The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 17, 1940, Page 3

SATURDAY, AUGUST 17, 15.49 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN By ~* VIRGINIA HANSON. A VICIOUS KILLER WALKS A MID-WESTERN ARMY POST AND LOVE IN THIS THRILLING SERIAL OF MYSTERY Chapter One Morning Ride QUAIL, followed by a} brood of little ones, seurried across the bridle path ahead}. of us and disap- peared in a thicket of scrub oak. Adam’s black mare danced and tossed her graceful head, jingling her bit in a purely fem- inine flutter. Birds were begin- ning to call brightly back and forth anent the state of the Au- gust morning. We were early enough to spy on a dew-spangled world that was like a late reveler, caught out by daylight In an hour's time the landscape would have changed into green gingham, and the air that was now cool and carbonated would have gone warm and flat. I ced sideways at Adam, his long loose-jointed figure at ease in the saddle as nowhere i skin as fresh .varnished perfec- tion of his khaki breeches and shirt, and reflected with a certain inner amusement that almost anything can be-fun when you do it with someone you like. I shifted slightly in the saddle and he turned with a grin. “Stiff?” “No. Just flattened. Like when the butcher brings the side of his} cleaver down on a piece of ten- derloin.” “You'll toughen. This is only the third day.” I groaned. “I haven’t used these muscles since I gave up putting my foot in my mouth. n't you think I ought to sort of, well, rest | up for a few days?” “Worst thing in the world. Now Miss. Cornish, if you'll per-/| l you by your last @ year’s ac- quaintance, I find that for a young women you have qualities. You laugh at my jokes, you bow to my superior wisdom on occasion——” “Oh, Major Drew!” “you don’t talk all the time, and in spite of that flaming thatch you're not hard to look at. I might say more except that I don’t want you to get ideas and take the first plane to Hollywood —not at least until I get trans- ferred nearer the Coast than the shores of Lake Michigan. How- ever——” “Ah! The sugar-coatin; We approach the pill——” “However, the idea that any young woman who isn’t at home on the back of a horse should take up residence, even for two weeks, on a cavalry post of the United States Army——” “I knew it. Next thing you'll be saying that any nice girl would have known enough to go home instead of moving into Tooms at the club when the lady who invited her got an unexpect- ed chance to drive to West Point to see her son.” “Don’t be silly. You know the lady wouldn’t have taken her chance if Gare had said you were going back to Chicago. Besides, | how could you go home when you've loaned your apartment to that penniless pair of honeymoon- ers? And if Colonel and Mrs. Pennant approve your staying at the club you may be sure no one else wil], disapprove. They would have invited you there except that Jeff’s fiancée is coming.” Dizzying Moment ‘OU comfort me. Then it’s| only my preference for forms of locomotion other than _the| equine that you decry. Well, Dob- bin and I will try to re that. slong all rignt for ould see ig melts. We're. getting the moment. If you c your way clear to walk the five miles out and back——” “Only the first and last miles,” - SOFTBALL SCHEDULE (Bayview Park Field) MONDAY NIGHT First Game—Pepper’s ers vs. Blue Sox League). Second Game—Merchants U. S. Marines (American League). Plumb- (National vs. Adam was telling the sumac bush to come out of there and drop whatever it had in he said firmly, but his dazzling blue eyes, between their brush of short white lashes, were friendly and approving. “What a man of principle! I've always thought,” I added pens that people who rise with the sun are a little touched in the head.” “That's because you belong to the international order of Sour- puss-before-Breakfast.” “How do you know that?” I de- manded. “You have no secrets from me,” he said darkly. “Right now your stomach feels like an old tin can that's been run over by a ten-ten truck. You’re miles up on the highest horse and the hardest saddle ever devised by man, or| nature, the muscles of your thighs | have ague and toothache. But in| Ss comforts you can’t keep the cor-| ners of your mouth down.” spite of these sundry slight dis- Our eyes caught fet a dizzying moment; then the mare, true to her