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THURSDAY, FEBRYARY 27 » 1941 by Jeanne Chapter 34 Confidential Conversation CONSTANCE heard herself Pleading, “The cow wasn’t there last night, I know. Lamson, my yery own man, watches this one.” Dr. Wing shook his head, “You know the law,” he said, Constance sank down on the edge of a trough. She knew. Slaughter sf all diseased cattle. Loss of sme herd. A check on the outflow of milk from El Cabrillo Dairies until a test had been run on the entire place... and even then the stigma. “Doctor Wing, there’s a good ehance they didn’t contract it in this very short time, isn’t there?” Michael Mahoney had never bare gained more eagerly. “Give them a chance, Let me have the whole herd driven to. the inner valley. We can isolate them for the pe- riod of quarantine. It isn’t just the money and the reputation of the ranch, it’s—” She looked at the nearest cow regarding her with patient eyes. “Oh, I like the fool things,” she explained. “I just can’t have them slaughtered for nothing.” Doctor Wing thought for a few moments. “You've been having a lot of subversive activity ldte~ ly, haven't you, Miss Cabrillo? I came here on a tip telephoned the office. I'd like to find out who's doing this. Call your man and we'll see about it,” Lamson came forward, anythin, “See 6 unusual about that herd?” Doctor Wing asked him, Lamson looked them over, then turned to Constance. “H’I say,” he burst out, “’ow did she get in ’ere?” And he cut the stranger from che herd. Bowman — the lock had been turned on him, and even then he’d hope his luck would turn at the zero hour. Constance, leading Pancho ‘to his new quarters and coaxing him. to eat, felt she was in the Bass tile; the key had turned, but she had no hope. There simply wasn’t any way out. Dr. Wing’s farm lay on the op- posite side ef Beachport. Reachs ing town again, Constance ree membered she had had no luneh, She didn’t feel like dining with either the family or Peter Taylor, but where in Beachport could she go looking as she did? The little waterfront cafe! It was early. She went through to the last booth and drew the curtains of dull green baize, She had just given her order when she felt the shock of someone sitting down in the opposite booth; a heavy, tired body. And then she heard voices, and from her weary, defeated e, sat up alert. Pedro and John Raskthorne were in the next booth, At the sound of Pedro’s. voice, Constance found her unruly heart picking up its beat. Pedro, in Beachport. She hadn't knewn where he was. By mutual agree- ment, his name hadn't been men- tioned to her at the Taylors’. And now he was here in the booth next to her; only a thin sheet of laminated woodibetween them. But he was with John Raskthorne, z “All right, dro’s voice was incisive, “Why do you want the ranch to fail?” John laughed easily, “It. isn’t the ranch.I want to fail, Taylor. But, man to man, would you want to marry a girl who was | 01 Wing was satisfied. “Remember, | You? Miss Cabrillo, this quarantine means dry cows. Is it going to be worth the feed?” “Yes!” “All right, I'll stay with the drive. But first let me telephone for some men. They might as well do the disinfecting you'll need at the old cattle barns,” Pedersen took Wing to the telephone, then eame back to Constance. “I won't be able to learn anything from anyone,” he said with the slow anger of his race. “There’s something queer about this place, It seems to clase in against strangers, To keep on, means eternal vigilance, and—” Constance knew what he meant. Pedersen was beginning to won- der it it was worth it, So was she, with the best-producing herd on_ thé plavé’ in “quarafitine! ;* Slowly .she went back to the ranch house, stepped into the patio and stopped short. Juliano was dressing a gash on Don’s cheek. Nadine was crying softly and Donna was hysterical, “That damned horse of yours,” shouted Don. Constance wheeled and ran to the stable. A high, shrill whinny greeted her. And then the stable boy ducked out of the stall, tears streaming down his face. “He's bad hurt,” he sobbed, “your brother was mad at him ++, 8e@.,. this leg here.” Constance saw the leg and other marks-——“Get Doctor Wing, he'll be at Barn Three. Tell him to hurry.” She soothed the horse, ran a earessing hand down his