The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 26, 1940, Page 4

PAGE FOUR Casual Slaughters emmee By VIRGINIA HANSON ==! YESTERDAY: Kay tells all and redlizes that the Colonel is now convinced of Jeff’s guilt. She goes up to her room and finds Mimi there. Mimt bursts out “I’m glad she’s dead. She was bad through and through.” Chapter 34 Mimi’s Story Me took a cigarette from the pack I offered her, lit it and began walking aimlessly about the room, straightening a picture, brushing an invisible speck from the dresser scarf, changing the Position of a chair. “Tm_ nobody,” she began abruptly, in the hard voice of one making an unwilling confession. “I probably don’t need to tell ‘ou that—it must be obvious that | ’m out of my element. No—don’t | interrupt. Maybe it isn’t obvious. | That's what you were going to} say, anyway—perhaps a bit more tactfully. We'll consider it said. But that isn’t really what's trou- | bling me. I just want to give you] a complete picture of my back-/} round, so you'll understand bet- a She laid the smoking cigarette on the edge of the dresser and be- = rearranging my comb an and mirror which I had not yet repacked. I could see her face in the big glass as she talked, taut} and strained and utterly uncon- scious of what he was doing. She had been born in a little town in Ohio, and her people were nobody even in that town. “er father worked by the day, her mother took in sewing. They rew before my eyes—decent, God-tearing people, with no edu- cation beyond the public schools. They had never been anywhere} and never wanted to go. They| mamed their only child Mamie and expected her to grow up and | be happy in the same rut. But} Mamie had other ideas. She won a beauty contest when she was in high school. Her voice was flat as she told me about it, but a blush swept her tense face. The prize was a trip to New York. Mamie entrained from her home town, but Mimi stepped off the train in Grand Central Sta- tion. And Mimi stayed on in New | York—a beautiful girl in a city of | beautiful girls, each, like Mimi, with bright dreams of the future. She cashed in her return ticket, and by the time it was spent the dreams were fading and she was glad to get a job as stock girl in one of the Fifth Avenue stores. “You'll never know how I lived =I don’t know myself. I still had | high hopes, but I don’t photo- | awe well; I can’t sing or dance; 'm too short for a model and I have no education. I lied about the last, and finally they promot- | ed me to selling. “I was selling teen-age dresses when I first saw Dan and Julia. He brought her in to be out- fitted for boarding school, and I waited on them. Kay. you've no idea how wonderful he looked to me. In my ten years in New York I had met a few men—most of them hopeless drips. I could | have done just as well in my home town, maybe better. I wa ed to get married, but not to th kind. Dan was like the man from | Mars.” | She was in her late twenties, getting self-conscious about her} age. Here was a man neither old | nor callow, a man who looked} @s a man ought to look, handsome | and lean and heal He came back a couple of times with Ju- lia for fittings, and she found out who he w: at he was a wid- | with some woman—— ower and that West Point. She couldn't been more impressed he been the Prince of Wales. have had Insanely Jealous RADUALLY Julia’s couldn’t Le Home. Her family had consigned her to perdition ten years before, and in the mean- time her mother had died and ! her father married again. Her savings dwindled. In des- peration, she took anything. She |gave a Shower and Farewell|Wives club was held last Friday | |Party in her honor yesterday|afternoon in the Movie Hall at!