The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 7, 1940, Page 3

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7 (Creal So =————By VIRGINIA HANSON YESTERDAY: Sandra comes to Kay’s rooms for a private talk with Jeff. She wants to mar- ty him immediately. Gerald sug- gests to Kay thet a wife cannot testify against her husband. Chapter 18 Definitely Murder ANDRA’S eyes were unnafu-| rally bright and her cheeks were crimson—not, I thought, with rouge. She wasn’t just my idea of the radiant bride —she Was more feverish than radiant, more excited than happy, more determined than eager. But while I never for a moment doubted that she was getting what she d—she had the air of chieving a long-felt purpose—I could not reconcile that air with the swollen eyes and twisting hands of the girl I had admitted to my rooms only an hour before —a girl who had lost her lover} and was wracked with grief. That | Sandra was genuine. Her tortured words came vack hey made fun of him. They’re glad. They thought he wasn’t good enough——” And now all that forgotten in feverish triumph. Or was it for-| 1940 rughters ters ee need to change. I fixed my hair and my face briefly, feeling a sudden urgency, and set out along Officers’ Row at a brisk walk. There were two cars in front of the colonel’s quarters. One ‘of them was Adam’s, and at Sight of it I hesitated, wondezing if he would think I was forcing my way into matters that did not concern me. But the other car—a police car from the neighboring town— decided me. I had to see Julia. Sulky black Cora answered the doorbell and grudgingly admitted me. She would see if Miss Julia was home. She went upstairs muttering about morning callers and Sunday dinners. I waited in the hall, hearing men’s voices in- distinctly beyond a closed door and trying, with a horrible sense of guilt, not to know that some- thing was scorching in the kitchen. Cora must have gone down the | back stairs—hurriedly, no doubt |—for I did not see her again. In- | stead, Julia came to the landing }in a tailored satin robe the shade of a red peony and beckoned me gestures warning silence. ‘We'll go to my room,” she whispered as I reached her, and jled me, feathered mules hurrying }along the oriental runner, to a room at the end of the hali—a gotten? Wasn't there a quality of | neat room of Quaker simplicity, malevolence, of vindictiveness in| furnished in early American ma- her excitement? Was way I could not imag ning to avenge Ivan’s death? I am_ altogether too imagina- | tive, a fact which is always being | Pointed out to me. I mentally] shook off a chill of foreboding which I knew was nothing but an} Irish ancestor hanging crepe; but} I could not shake a reasonable question which kept asking itself | of me. Why was she marrying| Jeff? “Sandra,” I said, without pre-| meditation — if I had thought twice I might have kept silent— “have you considered that people will say you are marrying Jeff to keep from ,testifying—because you think ——’ For some reason I was unable to finish; She understood wha’ I meant and it was not a new idea | to her. “T’ve thought of that,” she said patiently, as one explaining toa backward child. “But I'm doing what I think best.” Her eyes met mine perfectly | steadily, but without candor. She was not rebuffing me; but on the other hand she was making me no present of her thoughts. I gave up. After all, it was no business of mine. It was a Sunday I shall not for- get. Sandra made no move to go. She curled up in a chair and, like a well-behaved guest, turned the pages of magazines. The sound, repeated too often to permit her to do any reading, so annoyee me that all I could do was sit and glower at my typewriter and de- ene that I'd better be going back to Chicago where the roar of the el seemed to have no tendency to derail my train of thought, and where I could get some work | done before I had to break out my ing it. Here I was again, mixed