neck and along the flanks where mus- cles twitched, and when he quieted she leaned her head against him. Don had tried to break Pancho. ... He had broken her. When her enemies struck at her through defenseless animals, she was whipped. The Key Turns “Aste gash on his leg here, and some other nasty things,” Doctor Wing pronounced after hig examination. “Whoever did this ought to be horse whioned ” Constance no ‘ed. But who would do’ the whipping? Neither Don nor Donna had ever been cesrected for any wrong they had lone, Doctor Wing looked at her quizzically, cleared his throat and grumbled, “You won't be much help here now. I need men, so put Pancho in a trailer and take him to my plaee, Tell the wife to give him that box stall on the acre lot, He needs the quiet he'll have there. Stay with him until he feeds.” Co nee sent the boy for her car keys while she blanketed Pancho, led him to the trailer, and tacked on the canvas cover. Only his amber eyes were visible. They looked at her trustingly. She drove out of El Camino Real slowly. She didn’t want to see the family until she could her anger. Then they talk. She would bargain them. How? What had she to offer? to John Raskthorne if would agree they all go east: leave the ranch with i ther. solution. defeat, and hn to sell, URGES skin Today’s Horoscope rather fortunate in friends native will need all the re “I wouldn’t marry a girl who loved Jand better than me,” snapped Pedro, “T waited for Constance for six years,” Raskthorne went on. “At first I thought it was the ranch that lay between us; a psycho- logical rival, something she couldn’t understand, And then quite by accident, she let me know she looked upon the ranch as a means of keeping her fam= ily in funds so they wouldn’t be dependent upon the man she mar- ried; namely, myself. “That's why I backed her; gave her a chance to put it over. “Of course,” he admitted, laughing, “I'd made a_ pretty thorough investigation of it be- fore I turned the money over, I'm not in the habit of backing ‘tosing -horse," s+ —— “T see.” ‘Stick To Business’ CONSTANCE wondered exaetly what Pedro saw that made his voice so ¢risp, so ., , so contempt- uous? She wondered that she could sit there listening, when she felt as she felt, or was it that the day had given her go many shocks she was numb? “You found.” Pedro went “that Miss Cabrillo's interest success had passed the point 0 providing for her family, a that if she succeeded you woul never be able to separate her from the ranch,” epething like that,” John eonceded. “T fel away, knowing she couldn't run the place herself, she'd be a lite tle less , , . independent.” “And " guggested Pedro, “you stirred up an_insurrection among the loyal Cabrillo em- Ployees; the men who wer steeped in Cabrillo tradition} children who liked to lay in the sun and let the Cabrillos provide their food and shelter and ote easional wine,” John Raskthorne’s answer came in a voice like a sliver of ice. “I bave done nothing of thelkind,” ‘Didn't you," pgrsued Pedro, “when. you knew the intense tral- Meg over the Svcaree of the eg employees, say in the p: \0! Tuller’ that the loss aria hey would cripple Miss Cabrillo? Didn’t you say it was lucky there were no electric storms here to set fire to it? “And haven't you right along suggested everything that has happened, even to telling, last Sunday, about a ranch that was forced to close down because tubercular cows were found among the herds?” “You have an excellent imag- ination, Mr. Taylor. Are you sure that you were not the one te make these suggestions?” “Quite sure,” retorted Pedr “because I have the word of some e present on each occasion, that you spoke as I said.” Constance Sing to the edge of the bench. John had wanted her j tected his investment so that he | couldn't lose. And he wanted her to marry him, expected her to. “I didn’t know you had been seeing Mise a right, joffered Ra thorne ge “Midnight rendezvous? Gonstance didn't hear-Pedro's jreply because . . . ge she | knew, suddenly, that Donna had jbeen seeing Pedro; Don ex- | d, mysterious, had been slip- out of the house at night hat was that. lities will not help us,” ying, “suppose we ou want to rid o of the ranch, and sources to withstand the mity for success; if nec t will be keep shallow waters of quiet