The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 11, 1942, Page 4

Chapter 21 The Brooch ‘HAT afternoon Rita felt bet- ter. She came down to the {nn garden ina gold housecoat that called out the red-gold lights in her hair. Clark led her gently to a long reclining chair, tucked her in with gay cushions. Gloria moved about arranging —-alight robe. over her. feet:-She had stayed right with Rita all day; frantically on the alért for some way to stop the growing peace and intimacy betwéen her and Clark. She listéned arixiously as.Clark gently questioned Rita about the oranJe juice concentrat- ing plant. Rita told him what lit- tle she knew of her father’s business. Vividly, Rita told him of the thousanels of European children being fed with the concentrated product which could reach them only because it required so little shipping space. Gloria said, ‘ou’re just like your father, Rita. Much more con- cérned with the end than the means.” Clark shot Gloria a questioning glance, but Gloria’s face showed only affectionate warmth. The shadow of a frown crossed his face as he turned back to the lovely, frail Rita, whose whole being seemed radiant now as she spoke of her father’s dreams. He fought against the sudden impression Gloria’s words had brought, of an idealist, impulsive creature, whose emotions might outweigh her judgment—even her honesty. He banished the picture firmly from his mind. His Rita was not that—she was sentimen- tally moved now by the memories of her father, but she was prac- tical—clear-thinking —a straight shooter. He knew it! Carlos stormed down to the Inn’ himself with great hampers f.lunch from his own kitchen when he heard of Rita’s guests. .He ,,didn’t intend evén | the - odorous Clark Pasquini to, be poisoned by the hotel Kitchen: Amid much laughter, Carlos or- -dered tables’ set wp‘ in the garden “-@rtd the hotel staff to serve the ~ sumptuous: lunch even: while: he told them of its excellence}! its superiority to that of ‘the food here,,at the hotel, But in spite..ef Cai fBertenisy, there wae tension ami the 3 © thtugh friendly toward .. yas only so because he saw that Rita bad made, up with ‘He zzled ax ippoi He itched Rita absently picking at her luncheon and Clark anxious~ ly solicitous, concerned only with -..ber., Why did the blundering -imbecile have to drag this dark- eyed Gloria along when he came ta see Rita! ‘ Proposal ae last night the four of them dined together at Car- mel Inn. Rita was radiant in her sitfiple gown of white silk jersey with Grecian lines accentuated bday gold sandals, and Gloria eXotically lovely in a clinging sequin gown that fitted her figure like the scale of a mermaid. Her black hair was parted in the center and drawn back to @ knot on her slender throat, lips were a glaring streak Carlos was delightéd at _ tention they were receiving front the fascinated Ipwnsnocgles ordered the cocktails wit pe care, and even persuaded Himself ; at the hotel food. He loved, he 'admitted loudly, to be with the most beautiful women in the pee" Kept .up - stant~did she betray Her ¢om- plete desperation tonight. Her world seemed cracking about her. She had never in her spoiled life been denied what she had desired. She believed that a woman with utter ruthlessness and concentra- tion eould always get her man. Where had she failed? Carlos was sa’ “T'd ‘like to filch that paste trinket of yours, ° SEAMEN’S SERVICE ~ OPENS NEW CLUB “(By A ited Préss) > GLASGOW, ec. ll. — The - United. Seamen’s. Service, an’ or- ganization that does for Américan merchant seamen what the Red Cress does for. men of the Army and Navy, has set up here the first - of thé-clubs it will establish in 7 foreign. ports. Its headquarters here has ac- commodations for 150 men. There ate beds, recreation rooms and > other comforts for men who can - get a night off from their ships. " abs similar to the one here a I could throw my next picture in the toilet and take a vacation.” Gloria laughed = abscntly. “You're a good judge of jewels, | Carlos. This is worth $18,000. I j imagine that would purchase one | of your literary gems.” Rita reached across the txvle to touch the ex diamond brooch. she said warmly. “You should wear pearls, Ri Clark said. It was a quiet promise. He. dnd Rita danced then. The music was the same as the music of their first dance in New York Clark felt the nostalgic moment was propitious. He suggested a walk. They wandered down the pine-shadowed path that led to the summer house. “Remember I told you once you calmed me, steadied me, gave me a glow of fresh purpose?” he said. She nodded, surprised he had remembered it. “I meant it,” Clark said slowly. “When Fm with you, I feel like the; person I'd like to be—if that makes sense,” he added slowly. She was breathing in. short, controlled little breaths. “Yes.” “That’s why, being the selfish creature an..actor is,” Clark grinned, “I want you with me al ways. I want you to marry me.”