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PAGE FOUR THE ROAD TO SAANT LON Chapter 35 The Orchid Door > * ' ss ligaments opened his eyes in the morning to find Lynn sitting beside him and a Mongol guard at the door. Healthy color had re- turned to his face. His hands and feet were bound. “I thought it best,” she said. He made no remonstrance. A man {white socks on her feet and mapas = ankles in neat apple- coma” her aie in the Chinese fashion while another stood ready with a gown of heavy, yellow satin covered with a long, blue, sleeveless mantle embroi in She asked at last distractedly for Chin Pak. He a i THE KEY WEST CITIZEN = SOCIETY = Pinder-Todd |Fiesta Starts 'Nuptials Friday |At Cave Inn | Observation taken at 7:30 a. m, 75th Mer. Time (city office) ‘Temperatures : } | j Miss Erma Ruth Pinder, daugh-| Announcement is made on page joe inst night aa ter of Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton jone today of a Fiesta program of Eas oa 1 Pinder, 1402 Newton street, will entertainment and frolic starting N°™™4! ————— 3 become the bride of Edderd Todd, tonight at the Cave Inn Bar on|,,. a aecacagee son of Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Todd, of! Duval street, Rainfall, 24 -hours..ending Orlando, Fla.; Friday. night. | Featured on the program each Friends and relatives:..have:night will be Gene Wilson and) Total rainfall since. Nov. 1, ! been invited to attend the cere- | his Ryhthm Boys. Si Eng F U. & WEATHER | | Praha eporr CLASSIFIED COLUMN) street address as well as their, \selephone number if they desire! Mr. and Mrs. Bennie Russell | Highest last 24 hours __78 | Fesults. 0.40 | Will be insertea.an The Citizen at| was Miss Margaret Ken WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28 1846 BIRTH } Ss Advertisers snould give their| ap announce the arrival of a baby Payment for classified adver-|3t their home, 1005 Eaton street, 2\tisements is invariably in ad- last Saturday. The new-comer is vance, but regular advertisers @ girl and weighed eight pounds | with ledger accounts may have 2t birth. She has been given the 7:30 a. m, inches 0,00 ‘*heir ‘advertisements charged. name of Margaret Elizabeth Advertisements under this head Before marriage Mrs.” “Shee. és jthe rate of one-cent (Ic) a word as came in bearing a basin of water} he had been waiting long for her = 2 | + summons. mony, which will be performed and a shaving kit. “Til fetch your breakfast,” Lynn said and left. His quietness had surprised her. But then, he was always surprising her, and she remembered that acceptance is part of the philosophy of the East. When she returned, he was standing up, looking ruefully at the bonds on his ankles and wrists. “Now,” he said, “I know how a hobbled horse feels.” __ “Does that mean you will nev- er hobble a horse again?” she asked. “It means that I will never get into this kind of a predicament again if I can help it. What are you planning to do with me?” “Hold you prisoner for a while.” She had the guard bring in a camp box for Temu to sit on. She stood at his side and fed him cheese and tea and candied per- simmons. He bit her fingers and they were soon laughing together. “T’'m helpless, tell me your plans,” he coaxed. “For one thing, I'm going to Delun.” “So I have always maintained,” he jested. “But I am going of my own free | will,” she reminded him. He looked at her with his clear, tea-colored eyes. “So you are, Tara Lynn.” “Chin Pak and I are riding on ahead to find out what luck Dick and the Duke of Sachto have! had.” “T hope it’s rotten,” he grinned. | “Your hopes don’t seem to be coming true lat ” She sobered. | *Tll tell you I have my! way your Prince shall not be harmed. Neithes shall he be im- prisoned. I wonder if he would prefer to live in Paris or Amer-} ica.” Temu spoke sadly. “I surmise} he would prefer not to live at} all.” he caught her | oulder in the} free to give} her. “I