* waited on tables in cheap Broad- way restaurants; she even washed dishes for a week. Then she got sick. But Dan and Julia were look- ing for her. They found her, and Dan asked her to marry him. She was pacing nervously from | window to door and back again. The cigarette had burned almost to the edge of the dresser. I got up from my chair and extin- guished the stub in an ash tray. She paid no attention to what I was doing. “You see’—she swallowed painfully—“I’'ve always known he did it because he was sorry for me, that he’s never loved any- one but his first wife. I've tried and tried not to let it matter, just to go on loving him anyway; but every once in a while I break out and do something silly, like trying to make him jealous, or be- ing sure he’s having an affair She paused to moisten her soft | curved lips with the tip of her | tongue. I don’t think I ever felt so sorry for anyone in my life. | But I did not speak, just waited for her to go on. Anything I could have said would have seemed too hollo “That’s why I drive so much at night,” she said at last in a stran- gled voice. “Sometimes — some- times I follow him. I have spells when I'm insane with jealousy. It’s destroying me. I know it’s in- sane, but I can’t help myself. I’m always bitterly ashamed when I find he goes just where he says he does. But the next time I do it all over again. Once I got the idea he might leave the meetings early | and go on somewhere else, so once in a while I drive around and around, watching his car to make sure it’s still parked where it was One night—one night I , passed a florist’s shop and saw a man come out with a box of flow- ers and get in his car and drive away. It was dark, but the light from the show window filtered out, and it looked like Dan's car and the man looked iike Dan. I went through hell that night. I walked the floor waiting for him. I might have done something ter- rible—irrevocable. But when he came in he was in uniform—it was an American Legion meeting, or something of the kind—and the instant I saw him I remembered that he had gone in uniform that night. And the man I saw was in an_clothes. Of course it sn’t Dan. But that just shows you-——” ‘Ingratiating’ “LJAVE you ever let him know you were jealous?” “Just once. When we were first married. He snuvbed me so frightfully that I've never dared speak o: it again. Kay, a woman is at a terrible disadvantage when she’s in love. I'm so afraid that I'll lose what little * have. Not that it’s such a little thing to be his wife, to make his home for im and darn his socks and see him every day and—and be here when he wants me. If I wasn’t a fool I'd be happy, wouldn't 12” There wasn't any answer to that, ana she didn’t seem to ex- pect one. I watched her draw up a chair and sit down facing me. She did not relax, but her face had smoothed out a bit, as if the painful confession had been a re- lief. Like drawing an aching ‘o tell you about ” she asked pres- mean to talk so elf. I just want- u to understand how such’a ‘as going t isn't 1? | thing could happen. Jeff still had a year at the clothes | Academy when Colonel Tack died became Mimi's problem. Ev-|and Sandra came to New York. ery two or three months they|Dan suggested that I ask San- would come in for a new o1 fit; /dra to West Point for a visit. So between times he or Julia would | of course I did. write for little things the kid| grew to look for- {Sh letters and to the Once they came goin t she Tu her to lunch town. “I liked her very much at first. e’s—she was ingratiating, you now. Dan thought she was per- | fect—always did. I noticed that, to lunch |of course I wasn’t very happy, nch with|but I hadn’t yet ai they always took | there was no use tryin; when they were in| Dan jealous. He just didn’t notice. learned that to make flocks of cadets There were And then, quite suddenly, she | around the house all the time, lost her job. | "t anything to her dis- and they all made a fuss over me —you know how kids are—and I e store was reducing|used to play up in the hope that ns! So were the others, she | Dan would see I was still fairly iMrs. M. J. Brace ithe guest of honor by Mrs. C. H. | Ulchar, A. D. O. Wise and the’ ling for the guests by Mrs. Mason! | damaged THE KEY WEST CITIZEN ~ | CLASSIFIED oY COLUMN y Wives To | shower Honored \Fete Navy Day PICTURE FRAMING | Friends of Mrs. M. J. Bruce} Regular meeting of the Navy | PICTURE FRAMING, Diplomas: antique frames refinished. Sign painting. Paul DiNegro, 614 Francis street. sept9-Imo afternoon, starting at _ 3:09|the Naval Station, presided over nt o'clock, at the home of Mrs. A.