The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 13, 1941, Page 3

eh: : 4 att i a Balk i . gree a ete g. é | “Pam, you're lovely,” he as he sat down o} sie man looked at her. it would your answer be if I told you I loved ou?” He waited for a moment a cyte oh then thought he Ww in her eyes, thor je made no audible Pejcinaae im telling-you, Pam, I love you. Pll love you forever and ever. Ill love you all my life, little island flower.” Across the room he saw Freda, who was wearing his diamond, He knew he should not have en so to Pam, at least not until that diamond was reclaimed. Then Antoine asked Pam to eS danee, Jerry watched them move away, scarcely conscious of the girl who had P) into a chair at his table, a girl from Virginia. He remembered her. He’d met her at several smart coe ‘She spoke in broken little phrases and Jerry recalled having kissed her one evening during a foolishly Ce ga tic interval in the shadows of a Spanish lime tree. She had seemed lovely then, but now ing the stayed his words and let her go. Aimost immediately Algar beside her again, cut- want that dance I was cheat- ed out of beautiful,” he said easily. ” as they whirled away ‘ . “has anyone told as you're the most beautiful girl “No, I think everyone here is honest,” Pam sogte, they can’t be. They’re a bunch of meanies, or they’d have told you long ago. Everybody here is raving about some little Conch gal that’s suposed to be tops. They | Say she mows ’em down like no- | body's business! I haven’t seen her | Yet, and I don’t want to. I’ve seen | you!” The Bet if NCH girl?” Pam caught only one word. She was Conch. She'd never been anything but | poet of it. It meant that she had | been born on the island. She was |native to its beauty. But there had been something in the way | Algar said it that caught her at- Bruce was in. there was something annoying | tention. about her. She followed Jerry’s| eyes with a sort of helpless deféat “Yes, Conch, beautiful. But let’s not talk about her. Let’s talk in her own. She said finally in her | about you. You're the real thing. fra; ile little voice: understand. I’ve seen it my- self just that way. A man comes | up in your life like the moon in the sky, and he’s just there—and what are you going to do about | it? She's like that with you.” i But Jerry was staring out at, the dancers, } “Let’s dance,” the girl said. She | was that kind. A man never really } minded dancing with her, but he never asked her. | Good Time ND on the dance floor Antoine had kept Pam only a little, while. A cut-in had taken her,; and then another. It was new to} Pam and grand fun. She looked up happily when Algar Bruce claimed her. ; “Hello, pretty!” he said. “Hello, yourself!” “So you know the answers. Come on out under the Royal Poinciana tree. They'll sound so much sweeter out there.” “Oh, no! Wait! I want to hear this!” So Pam and Algar found chairs at an unoccupied table. The orchestra had swung into a melody that cascaded and rippled through the room. Lenore Win- thrope walked into a little circle! of light that had been cleared on the dance rica ed She was brea’ ly lovely. All in white. Pam reflected that few girls were naturally equip to wear white so dramatically. Her dark hair was drawn back from her oval face and fell in soft curls on@fter shoulders. Her hands clasped a large bunch of violets. -Pam recognized them. The violets she had given Lenore’s mother. Antoine, directing his boys, brought the music to a swelling ed crescendo. The winds and brasses swept the melody clear and high. The strings echoed it softly, mutedly, A dramatic pea Then Antoine’s fingers in that s' chromatic so characteristic 0! him, And Lenore sta: ing. Her voice was a low, compelling hi » acco! ay _by the mellow w winds, so) win softly about a man she'd fou and lost again. ~ As Lenore stopped singing Pam Jed the applause. She clapped madly, her hands high “But there were eyes! Real tears. at what it takes to put a song over, Pam heard a a . Real tears in re’s eyes? But why? Way? Bam onde ut wi at ee ud a Scom,.and saw a native Key West- Sorority Pin in Wrong Place Uncovers Thefts (By Associated Press) pin there. You're as real and wholesome as a bottle of certified milk. And so much more intriguing!” “But this Conch girl—” Pam Started to say. “Oh, haven’t you heard? Some local beauty that sec, Winthrope bet he could date, and the rest of his crowd bet he couldn’t. Well, he did. This supper tonight is the pay-off. Antoine was the one who bet against Jerry. So he gave the ¥ supper, and Jerry has the girl | here somewhere. I haven't seen her dae But the girl can't mean anything to Jerry. He’s engaged to Freda Barington.” Pam missed a step. “Engaged? Engaged to Freda Barington?” “Sure! Haven’t you seen that diamond she’s wearing? Big as a house. That’s the engagement ring Jerry gave her.” “Jerry Winthrope engaged?”. The words came slowly from Pam. “Sure. Everybody knows that.” “And he bet”—it seemed to Pam it was some other girl's voice she heard asking the ques- tion—“he bet—about—about that Conch girl?” She had almost said “about me.” % “Sure. You're not telling me you didn’t know that, beautiful?” | Algar was too engrossed in his of the brightness had faded from |his partner’s eyes. “It’s some girl |who’s never noticed any of the winter boys before. She’s sup- | to be tops around here in ks, and all that. And Jerry, j with his usual good luck—" “Pm tired,” “Let's stop.” Suddenly she want to hear any more. She want- Algar to stop talking about Jerry and the bet. But Algar, with a sort of affable determina- tion, continued: *“Yeah! Jerry always does play in luck and it didn’t fail this time. He dated the girl for lunch or something and the supper was on Antoine. here we are, beauti- ful—you and I dancing!” Pam stopped dancing. ‘ “Excuse me!” she said hurried- ly. Algar’s words had been like a blow that shook the very founda- tions of her life. Pam went out into the room | where the orchestra was already beginning a new number. A just beyond a little any of danc- ers, Jerry's handsome face stood out. It seemed to Pam there was nol else in the room. Then she was aware of the girl he was talking to. Freda Barington Sleek, sophisticated Freda, To be continued 4 eS | been so hungry she had to pawn ” said Miss Winters. She hurried to Sally's and asked her about it. The result: ‘police someone had rifled the box own thoughts to notice that some | home Sally was OKLAHOMA CITY, Qct. 13.