life. walk cautiously. In jall events, Raskthorne,” Pe-— interested in the percentage of) butter fat in milk than she was in | it if T could get her | jto lose. John who had first pro-j| | THE KEY WEST CITIZEN MEMORY OF THE Moon Students Won Longest - Cage Game Lions Increased Lead Three Five-Minute Over-| time Periods Required To Down Army; VP33 Dropped To Third Two new Island City Basket- ball League records for this sea- son were established last night. It all happened when the High School varsity quintet racked up a thrilling, three-over-time-period 72-58 triumph against U.S. Army in the second game of the dou- bleheader at the school’s gymna- sium. Three extra five-minute quar- ters were required as the Dough- boys came from behind on each ooo, CONCHS TO TOURNAMENT High School Conchs’ sudden | burst of speed and scoping ; spree that clinched the game in | the third overtime period | against Army last night were explained shortly after the contest. Students revealed that just | prior to the final extra fivei- minute quarter, Coach Johnny | Offutt promised to enter them in the distrigt basketball tour- | nament at Miami next week as | @ reward for victory. Taking | ne chances of losing the oppor- tunity, the youngsters held the | Scldiers to'a single point while they racked up seven straight field goals and a free throw, | SN varsity basketball team is sched- | occasion to tie-up the score. They \jeq to journey here from Miami were finally downed in the third additional period under a shower of Student field goals, | The exeessive time necessary | to decide the contest and High Sehool’s 72 points are the new | marks set. Army also lost the only other overtime game this year, succumbing 52-45 to Lions |Club in a single extra five-min- ute quarter. Preyious high-score | record, 71.points in a regulation | jecontest, was held by the Lions. Students should haye won in the fourth period of the regular} game. With only seeonds to go, and a field goal ahead, they at- | {tempted to sink another basket jand lost the ball to the Soldiers. ;George Nodine, Army veteran, \received the sphere near the cen- ter line and let fly one of his fa- {mous long shots that split the \middle of the hoop. It had hard- ily passed through the net when the final whistle ended the regu-| lation game 44-44, thus sending ‘th® battle into an extra period. ; Varsity five immediately shot ahead when play was resumed ‘byt the Doughboys rallied in the last two minutes. Once more mere seeonds stood between the Students and victory and again a@ Soldier, Pete White, came {through with the tying field goal \just before the Whistle sounded. The count stood 51-51. And so another _ additional round was jmecessary. Following a two-minute ; Period, they were off again, fighting, “tooth and nail”. Ex- citement. among the few remain- ing spectators had now reached fever-piteh, Pep rallies spurred the Students on but the Dough- boys kept abreast and the third overtime quarter ended 57-57 | From then on the Marching |Men never had a chance. Play- ing as though they had diseoy- ered the seeret of Superman's durability, the varsity cagers went on a scoring spree in the third and fina} extra period to clinch the game. They smother- ed the Soldiers under a barrage of field goals and at the same time held them to a lone point, a free shot by center Long. Stu- dents sunk seven consecutive baskets to wipe out any chance of Army overcoming their lead. Roberts Smith, 23 points; De- Witt Roberts, 20, and Ralph Arn- old, 12, paced the victors. Charles Almeda and Pete White topped athe losers, 21 and 15, pespective- ly. High School, r tie far sec: place by virtue win, committed 16 persona! and netted only eight of its rest ¥ 13 times and suceeeded in sink ing 12 of its 21 charity tosses. Box score High Seheol (72) US. Army (58 Player— PG Almeda 8 ig into a three- S 0 penalty shots) Army errored ‘ Of Season; CONCHS BATTLE SAILORS SUNDAY Key West Conchs, baseball ehampions of this city, will swing into action Sunday atfernoon at Nelson English Park for the first time this year. The fast nine off U.S.S. Dicker- | json will furnish the opposition. Conchs will use their same lineup ; that carried them to numerous \victories last season, Cyril Griffin, the old r@iable, will be behind the