The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 5, 1940, Page 4

PAGE FOUR ome Staughters eee By VIRGINIA HANSON YESTERDAY: To Kay's dis- may, Adam acts queerly after kissing her. Then Julia and Kay catch Sandra and Ivan in an em- brace but prevent Jeff from see- ing. The party has soured for all of them. Chapter 16 Death Warrant DROVE to the club. Jeff War in very soon with an air of being quite alone, but with the chaplain at Mis heels, an invitation to joi went upstairs. Chaplain Henry lingered, softening his own re- fusal, making manful attempts to Prove himself a good fellow in Spite of his cloth, and finally tak- ing his departure with ill-con- cealed relief. I think it was Gerald who sug- | ested another swim. The lake reeze had died and the night turned sultry. Julia greeted the idea with enthusiasm but turned thumbs down on beach. “The barge or else,” she said darkly. “The barge it is,” agree Gerald. Adam stood in the lounge look-| ing detached, aloof, and said that he believed he would turn in. “Keys are in the car,” he said. | “You might put it in the garage when you get beck.” In vain Julia protested that she | needed him for respectability, for a chaperon. Father was tired of tending the children and was not backward about showing it. A compromise was finally reached by which I was to act as chaperon, and the three of us set off once more in Adam’s car, with Gerald driving. | “Should we stop by your house for Sandra and Ivan?” he asked innocently. “In a pig’s eye,” said Julia ele- gantly. “That dizzy puir!” She fell silent, evidently brood- Fre moon was low behind a bank of clouds that promised rain before morning. “Drive up the beach a way, Julia suggested. “I don’t like that barge in the dark. It's—sort of ghostly.” Gerald agreeably parked a hun- dred yards up the road from the barge, but we could still see it, a dark bulk against the sand, secret and forbidding. I waited until they were in the water, before swimming out to them. The beach, as far as I could see in either dir m, Was com- pletely deserted. It was fun. Julia and Gerald played like seals, diving, rising, slapping tt like flippers. We w veiled by the half-darkne we heard a car and saw lig! proaching from the directi the post. It stopped on the far when Ss ap- side of the barge and a car door| slammed “Into the water,” “until we see who it is' It was poor but we fol- lowed it. We kept close together in the water, watching for an ap- cme shape along the sand. mut there was none. “Someone on the barge,” Julia said presently, and we all saw something move slowly against the gray sky. Whether man or woman, the si vague to be’ Not that we thought of that n. I think we all believed it to be a man be- cause of the loneliness, even the ghostlin of the scene. And af- id Julia, hen we had discussed | ve were no longer sure g, we realized that there ave been more than one person, though there had been only one door slam and no sound of voices. Whoever the person or_per- sons, whatever the errand, it was soon done. Perhaps ten minutes after the arrival of the car. we heard the door slammed shut and the prolonged, patient whine of the starter. ‘Where’s Ivan?” THINK we were all afraid that whoever it was would not get away, when finally the motor coughed, started and turned, Ia- boring in the sand. “Forgot to turn on his ignition, guessed Gerald, but later Julia confided to me that it was Mimi's might car. “It's hard to start—you alway. have to choke it.” “But what in the world woul she be doing out here?” ere does she go on thes long evening drives of hers?” Julia countered. Although she was to deny it, that conversation took place. It was not the sort of thing I would be likely to imagine. On the way back in the car announced, rather plaintively that she had vacated her room for Ivan, and would have to bunk with Sandra. “There are only four bedrooms in that big house, and Mimi and Dan each have one. Dan snores, or_something.” I asked her to stay with me, of ted wi the officers’ | z. ie water with hands/| resting on the sand, ion of! jouette was too! “He’s net at home. Sandra called up about ten minutes ago —she thought he was over here.” y, it must be you—I'm sure T'm not feminine enough to make him run out on “andra. How did he get away from ‘er? Climb out a window?” “He didn’t get avy from her. He didn’t come home «vith her. It seems to be one of thos. foo] mis- understandings, We th-ught he | was with them, they thought he | was with us.” | i Fas goody!” said Julia. “H got left” | __ “Then where is he?” demanc--d | Gerald practically. “He wasn’t c the beach just now or he would have seen our car lights and joined us.” | . “That was a break,” commented j Julia. | “He must have tried to walk home.” Adam sounded worried. “I suppose he’s lost out there | somewhere.” Julia burst into song. Through the dark of night I got to go where you are; If it’s wrong or right, I got to go where you are. Ain’t no chains can bind you, if you live I'll find you .. - “Shut up,” said Gerald kindly, nd climb in the rumble seat. nat you need is a little ride in the night air to cool your beauti- ful head.” Adam said, “The girls better go | in and go to bed. This may take | some time. Probably have to turn | out a detail of men.” | __ “Bed?” asked Julia indignantly. | “With