love to hear you talk, Tara j Lynn. I ht could put my arms eyes and some im; prompted her. “I notice,” she said, “that you wait | till your hands are bound before | you make that statement.” | Lynn felt the next instant as if she had i da powder keg. With on ion Temu rose, burst the bonds on his wrists, took | her in his race and covered her face v ses. At first his| violence at opened into para-| dise. She broke away and ran to the door. | “Bind e prisoner’s hands,” | she directed the guard. “He has broken the cords.” She did not go near his tent} again. In half an hour she and Chin Pak were on their way. They arrived in Dorchi that night | at dusk. “Do you know the house where my brother and the Duke were adquarters?” she was a great trading s th a motor road reach- ing to-Delun and caravan trails branching out to Tibet, to India, to Sinkiang, to Russia, and across Gobi to the Pacific Ocean. About it were‘irrigated farms and or- chards. The streets of the town hummed with an unusual activ- ity, the hum of holiday or suc-| cessful revolution. Magnificence HIN PAK conducted Lynn to ign house inside a As Chinese ser- vants met them and bowed her in, he disappeared. She ate din- ner alone and felt rather _lost.j} The serva could not talk to she spied on a mi rosewood table, a pair of gloves that she had seen Dick wearing. She real- ized he must have been here re-| cently. A servant brought her a/ note from Chin Pak. | “We are success as planned. / You go palace by morning. Wear | Chinese dress. Servants know. I come. Reverence.—Chin Pak.” Lynn interpreted the note as best she could. Tomorrow would | tell the tale if she were to have| any power against her brother or} not. And if not, it a tragedy. her coming had brought to Sher- dock, to Temu, and the Prince! Despite firm intentions ~ she woke very late the next morning and was dressed by servants who had feared to disturb her. Don- ning the Chinese dress was a slow and maddening process. After the | bath and the painting and the! fomnenne that made her look! ike an Oriental doll, they wound her from armpit to hip in bias folds of strong white silk and| covered this with a trouser suit} cf heliotrope satin. They drew! “Are you to go with me to Delun?” she asked. “Yes, Missie.” “And if I should wish to sum- mon Temu Darin, could you have hina brought to the capital swift- iy?” “Yes, Missie, I arrange.” The serving woman bowed and giggled. One laid a white ca on Lynn’s shoulders, fixed a lily in her hair, a gold disk on her chin and another between her eyes. Someone placed an apple in her hand. She went down to the court- yard where a state automobile stood waiting, yellow silk curtains at the windows of the long, cream-colored limousine. She asked Chin Pak about the apple. “A lady-in-waiting take it when you pass the orchid door,” he ex- Plained gravely. It didn’t make sense to Lynn. “Orchid door! To match my pa- jamas?” He looked bewildered and Lynn laughed. She knew she was being silly. But all-this robing and ceremony was getting on her nerves. And what was ahead of her? Probably more deadly cere- mony. Ther a s'! le against | Dick. Could she curb his greed for gold? Could she do the thing she wished to do? And she remembered Temu Darin’s query: “Can you imagine what it means to be loved by a million people with never a thought of criticism?” Strange Journey ‘HE recollection thrilled and comforted her. Her chin went up. She put her hand to the | charm box at her throat; it had brought her through so far. She rode along in grandeur on a highway lined with merry-mak- ers the whole length of its sixty | miles. There appeared no mourn- ing for Sherdock’s death or for the Prince’s overthrow. They climbed steadily towards the mountains. The climate and the scenery enchanted Lynn. Yet, under it all, she felt a strange de- Pression as if, against all logic, something told her she had done wrong in