. She stopped on the path and looked up at him, the moonlight through swaying pines making soft shadows across the small white oval of her face. “Do you mean that?” He said nothing while her brooding eyes searched his. Then slowly she believed him. Her mouth relaxed in a tremulous smile. “Darling.” He pulled her into his arms. Thief In The Night FTER a long minute, he stoppea kissing her. “Let's go back and tell them,” he wl pered. “I want to stop the orches- tra and make a public announce- ment.” “That’s the ham in you, dar- ling,” she laughed tenderly. Then she added in serious earnest, “Please don’t tell yet.” He réad her troubled thoughts and laughed. “You mean till you ¢lear your name? No; my beloved, ‘we'te matfying tomorrow and then I’m helping you straighten ‘It’s beautiful,” .}owt' that misunderstanding with those ranchers.” She smiJed.but shook her head, the light in her eyes almost bel- | ligerent. “I'll straighten out my own business, thank you.” She smiléd. “But I think I've found a quick solution.’ When they returned to their party, Clark reluctantly kept his word of secrecy, but Gloria sensed their exaltation. Her black eyes grew blacker. Aroused in- stinct told her only a terrific blow could now sever the bonds of Clark’s affection for this other girl. At two o’clock the next morn- ing, Clark was smoking by his bedroom window, too filled with coftent and happiness to sleep. Hearing voices in the hall, he ‘ossed to open his door. The Manager was holding a whispered conférence with the room clerk. “There’s been a robbery in the hotel,” he explained to Clark in low-voiced apology. “Really?” Clark was cheer- ly _ interested. “What was taken?” “A brooch, belonging to Miss Cunningham, Very valuable.” “E should say it was!” whistled Clark. “Someone must have heard her mention it tonight,” The fat otise detective thudded fioisélessly down the dim hall toward them. “You e the pe yl ie a e just opened his big Rarid and Gloria’s brooch gleamed it. “It was in another dame’s oom, tucked in between her valuable Nylons. That cute gal that’s been staying here—Ralston «.. . Rita Ralston.” “Not” cried the Manager. “Yep. And we nabbed her just ow as she was slipping out the sidé door of the hotel.” Te be continued | AMONG CHILDREN isitely patterned anyone—not } - SAYS. FAREWELL; OFF 10 CAIRO |GOING AS REPORTER AND WAR CORRESPONDENT TO COVER-EVENTS AND HAP- PEMINGS OF WARY AB’ Featute, Service Writer NEW YORK,, Dee, 11.—Fim are sure I kn6w héwiito begin this. | This is one of th® last’ ¢olunni= |I'm going to write. For the dw {ration anyway. Whén you see |this I'l be on my way to Cairo. | !I'm going over to take a part in the war. Not as a soldier, but jas a reporter as a war corre- | spondent. | I'm going because it’s what I'd rather do than anything in| jthis world—and because I’mj jlucky. You’ve got to be lucky} |to get in on the biggest news story that has come along since the Story of Cygation. There isn't a mewspaperman in thé country who wouldn't, .chep off | his toes for the chancg,,. J, know d would. And I'm very, ver "happy. inne j,When Iwas a kid: mip bake, jCharles, La. reading ,‘“Theq Dare. |Boys on the Brandywine’!: and, “Surrey of Eagle’s Nest” I: used, |to wish I had been born a long time ago so that I could have ridden with Lighthorse Harry | Lee or been. with Pickett at Gettysburg. { But I was wrong. If I’d been born then I'd never have known about Krakow and Corfu and Bataan and Rangoon and the ;Solomon Islands. I’d never have} had a chance to span an ocean on wings, and follow an army through the western desert, or go into India and Turkey and Iraq, or ride into Jerusalem on a jackass. But I was lucky. By an accident of time some or alt these things are mine now. T've been writing about New! York for ten years. That’s a long} \time. During that time more than six thousand of you have} written me letters. Those letters came from little cow towns and big steel towns and