up in murder—— I quit listening to the annoyin rasp of the turning leaves and} wondered why I thought it was | murder. I remembered that Ger- ald had so referred to it and that I had not challenged his assumr- tion. I wondered now if he knew or was only guessing. And if he knew, how? After the discovery of the body the night before, Adam had sent | Gerald to take us home from the | barge for the last time and to bring back help. Adam had stayed there, keeping a lonely vigil, and I had not seen him since. What discoveries had they made down in that horrid black hole—what clues to murder—and to a mur- | derer? ‘Very Painfal’ — rapped twice and opened the door. She was dressed, hatted and gloved, and looked moderately devout. “Going to church,” she an- nounced self-righteously. “Where, in town?” I asked, and she said no, the chapel. “Services announced for today. Want to come?” Sandra said “Yes,” eagerly, be- fore I had time to xeply. “If Kath- | erine will lend me a hat and gloves?” I said that I would lend them | gladly, and I meant it. I was in one of those moods when I felt there was a conspiracy to keep me from doing any work and that if it persisted I might as well cut | my throat before I starved to death. A mood common, I dare say, to most writers. i While I sought out the required articles Felicia was expressing her sympathy to Sandra. It was aj; rotten way, she said, to lose an old friend. as a said Sandra. “Very pain-| She said it quite steadily, and I began to wonder if I had imag- ined the grief-tortured face she had brought to my door. Thankfully I watched them: de- part. Now I could work. But first I ought to see Julia. After all, it was Sunday, a day of rest. And I really ought to see Julia. Because it was Sunday I had} dressed with care; I would not Today’s Horoscope Today’s native is intensely practical and may be, often, ra- ther unimaginative. He will be safety fund and start spend- | M. PM over the head and pushed him in? to right and reached third on an bor Day games, follow: bo vraatsevonianiness te CHE. ee . I don’t see why he couldn't have error by Lopez. who tried for the National League eee were ied the rest (High ae eed fallen in and struck his head on pal] that bounced out of his _ Player— AB R. H. Ave. C88! Clyde Si , Low 8:56 8:16 the stick—it may have already pong Cates sacrificed Higgs M. Griffin, P 9 2 5. 555,08 the way by Clyde Ghoun, a FORECAST | been in the water.” ani = tS iC steliog, B - 38 15 19, .500|the St. Louis Cardinals romped (Till 7:30 p. m., Sunday) “No, because it wasn’t wet home on a roller toward first. Wm. Cat 44 15 20. cal |home with a @-4 victory, aided Key West and Vicinity: Mostly enough, or something. I don’t Outfielders Villareal and Higgs, Wm. Cates, P 4 by Terry Moore’s homer. <b now just how they know, but of the Pipe-Fitters, led the hitting Ward, P . 18 2.7; .388' Tenilts corte tears: cloudy tonight and Sunday with | they do: it was murder, all right.” with two safeties each for the'J. Russell, B 36 613 366 AMERICAN LEAGUE We stared at each other, and ictors, Julius Villareal, P47 19 17 363} 5 rly winds, fresh at times. | I saw dread in her eyes. ‘ gee eee R E.|Barcelo, P _47 1417. .363| At Detroit R. H. E. erly , fre! i. “I wonder if Sandra knows |, Score by innings: isin ae 41 12 14 34] Cleveland 5,9 1 Florida: Mostly cloudy tonight | that.” I said, thinking out loud, Barbers 0012000/0— 2: 15) =3 jaya. 44 11 1 ‘340, Detrait 1014 1 ana Sunday; scattered showers “How could she? She's still Plumbers 203 000 x— 5 8 3 Kerr, B ae Bos Allen, Milnar, Naymick and “~ I | asleep.” J. Walker and Hopkins; C. Nelson, P - 33 12 11,333! Pytlak; » NaWaolll onde Webbette! Sunday and along east coast and | nou een to say you haven’t Gates and Ingraham. American League i y Florida Keys tonight. missed her? Player— AB R.H. Ave. | Julia looked shocked, s 1 ; | At Chicago R. HL = | her of Sandra's early call, of eg MERCHANTS WALLOPED