the night but a pup? Don’t | be an old granay.” i Supine Form WAS getting to know every rut in that road. We did not stop at the barge this time, but drove on for a mile or two through territory I had never ex- plored, stopping from time to time to honk the horn and listen for an answering call. “In case he got turned around and started walking the wrong | way,” Adam remarked. | But except for the purring of >,|the motor and the chirring of cicadas in the thick undergrowth | beside the road, there was no sound. “Perhaps we'd better go back to the barge,” Gerald suggested. | “Maybe he had a date there,” I |said, fired with the idea. “That | would explain why he kept quiet {and stayed away from us.” And then I remembered about Mimi’s car and could have bitten my tongue out. | “By Jove—the person who came to the barge!” agreed Gerald en- thusiastically, and told Adam bout it. “But whoever it was, he didn’t stay long,” I added, stressing the pronoun. Julia was not saying anything. “Maybe they went away to- gether,” Adam suggested. “I don’t think so,” said Gerald. Neither did I, but we could give no reason except the ob’ that there were no voic And so we went back, after all, to the barge, Adam lighting our way with his flashlight and, single file, climbed the crude ladder and walked the narrow deck. And in black, deep hold the light of the flash found, not the mirrored | moon, but the supine form of the one who had been Ivan, with a scum of black water across his face. According to the fiction I read, |the French have an_ infallible method of solving a crime. They follow the ntial clue. It sounds very simple. The only part I can’t understand is how they can dis- ti in the confusion of clues that attend murder, the essential from the nonessential. Once that important distinction is made, it seems to me that the puzzle is as good as solved. For instance, it is easy to look back now and see that Sandra and Ivan between them practical- ty signed his death warrant that night. But how could anyone not | gifted with second sight have de- duced that from the events which took place? Even Sandra, at that time, must have had no suspicion t she was playing with dyna- e. It is less easy to see why was not warned by Ivan’s ath. But there was her obses- ion and her essential stupidity. Stupidity may be too strong a word. She was clever about get- ing what she wanted, about win- ig people. As she seemed to ave won Colonel Pennant and imi; as she must have won Jeff's nother and father. Julia had told me with some bitterness, only a few days before, that Colonel Tack had made Sandra benefi- of his ten-thousand-dollar urance policy. t’s about all most army of- ficers leave,” she explained. “He owned besides a house in Mem- _ y mortgaged, and the farm in the Ozarks. He left those to Jeff, who can’t find anyone who wants to buy either one. And Sandra didn’t need the money— she had ten thousand from her own father that she got control of when she was eighteen. Oh, I know she couldn't live in luxury on the income of ten thousand. but it would have kept her until she got a job or a husband.” “Good husbands come high,” 1 told her. “Twenty. gets you better jthan ten.” eae I was sorry the instant I said it, | but I needn't have been, for she Tl call up from the club. Adam was pacing the lighted club veranda. He saw us and hur- ried down the walk before Ger- ald could put the car away. “Where's Ivan?” he asked. peer- ing into the car as if he expected to find him 3 “At home in bed, I t: told him. “Why sire for his como: ust,” Julia dden de- seemed a little comforted. i “Td rather think he’s marrying her for her money,” she confessed, an because he’s in love with h Only—I know it isn’t the money. Jeff isn’t that sort.” I remembered that conversa- tion later, when the questi inheritance assumed grave im- Portance. To be continued SUBSCRIBE FOR THE CITIZEN—20c WEEKLY. harvested 88,803,000 acres of THE KEY WEST CITIZEN cussed and Half a million British subjects ve on Trinidad island. Se | SECOND SHEETS | 500 Sheets i for 50c MANILA, 8'2xli | Wt SOCIETY -:-: eve Entertained At |Mrs. Frank Sabini John Marzyck, Jr., entertained Mrs. Frank Sabini, of the Club | a group of his friends last night La Conga, returned to Key West with a Scavenger Hunt. from a vacation spent in Vedada, given a list of articles to bring) M Sabini was accompanied The group returning first’ by her sister-in-law;,Mrs. Alfredo the list complete was’ Zuilez, wifeef@tae director and prize was given to the. group “Vanidad popular Cuban bringing in the funniest artcile. magazine: Aiter refreshments were served y searchers on a cart ride. Those St. Paul’s Women wio made up the party were: Foula Higgs, Mervin Thomp- rick, Catherine Connor, Tom: Fans for the coming winter Gato, Russell Baker, Victoria “€Te made at the meeting of the Arnold, Jack Sawyer, Amando Woman ary of St. Paul's Le May Cole, Rosalind Albury, ©" the cloister of the church. Ernest Avila, Bert Cates. The study group, which was Ramon Gonzago, Mary Belle discontinued during the summer, lers, Rayford Roberts, Eugene September 11th, at 8:00 p. m., in Sa r, Della May Curry, Mar- the Parish Hall. garet - Russell, John Marzyck, Ce BONDS CANCELLED | jawyer-Pinder (Continued from Page One) | Engagement Announced ter, city. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Sawyer,' Tax collector Frank H. Ladd of this city, announce the engage- |Teported total collections during Cleora, to John Everett Pinder, | these accounts: son of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Pinder General revenue, $399.29; Fines of Miami. and Forfeitures, $146.92: Out-! the near future. Special Advertising, $146.92;' Road Fund, $293.84; General School, $489.74 and School Dis- WHEN | WAS YOUNG Clerk of the Criminal Court re ae reported fines and costs collected _ totalling $151.64 and sheriff K.| Consult Teachers First ©. Thompson reported collections as . Other matters di acted upon included: Acknowledgement of a_ letter By SARA WINSLOW district at Charleston stating that AP Feature Service Writer there was little likelihood that Probably you’ve done every- Key West would be designated as thing you can think of to help;@ Separate district headquarters. ' school. L. Olivieri for surgical treatment You've fixed up a quiet study tO overcome cataract of both corner for him, with a good desk, €¥€S- fortable chair. from 40 and 8 voiture number; Now, with a new school year 92, of Miami, in which the, sub- | starting, you hope once again iect of ownership of the Veteran's at he'll make use of these fix- Memorial property at Islamorada oF you are like many parents, Mended that the county school | though, you fear the worst. It board retain title to that prop- won't surprise you a bit to find €Tty- girl when he’s supposed to be Charles O. Andrews advised the studying. county board that they would do You'll find he takes the same @ll possible in connection with amazing length of time to settle that group's resolution to have pose you've set 7:30 as the hour @rmy airport. ! for him to start his homework. ee At the proper hour, he goes to. Tides occur twice in every 24} he starts a great show of activi- He sharpens pencils, fills hi ntain pen, thumbs through h: notebook. Perhaps he straight- aaecsaae inal TRY IT TODAY— It looks like schoolwork, but The Favorite in Key West if you ask, “Did you figure out T ‘AR BRAND worrying you?” he answers, § y “Haven't got to that yet. I'm get- ting this other stuff cleared up first”. ON SALE AT ALL GROCERS into problem parent lecture No. it: “When I was in school.f didn’t get away with the loafing you privilege to go to school. My par- ents didn't have to keep at me to make me study. ! “I used to hurry to get my work. I milked the cow and brought in wood after supper,/ and then studied. I_ think the trouble is you youngsters now- Scavenger Party Returns From Cuba At 7:30 o’clock each group was Cuba. ded the first prize. A second editor of “Carteles”, “Social” and Mr. Marzyck took the weary Plan New Season son, Edward Strunk, Paul Her- Canalejo, “ Robert McClintock, Church, held yesterday afternoon Archer, Betty Myers, Wilma Cel- to be resumed on Wednesday, Mrs. Ralph Pinder and Mr. and CQUNTY ADVISED Sylvester and Glenn H. Sylves-' ment of their daughter, Mary |August of $2,534.50, divided into The wedding wlil take place in Standing Indebtedness, $587.69; trict, $470.10. . of $26.72 for August. a RS from headquarters of the naval your teen-age child do well at _ Contribution of $100 to Horatio! a proper reading lamp, a com- Acknowledgement of letters s and turn into a real scholar. ¥ brought up. it being recom- your boy writing a letter to some’ Senators Claude Pepper and wn to actual studying. Sup- Congress purchase land for an his desk, a docile student. Then ours and 52 minutes. ens out his desk drawer. that algebra problem that was CUBAN COFFEE | It’s enough to make you lapse do. Why, I thought it was a chores done just so I could get to s don't have enough work to What you need is more re- sponsibility”. By this time, of course, your boy isn’t listening. He’s heard it all before. Can't Alter Conditions Parents might as well realize that the “when I was young” lec- ture does no good. They can’t change modern conditions to agree with those which existed when they were in school, nor would they want to. If a child is unable to study, it isn’t because he hasn't any cows to milk. There’s some better rea- son for his trouble. The parent should consult with the boy's teachers — without the boy's knowledge, of course—and find out if possible why the boy dis- likes school work. Together, par- ents and teachers may be able to find a solution to the probl- The Citizen Bldg. lem. ——————_ PHONE 51 In 1939 United States farmers Ook kk hkheddkeddd BE HELD TOMORROW H fFUCCUMBED AT TAMPA NIGHT | HOME LAST WEEK i An organization meeting aim-} TAMPA, Sept. 5—(FNS) Al- ing at the formation of a Home | ber? S. Thornton, executive sec- Guard unite for ~Key West is retary of the Florida Fair and scheduled t¢ beg icld’ tomorrow Gasparilla Carnival Association, night at 8:00 o'clock in the coun-'died at his home ‘here last week ‘¢ ty courthouse. }from a heart attack. On Tuesday night, an initial! « He = — ee ae P . ness, Civic an social a! urs Ol smu cater a oe Ri the state and was a former presi- F. Spottswood, major in the'dent of the Tampa Chamber of army reserves, assembled at the Commerce, an active Rotarian courthouse to lay plans for such and a 33rd Degree Scottish Rite 2 unit. Attending were Harold Mason. 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