The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 9, 1940, Page 3

THE ROAD TO SHAN! LON b& Rita Aohice Hanson YESTERDAY: Caught in o@ Chinese revolution, Lynn Brit- ton. and Temu Darin are doing what they can to help the refu- gees, while they wait for some ‘way to complete their journey ta Shani Lun. Peggy Telford, a friend of Lynn’s from America, is resting in the monastery where they have found refuge. Lynn is wondering whether it ‘may be possible to escape going to Shani Eun, because once there she must marry the Prince of the country, whom she has never seen, Chapter 26 . Bullets Again E YNN marvelled at the fortitude | of these peasant people. All) the patients walked away from| the Seeing station unaided ex-| cept the poor woman who died | lying in one corner of the room, | while Lynn bathed her face in cool water. One patient, carrying the green flag of a messenger, had a special message for Temu. “Wish to tell me what it is?” Lynn asked. He hesitated and then shook his head. “It’s not good news for me,” he said whimsically, “or I'd tell you.” Lynn regarded him with bright eyes, half sympathetic and yet half hopeful that his bad new was her good news. “Is my gov ernment searching for me at last?” she asked. “I understand your story made quite a sensation in Nanking when our tourist friends related it,” he admitted, “but I shan’t tell you another word.” They smiled at each other. She put her hand} to her heart. “Something tells me here.” she said, “that I shall go to Delun only of my own free will.” The laughter had died out of his eyes. “Perhaps you are right,” he said |d heavily. and turned to his work. Lynn thought she had never be- fore seen him so depressed. At eleven o’clock he sent her back to the grand lama’s house to rest, and called the fat priest from his prayers before the temple. “You can pray and help me too,” he said. Lynn went reluctantly; there was so much to be done. But her sensibilities were not hardened to the dreadful cases presented to them. She found Peggy walking disconsolately up and down the courtyard. A servant monk brought them each a bowl of stew from the abbot’s kitchen along with a squat, brown pot of tea. Lynn slept an hour or so and then Peggy begged her to go for a walk on the ridge above the mon- astery. “We'll take field-glasses and Perhaps we can see planes com- ing to our rescue,” she offered| hopefully. “You’d think Sam would be doing something by now. I have a feeling that he was surprised that I didn’t charter a lane and follow, him—as I would ve done had it been possible.” He took them to an eminence from which they could view the country in al] directions. To the west, across the hills, rose the be- sieged Mohammedan fortress. of Kiah-yu, appearing as romantic in the distance as a feudal castle on the Rhine. Out across the plateau to the east and south, they could see the fires of smoldering villages and bands of refugees on the trails. |. Far to the south, dust rose. as it from the march of advancing troops, but in the sky above there was no sign of birdmen winging their way to the rescue of a pair of American girls. Though the sun shone brightly the air was chill with a breeze from the Tibetan highlands. At intervals came the sound of .ham- mers ringing on iron in the black- {smith shop within the walls where Plowshares were being turned into swords. Lynn lay down on the short, |Sweet grass while the other two |roamed about looking for spring flowers. Larks sang and soared above; a herd of ponies thundered jacross a draw nearby. A pale, {golden fly alighted on the toe of Lynn’s oxford and,proceeded to groom his wings. She watched |him idly for a while and then | suddenly sat up. | She had heard a faint scream suppressed as if by sudden vio- lence. Peggy and the little Bud- dha were no longer in sight. Lynn ; rose and called. There was no re- ponse. She called once more and |this time received an answer. | A bullet tossed up the dust at jher feet. Captured Again TALL, thin, red-bearded Chi- ** nese rounded the hill. Lynn tan. Instead of firing, he dashed | forward and intercepted her. She | was helpless in his grasp. Tying a her mouth, he oved her ahead of him. They |rounded the far side of the hili | where three other men held Peg- gy and the little Tsong. : Lynn saw at a glance that these men were different from the pure Chinese. There was evidence of Turkish blood in their thin faces, jaquiline noses, and the red-dyed beards of the two elder men. Evi- dently, they were members of a scouting party from the fort at- tempting to capture