| by Ellen B. Price, the new presi- D. O. Wise, 928 Whitehead | dent. street. | Mrs. Rene Reynolds reported All guests took part in con-|that Juan Carbonell had granted tests, the high-score prize for the | Permission to the club to use the day going to Mrs. Wanda Upp. | Habana-Madrid Club as the scene/¢ypgWRITING PAPER — 500 The gifts were then presented to for the proposed Navy Day Dance Sheets, 75c. The Artman Press. to be given on October 26th. Or- may19-tf chestra arrangements are now being made. Balance of the meeting was de- voted to participation in various games. i Navy wives who wish to attend future meetings and have no transportation have been asked Me pre egg eynolds, 753-M oF ' BECAUSE OF FAILING HEALTH a a ses “M for an auto to) will lease my modernly equip- ie: ped furnished home for mod- erate rent; immaculate; 2 or 3 bedrooms; excellent beds; hot water; garage. Box CR, The Citizen. sept25-tf FOR SALE | CORNER LOT, 116'x156’; 100 feet from Catholic Church. Apply 803 Olivia St. sept25-3tx Hilton who accompanied the pre- sentation with a few words of farewell. Refreshments were served and enjoyed by all. Among those present were: ' Mesdames Gladys Delozier, C. H. Hilton, J. H. Martin, H. L. Deadwyler, W. I. Graver, C. J. Gilleran, Julia Paul, A. Allard, Cleo Watkins, Florence Kressler, Vera Manning, Wanda Upp, W. E. Lowe, Harvey Mason, R. E. Balleaul, J. O. Kennedy, A. L. APARTMENTS | FURNISHED APARTMENTS, up- stairs. Fully equipped. Appl. 803 Olivia street. sept25-3tx FOR RENT Mrs. Navarro Left For Nortolk Mrs. Raymond Navarro left ayAILABLE NOW — for full yesterday afternoon on the 5:00; winter season; four-room, mod- o'clock bus for Norfolk, Va, to! erniy-furnished bungalow; best visit with her sister and brother-| jocation in city, next to sea: jin-law, Lieut. and Mrs. J. B.’ Glee. refrig.; no small children: Morland. reasonable to right party. Ap- H i: ply, 901 North Beach. sept26-3t eee [NICE AIRY ROOM i Mothers To Meet iN’ M, screened | porch, connecting bath. Rea- = sonable rates. Apply 508 Si- Room Mothers of the Junior-| monton street. septl7-tf | Senior en eG ———e | Teacher Association will meet to-'F URNISHED APARTMENT, morrow afternoon at 3:30 o’clock: General Electric Ice Box. 729 in the school auditorium it was. United Street. sept21-lwk announced by officials this morn- guest of honor. Mrs. Wise was assisted in car- and Mrs. Kennedy. Mr. and Mrs. Bruce will be leaving Key West in a few days to make their home in New Or- leans, La. Lions’ Bingo Party Tonight Final preparations for the Lions’ Club Bingo Party to be held in the Lions’ Den tonight, THURSDAY, SEPTEM More Information Posted === On Army Flying Cadets = erature on the dets” are now available t men of the city interested in an This aviation career. material 4 Present Sa- | from ed o he | may be obtained from Joe Allen. ? € “ rr president of the Key West Junior Chamber of Commerce, The Citizen office. More than 20 appl have already been given out and many others have shown interest in the opportunity which th ernment hi fforded your between the ages of 20 and years. To meet the demand at tion blanks for cor Corps where trair g cadets at gove e. This course of tra is as fine as any given anywh in the world and the stude: paid a salary while learning Requirements for entry the vice are as follows: 1. Unmarried 2. Citizens of States. 3. Not less more than old. into the United than twenty twenty-seven nor years RuMForD RIDDLES ® What's more popular than an All-American football hero? a thereof. 6. Mu:t present t character. 7. Must be of sound physigqu evidence excelle forms which differ , worn by officers , of the Army, and they tered in separate barrac - vided for them. The pay of flying cadets i eee Friday and Saturday SPECIALS = os Tift's Grocery = 21c! =a Qe j 10¢ j 35c¢ s 5 > doz. BUTTER. Ib ; ONIONS. 3 Ibs. POTATOES. 10 Ibs. RINSO. 2 large boxes Sunbrite = ' Specials — FRIDAY. SATURDAY end SUNDAY Only = TIP TOP GROCERY & MEAT MARKET Divison anc Thomes Sm SUGAR 3 ibs Extre Fancy PATNA RICE 5 Bs Big MATCHES 5 boxes O. K. COFFEE & ONIONS. 3 ibs POTATOES. 18 ies SUPER SUDS Gibb: PASTE. can starting at 8:00 o'clock, have been made and a rousing good ing. All members of the group have iMODERN FURNISHED HOUSE, 4 rooms and bath. All electric. CLEANSER. 3 cans Pard 13e! time is expected by those who have already made reservations. A fine list of prizes has been assembled for this affair and the Lions are prepared to play “per- fect hosts” to the guests of the evening. Tickets are still on sale | been requested to attend this first meeting of the current school year. including hot water. 