sex, chose that moment to discover a scrap of paper a stone’s throw away and bolt for her life down the bridle path. They had disappeared around a curve be- fore old Dobbin the roan awoke to our situation and started in pursuit at an unalarmed, lumber- ing trot. This was the crisis I had been dreading. I sawed at the reins, knowing in advance that it was no use. Dobin was a gregarious brute. He intended to rejoin his companion; and whether or not I cared to come along was a matter of complete indifference to him. But not to me. The instinct of self-preservation is as old as life itself. It speaks well for the power of mind over mere matter that I was able during those crucial seconds to recall a féw of Adam’s patient directions and, in clumsy despera- tion, to put the theory into prac- tice; for suddenly everything clicked and we swept trium- phantly around the curve. Adam had checked the mare and‘was waiting. I called to him jubilantly as we passed. “Look, Adam! He’s trotting and my teeth aren’t falling out or anything. 'm posting!” “Good work!” he said heartily. And, being a man of principle, had to add, “Watch your elbows.” | the Tt was at this moment that Dob- NEW SERIAL STORY START (Centinued from Page One) old music, and plays for relaxation. When she working on a book she sometimes writes from breakfast until mid- ten thousand Sne iikes to read nig! ht, turning out words a day. the piano is its hands. } bin the roan, normally a placid animal, lost sight of the fact that {he was responsible for a dumb female who didn’t know how to ride, and gave way to nerves. If you've ever had a horse shy | with you when you were posting j to the trot you know that it can jbe unsettling both mentally and physically. I had a little trouble deciding which was the proper side on which informally to dis- mount, and while I was hesitat- ing Adam rode up beside me and | offered his arm in courtly fashion, and I was not backward about ac- cepting it. It was a good arm and its steel muscles did not relax un- | til Dobbin and I had reached a better understahding and decided to rest # bit after our juggling act. “What a time to start truckin’,” | 1 commented bitterly and, if it jmust be admitted, with some shortness of breath. I might have said more—I had every intention of saying more—but Adam’s atti- tude silenced me. He was looking away from me toward the bush from which the roan had shied. |Toan’s checkrein. Plump, Little Man 0 OBE down,” he said in a low, imperative voice. “On the ground—stay behind your horse.” He was a one for changing his mind. A minute ago he had gone to some trouble to keep me on that horse. But when I tried to point out the inconsistency he cut me short, “Quickly!” he ordered: There was enough of the lash of authority in the last word to send me tobogganing down the steep side of the roan. But as the ground stung my feet I turned and stared across the saddle, ’s big service automatic was no longer in its holster. It was pointing at the sumae bush, and he was telling the sumac bush to come out of there and to. er whatever it had in its hands. He was telling it that he would count five; and he was beginning to count. ;. 1 counted also, under my | breath, because I knew when he | got to five something was going to happen and I wanted to be pre- Dobbin the roan was being very patient and weil behaved for moment, which was a very geod thing, for I had to stand ‘BRITISH ARE $ (Continued from Page One) And suddenly his hand was on the} FIGHTING MAD bi ingi Perilous. oe —_ ee wgpeecies ly wire, I found the guard wearing =a % — ae were snub-nosed XbAaki battle dregs and helmets in }elose to him because of another bush that was p g against | my back. As soon as I thougnt of that bush I got a littie uneasy, | and at the count of three I looked jover my shoulder and investi- | gated it; but it seemed to be only ja bush. So I edged back into it a little, because if the big roan had shied once, without any apparent reason, what would he do when that gun went off? But at the count of four Adam’s | bush began to come to life. Its leaves and branches were agi- tated as if by a stiff breeze, a voice made sounds of protest and a face rose into view. A face which normally must have been like that of a sober baby. A round, pink and white face with a snub nose and serious eyes. A