—jsurprised and scurried to the yatn entitled: Mys-jfamily jewel box. It was prac- y Jewel Box, was un- tically empty. covered by Miss Virginia Winters | when she peered into the window | of a second hand shop and reeog- i si ity sister’s sorority | “during the past six or eight sie A | weeks” and pawned $300 worth of “Surely Sally couldn't have jewelry im various stores. Sally reported to (Associated Press Feature Service) NEWBERRY, S. C.—Here’s a new high in football coaches’ pre-season pessimism: Bill Laval, Newberry College ‘coach, said his Indians would be so bad he'd have difficulty all season in getting officials for their games. “Our oponents will make so Many touchdowns”, he moaned, “that the officials won't be able to keep up with them on their way up and down the field. No- body, not even 2 football official, wants to run himself to death”. KNOXVILLE, Tenn.—Tom An- derson, sports columnist for the Knoxville Journal, was trying to interview a fearsome wrestler known as “the Skull”. “Easy bout tonight, wasn’t it, Mr. Skull?” he addressed the black-hooded figure. “Ugh”, said the Skull. “He apparently can’t speak or understand English”, said the promoter. Then Anderson de- cided to find out for himself once and for all. “Too bad about the house to- night. This guy'll only get about a dollar and a half as his share”. “What's that?” shouted the suddenly vociferous Skull. “Why, dammit, there musta been more——”. PHILADELPHIA. — It hap pened during the summer, when the New York Giants had been enjoying one of their rare — and short — winning streaks. Manager Bill Terry, looking forward to a doubleheader vic- tory over the Phils to lengthen the string, ordered three cases of beer placed on the train in | preparation for the return trip to New York. The Phils blasted the Giants 6-2 and 18-2 and Terry. raging, hustled to the station and had the beer removed from the train before the players board- ed. PIERRE, S. D.—The_baseball- craziest town west of Brooklyn is a fit description for this mu- nicipality. The population of 4,000 provid- ed crowds of 1,500 for two months to watch their 17-year-| olds battle to the state title in the American Legion Junior tournament. Some 100 fans fol- lowed the team 400 miles to the regional tournament and _ the nickels and dimes of those left behind financed a special tele- graph wire for a play-by-play ac- count of the regional games. The Pierre boys lost to Omaha on the fourth day—and interest dwindled disgracefully. Only 150 carloads of fans drove 15 miles down the highway to escort the players’ special bus back to town. BALTIMORE, Md. — A_ boy caddying for the first time held up the flag on the first green, according to instructions. “Who's away, caddy?” asked one of the players. “My whole family”, the boy replied. “That's how come I'm out here trying to. make some spending money”. NORMAN, Okla—Dale Ar- } buckle tells this one on himself: | He was coaching Duncan, Okla., high school and his team was tangled up in a terrific game | | with Anadarko high school. | darko backed up to its goal line, jthat team’s center made a wild} pass into the end zone. A Dun- can player feli on it and Referee | Granny Norris ruled it a safety. ‘Arbuckle screamed that it was/ a touchdown, but Norris held to his decision. Between halves Norris confid- ed to Arbuckle that he had been thinking the thing over and that! “jt was a touehdown but I can’t do anything about it now. Ill watch it in the future”. He did. In the second half Dunean’s center made a bad pass into the end zone, Anadarko re- covered and Norris signaled touchdown. Tre game ended. 6-2, Anadarko. “Tve let officials settle own problems ever sinee”, buckle says. their Ar- The Bureau of the Census re- |perts that the nation’s construc- ‘tion industry employed 1,073,655 |persons in 1939 and did work lvalued at $4,519,794,080. Seesecscevssesoseeeseess STRONG ARM BRAND COFFEE TRIUMPH COFFEE MILLS AT ALL GROCERS i ee Early in the game with Ana-| THE KEY WE: we : * i By HAROLD AP Peature Service BLOOMINGTON, of Indiana university's ball hopes are bee ae pee from who, ‘despite a bale of press cli pi sis conyinced the have hat My overrated. z $2, against Detroit, Titans won. Fatherless since he was a year old, Billy attended Memorial high school of Evansville and was perhaps the most widely publicized high school star in Indiana high school football. Gary’s Tom Harmon made his biggest headlines after he went to the University of Michigan. Started On Line Billy has been playing foot- ball since he was a 14-year-old high_school freshman, when he although the played end alongside his brother. | Joe, now a tackle at Purdue. Memorial's right halfback was injured, however, in the third game of Billy’s freshman year and Coach Don Ping moved Hillenbrand into the backfield. He stayed there. He scored in every game for three straight years, totaling 461 points, and in 1938 he led his high school team to a_ mythical Indiana high school champion- ship. Bill’s mother operates a gro- cery in Evansville and he came to Indiana because Dr. Roscoe Kleindorfer, an Indiana gradu- ate, saved his mother’s life and followed Billy throughout his high school career, attending Memorial gam2s both at home and away. Geoed Student Since coming to Indiana, Bill has helped defray his college ex- penses by making beds at his Phi Gamma Delta fraternity house. 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