The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 4, 1940, Page 3

ee By MEDORA FIELD YESTERDAY: The first thing that disturbed Sally and Bill's houseparty in their lonely coun- try home not far trom Atlanta was the unwanted presence of Aunt Maggie and “ve. The sec- ond was the fact that someone ‘murdered Aunt Maggie. Now, ‘when the guests have been got to bed and Bob has been left on guard, everybody is awakened by terrifying screams. They find Alice in a faint, and carry her back to bed, still unable to tell what she has seen. Chapter 11 Something Horrible | JHAT did you see, Alice?” Eve demanded, and from the} insistence of her tone I thought for a moment that perhaps Alice had seen Eve herself, though it is true Eve was not now wear- ing the fancy pajamas Bill had described. Instead, the flame-col- ored velvet negligee, wrapped around her with elaborate casual- ness, revealed rather a lot of astonishingly inadequate white chiffon and lace nightgown. But, clasping and unc! 2 her hands, Alice looked from one face to another with a sort of scared-rabbit expression, as though begging us not to k her demented. Shaking her she said, “I don’t kno Si thing horrible.” what on earth were you! w Bob asked | around for?” little defiantly. y I go down to the library to my own brother?” “Well, it was foolish to say th least,” Eve reproved, as thoug she herself ad not been pro ing also. Alice gave Eve another of those looks of Ss e sh . said Claire, coming to the rescue. “She's terribly upset and prob: ably do tf like talking. Probably just had a dream ghtened her that’s wanted to Bob.” “I wish it had been a dream,” | Alice shuddered you feel bett Claire asked. d thought of wt had seen. “We rr ust au ee av from here. I di r candle must have done. lamplight from downstairs m a pale scrt of glimmer in the stairwell, but that was all. After I started, | was terribly afraid and almost turned back. But I knew Bob was there in the library and that by the time 1 reached the head of the stairs I| could call down to him with Dut | disturbin “Then, a sort of dra dow or door somewhere, ai hurried he herself wa: what she went out an against me i “[—I_ touched inued, “I fe though a win- nd go to s insisted. “ “But what happened?” Eve de-| manded again. “I must have been almost to, the | stairway by then,” Alice said, ‘ “for | I saw it g ing down the steps.” “Saw it? eathed. “Saw wh asked the literal- ed Eve. you couldn’t have remonstrated Bob. he told him. “I— ‘T heard myself ob- neredulous glances met | he bed. a child when one| ‘out an imaginary fear by bringing it out in the open. “I don’t know.” Alice admitted “There wasn’t much light. It was just a shape down the s screamed and—; I tell you r pose I f. ed.” “You were just sick, my dear Then is when I And then [ sup- frightened and Bob tried to most had got to bed I could have killed him cheer- fully, but body was paying no, I tell y was som “Could it foe about in the wind?” We all v: sect for the long dra- ies at the window on the stair- landing. In the uncertain! WAR RUINS BANKNOTE CONCERN Europe trously the WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER to speak bad | 1 big bulk, moving} id the thing ran.| light they could have seemed to do almost anything, we told Alice. “But they couldn’t have come all the way to the upstairs hall,” she argued, insisting that what- ever it was had brushed Past her before she had seen it going down the steps. “Probably just your own robe swishing about,” Bob told her. “If you really had seen anything, wouldn’t I have met it in the downstairs hall? I was up and out of the library a moment after you started screaming.” “Of course, Alice,” Bill reas- sued her. “Bob would have run smack into it.” “You are sure you didn’t see anything?” Alice pleaded, her eyes clinging to her brother's with an almost physical hold. “Positive.” But Alice still did not appear quite convinced, for she said, with what seemed to me rather pointed logic, “After all, there is always that little margin of time that cannot quite be accounted | for. With people moving about at random al] over the house this evening, there was still time for } Aunt Maggie to be murdered in | the back passage.” | Claire promised to spend the | rest of the night with Alice and ; ie men made another tour of iled to find any- | When they came | back to Alice’s room, where Eve and I waited, Kirk looked at his v called attention it was a quarter ck and time for “Oh, dar! ing, why do you al- vays have to think of things?” ill had complained when I asked him to investigate Aunt Maggie’s indows. And now that we were k in bed again after Alice’s te g tour, I had ing else. eed, c r vhy I ha not thought of it before. Bill, poor da: had promptly dropped off to sleep for the second, or was it the third, time that evening? | Proof of steady nerves and a | ele ear conscience, if the psycholo- | gists s know their stuff. My con- 1s ice was clear enough, but ainly my brain had been d by the rapidity with which followed their fan- ic course. Possible Clue YING there, g again for sleep to come to me, the dis- connected thoughts which had raced back and forth across my in the evening be- n to straighten themselves out what might conceivably be ed a pattern. n drowsiness