West, N DD Eu eee 2 0 interview with Jeff, and’ of the CAMPERS IN NIGHTCAP Kelly, N Sau 4 Chicago 6 12 3 CORRECTION construction Gerald had put upon _ Merchants led by the hitting of Connor, Mar BUG 9 028 | ee areal ane Sait tg = it Frank Gale walloped the Kitchins, Mar 311416 | pari Genel suuee face was flushed when I ccc's, 16 to 7, in the afterpiece Caraballo; Merts 2 1 1 .500 7¢Y In an advertisement for Lee's ene J. Aritas, KWC 26 12 13 500 = Food Center carried in stet She can’t do that to him,” she lst night. At Washirigton R. HE.) —— said angrily. “I'll t Ail ter ac Caraballo connected safely in |Cardova, KWC 2710 11 .407' Vo yo iba 1 8 1 day's issue of The Citizen, Spare can’t four trips to the plate, driving in| Malgrat, Merts ..27 61 iWashington. _ 310 2|Ribs were advertised at 27¢ per I felt bound to point out to her four runs and scoring twice him-|J. Ogden, Merts 10 1 4 4005 Ruffing: and Rosar: Chase and} 'pound. This was considered a! |something which had just oc- self, A. Gutierrez, Mets 21.4.8 i Bark: | bargain but. was in error and! cured, 0, mec belatedly. ay be _ Barfield hit two out of three ae. should have been 2 Ibs. for 27¢, jtight. Maybe she does know for the losers. TRAIT CCHENTI Philadelphia-Boston, not sched-|@" even greater Boe Oe See something she’d rather not be| Score by innings: R.H. E. ~ SOFTBALL SCHEDULE tale: - in some | Ple, with two brown hooked rugs plan-|0n the fioor, a white candlewick | spread on the poster bed, tailored | yellow curtains zt the windows and two framed photographs on the plain, cream-colored walls. , The pictured woman must have been Julia’s mother—a woman in wartime fashions—a woman of that same strange, salty ugliness but with a light of great happi- | | ness in her eyes s@tch as I had not seen in Julia’s. The other picture was of Jeff, in cadet uniform. And his cyes, | too, surprised me. Though it must Jhave been taken no more than |two or three years before, he | looked much younger, -nuch more trusting. I thought of a dog who had lost a good home and found that the world is not all cracked arrow bones and an easy chair y the fire. Driftwood ULIA said, in a voice pitched very low, “You haven't told anyone what we saw on the barge?” “Of course not. That’s what I. came to warn you about.... How do they know it was murder?” She motioned me to a low shipper chair and, dropping down on a rug at my feet, leaned back against a pine chest. “T listened at the landing be- fore they shut the library door. When they moved him—the body —there was a stick of driftwood under it. The .tick was still pretty dry, especially the part he was lying on And there was blood and hair on it from a wound on the back of his head.” “So they think someone hit him | forced to tell. About Jeff.” | “That’s the same as saying you \think he murdered that— that | |screwball.” Julia retorted with heat. “It’s what everyone will think. T'll talk to her—I'll show | her what she’s doing to him.” She | paused, looked suddenly tired. “T jealous,” she added bitterly. “Where is Sandra?” up and dropped the cerise robe jat her feet and stood, high- {white georgette gown. For a | moment she might have posed for |a Red Cross poster, or something equally noble and self-sacrificing. Then a wry grin tw:sted her face. “All-right,” she said. “I am jealous. So what? Let them think what they please. People aren't going to have a chance to say | things like that about Jeff if I | can, help it.” She swirled the gown over her | head and dropped it to the floor nee an expression of defiant dis- jain. I watched her dress and told her that it wasn’t any use, that I had tried, that no appeal on be- | half of Jeff would move Sandra because it was Ivan she had loved: but Julia dismissed that with a little frown. 