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een - THE KEY WEST CITIZEN NS A NER SA te nha ins sn sei Chapter 22 “Al right,” returned John. “But I found out this morn- ing that I had made a mistake.” Susan looked at him curiously, but resolved that under no cir- cumstances would she ask, “Why?” “The thing that puzzles me,” John went on, “is how you got away from the house yesterday afternoon without any of us see- ing you. That was a fine thing, I must say—you slipping away like a kid who’s been caught stealing cookies.” “I didn’t slip off—well, not really,” she qualified. “I just walked out.” “It’s a shame you aren’t out at Oceanview instead of cooped up in this two-by-four office. You miss a lot of fun by being so im- pulsive, Susie.” “Yes,” said Susan, unable to conceal the note of regret in her voice. “It must be wonderful on a day like this.’ “By the way, Susie,” said John, swinging the conversation back to its former level, “where was I when you started on your wild goose chase with Old Man Gloom? If I'd seen you, I would have stopped you. Then jt would have been simpler all around. You make things so complicated baby.” “So I complicate things, do 1?” Susan’s face registered a mixture of rage and surprise. “That’s just fine. And just how do you think you could have stopped me, Mr. Bates?” “Td have locked you in your room, so help me Hannah!” Susan glared at him, and saw that he was just as angry as she was. “But you didn’t,” she point- ed out. “You wouldn’t have dared!” “Oh, wouldn’t I?” It was quite clear from John’s expression that he was capable of doing that very thing. “Besides, when I left, you were busy. You’d just come from town with the. movie projector and were showing Mr. Cranston how to operate it.” “Where was Steve that he By Caroline Hall you think Steve Gellis could have stopped me, you're crazy.” “Anyhow, you shouldn’t have walked out like you did. It was a dirty trick to play on Steve, and he’s a fine guy if ever there was one.” This time she could not refrain from asking just what was the reason for his change of heart regarding their employer. “That’s the second time you've said it,” she told John. “Ali right, then. Tl bite. Just what has Steve done that’s so wonderful?” “For one thing,” John said, after a moment’s hesitation, “he offered to tear up my contract. When I told him this morning I was quitting the job, he didn‘t bat an eyelash. Said he knew I wasn’t happy taking pictures of —er—dopes. So i’m quitting pronto, Going overseas to take documentary pictures—the thing I’ve been wanting to do all the time.” “Well, I like that,” Susan flared. “What do you mean, you like that?” John demanded. “Hasn’t a fellow got a right to resign from his job?” “Of course. A girl hasn’t, I sup- pose. What’s the difference?” She got up from her chair. “Now if you won't go get that box, I will. I’m leaving this place—and now.” E FOLLOWED her down the corridor and into the store- room. “It’s Hke this, Susie,” he said presently. “When you make a break, you make it a clean break. Sure,” he acknowledged. “I’m running away too. but [m not running away in the middle of something I’ve started. I’m seeing the thing through. You don’t walk out on a job leaving loose ends dangling. No, you don’t do it that way. Not unless you're yellow.” Susan felt the angry tears well up in her eyes. She tried to think of something really devastating to say, but all she could do was stammer: “II can't find a box.” “You don’t need a box — not where you're going, sugar.” AP Newsfoatures | He went over and put an arm around her. “What do you say we call off the dogs, Susie? Let’s not fight any more.” ' “I’m not sore—not really. But I’m not yellow!” He gave her hand a reassuring pat. “Of course you aren’t yellow, I was just kidding. Now let’s for-. get about boxes and get: going.” “Get going?” Susan repeated. “What do you mean get going?” “We're going: back to Ocean- view to finish our job, of course. Then if you want to resign, it’s okay by me, baby. I like you a lot, and all I’m insisting ‘on is that you keep your nose clean.” “Oh, but I can’t go back!” wailed Susan. “I just can’t! I'd like to finish the job. I. know you’re right about seeing the thing through, and I'm terribly ashamed of myself. But I’d just curl up and die if I had to ew all those people after I walked out like I did. Why, Steve will think—” She stopped. The thought of what Steve Gellis might think of her was too dread- ful to contemplate. “You don’t have to woerry.” John gave her a reassuring pat on the shoulder as they walked back down the corridor to per office. “I covered for you. I told them you’d been called into town for the night--a heavy date, or something — but you’d be back this morning. Heck, Susie, you see all the trouble you cause by that darned temper of yours?” “I’m sorry,” said Susan, and meant it. “Mind if I tell you you're just about the swellest person I’ve ever known?” “Nope. I don’t mind. Sounds sort of good. when you say it. Now suppos® you get’ busy and dump all that junk back in the desk. I'll run up to Steve's office and pick up that silly letter of yours, and any other .mail he happens to have. I’ve got the sta- tion wagon outside, and we ought to get started.” A few minutes later he came back with Susan’s letter of resig- nation in one hand and several business letters, addressed to Steve, in the other. They made I do so need a box! if only I} Quite a ceremony of destroying didn’t do something about it?” |could find one | could lift, I’d| Susan’s letter. Susan evaded the question. “If! crown you, John Bates?” ( (To be continued) B ij DISLOYAL ” : Zoo Keepers In Berlin Pe rae cee ployees, found disloyal te the | * | d United States, have been dis- Monkey Wit 1 J ar CNS | missea, according to the Civil | Service Commission. A great ma- AP Newstfeatures | jority of those discharged in the ERLIN*—Thousands of Berliners who visi: the z00 these deyS' period from July 1, 1946 through to see what's left of its once-great animal collection remark March 31 1947 were civilian that the zoological gardens are doing a guod job asa vege- woxkers of the War Depart- table garden. ‘ment. The Navy Department re- With its animal population down neaily 90 percent due to!ported twenty-three such dis- wartime losses and dispersals and postwar starvation, the big charges. zoo has lots of vacant yards¥ and pens. But enterprising keepers are permitting very lit- tle wasted space. Wolfing the Beans j } { { ’ In what were once wolf pens | they are raising healthy-looking crops of cabbage, tomatoes and } beans. The former giraffe house | has a yvardful of corn, beans and beets. Food-conscious adults ad- mire nearby tomato while their chattering children cluster about the monkey cages. “Who harvests it?” said an at- tendant. “Why, we people work here get it. We planted it and we guard it against thieve- patches | who : Despite its decimated popula- tion, the zoo is still a popular place, especially on week-ends. } Located in the British sector of the city, at the end of once-glit- | tering Kurfuerstendamm, it is visited also by hundreds of oc- t cupation troops and their depen- ! dents. On a summer Sunday one frequently sees Soviet army offi- | cers and their wives and chil- dren strolling the zoo paths or sitting listening to a band con- cert in the open air restaurant. Animals Mangy Foreigners, Germans and too, find the once-gaudy zoo a pretty ' tawdry place new. Some of. its buildings were bombed and the surrounding panorama visible over its walls is one of bomb- blasted buildings. Most of the re- maining animals are = scrawny and mangy. The beer and_ tea served at the weak. In a city where several hun- dred people are reported afflict-. ed with “Chinese Beggar dis- case,” attributable to eating cer- tain wild smilk wryly at the signs which remain from former days: “Please don’t feed the anmials.” But the children still love the zoo, though many go away dis appointed because it no longer has an elephant. Huge “Siam’— the elephant—died last winter, said of hunger. But he wasn’t the only viotim of the savage winter. The has only one goat now and a lo fewer birds. 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