began to creep me and in that last moment en sleeping and waking, iousness hangs poised abyss of forget- ught popped into my | head and brought me wide awake | again. Aunt Maggie had announced at dinner that she believed she had found the clue to the long-for- gotten secret room. Soon after- ward she had been killed. Was it | possible there was a connection | between these two occurrencies? Could she have been killed le looking for the secret Or had there been a strug- 2 with someone who tried to get ps ion of the, clue? I tried to convince myself that my wits were only wool-gather- g but, I might, I could g I had hit upon K ve. If it was the e killer wanted, had he eeded in wresting it from Or had my arrival inter- d with his purpose? he fled upstairs, down- out of doors or into the I had come through the st-room door, but four ere still open to him. ne d suddenly I knew. Plutarch had told me. Plutarch who had fawned against me when I came | back from my hurried trip to the | kitchen for water. Whep I first came out into the passage the murderer was concealed in the e, and during my brief ab- sence he had escaped. That was w Plutarch happened also to be_on the loose. There is a second door from the office, which opens into the | Pace rail room, formerly the back hall. This way the murderer | could have passed on into the front hall and out the front door or up the stairway. But probably | that would have been too risky: To have taken the back stairs, either up to the second floor or, down to the basement, or to have 2 out the back door would. e been much easier and much | If my arrival had prevented the killer from stealing the clue. }and the clue was of such impor- | tance, there was no time to lie: It must be salvaged for safekeep- the clue should be of im- ance to anyone, why Aunt gie should be murdered be- cause of it, I, of course, could not out. All I really knew was could not go to sleep until set my. mind at rest by ng an investigation. ps already I might be too ours had passed, during everyone had had the run jof ‘the house. All unbidden, the ght came that perhaps the urnal wanderings of Eve and might have other than ob- explanations. But I put ughts forcibly from my a. It isn't much fun to start suspecting everybody you know of murder. | To be continued (Cobsright, 1939, Medora Field Perkerson) po pany which was formed two years ‘ago to print foreign cur- The company’s $250,000 ant was recently soid in a Fed- ral bankruptcy sale for $7,600 scrap metal. 4, 1940 GENERALS 1 TONIGHT GAME WILL DECIDE SOUTH- EAST CONFERENCE TITLE (Special to The Citizen) MIAMI, Dec. 4.—Andrew Jack- son Generals will make a bid to- night to share the Southeast Con- ference gridiron championship with the Miami Beach Typhoons. Genera he Ft. Lauderdale Flying L’s in Orange Bowl Stadium and a victory will carry them to their goal. Should Andrew Jackson lose tonight, however, Miami Beach in sole possession of the are slated to take on ’s and Generals have wo games each this season and each have defeated four mutual opponents. DIAMGND GLEANINGS By RABID FANSTER IT \WAS THE DECIDING GAME of the East New Jersey baseball championship series. The eighth inning had rolled around with the Farmers leading the Field Club, 9-7. Warily the Fielders trotted back to the dugout to await their turn at bat. Their cause looked hopeless. . .three runs needed and just two inn 0 go. Oh, well, nobody could say they hadn't giv- en their all. But, wait! safely. A Clubber reached and then another. Two men on. . .the big moment had arrived! A home run now and victory would be within their grasp. A home run, ah!. . .might as well ask for the moon. Up to the plate stepped. the subject of this column. Tensely ne braced himself, fully realizing what this moment meant to his team. The moundsman began his windup. . .then came the pitch, Witn a prayer in his heart, our hero swung his bat with all the strength he could muster. . . wham!. . .a hit! Yes, you guess- ed it—a home run. The ball went sailing right out of the park and the runners floated around the bases. Hurrah and a couple of cheers!. -the Clubbers shot ahead, 10-9. All necessary was to hold the Farmers in check and that they aid. And so—the Field Club nine of Point Pleasant won the championship of East New Jer- sey. The hero of that game—the home-run clouter—is none other than Norman Artman, a product of Key West sandlots. Managing his father’s newspaper in Point Pleasant for the past two years, Norman has been active in the baseball and softball sports of that summer resort. During the short trips to his. home town, he never fails to “keep in practice”. This year will be no exception. Sunday he will appear in the Pirate lineup when that club meets the Key West Conchs at East Martello Tower field on the boulevard. Young Artman began his base- ball and softball careers in Key West years ago. During the height of.the softball craze, he was a member of the champion Citizen ten, starring at shortstop. He has appeared on many hard ball clubs here. Ready and willing to play any position, he prefers the infield, especially third base. “Tll do the best I can for the Pirates Sunday”, Norman said when informed manager Paul Al- bury would use him in his line- up. “I haven’t been