1 To be oomnenet honest and sabctionan: just, and reserved in speech. The life will be sedentary and probably occu- pied with hard work. Look out suppose | they'll both think I'm _ In church, I told her. She stood > Pipe-Fitters Practically ‘LEAGUE OPENING | Bengals prone Series festa Assured Of Second Half Flag HOMER BY HIGGS IN SECOND, SENDING RUNNER AHEAD OF HIM. GAVE VICTORS LEAD Pepper's Plumbers barely miss- ed shutting the Sawyer’s Barbers last night at Bayview Park in the opening game of a softball doubleheader. As it was, they held the Hair-Cutters to a single marker while they shoved over five runs to take the contest out and stretch their lead to three games. “Two-by-Four” Higgs’ homer in the second inning, scoring Baker, who had doubled, ahead of ALL OVER—ALMOST Sawyer’s Barbers’ loss to Pepper's Plumbers last night practically assures second- helf victory for the Pipe- Fitters. As there are only three games remaining to be play- ed and the Plumbers’ pos- sess a lead of that many con- tests, the best the Hair-Cut- ters can do is to tie their op- ponents by sweeping the re- maining games. Another win for the Plumb- ers will mean the pennant is theirs. him, gave the Pipe-Fitters a lead they never lost. Barbers scored their lone run in the third. Domenech got on first by an error after Walker had been passed. A wild pitch advanced both runners. Albury singled to center, sending Walker home and landing Domenech on third. Kerr flied out to left to jend the inning. Plumbers also wound up their scoring in their half of the third. C. Gates doubled to left but was, thrown out at third trying to. stretch the hit. Baker walked. Villareal hit one to right center and the ball got away from Tynes and Domenech, allowing both runners to score. Higgs singled ccc 000 023 2— 7 8 4 Merchants . 707 110 x—16 15 4 Skiner, Barfield and Pardo; Malgrat and J. Soldano. TEAM ROSTER Trojans’ list of players, submit- ted yesterday, brought to four the teams that have handed in breasted and proud in a belted their rosters in the newly-formed €Trs vs. baseball league. There are still three clubs to comply with the ruling made at a meeting of offi- cials Tuesday. Members of the Trojans are: John Navarro, ss; Dickey Navar- vo, 2b; Wickers, Papy and Walk- er, p; Sterling, 1b; Kelly, 3b; Rueda, c; Tony Dsardi, lf; Tony Alonzo, cf; A. Alonzo, rf; Albury, sub. Sunday" Horoscope Today is a feminine degree and under its influences the instincts are tender and humane, full of love, gerttleness and devotion. Seek to cultivate strength of character to overcome the natural timidity that otherwise might al- THE-KEY WEST CITIZEN PLUMBERS, 5; BARBERS, 1 TEAGUE STANDINGS BENGALS NEAR TOP RUNG SUNDAY; CONCHS BATTLE TROJANS: KEY WEST JUNIORS AND PI- RATES IN AFTERPIECE: “With Tribe; Yanks |” «Lease To Nats DODGERS DOWN PHILLIES ; TWICE AND SLASH’ FULL GAME OFF REDS‘ LEAD: SCHEDULE WILL CONTINUE: THROUGH JANUARY 26 Island City Baseball League will get under way tomorrow aft- ernoon at Navy Field with initial regular scheduled double- header. Key West Conchs, under the managership of Roy Hamlin, will be the “visiting” team when they engage the Trojans in the opening game of the afternoon and of the circuit. Manager Aurelio Lastres’ Key West Juniors, sponsored by the local American Legion Post, will be “first-up” when they tackle the Pirates, Ray Bush as pilot, in ;the afterpiece. Mgr. Hamlin announced today that he will start Robert Bethel or Howard Gates and Hopkins’ as his battery against Wickers' ‘and Rueda for the “Brave Men”. }Juniors will send G. Lastres and iMenendez into the fray to do } battle with Malgrat and Izzy | Rodriguez of the Bucs. ' Gates to the Field will open :1:30 o'clock tomorrow. First con- test is slated to begin promptly at 2:00 o’clock and must end at {4:00 o’clock, regardless of the iscore, to make way for the i nightcap. In drawing up the schedule so that all teams may play each other twice, once as the “home” , club and once as the “visiting” team, Pedro Aguilar discovered that play will have to continue through January 26, instead of just up to