horses from the herd she had seen running |past. And instead, they had cap- jtured two American girls and a }plump, little, “living Buddha.” The men debated for some time; then they began asking questions |of the boy who answered readily. {Lynn presently discovered that the leader could talk a bit of pidgin” English. He admired Peggy's red hair and, lifting a dirty hand, gave it a tentative stroke. She shrank away frorh the touch, almost fainting. Lynn attempted to comfort her jthough she had no idea what jmight be in store for them. This was war, more grave even than brigandage. They might be held merely as hostages. They might be Lynn ae as she combed /run through and left where they her hair, which had grown long, | fell. There was the possibility of and twisted it into a shini | ensiavement. In this vast, seething at the back of her neck. she said, “unless Temu Darin had failed to come to the rescue.” smiled. “Well, he did come to the rescue! And it'll be a 00d lesson to Sam.” | “Do you find Temu Darin as at- ive as you thought you! would?” Lynn asked curiously. | Peggy pondered a moment. “In some ways more attractive.|occasionally to fill ” | cauldron that was inner Asia, two American girls could disappear as ea: as two drops of champagne in the coarse sands of the Gobi. The men hurried their prisoners along the ridge, and one snatched jthe red, silk cap from the boy’s head and dropped back a moment. As they followed a winding path through the hills, the men stopped huge sacks There's a mystery about him; he/| with grass pulled up by the roots. reminds me of a man with a se- efet love or a priest whose bride | is the church.” | “You've come pretty close to it,” thought Lynn, and was tempt- e@ to add. “His bride is his sense of duty to his Prince.” Peggy helped Lynn with her coat while she spoke with seem. ing carelessness. “There is noth ing between you and him, is there?” Lynn parried. “Why do you ” “It’s hard to explain.” Peggy regarded her intently. “It’s not in what you say or do, but, some- times when you're standing to- gether I get the oddest impression —as if you two belonged to a secret world of your own, dif- ferent from mine; as if you'd been aun things together of which T know nothing. both last night?” i “Sitting on the roof looking at the stars and quoting poetry,” Lynn answered, taking the field- ere were you glasses from a shelf and handing | | them to Peggy. a “Did he hold your hand? laughed shortly. “Not he.” ‘ 's a clever way for a man to behave with a girl like you,” ding the soldiers picketing the fort, they entered through an obscure gate in the east wall just | after dark. The prisoners were taken to the village magistrates, and fas- |tened_to the wall on the street |side. Lynn quickly surmised this jto be the custom with local | Prisoners before .hey were freed, punished or beheaded. “ Sim “We'll sit here in the dust lean against the wall and comfortable and brave as we can,” | she said, suiting the action to the words. She drew the little boy down beside her and put a com- forting arm around him. “Tm told that events in them- jselves are neutral, and that our jreaction makes them either good jor bad,” she went on. “If we can | be wise and calm enough this ex- | | perience should not hurt us.” | Peggy looked up and blanched jat the sight of a wooden cage in jwhich festered a bandit’s head. | She began to weep. “I know we're going to die!” “Hush!” whispered Lynn. “Oh, | Peggy, please keep up your chin?” Curious, angry people had begun to collect about them. Men, }; Women, and children, dull and an- scoffed. Ps . “Do you think you} guished of eye, incredibly wrin- could fall in love with him?” Fear of Love gl acer in love is losing one’s kled and emaciated from starva- tion, stared, jabbered, and then } attempted to claw at the captives, while their voices rose high and identity. I'm afraid of it. Sam |shrill and then sank low and men- can’t come to our rescue too soon aS Lynn gathered that her captors "heey sone “J believe you are | ad gone out to steal horses to colored. “I believe Fd be a aes T really fell in love, . Pd take it hard, as some jfeed their starving eomrades and that the disapp: taki igion; as Temu yard. Tsong, the little shaven-|P! headed Buddha with the band- a wrist, was ing there in = red Sie robe ‘and skull cap. rose-and joined the girls, showing them how to open the seldom used north that led up the cliffs the monas- tery. back from the hilis tributed to the crowd who snatch- ed it and ate ravenously, root and all To be continued THE KEY WEST