face that was having rather a time trying to express, all in one tableau, terror, despair and an- guished refusal. “Out,” said Adam crisply. “And drop what you’re holding.” The solemn eyes dwelt on the barrel of the automatic. A groan | escaped the tortured mouth. “Five,” said Adam, and a fren= zied form leaped clear of the su-- mac bush. No—not quite clear. It bore with it shrubbery; a great sheaf of branches hugged to. ite midsection like a playfully; mod- est Pan. He was a plump little man; His pink and white skin, which Pop mally would have done credit to any schoolgirl, looked as if he had | tolled in a brier patch. The source |of his distress was plain to see He wore no clothes. Adam was still telling him to drop what he had in his hands.,I looked my surprise. I had never | expected Adam of lacking tact. “Drop that stuff, you fool,” he was saying. a5 The little man’s color bright- | ened, if that were possible. Sweat {beaded his brow. He hugged tighter the armful of branches. “Sir, 'm the new chaplain,” he stammered. “I arrived late last, night. I beg of you—FH explain everything.” Adam said, “I’m trying to help you. If you knew what’s good for you you'll drop that armful. of foliage. It’s rhus diversiloba, Poison oak to you.” To be continued fashioned horse troughs at stra- tegic points. At Buckingham Palace, reach- ed after negotiating a formidable barrier of sandbags and barbed place of picturesque red jackets auxiliary fire engines. To serve these engines, in case mains break in a raid, are large oblong and black bearskins. ‘If ‘E'd Been There’ It took little plumbing to dis- the mystery stories of other au- thors, and occasionally takes in a mystery movie. Ambitions?_Well, she wouldn't mind helping Hollywood film a ‘mystery story. je thinks ‘the moyie neoguls_usually kid all the mystery out of their thrillers try- ing to be funny. She thinks it Possible to stress both mystery and humor, providing double- barreled entertainment. That—as a matter of fact—is what she has neatly accomplish- ed in “Casual Slaughters”, throw- ing in a haunting love interest for good measure. |_ A series of hold-ups startles Fort Michigan but the serious- ness. of the situation is not fully realized until a charred body is found in a burning car. Colenel Pennant, the commanding officcr, THURSDAY NIGHT First Game—CCC NavSta (American League). Second Game—Pepper’g Piiimb- ers vs. Sawyer’s Barbers’ (Na- tional League). vs. FRIDAY NIGHT First Game—Sawyer’s Barbers vs. Blue Sox (National League). Second Game—Merghants vs. U.S.S. Noa (American League). ! (Note: Due to Key West Conchs leaving for games in Ft. Lauder- dale and Tampa, the schedule in the American League has been revised. Merchant-Marine game has been brought up frem Aug- ust 30. On that date the Conchs will meet the Marines.) tanks of water. installed like old cern the new spirit im the air. Winston Churchill, vindicated vestigation amd when death after years of abuse from con- strikes again Adam,is forced to Servative politicians who accused ~g0 to NewYork never dreaming him of exying wolf ie totems that he is leaving Kay at the OCS oy A SE inp bat shop mercy of the murderer. street four years ago, this’d nev- a third murder takes place im er ‘ave ‘appened”. Kay’s room she doesn’t know Daily air attacks on various where to turn because she feels sectors, an enormous imerease in that she has made herself um- the income tax and general cost popular with her only friends for of living. food rationing, the se- refusing to conceal i ion. vere blackouts—so black the bob- Then, to her horror, she discovers INDIANS BOOST LEAD TO THREE GAMES; FELLER HANGS UP NO. 21 « * ' Tigers tot To Nat: ANOTHER TIE Reds Captured Twin Bill (Special to The Citizen) i NEW YORK, Aug. 17.—Beb Feller remains the leading pitch- er of the major leagues. He rung! up his 21st victory of the season yesterday against the lowly St. Louis Browns, 8 to 3, and ex- tended the Tribe's lead to three games over the Detroit Tigers, who were losing to the Chicago White Sox. Feller got off to a bad start, allowing the Browns two runs in the first two in- nings, but he settled down after that episode and limited them to a lone marker the rest of the way. Radcliff poled four singles off Bob's slants. White Sox put a halt to the Tigers’ hot-pace and did it in a i NIGHT GAMES NEW YORK. Aug. 17.