December as first an- nounced. First round of play will end with the twin bill scheduled for the afternoon of Sunday, Novem- ber 10. SOFTBALL BIG TENS _ Big Ten Hitters of the Nation- al and American Softball Leagues, up to and including La- (Bayview Park Field) MONDAY NIGHT First Game—Key West Conchs vs. CCC (American League). Second Game—Sawyer’s Bar- bers vs. Pepper’s Plumbers (Na- tional League). WEDNESDAY NIGHT { First Game—Pepper’s Plumb- Sawyer’s Barbers (Na- tional League). Second Game—U.S. Navy Merchants. vs. FRIDAY NIGHT (Final Games) First Game—U. S. Marines vs. NavSta (American League). Second Game—Sawyer’s Bar- bers vs. Pepper's Plumbers -(Na- tional League). MAJOR LEAGUE GAMES TODAY AMERICAN LEAGUE New York at Boston. Philadelphia at Washington. Chicago at Cleveland. St. Louis at Detroit. NATIONAL LEAGUE Brooklyn at New York. Boston at Philadelphia, two for accidents, for they would be low the native to be pushed aside games. liable to endanger life as well as limb. by more confident people, and fail in getting a due reward. Cincinnati at Chicago. Pittsburgh at St. Louis. the, CARDS WHIP CUBS (Special to The Citizen) NEW YORK, Sept. 7.—Detroit Tigers yesterday made a clean sweep cf their three-game series lwith the fading Cleveland In- dians to advance within one con- test of the league-leading Tribe. ‘Bengals gained undisputed pos- session of the second rung when the New York Yankees bowed to the Washington Senators. New Yorkers are two games in back of the Tribe and Boston Red Sox, idle yesterday, are just four in the rear of the Indians. Buck Newsom registered - his 18th victory of the season while handing Cleveland its fifth loss in a row. markers. Chase held the world’s cham- pions to eight safeties and Walk- er connected with two of the ten hits Red Ruffing allowed for cir- cuit clouts, accounting for the majority of the Nats’ runs. Score: '3 to 1. Three singles, a base on balls and an error in the fourth inning gave the St. Louis Browns all of their runs as Johnny Rigney Newsom kept the. 'Tribe’s nine hits well scattered and batted in two of the Bengals’ ; Final score was 10 rs 5, Observation taken at 7:30 a. m., LEAGUE STANDINGS CLASSIFIED COLUMN AMERICAN LEAGUE (Q@4@ajor League Basebell) Club— Ww. eae - 75 75 — York _ 73 72 . 68 Wiskgion 56 St. Louis _ — 55 Philadelphia 47 Soares NATIONAL LEAGUE (Major League —— Club— Cincinnati 3 Brooklyn 76 St. Louis 66 Pittsburgh 64 New York 64 Chicago 63 69 .477 Boston 54 75 419 Philadelphia 41 85 .325 NATIONAL LEAGUE Key West Softball "37 Packard, 4-Dr $125 4 Gun a ay Pet. 36 Plymouth, 4-De $95 down Pepper's Plumbers _12 4 .750 35 Chevrolet $65 down Sawyer’s Barbers 9 7 563 34 Ford, Door -_—o— a AMERICAN LEAGUE (Key West Softball) Club— W.L. Pet an ori i Key West Conchs 7 1 .875 MAN'S BICYCLE A-1 Merchants 7 2 77g ~ #1116 Margaret St | NavSta 4 4 506 'U. S. Navy 4 5 .444 CABIN CRUISER, 28-ft. 40m U.S. Marines 3 6 .333 Gray Marine Engine Bex Cee 1 8 111 BR. The Citizen aug3i-s ; ems 1935 INTERN. — PANEL U. S. 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An 18-hit barrage, in- cluding another four-bagger by Medwick and one off the bat of Gallagher, paved the way for the; Rhineland triumph in the after- piece. Scores: 3-0 and 14-3. The couble win sent the Dodgers up to within seven games of the idle Cincinnati Reds. After scoring all their runs in NATIONAL LEAGUE First Game At Philadelphia RHE Brooklyn _.. ke ee Philadelphia 010 0 Fitzsimmons and Franks; Hig- be, Syl Johnson and Warren. Second Game At Philadelphia R. gE. Brooklyn tt Philadelphia 310 1 Casey and Mancuso: Wilson, Smoll and Atwood. At St. Louis RHE Chicago 408 4 St. Louis 612 1 French and Collins; Shoun and Padgett. Pittsburgh - Cincinnati, not | ‘ scheduled. Boston-New York, not sched- uled. Subscribe to The Citizen—20¢ weekly. TRY IT TODAY— The Favorite in Key West STAR * BRAND CUBAN COFFEE . 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