opposing her will to Temu’s. As they approached the capital city, the road cut across a wide | plain dotted with countless Mon- gol tents. At the gate-tower the driver slowed the car to a crawl. Firecrackers exploded. Confucian music wailed and keened. Sturdy Mongols cracked their voices , | hailing the approach of the God- dess. Footmeri opened the car. door. A tall Chinese lady with two re- markably long fingernails on her left hand greeted Lynn. “The .Princess Mother! How does she feel about this?” won- dered Lynn. The woman’s eyes met hers searchingly. The Princess Mother conducted her dow a the song, reception room to a pa~age where a lady-in- waiting t.ok the apple which Lynn had c2rried so faithfully. “The orch:1 door, whatever that means,” trought Lynn, over- come for the m-ment by an ap- | prehensive excitement, half pain, half pleasure. She stepped inside and stood alone trembling in a }cool, dim, incense-filixd room. Somewhere a rich vo'ce chant- ed the low and haunting melody | of an ancient song. An or-hestra of violins and great gvitars, played in the courtyard below the windows. As the music did, she heard ‘the rustle of silk, an? through the shadows of the room, se saw a tall form ‘garbed in a | Chinese costume of rith, dark sili | come towards her with the stride | of a man. |. “Temu!” she gasped, and warm | blood leaped to her face. He bowed, his eyes blank, in- scTutable, ‘recalling to her mind that first encounter with him in the house in Pai Shu where a .| Sense of his strange, personal Power had so disturbed her. “Chin Pak said you would be wanting me.” “But not now!” she cried. “Lat- er, after I have seen Dick and know where I stand.” “4 apes where you stand. The power here is yor not your brother’s.” sine . “Then Chin Pak has not be- trayed us?” “Chin Pak is faithful to his gods.” He stepped closer. “You have made the Princess Mother very happy by coming in Chinese garb.” He scrutinized her face, her hands, her hair, her tall and graceful form. Th <puzzied, sp stood Proudly him. pass inspection?” she asked ironically. “The Prince will be’ pleased, E she tuned on him swiftly e turn on iftly. “What do you mean?” “There was no revolution, Lynn. Your brother is on his way to Russia under guard. When he and _the Duke of Sachto arrived at Dorchi, they were captured and dispatched to the north.” To be continued RECLUSE LEAVES $8,000 | MEMPHIS, Tenn.—A search of the ramshackle cabin in which the body of T. J. Parker, 83- year-old recluse, was found by a. ewsboy, revealed papers which jled to the discovery of a $8,000 bank account. Police have been unable to find relatives of Parker, who was believed to have been a retired railroad man. in the ep ores Methodist | JAPANESE ALLOWED Church, 7:30 o’clock. Rev. W. R.} ONE TOWEL A YEAR | Howell, pastor, will officiate. ROOSEVELT NOT | (Continued from Page One) RE-ELECTED YET another 100,000 from China and Switzerland. The accordion and concertina business wasn’t so bad for a while, but it’s getting rapidly worse. Imports of piano accord- ions with less than 120 bass keys dropped 65 percent in the period reviewed to 8,306—but Italy sup- plied more than 7,000 of these. Italy also supplied more than 2 11,000 of the 12,000 accordions !termine for me whether John!’ * : z | Adams or Thomas Jefeerson shall | With gad than 120 bass keys be President? No! I chuse him to|Which were ‘imported in the ark cackiaol think”. jeight-month period. That was be- | jan }fore Italy was in the war. Bags pis piste collegian | "It-begins to look as if there is Pitmer-of-New- ‘Hempshire,-who, |? £00 opening in the harmonica ‘in 1820, ‘cast the- enly: electoral |28d accordion business over here. . } as: = vote against James Monroe. The| story is. 2 lid this to pre- Modernization-of-Laws Note: serve for, in 5 tert The statute books of the Unit- of being eat ea States carry laws forbidding (Continued from Page One) | jin