CITIZEN: Round-Robin Bask Tournament Begins 2; Trophy To Best Five. MINIATURE GOLD VP’s Blast Leathernecks To Maintain Leadership; NayStas Over lun BALLS TO PLAYERS ON LEADING CLUB THREE MAIN OBJECTIVES LISTED BY COACH OFFUTT: ENTRIES CLOSE NOVEM. BER 22 i Over Field To Shéllack ROW AFTERNOON | Marines, 20-2, At Park: Johnny Offutt, coach of the Key West High School varsity basketball team, announced today that the annual Island City Bas- ketball League tournament will begin December 2 this year and ‘last night in the opening game of will be sponsored by the Boys’'a K.W.AS.A. doubleheader at Athletic Lettermen’s Club of the’ Bayview Park to maintain their high school. Play will be under lead in the Service League. A ‘the direction of Mr. Offutt. loss would have dropped the Air- The tournament will be a men into second and given the round-robin affair and will be di- ‘threatening Leathernecks sole vided into two halves, the num-! possession of the top rung. ber of games in each half to be. The game went only six in- determined by the number of nings, called by the time-limit. teams entering the league. A Final score was 20 to 2. Devil Dogs committed 10 er- ENTRIES CLOSE NOV. 22 rors and combined with 13 safe blows, allowed the VP’s to amass their impressive total of runs. Leading hitter of the contest Last Night Entry of teams in the Is- land City Basketball League may be made at any time be- tween now and Friday No- vember 22. Team roster should be included with the entrance application, which | may be mailed to Coach Of- futt at the high school or giv- en to him personally. — play-off of three contests be-/ tween the first-half and second-} half winners will be necessary Taking advantage of the ge the Marines’ relief pitcher, realized what had eet hanpened. to decide the championship of | Not to be outdone by the service player. the city, except in the case of one club winning both halves. Should ; one team dominate the league in} both schedules, the runners-up} of the first and second halves} will engage in a three-game se-* ries to decide the runners-up to! the championship. The See will have three| was Rusk, who walked three main objectives: 1. To provide a times and hit safely in his other form of play and recreation for ' two official times at bat. Ithe young men of the city, civilian! Hinsley, of the victors, scored home-town civilian, became Gates received the ball from VP53 defeated the U.S. Marines ; | Burch, infiekter of the VESK: Disa 3s { being the first player to st since the new i underway and the first player to accomplish the and service; 2. To provide a source of income to further the athletics in the high school; 3. To provide as passive recreation the best possible brand of basket- ball in Key West for the fans at a nominal price. This year for the first time, awards will be given the winning teams. The champion five will jreceive a trophy and the mem- |bers of the club will be presented miniature gold basketballs. Run- PLAY BEGINS DEC. 2 * Sa ners-up Will also-receive a trophy and the ‘team ‘ifembers silver basketballs. Small’ trophies will} be awarded to the all-tourna- ment team which willbe selected at the close of the league. A complete check of all field goals, foul shots, personal and technical fouls committed and to- tal points will be compiled for the first time. Individual and team records will be included in the complete check. Timers and scorers have been four runs. For the losers, Hillerman and Johnson poled a safety in their only official trip to the plate. Burch and Crieder, Aviators, and Alday and Plemmons, Ma- rines, were outstanding afield. Q’Cennor and Rusk accounted for a four-bagger apiece; Gab- bard poled a triple, and Gabbard and Byars collected a double each fcr the VP's. Extra-base clouts for the , Ma- rines were registered by Alday, triple, and Johnson, doublei The loss dropped the Devil Dogs into a tie for second place with the Army. Score by innings: RHE VP53 160 553—20 13 6 Marines 000 200— 2 4190 Byars, Huston and J. O’Connor; Spakes, Mortor and Johnson. SPORTS CALENDA ae SOFTBALL GAMES (Bayview Park Field, 7:06 p.m.) MONDAY NIGHT First Game—U.S. Army, visit- ;ing, vs. U.S. Marines, home. Second Game—Bombers, visit- ing, vs. Pepper’s Plumbers, home. WEDNESDAY NIGHT First Game—VP53, visiting, vs. CCC, home. Second Game—NavSta, visit- appointed and a system for the j officials is now being worked out. Rawlings Channel Molded ball has been selected for use in the league. ' A number of service and civil- ian organizations have ex] intentions of