from cities jand hamlets and litfle hideaway \villages between here and ,Shanghai and Honolulu and ;Juneau and wherever this column ;has appeared. Answering those leftefs and| writing about the things I have! |seen on Broadway and along the waterfront and at Harlem} chicken heavens operated by} Father Divine has been one; whale of an experience. { I was in on the Lindbergh kid- napping story, and to the best of my knowledge I was the first |mewspaperman in New York who got his hands on the name of Bruno Richard Hauptmann, that | stoical ex-machine-gunner of thé} Kaiser's army who was convicf- | ed of killing the Lindbergh baby and sent to the chair. ~ | I saw Prohibition die, and with it that curious, bitter blossom of the prohibition years—the speak- easy. A few of those speakeasies titi Observation faken at 8:30 i E.W.T. (City Office) Temperatares | Highest last 24 hours - i Lowest last night - |Méan’ ____. Normal Reinfel, 24 hour i $30 a. mi, ihchés —.__ 0:00 Total rainfall since Det f, , ” inclies Deficiency 1, inches. poi aels e TotaY rafitall sifiée Jan. ¥, NIN ae Deficiency since Jan. 1, imehés __ Basel hes 82 4 80 1 Suntise Sunset Moonrise . m. . mH . 1 8:04 am. 5 7:41 p.m. FORECAST Key West and Vicinity: Con- tinued mild temperature; pos- sibly showers: this afternoon and tonight. SF ge Florida») Mala “temperature, i it 1 ar drizzle fi Aye ACG ae show- es in south portion this after- Hoon sn Yéiient. peas “Hatteras, N. C., td. be or aga ‘ebia; Fla:: “No shalt or ‘m warnings have Beet issued. THEY ARE AFRAID AN EGG WILL DROP (By inted Press) TULSA, la., Dec. 11.—Osear | Payne, Red Cross imstritctor, is a réalist. He staged a mock raid on 2 ¢ivil air patrol unit taking an évening ; REASON OF Secesocdodecde By GEORGE TUCKER AP Features Writer | NEW YORK, Dec. 11—More andi more during the last two or} | thtee years I have found myself ; hunched over cable desks reading | the dispatches from Cairo, Mos-| {cow and -New Delhi, or sneaking} off to, newsreel theaters to catch | the newest shofs of attacks on Al- ligd convoys, when I might better | and more honestly have served) this‘ column by sticking my nose} into: backstage theater ‘doors’ or inquiring into the domestic pur-} suits of Miss Gypsy Rose Lee. | One day when things weren't; going any too well at Sevastopol} anid when, as usual, I was hanging ! around the cable desk, one of the} jeditors jibed, “Tucker, if you} Spent moré time on Shubert Alley! and less time over those teletype-| urn. I didn’t argue with him. There j wasn’t much to say. I knew I was restless, that I wanted to go abroad as a newspaperman, and} that if I couldn’t do that I'd take! 2nd best and go into the army on my own. After all, I had had four! years of military experience. I} knew what dragging through the; dust and the ditches and ‘pawng| 1 was like. Long)ago on the proving grounds of: MeCleland I qualified hunch,’ or; 1something » that bad come to me through\a rose-glow ; impulse. A —° © ade Hil So I went back to my desk. and; wrote out a réquest for service abroad, stating my reasons and} the way I felt as frankly as I knew how. He said, “Sit down.” He said, “You’ve made applica- tion for foreign service.’ He said, “Why?” That’s a funny question, Why.; lesson. The room was dimmed out as} the raid was reported and Payne! laid of fhe dram heavily as gher planes ¢ame closer and closer, As the fitst bombs were sup+i Posed to strike, the lights went! out, there was an explosion and a} terrific series of crashes. " Payne had slipped a horse-pis- tol from a brief case and had fired it in the small room at the same moment that he kicked aj large garbage-can lid and sent it | bouncing across the floor. “It took some time. for screams and pandembniumr to down and ever as long as ten minutes later several people weré So nervous fhey had trouble light- ing cigarettes,” reporter Payne. LEGALS THE KEY WES? PLECTRIC COMPANY: TO. HOLDERS. OF EESr por GAGE FIVE PER CENT FIFTY- YEAR GOLD BONDS ‘OF THE KEY WEST ELECTRIC cOoM- PANY. Under the Siping Fund | Provi- sion of the Mo¥tgakée of Deed of ‘Trust, dated August 1, 1906, Betweet the abové Compafiy and State Street Trust Company, of Boston). the un- dersigned | Trusteé “hereby. gives notice that until December 18, 1942, at twelve o'clock riden, it will re- ceive séaled propoSals for the sale of the above named bonds at a ptice not to €xcéed 105 per ecénitini of the { Decembér 26, 1948, tor ‘absorb. (the