the history books by voting other than as directed. In 1796, Samuel Miles, named as an Adams elector in Pennsyl- vania, cast his ballot for Thomas Jefferson, drawing this comment; from an irate Federalist: “What? Do I chuse Samuel Miles to de- ed ‘unanimously. Some historians |either the photographic reproduc-* call this story just another bit of| tion of coins or stamps, except in school history-book bunk and in-|the case, respectively, of numis- |sist that Mr. Plumer had a sin-|Matic (coin) and __ philateljc cere and violent dislike for the | (Stamp) journals. In order to pub- gentleman from Virginig. licize their wares properly, the Three times, however, has the Treasury Department. on the one electoral college failed to elect a hand, and the Postoffice Depart- President. Once it failed to name Ment on the other ruled that all a vice-president. John Q. Adams Newspapers are numismatie and and Thomas Jefferson both failed Philatelic journals. to get electoral majorities and were elected to the Presidency by FML LOOKS FOR BIG the House of Representatives. SEASONAL TRAFFIC : Martin Van Buren’s vice-presi- dent, Richard M. Johnson, failed to get a majoritv and was elected! (Continued from Page One) ™ by the Senate. Both methods are; Permitting passengers to see over provided in the Constitution in! other vehicles and affording lug- ease the electoral college doesn’t : age space beneath new-type re- offer a majority vote. Rutherford | clining chairs. B. Hayes also failed to get a ma-| Motor and outside noises are jority but was elected by an elec-|eliminated by special insulation. toral commission, made up of Special reading lights are so ar- representatives, senators arid-Su- Tanged that one person can sleep preme Court justices. vag gy to bother him wnile B is seat companion may have Most alias ssc the plenty of light for reading. “irate Federalist” that electors! Representing the latest ad- think, and Y@nces in motor transportation, ae = od this new addition to the Florida fe fem eb pesky Motor Lines RaaIeeE EES anonymous a national honor as par eptiates moa aa po could be imagined. = : y f th tion. Ini? 1992 and 1906 thejgratefall oo et ee 'Democratic committee brought wi ggg OOO OOM elkans. It was believed here} H however, that the Turks would/y-wo-sTORY HOUSE and Lot at the electoral college to Washing- ton for a sort of graduation fiesta. FARMERS LOOK FOR seer ay earilepes ‘LITTLE OLD LADY’ wined, dined, back-slapped and PLANT CITY. Nov. 20.— given the keys to the capital. This year, the committee is no less grateful but it hasn’t decided: (FNS) Farmers, fruit growers yet whether it will bring the; and business men. hit hard college in for a third-term blow-| by the long drought. are be- out. | ginning to think seriously of I gathered it depends more on; arranging a return engage- the state of the national commit-; ment for the “Little Old tee’s treasury than on the degree! Lady” who came here two of gratitude for those 449 votes. | years ago and “made it rain.” es | While many scoff and f | weather-men smile and con- | AMERICANS LAUGH? | freed their faith inthe | | (Associated Press Fepture Service) | i JAMES THURBER: “What! imakes people laugh has occupied ; é \the intellect of our greatest! 30 Par the expense of bring- \thinkers from Socrates to Max/ ——— ; Sastman. T.aeppose= if there: is| emer me emeed semebren laay basic plan to the so-called! parched area. ‘humorous things I write ordaw GPO eeae aaa s | Total rainfall since Jan. 1, inches Sage Deficiency since January 1, Dp 1.05 Wind Direction and Velocity { NE—10 miles per hour 90% Barometer at 7:30 a. m.. today | Sea level, 30.13 (1020.3 millibars) | Tomorrow's Almanac Sunrise Sunset Moonrise Moonset _ Tomorrow's Tides (Naval Base) AM. ig tow 22 =. ee FORECAST _ _ (Till 7:30 p. m. Thursday) | Key West and Vicinity: Partly} cloudy with scattered showers > | ee night and Thursday; mild tem- perature; moderate easterly} winds, fresh at times. | Florida: Partly cloudy, scat-} tered showers on east-central | and extreme south coast tonight ! and Thursday; warmer in north} and west-central portions to- night. HUNGARY SIGNS } PACT WITH NAZIS = | (Continued from Page One) i Nazi foreign minister Von Rib- bentrop on hand with Hungarian |FILL NEEDED, next 60 days high officials and other Nazi dig- | nitaries. ' It was believed here that Ru-! mania would be the next nation! 