entering teams in the league, among which are the Army, VP53, Coast Guard, Ma-: ‘rines, Lions Club, Pepper's Plumbing Company, Key West High School and others, Lions Club. walked away. with First Game—U.S. Army, visit- ing, vs. VP53, home. Second Game—NavSta, visit- ing, vs. Pepper's Plumbers, home. BASEBALL (East Martello Tower, 1:30 p.m.) TOMORROW First Game—U.S. Marines* vs. Key West Conchs. Second Game—Pirates vs. Tro- ‘the championship last year but jans. it is freely predicted the competi- tion wlil be. keener and stiffer this year. Rules to be observed by the clubs entering the league fol- low: team to have complete uniforms | SUNDAY. NOVEMBER 17 First Game—Trojans vs. U.S. Marines. person. before participating.- |. No player may change teams Team roster shall not exceed, in a half-schedule after he has fifteen players and a manager; participated in at least one min- SSS SES and coach, or shall not be under|ute of any game aoe a club. Club— Ww. - < eight players, and coach. Upon participation eS a. Pepper's Plumbers __ 4 2 SUBSCRIBE FOR THE CEPIZEN—26e WEEKLY. $2" Plsvers, manager pes eet sens ie ae ——— ms Player in the tournament to be’ half. ployes s = " = ‘ck. NavSta pulled a surprise last With speedball “Bubber” Wick- | night in the afterpiece’ of the Si ae ee Soe pe place twin bill as they breezed to a! eir confiden Malgra: victory over the leading Pepper's | “The breaks of the ‘game”, said i Plumbers, 6 to 2. one rabid fan, “will decide the The triumph sent the Naval outcome of the battle—and may in” Station employes into a tie for the best team win”. second place in the Civilian A igs SSE League with the Bombers. The ARMY. MARINES runners-up are only a half-game ~ 2 in the rear of the pace-setting BATTLE MONDAY Pipe-Fitters. Lino Castro and Clarence Gates. ETE opposing pitchers last night, hurled good ball as a whole, but nn BURCH AND BAKER STEAL HOME of got in slow wind-up and delivery of Mortor, last night, streaked for the plate, slid in a cloud of dust clared safe by the umpire before the Devil Dog be runners-up to the VP53 when they take the field at Bayview the first man to gainst the Pepper's Plumbers. fr ia With his back turned to the runner, pitcher the catcher and had just gun to return to the mound when a shout from i Ingraham for the return of the sphere came too late Gates to make the toss in time to nab Baker. —_—_[——_$S$ — ————————————————————————_pace-setting Bombing Squadron | Gates was wild at times—the ten. | cause of his downfall. _ Pepper’s Plumbers, whose lead In their half of the opening in- in the Civilian League was cut to ning, the Peppers scored two runs. on two errors and singles by Cates and A. Aceyedo, both in- field hits. NavSta came right back in their half to knot the count as two men crossed home plate on two walks, an error and an infield hit by Delaney. From then on, Castro held the Peppers scoreless. They threat- ened several times but the Sta- tion boys were able to weather, the potential storm. NavSta registered three mark- ers in the third frame and sewed up the contest. A walk, an error and a wild pitch loaded the bases. Outfielder Wells, usually a weak hitter, stepped into the batter's ,box and poled a three-bagger in- to right. center. They added another run in the, sixth on a single, a fielder’s choice and an-error. ; With three men on bases in the final inning and two outs, Jackie ,- Carbonell lifted a fly into center} —— to end the Plumbers’ chances. in’t . 4 it fool Delaney led at bat, two out A paced -ye = — - three. Wells hit one for two. . t Utility player Albury made aj. Crash! Bang went the lines, | wonderful catch in right field | times—and ivania held | that robbed a Pepper batter of them! The Traneyt 4 98-08 a “sure” triple. } bd ] Score by innings: RHE | Plumbers .__ 200 000 0-2 6 4 NavSta ____ 203 001 x-6 4 3 Today’s Birthdays C. Gates and Ingraham; L. Cas- | =saaseeeeaneeieiines tro and Allshouse. i Mrs: Maud Howe Elliott of | tophrates: *C.GC.. Pandora ____ US. Marines —____ *Tie games. VP53 i It will be necessary for each used by himself and one other pS. Sanaes US. Army ccc - iNavSta will be inserec: ap ine Cities gt SSIS the rate of cpe-cent (lc) a word | AT TOWER FIELD TOMOR- {°F cach insertion, out the mimi- cpomae wo Fir Clung Bros. Rose Nursery, Ty- ler, Texas. novd-its RELIABLE MAN take care store route. New plan of distribution No selling. Earn excellent weekly income. B & W. Nut Co., St. Paul, Minn. nov3S-ltx EXPERIENCED BOO. .EEPER State qualifications. Box FSC. 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