sum of Fiye Thoydand, Three Hun- dred ahd Forty-Two Hare and successfully negotiated the tran- sition to legality and today they are among our better known, restaurants and nightclubs, . But, the great majority of them died yas. they lived. pony doors and, drawn, shutte Bay Your Christmas “The People’s Way” | NEW YORK—Rheumatic fever }eauses more deaths in, children | } between the ages of 10 to 14 than/ | afy other disease. MANY INSTReMENTS engine, navigation’ and-commumi topes instruments are needed t WASHINGTON. — About 300) AH ESiqse Opéate a big bombing plane. FIREMEN’S TROPICAL PARK 712 Duval Street PLAY BINGO . AMUSEMENTS FOR ALL Seventy Two Cents. ($5,342.72) or y part thereof. Interest on bonds Fohased Will, cpané. ot December Be ise2. The rhe af a eediyed. to actept or féject any'afd all pto- Kymsais eithbr in Wy a Sey TRS if = : 4 Wan tt, Vise Pre: 3 de oh ees , Decem!| 1 Jecd-4-9291,1942 (Broadway. You might make peo- | ' the | gnd:fly planes. Bill MacDonald is! principal plus interest aceruéd. to! If you answer honestly you might be misunderstood. You might give} the impression that you think your talents are too high for | ple think you're posing as a hero. ; Nevertheless, I tried. I told him} about a big, stocky kid out of Birmingham, Alabama, whose} namie is Bili MacDonald. Bill was an early bird. Long before the Germans went into Poland he dis- appeanéd into those lost, hidden valleys of China and taught young | Chinese—pilots how to kill Japs} a friend of mine, and today he is} Chiang Kai-shek’s personal pilot. } It was he who helped build the Flying Tigers Wher he gets back} to New York on those raré an infrequent vacations we sit in ho-| tel rooms and talk and I keep; thinking of all the wonderful sto- 901 Duval Street A COMPLETE FI PPLA AL LL @LOINS OOM A @SIDE BE fh bk hadd Lede dd, @CALPS LiveR’” “:. @SWEET BREADS @SQUABS writers you’d write a better col-| | myself instead for a commission.,It wasn’t! just a4 2 | boys. fat adesk just a few BAER’S MARKET PHONE 215 fi Just eckiveD A SHIPMENT of @SHOULDERS @ NECK BONES SPECIALIZING IN PRIME NEW YORK FRESH DRESSED POULTRY éddee A ROVING ITCH ries there are to be written, not only in China, but in ali the cc ners of the world where there are wars and fighting mer I told him about Frank Higgs, kriownh more intimately to his friends as “Dude“.. e” come out of Ohio State University and he too weit to Chind “to” ch yotng’ pitots“How “to kilt! dnd to fly. Perhaps you! rememberza pic- ture of him, in. Life Magazine not so long ago, with two, big forty- fives strapped. fo his middle, grin- ning at Clare, Booth Luce’s cam- éra. “Dude,” too, isa friend of | seoees | mine. One day he got a note from one of his pupils who, “in admira- tion” was sending him a conercte manifestation of his regards and affection. He was sen’inc “Dude” a little gift, he said. \.nen th “gift” got there it turned out to i n 18-year-old concubine. F bergested, ue” sent the little newcomer scampering back to nc> mama and then sat down and wrote me all about it. That lett was printed in this column, when I printed it I woncer, I wasn’t out there w: iti of sittin publishing what other wrote. we SeiisH oe 8 oe I told him about Bill McG Grover, th: sumptious a and ‘Preston Grover. They 2 Preston Grover _ used write a column out of ton, and Bill McGaffin used to sit fect frem mine here in this off: 3 last February ;on a British di from Gibraltar. Sudde j Stroyer was racing to e of a British convoy that had been attacked between Malta and A andria. McGaffin didn’t know but Preston Grover was the merchantmen in that convoy The Luftwaffe came and Luftwaffe saw and though FIST RITA I IIIS. STRAND THEATER | PAT O'BRIEN in | FLIGHT LIEUTENANT | Coming: . "ICELAND" with | See TEE ERE Ee | HAI AIDAAIIAIAI AAI SASS SAAT AASC ‘MONROE THEATER | ‘SADDLE MOUNTAIN ROUND-| UP RANGE BUSTERS” and “SABOTEUR” Corning: ‘Take A Letter, Darling’ | wedge deeed eee eee saudassus | Key West, Florida FOOD STORE MEAT @HOG LIVER @ HAMS AAD w rrTTrriririiiriit itt tt FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1942 didn’t conquer ning fight, with some ships hit and others lost, until, eventually, the convoy got tmrouga, and McGaft no Grover we were being written now the other was was one of the interest- nalistic events of thé war, eye-witness accounts rinted side by side in news- } i ver the United States. 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