1204 Dun- cna street. sept20-lwkx PARKS APARTMENTS, corner White and Newton Sts. All modern conveniences. Apply 1324 Newton street or Phone MEMORIES RUMFORD Baking Powder — it’s all_-phosphatel Right for every recipe every time. Never leoves © bitter taste. Send for FREE recipe book. Address: Rumford Baking Powder. Box 8, Rumford, ®. 1 DOG FOOD. 3 cans 2OC | CORN. PEAS. GARBANZOS. STRING BEANS, = } 3 cams vt | | 1101 Divi-ion St. Phone 450 ! from the various members. ROYAL AIRMEN INCREASE RAIDS (Continued from Page One) in the gunfire ex- changed with French ships in the harbor. Meanwhile, according to au- thoritative sources in Italy, the axis-powers let it be known that the War in Europe would slacken off to some extent the while a new empire would be built up in- cluding the two present axis- power nations, with Spain and Japan as new-comers to the group. A two-bladed spear of attack against the Suez canal appeared in the frame-up stage as Italy Prepared to lay claims against France for permission to take over control of Syria. * The first spear, however. op- erating through Egypt with Libya as control base, appears to be having some serious trouble. R. A. F. planes have continually bombed the Italians on all fronts including sinking of at least one torpedo ship in the Mediter- ranean Sea. French colonies and their rela- tion to the campaign to end British empire domination were to be the subject of discussions soon to be started by axis-power | diplomats in Berlin. expe € discovered; and they were only | young and desirable. But as I say, | taking couldn't in get college girls. work. And she! CITRUS FRUIT Dan didn’t notice.” To be continued FLORIDA LEADS DATA ON AIR WAY IN TEACHING LAKELAND, Sept. 26.—(FNS) Mary Margaret McBride, popular radio commentator, has been en- gaged by the Florida Citrus Com- mission to conduct a series of net-! work programs designed to pop- ularize Florida citrus fruit this fall and winter. Miss McBride “Radio's No. 1 Personalit Rollins College and she was pre- sented an official scroll by the state at the Florida State Ex- hibit in New York during Florida Week. wa The N brary _ syste Manhattan, Bror owns 1,390,306 books. which includes LAKELAND, Sept. 26.—(FNS) The statewide progrant for the teaching of democracy in schools, which began with the installa- tion of a Chair of Democracy at Southern College, is the subject of an article in the last issue of Liberty Magazine, entitled “Flor- s ida Leads the Way”, and written y , by Earl Reeves. Soon after the Chair was hed at Southern. a Florida Congress on Democracy was or- ganized, with Colin English, State es- ; Superintendent of Public Instruc- | York City public li-} tion, as President. Thorne wheat, a cross between’ the Portage and Fulcaster varie- < and Richmond, j ties, has a brown chaff and no beards. ¢ And in the meantime again— jthe R. A. F. bombers are making | things tremendously uncomfor- table in Berlin. NOT CATCHING? SCOTTSBLUFF, Neb.—Appen- dicitis might not be contagious, | but you will have a hard time persuading the Tom Britton family that it isn’t. One month after daughter Mary was op- } | | By MARY ELLEN HUSSEY | 1 fee the soft rain falls from the | clouded sky, j |My thoughts are turned to days i gone by— i ‘Days I pray I can again relive | And regain the happiness I know | they will give. | ‘With it the rain brings memories of the night |When we first met on the beach | lit with bright moonlight. } What fun we had as we rollicked and sang; H was there our everlasting; friendship began. H It j it may be hard for you But near in the future our love! will bring again To reality those memories I live alone with the rain. Sept. 23, 1940, Savannah, Ga. Sie weesass. ONE SENTRY TO ANOTHER | (By Associated Press) ST. GALLEN, Switzerland, Sept. 26—During the first World war two young sol- diers, a Swiss sergeant and a German private, met casually while on frontier duty and talked far into the night. A few weeks ago, the Swiss sergeant, now an officer, found himself on the German frontier on exactly the same | spot. 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