plate to re- ceive the slants of a trio of ‘moundsmen, Cheta Baker, Rob- ert Bethel and Jose Casa, each working three innings. Barcelo will cover first, Carbonell second, * Acevedo short field and Cates third base. Villareal, Gonzalez and Molina will roam the out- field. Flash Gordon Disqualified In Main Mat Event Last Night PONCE CAGERS DUE TOMORROW Ponce De Leon High School’s jtomorrow for games that night 4, direct toward old ladies emerg- | and Saturday night against Key West High’s Conchs. The locals are going through a strenuous workout this after- noon in preparation for the inva- sion. Key West defeated Ponce on its first mainland road trip last month, High School and Convent girls will play preliminary affairs to the interscholastic games, which are the last of the season, 3 15 15 Rhoden Long White Nodine Duggar Lyle Martin 4 7 3 0 0 0 0- 0 Totals— 23 Score by quarters: High School 11 20 33 44 51 57 72 Army 9 17 31 44 51 57 58 12-21 58 VP33 lost its chance of gaining league leadership by dropping a 45-31 decision to the Lions Club in the opening game last night. At halftime, the Clubbers had gained the lead and were never headed. Held to eight points in the opening quarter, first part of which they went scoreless, the Lions “got hgt” in the next stan- za, racking up 17 markers. Defending city champions now hold a full game lead over the three clubs tied for second posi- tion. They have only another trio of games to play, one with U.S. Marines, first-half title- holders. The loss sent the Avia- tors into third place. Joe Pinder, six field goals and two out of two charity shots, led the way for the victors. Charlie Smith contributed an even dozen points. Sharpshooting Maki again was outstanding for the Airmen, ac- counting for more than two-thirds of his elub’s total seore. He sent nine baskets and four penalty tosses through the hoop. Four of his field goals were sunk in rapid fashion the first few minutes of play Each team was charged with nine personal fouls and each net- ted half its free throws. Box score Lions Club (45) FG 6 Tt 3 0. 12 + 6 Pate : 4 Duggan Jackson Ramee Dunn ePPPets eoooraw | ¢ - Ss Totals Score by quarters: I 3s 2 HS 423 SPORTS CALENDAR | | BASKETBALL (High School Gym. 7:30 p.m.) | TOMORROW NIGHT First Game—High School Girls vs. Convent Girls. ' FIGHT CARD. TOMORROW Second Game—Key West High | School Varsity vs. Ponee de Leon | NIGHT; KOVAC AND HAUSE Varsity. | UN SEMILFDIAL SATURDAY NIGHT i First Game—Convent Girls vs. High School Girls. Felix Gonzalez, Key West wel- Second Game—Ponce de Leon terweight, gets his greatest , Varsity vs. Key West High Schaal chance for a long step up in fis- Varsity. ‘tie circles tomorrow night when jhe tangles with Yucatan Kid in ithe featured 10-poundes at Cecil |Carbonell's Front 2nd Simonton street arena. Gonzalez, heavier and strong- ‘er than the highly-teuted Kid, says he considers his chances | good. a AGAINST THE KID BOXIN' (Key West Arena, 8:30 p. m.) TOMORROW NIGHT Second card of year, featuring Yucatan Kid, outstanding light- weight in Florida rings, and Felix Gonzalez, Key West welterweight. Supporting bouts, Corner Simon- ‘ton and Front streets. : thpaws like me are hard \for any! to fight”, Felix con- fides. “He'll Latigh ue time getting to me and if /he isn’t care- ful, FN knock hisihead off", The local boy, for all his con- The highest-paid pitchers in baseball are Bob Feller of Cleve-| land and Bobo Newsom of De ‘troit jeach receiving around $30, i dynamite-laden ayea when he [900 a year. I steps ihside the rapes. with Yupa- ‘an Kid The Miamian Bes been jrated No. 2 among: lightweight |Jenkins’ crown and he won his rating with the high explosive jcontents of his right hand, | Pete Kovac. an Hause, lightweights, ' isep the. Stound distaper in’ the ‘Roy Weleh Victor; Swen- {t°?, she P-round Sistanee ne | bonell is lining up a string of | ski, Light-Heavy Champ, ‘tively pr ies, | Won In Semi-Final ‘LOPEZ:PRICE Virtue and that pristine sports- | ;manship that Boy Scouts learn! (Special to The Citisen) \ed in glorious triumph last night} ae haar i jas Key Westers had their ag ee sa eae Dew taste of heavyweight wrestling | + Chicago, played a _ 1 |“ Local fans, many of whom had | Hey eh be the Miami Bilt. ‘never seen the trained seals of i the ear-twisting