active since that championship game in Point Pleasant and [Ive added some weight, but I'll be all right after a couple of brisk workouts”. BY THE WAY, manager Al- bury of the Bucs says fans should not attach too much significance to the past two games his club has dropped to the Conchs. “Any- one attending the contests could very easily understand why”, the veteran pilot asserts. “I have had to use any material available. My best players have been on the sick list or have left town. Last Sunday, I had to scour the city to round up enough players to put a team on the field. Mv main purpose was to provide enter- tainment for the many fans in at- tendance and practice for the players”. At present, Mr. Albury is at- tempting to secure the services ef several of the leading base- ballers in Key West. It is pos- sible they will be seen in action next Sunday against the Conchs. GEORGETOWN WILL MEET MISS. STATE IN ORANGE BOWL (Special to The Citizen) , c. 4—Georce- town University’s Hoyas have been selected to do battle with the Mississippi Stte eleven in the Orange Bowl Stadium here New “Year's Dey. Hoyas possess an enviable record, having lost only one game in the past three see- sons. This year they piled up 273 points in nine contests. Miss. State has scored 230 Points in 10 battles. The selection of George- town U maintains the - tradi- tion of a North-South rivalry in the Orange Bowl. Hoyas’ heme town is Washington. D.C. Before the announcement yesterday, it was expected Texas A. & M. Aggies would oppose the State eleven. ASI ASS FSF BALL CHAMPS TO USE SAME TEAMS (Special to The Citizen) ATLANTA, Dec. 4.—Detroit Tigers and Cincinnati Reds, win- ners of the pennant in their re- spective league the past season, will use the same lineups next year. Tigers, due to a no-trade rule in the American League, will be unable to obtain talent from oth- er clubs. General manager War- ren Giles and manager McKech- nie of the Redlegs assert they are willing to stand pat on their players. “We might make a minor deal” Giles told reporte “For in- stance, trade a right-handed hit- ting outfielder for left-handed hitting outfielder” but no _ out- standing trades were in the of- fering for the Reds. The announcement was made en the eve of the annual base- ball meeting here, which con- vened today. BETTER BOWLING (EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the ninth of ten lessons on bowling.) Making Difficult Spares By ANDY VARIPAPA Famous Bowling Authority (Written for AP Feature Service) There are difficult spares—one or two well nigh impossible ones, and then again, there are common spares quite easy to make if proper control over the ball is exercised. Two of the most common spares are the 1-2-4-10—first three pins to the left, the fourth in the right corner. A_ straight hit between the 1 and 2 pins will almost invariably clear the boards. The other common spare is the 2-4-5-8—bunched fairly close. Straight-ball through Nos. 2-5-8 will pick them off for the spare. Of course, while we're on the subject of spares to be made from splits—take the wide-open split. eImpossible, you say. Not so—many experts can make} it. But it’s tricky. FOLLOWING THROUGH By PEDRO AGUILAR 7-10, CHETA BAKER AND AR- MANDO ACEVEDO, members of the Key West Conchs, are leading the swatters in the Conch-Pirate {baseball series being played at East Martello Tower field Sun- days. Diminutive Baker trotted to the plate nine times and came through with safe hits on seven eceasions. Acevedo possesses a like record. Included in Cheta’s collection of safeties are a -pair of triples, and Armando pounded out tv three-baggers and double. Wm. Cates, hit safely a Conch captain, has ix times in seven of- ficial trips to the plate, and walk- ed twice. Villareal, another Key West player, poled five out of eight. Leader of the Pirates is Manolo Acevedo, who has produced a triple and a single in three tries. Curi Garcia hit two out of four, and Kelly connected for a three- bagger in two trips to the plate. WE LEARN the Pepper's Plumbers and Sawyer’s Barbers are ready and willing to engage in a softball series as soon they can obtain sponsorship of the lights at Bayview Park. Ac- ccrding to Nene Castro. Barber moundsman, the Peppers are real- ly going to have a fight on ti hands. STRUCK TWINS (iy Axsctate? Press) ' CLOVIS,.N. M., Dec. 4—It just wesn't in the cards for Coach R. K. Staubus of Clovis high school to have both his star half- acks—twin brothers—in shape, to play at the same time this sea-'! son. First it was Jim, one of the twins, who broke his arm in the first game of the season. Then, a/| ater. just as Jim was ing over Lis broken arm and preparing to go back into orkouts h the team, his ‘other, Dick, was sent to the hospital for an appendectomy. Staubus, who had looked for- ward for years to having the boys —considered by fans the most “natural” football plavers in years kere—on the high school team, has started waiting all over again for next year. HANDLESS HUNTER BAGGED BIG BEAR (By Associated Pre: WALLA WALLA. Wash., Dec. —John Tamplin of nearby Col- lege Place hasn’t any han bu this fall he bagged a 400-pou: brown bear. Tamplin’s hands were amputat- | ed seven years ago. 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