1.23 {fe ISTOLEN LAST NIGHT on PICTURE FRAMING | PICTURE FRAMING, Diplomas; Mr. and Mrs. Hector Barroso announce the birth of a daughter, | arriving early this morning m a local hospital. The new arrival weighed seven Southard Street, near Duval,| pounds at birth and has been Rollfast Bicycle, blue and white |named Barbara Dorothy. Both with chromjnum plated fend-|she and her mother are doing ers. Balloon tires. Finder nicely. Before marriage Mrs please return to 806 Southard | Barroso was Miss Rosario Car- street and receive reward. rera. nov20-1t STOLEN TRANSPORTATION — antique frames refinished. Sign ; S.S. CUBA painting. Paul DiNegro, 614) Stemmaha 5 ip Cuba of the P. & Francis street. novi8-tf ig. S. S. Company arrived from MISCELLANEO! US for | this port. Unloading, 45 tors of and Sundstrand ADDING MA- ‘eight 5 . @ressel ex CHINES. Sales, Service and barked rst-clas# passergers a - \for Havana and took three autes Supplies; Bay; Dickerson, agent. |, S5ind for that trip. Through Island City~ Beek Store, 222 | traffic, Tampa to Havana, totalled Duval Street,:Phone 9150- 11 first-class passengers. The nov15-1mo | ship sailed’at 10:30 o'clock ' Returning yesterday at 3 P. jm., the Cuba brought 35 first- WANTED j wie PAY CASH for 1 or 2/“@8S and one second-class pas- - | sengers for this port, three autos hot Write P.O. Box 363, \and five tons of freight. Eleven Key West. novi8-3t | first-class passengers were on ANTED—Will Pay Cash for |>0ard from Havana to Tampa, and 82 tons of freight. The ship Second Hand Furniture. 1218 called at 4259 aide. Seminary street. - novl5-lwk S. S. COLORADO ¥ Steamship Colorado of the Terrace Outdoor Bowling. | | Clyde-Mallory Lines arrived, ir Key West from New York yes- |terday afternoon at 1:15 p. m = | Unloading 148 tons of freight, the to take a similar step in recog-|siGNS—“For Rent”, “Rooms For | vessel left at 7:45 o'clock for nition of the new “World Order”, and it was freely admitted Bul-/ garia, too, would step in line. | The latter nation, it was said, has; been promised a corridor strip of Rent”, “Apartment For Rent”, Tampa. “Private Property, No Tres- Se ee es a THE ~RITMAN Subscribe to The Citizen, 20c PRESS. nov25-tf weekly. land to the Aegian Sea in return'SECOND HAND Wash Tubs, for co-operation in allowing; Nazi troops to be transported} across the nation to help Italian} troops in the fight with Greece. On the anxious seat toda’ even more so than heretofore, | twas ‘Turkey. From Tstanbul } __. Buckets, Clothing, Shoes, Bath- | TRY IT TODAY— ing Suits, Furniture, Chickens, | qhe Favorite in Key West one small Goat, Barber’s Chair and miscellaneous other items. CUBAN COFFEE Apply 211 Baptist Lane. nov20-1tx came the news that the British wHITE CHRYSANTHEMUMS ON SALE AT ALL GROCDRS ambassador had been called into} conference with Turkish officials | on the Jate turn of affairs in the still remain loyal to previous pacts made with Great Britain. Leopold New King? i Dispatches from Stockholm! this morning indicated that the; | } { Nazis have a job cut out for King; Leopold of Belgium. It was stated that the Nazis are planning to unite all of for- ‘mer Holland and Belgium into with yellow center. Mrs. W. G. Adams, 1119 South street. nov20-3t 913 Duval street. Price $4,000; terms, $750 down, balance $35 monthly, 6% interest, or $3,500 cash. Apply Box VX, The Citizen. —in— Parents On Trial and One Crowded Night nov13-15-18-20-22 Matinee—Balcony 10c, Or- |CHRYSANTHEMUMS for both Thanksgivings. 