circuit before, as pics |whooped and cheered as eel : ‘Art Ritchie disqualified Flas! {Gordon after 34 minutes in the|mateh with Fan Christiansen and ‘main go and raised the hand of 34 tion |the bruised but gallant Roy | carded a 67 for iene ‘Welch of Tennessee. = __ |to the i's 74. In the aft- i They gasped with indignation ernioon, after f holes of even ‘when the burly New Yorker play, the champion and his part: clopped Ritchie a resounding | ner took the match. jright to the jowls and cheered | the again when Welch staggered rourid by winning the: first Bhd jblindly out of the ring, arm | with a bifdie 4, but Chapman ‘raised in token of victory. lenis One fan seemed to voiee the; {sentiments of the crowd with his/ angry “take that bum back to Mi- jof the next four holes, losing all ‘ami, Ritchie! We don’t allow tof them when they sort of thing in Key West”, | mi i bs and the last [west nate 59 Welch won the first fall in nine! were halved. in minutes when he lifted the heav- |” Both teanis-playiéd see dia nl ier New Yorker in an airplane first three holes of the back spin and dumped him te the ean- I bat AS ? 2 ¢ vas. Gordon evened it up by|with a par 4. ai taking the second fall after he! with two to put the team 6 ‘had twisted the mountaineer |Topez scored a birdie on the jaround the ropes, tossed him @ teenth, but: Chapma! few times into the laps of | wit y fi ringsiders and then industriously, sisteent clipped him on the.chin ‘he his § down, ag M8 min- hapman 8¢ 8 bad t i : jknee. The job required utes. _ After that things beeame con ' they were too far: fusing: Welch made a agisy but the match at the not very springy punching bag pack. . and-Gerdon seemed.to have earn- : ed at least a decision over Referee Ritchie. Ritchie didn’t see it that! way, howver, so Welsh, who Island Besketbel hadn't been doing much of any- 17 Oa thing, won the fight and every-| Club— one agreed that anyone with a8 1 ions’ @iub _ bad a disposition as Gordon ic Gc. Pandora probably beats his wife and'y'S Marines | shouldn't win, anyway. | Hi John Swenski. who elgims toi yp33 have the world’s light-heavy-'U.§ Army weight crown tucked away some- | place in his belongings, was de-! |moted to the semi-final and took Marines about the same sort of pushing!tions Club around as Welch. He won, too. |y¢ Army Bill Ludwig, another bad "UN. | High Sehool . lost the first fall in 13 minutes | yp3g _ when he toppled to the canvas_ and couldn't get up. i Probably rated among the noisiest wrestlers in history.) Ludwig groaned, growled and gnashed his teeth through five; minutes of the second fall, his| Island City head resting in the same head- fifth round of play: lock where it had been since the Player— ; fight started. Finally, he pick- Laney, M iup the champion im some- thing that looked like @ station- ane spin and Swenski i 32 ig rth | STANDINGS i s] =e 3 Fnac _ BES8 z FPIP IAL L Ld) Ee ~aveede Sewell seuuwe = eroesces|e2ss gave up Referee Ritchie gave the match Swenski, after pine minytes ) the third fall. when Ludwig McOiregar, M34 nsisted on pitching the champ |Knowjes, LC _ 15 t the ringsiders and ignored re-/Nelson, A... 14 peated warnings. tw | "Ome we. e Sac -eumocaew Ronnie Hicks, substituting George Becker in the opener, lest to Rex Mobley in eight min- utes. The matches last night were the first Key West has seen in| more than 15 years. The was brought here at about that, ;time at the Garden theater. [MEET IN FEATURE ROUT OP| gontenders’ for Champion Lew j) annual Amateur Pour-| | Setting the stage for. the final | carded as |\ E8833 “The Grapes of. Wrath”, born in Salinas, Cal., 39 years ago. Laura E. Richards of Gardiner, Me., noted author, born in .Bos- ton, 91 years ago. ‘ weer U.S. Senates Burton K: ‘Wheel: Mass., 59 years ago. Justice Hugo L. Black of the Jan, Ala., 55 years ago. Maurice G. Hindus of New York, writer-novelist, born in Russia, 50 years ago. Franchot Tone, actor, born at Niagara Falls, N. Y. 36 years age. | David Sarnoff, president, Ra- dio Corp. of Ameriea, born Russia, 50 years ago. | {mer Atlantic editor, born in New | York, 69 years ago, | fidence, is putting*his chin in a! | Prof, Arthur M. Schlesinger of, Harvard. noted historian, born in| Xenia, Ghio, 63 years ago. 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