— Hal Schumacher’s eight-hit Performance set the pace for the New York Gisnfs’ win ‘PLUMBERS SCORED 11-2 big way. Holding the Detroit- men to one run in eight frames, the Chisox, with an eighth-inning rally that netted nine runs, piled up a 12-1 lead. Pitcher Rigney |< to four hits, whiffing 11 bat- then eased up and the second- Place American League team shoved over three markers in the ninth. Kuhel pounded a four- bagger for the victors. Jimmy Foxx’ two home runs paced the Boston Red Sox in their triumph over the Washing- ton Senators. The circuit blows brought his lifetime total to 495, one ahead of Lou Gehrig. Nats’ two runs and. Sox’ one in the ninth knotted the count. Foxx poled his second round-tripper in the tenth to give his team the victory. Cincinnati Reds stepped out of the doldrums with a bang yes- terday, annexing both ends of a twin bill with the Chicago Cubs. The double victory sent them six and one-half games in front of the Brooklyn Dodgers, who bowed to the Boston Bees. Red- legs amassed 13 safeties in each game and handed Big Bill Lee his“ 14th ‘defeat of the season in the afterpiece. Whitey Moore shutout the Bruins for seven in- nings in the opener. Two determined teams met yesterday in a doubleheader. They were the St. Louis Car- dinals and Pittsburgh Pirates. When the games ended it was found the honers were evenly divided. Bucs took the opener, 6 to 5, and the Redbirds cap- tured the nightcap, 9 to 5. Car- dinals advanced over the Cubs \ five - hit oOOIIOIITS EVENTS BOW z F if | i i f rel GAME PLAYED Last NG PLUMBERS WALLOPED SOX. IN NIGHTCAP Hs i j F i | | | : i i 1H F I Hl i r e For the second night this week, softball teams have piayed tie opening games of seheduled twin bills. Monday evening, Pepper's Plumbers and Sawyer’s Barbers engaged in a 4-4 knotted affair, and last night at Bayview Park the Key West Conchs staged a five-run seventh inning to tie NavSta, 9 to 9, and remain that way in an extra frame before the time-limit halted the fracas. Naval Station players piled up a 9 to 4 lead going into the sev- enth inning. Previously, they had scored two runs in each the) first and fourth and a trio of last two markers in their half of the seventh. Castro and Early, opposing moundsmen, each turned in a performance. Early struck out seven and walked six, while Castro whiffed five and gave eight free tickets to first. Leaders in the field were: Ar- nold, A. and G. Lastres and Aritas of the Conchs; Allshouse, Gibson, Lopez and Cates of the NavSta. Score by innings: i i : i i [t weet bebe 6% | ‘Chicago Washington St. Louis Philadelphia ue R NavSta _._. 200 230 20—9 Conchs 130 000 50—9 Castro and Allshouse; Early and Menendez. HE 5 2 5 3 Pittsburgh St. Louis Chicago Boston Philadelphia VICTORY IN NIGHTCAP Pepper's Plumbers over- whelmed the Blue Sox in the afterpiece, 11 to 2. Griffin continued his hitting streak, walking once and poling a triple on his next appearance at the plate. Barcelo smacked a homer and Higgs a triple in the heavy scoring of the Plumbers. Clarence Gates Jimited the wnenesees seuceeser LEE L LLG i i Club— Pepper's Plumbers Sawyer’s Barbers Blue Sox bar er | oun p bh ters. Plumbers were able to garner only seven safeties off the hurling of M. Arias but were aided by that many errors. Ogden’s double led the hitting of the losers. Score by innings: peeseez Plumbers __ 012 134 0—11 Sox — . 000 110 6— 2 C. Gates and - Ingraham; Arias and Goss. New York at Philadelphia. Washington at Boston. Chicago at Detroit. St. Louis at Cleveland. “NATIONAL LEAGUE Philadelphia at New York. Pitstburgh at Chicago. Cincinnati at St. Louis. Beston-Brooklyn, not schedul-|Excess since Aug. 1, inches ed. \Total rainfall since Jan. 1, 3 inches - 7 iain A religious society at Brad- Deficiency since January 1, ford, Eng. adopted resolutions inches ‘i am # declaring lingerie displays on Wind Direction end VWeteuiey wax models in local stores to be SE—2 miles per hour B% Heintzelman and Davis, Fernan- Barometer at 7:30 a. m. iedey des; Warneke and Owen. Sea level, 30.01 (10163 millibarg) and are now perched in fifth-; place. Two triples by Slaughter,! one’ by Orengo and a double by At Brook: Boston Mize paved the way fer the) Cards‘ over overwhelming after- Piece win. At St. Louis Pittsburgh __ St. Louis hi { it ut it ! | t | | 41