbe Derek was waiting on the roof for her call to breakfast. But he was not or the roof and examination of the tent owed his bed had not been slept in. Distressed. more worried than she would admit. she began the routine duties of another day. hoping he would turn up before lone. He didn’t. Not until the afternoon mail brought an air mail letter post- marked San Francisco did she realize, with raw sick terror, what had havvened. For the letter was from Derek. - “Dear young mariner: You've done your penance, so I’m re- moving the albatross from round your neck. I’m en route to New York by plane, ready to storm the citadels. If I can do it you'll hear from me again, but not un- til 've abandoned my tight little castle of self-pity. I took your sketches for good luck. Thanks for everything, puss. Derek, the Salvaged.” She read the bold, scrawling letter over and over until they blurred. Derek—gone! There wasn’t time for even a good cry. Lance rang for service and then there was marketing to an help you, because I had faith injdo and dinner to prepare and you, because I hate spineless fail-| dishes to wash. When it appeared ures!” she declared and ran past|She would at last find a moment him up the stairs to her room|alone, Johnny and Rose sought and slammed the door. her out with disturbed and an- The anger died out of Derek’s| noyed faces. face. Consternation. amazement. To be continued. THEY'RE CONNOISSEURS (DIDN'T LIKE SAPP AS NAME (By Associated Press) | DENVER. — John Browning BOULDER, Colo.—Thieves who} Sapp of this city was granted per- have broken into the same liquor | mission in court to change his store three times are discriminat- name. ing. The proprietor reported 2 The oldest licensed car in Mis- thaticneh time they stole arly | irk ig owned by W, E. Bradley. one brand of whiskey and mo-' 1; is 96 years old and Bradley lested no other brands. It was boasts that it “still is running the costliest kind in the store- . fine.” THE KEY WEST CfTIZEN TIGERS GAIN FULL CONTROL OF . AMERICAN LEAGUE LEADERSHIP LEAGUE STANDINGS AMERICAN LEAGUE (Major League Baseball] Club— . ke Detroit Cleveland Chicago New York Washington St. Louis Philadelphia NATIONAL LEAGUE (Major League Baseball) Club— W. Cincinnati Brooklyn New York Chicago St. Louis Pittsburgh Philadelphia Boston ‘SOFTBALL SCHEDULE — (Bayview Park Field) — N) % Schoolboy Rowe Limited Yanks To Seven Hits; Tribe Lost To Bosox Pet. (Special to The Citizen) NEW YORK, Aug. 2.—Detroit Tigers took over full possession of first place in the junior cir- cuit yesterday with a whacking victory over the New York Yan- kees, while the Cleveland Indians were dropping a 5 to 2 contest to the Boston Red Sox. Schoolboy Rowe was the hero of the day for the Tigers. His seven-hit performance against the champions and_ stick work that produced a triple and a dou- ble to add to the Tigers’ high score kept the Yanks behind all the time. New Yorkers were seven runs in the rear when they managed to get two runners across the plate in the fourth in- ning. Final score was 11 to 2. Red Sox had an easy time of it with the Indians, the latter practically throwing the game to the Bostonians with an _ assort- ment of wild and weird errors. Sox pounded hurlers Mel Harder and Johnny Allen for ten hits, one a home run by the irrepres- sible Jimmy Foxx, his 22nd of the season. Chicago White Sox moved up into first division for the fist) aS time this vear with their 5 to 4-'U, §. WEATHER eleven inning ,victory over the Philadelphia Athletics, who were BUREAU REPORT relegated to last position with the a loss. Victory came for the Chi- sox when Nelson Potter walked in the final run with the bases loaded. Starting pitcher Edgar Smith was felled by a line drive off Bob Johnson’s bat in the third inning and was forced to retire from the game. Clint Brown got Precipitation credit for the victory. Rainfall, 24 hours ending Washington Senators and St.! 7.39 p. m., inches Louis Browns were not sched-'mot3) rainfall since Aug. 1, uled : inches Brooklyn Dodgers had things pycess since Aug. 1, inches all to themselves in the National ota) rainfall since Jan. h League yesterday in a double-| inches barrel affair with the Pittsburgh ! neticiency since January 1, Pirates. The Dodgers took both! “inches eer ends of the doubleheader to, wing Direction and Velocity move up to within six and a half W—4 miles per hour games of the leading Cincinnati Relative Humidity Redlegs. 16% Whitlow Wyatt took charge of} Barometer at 7:30 a. m. today the opener, dishing out a meager igea Jevel, 30.01 (1016.3 millibars) seven hits to the Bucs, the while renee aca inemee his teammates helped along with! sunrise 5:56 a. 12 safeties, in the 8 to 3 victory. Sunset 7:10 p. The second fracas was another yoonrise 5:40 a. jstory. Pittsburgh tried hard but yoonset 7:00 p. gave un in late stages of the game New moon, 3rd 3:09 p. as the Dodgers scored the win- Tomorrow's Tides ning run of the 8 to 7 score in} (Naval Base) {the seventh inning. 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