1117 Stump Lane. nov18-3tx one state, with Leopold placed at/ TWO ELECTRIC REFRIGERA- the nominal head of the govern-| ment. 1 ~ Italians Retreat Additional reverses for Italy’s troops on the Greek-Albanian} TORS for sale cheap for cash. Apply 1212 Varela street. novi2-tf frontier were reported this noon | BRING YOUR VISITING friends from Athens. Hi On the north and central) |fronts, the Italians have been | in need of a good night's rest to THE OVERSEAS HOTEL antl _ wut the minj. "0 her daughter are reported: as — jmum for the first insertion in 2°!E nicely. 34.89 every mstance 1s twenty-five, Barrosos Announce Birth jcemts (6c). “MONROE THEATER | : Clean rooms, enjoy the homey |thrown back still further in the} atmosphere. Satisfactory rates. “reverse movement”, and Greek/ 917 Fleming St apri7-t! offensives are forming Yo carry | ——— the fight still further to their ; enemies, it was stated. Retrea-i ling troops are constantly under! FURNISHED COTTAGE. Apply fire of Greek guns and more/ equipment and guns have been | 708 South street. nov18-lwk A beauty and a bargain! jam lit has to do with the fact that 92 percent of the things that Ameri-: jean husbands and wives do in the course of any day are funny, if you tell about it _solerhnly AMERICANA: POKER NIGHT By RAY PEACOCK, AP Feature Service Writer Americans are pig-headed in! some ways. Tell them they can’t have a thing, and they practically! make a career out of having it. So it is with the ancient and slightly dishonorable, native pas- time of poker. The <game has been reviled, scorned and -legis- lated against, and -it thrives. A> general air of furtiveness is as much a part of poker as cards, chips, overflowing ash trays and the spilled glass. The game can be played with chips or matches alone. But in order to pursue his hobby of + peeking at hole cards, the Old Man saves nickles and dimes out of his lunch allowance. He is vague and evasive about the ex- act aims and purposes of the Fri- day Evening Discussion and Marching Club, and departs for its weekly sessions with apolo-. getic mumblings aimed in the general direction of the kitchen. Should the Old Man lose, he is ; Quite theerful He. expected to contribute—yea, even pay bak- |sheesh—for the joy of several uninterrupted hours with kindred | spirits. . Should. he win, you wouldn't want to know a more jelly, generous fellow. Of course, the Old Man vague- ly resents the necessity of being secretive about his poker games. He doesn’t think it is fair for the neighbors to give him that do- you-still-beat-your-wife look. It also bothers the Old Man because some folks think it is a crime to bluff in poker but con- sider it one of the fine arts to finesse in- bridge. For the Old Man played bridge in °32 and °33, to play poker with, and to him’ they add up to the same thing! packed with new veluc, acw Conveniences, new features. captured in the last day’s fight-|ROOM with kitchen privileges. ing. | Rate: $5.00 single, $7.00 double, Advices from the “almost for-| weekly. Apply 524 Margaret | gotten campaigns” in Africa this{ street. nov18-6tx morning stated that the British ; ————___ —__________. forces in Egypt had been success- | F URNISHED APARTMENT. ful in recent operations against; Modern conveniences. Apply the Italians there. Former state-| 803 Olivia Street novi9-lwk 'ments had claimed minor suc- | ee ee WANTED TO RENT were denied in the partial reports = received today. | WANTED—Furnished Apartment ee | or House, 2 or 3 oe LOSES BEANS ; $35.00 yearly. Apply Box ais | The Citizen. nov19-2tx CALHAN, Col—When Charles! Berry arrived.at the market with his six-ton load “of beans, he found that an.end gate. on his truck had Joosened and that he “Key West's Outstanding” LA. CONCHA HOTEL beans. Weaver Brothers and Elviry first | ay old GRAND OLE OPRY Na- also DR. J. A. VALDES