The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 9, 1947, Page 3

« oO i sme oe ee Ne A rn HY er Chapter 24 As HARDIN’S laughter rang through the clearing like the reverberating pound of a donkey engine, Doug felt his face redden. “What’s so damned funny?” he demanded. ( “Why you fool!” Hardin chuck- led. “If you’d told me all this sooner we'd both have been saved a load of grief. Until you nearly got killed topping that tree I was thinking maybe you arranged those accidents!” “How could you think that? Some of them happened before I came here.” “Those -were all minor—they could have been accidents. The severed cable was the first one d that really made us _ suspicious, and you were around then. When I turned down Cady, I didn’t think sde’d abandon his plan so easily. I thought maybe you were someone he had hired.” “But you knew I'd never worked for White Rapids.” “So what? Cady’s been a rolling stone. On his way up he’s prob- ably been with twenty outfits and met ten thousand men, It would be slick of him to plant a stranger with Larsons, someone that. the rest of us had never seen around. We all knew about the rivalry Si Oi RR ae Panettiere lig % THE KEY WEST CITIZEN up the slope echoed toward them. Doug stiffened. “What’s that?” “Someone after deer maybe.” “Poachers? This isn’t deer sea- son.” : “That’s right. Maybe Elsa’s got a bead on that marauding cougar that’s beén raising hell with her chickens. We're always hearing rifle shots around here, they don’t mean anything.” Andrews shrugged. “Guess I'll mosey on then; you’re heading down to the Inlet, aren’t you?” “I was.” Hardin peered at Dou through swollen lids and emitt a short laugh, a laugh that in- cluded himself as much as the man standing beside him. “But I “What do you mean, Hardin?” “Frankly, Andrews, I was going own to do a little checking up on you.” “On me!” Doug’s blond eye- brows soared. “That’s right. I couldn’t figure you out. Until you nearly broke your neck topping that big fir I thought you were working for Cady, since then I’ve just been wondering. It didn’t seem logical to me that you’d come over and join up with a hard luck outfit right out of a clear sky unless A had a damn good reason for 1 Dod Doug frowned. “I wonder if anyone else has figured it out that between his outfit and Larsons] way. and we might distrust one of his ex-loggers.” / “How come the others don’t doubt you then?” Hardin grimaced. “Maybe they do, but I don’t think so. They’ve all known me too long now.” Doug’s forehead crinkled. “Well, I’ve put my future chances here in your hands. You realize that, don’t you, Hardin?” “What do you mean?” “The Larsons don’t know about old Slocum sponsoring me. If they did they might kick me out. They have a lot of pride, Sven espe- cially.” “Now that I know how things stand,” Hardin said. “Maybe I think they need your help too.” “Thanks, No one knows but you. Let’s keep it that way.” “Right.” Hardin reached for Doug’s hand. “Shake on it.” “Could be,” Hardin said shortly. “Anyway you've saved me a trip. Let’s go back to camp.” puted trudged up the trail to- gether in silence. Yet it was not the tense taciturnity of re- straint but the placid silence of good feeling between two men who had settled their differences to mutual satisfaction. Once Har- din glanced p moron at Doug and said, “This doesn’t change any- thing about Elsa, Andrews—I still consider the field open there.” “Did you ever try to make up a woman’s mind for her?” Doug answered. “No matter what we do, she’ll decide in the end. Any- way we've got something else to straighten up first.” When they strode into the bunk- house together, the other loggers | getting freshened up for supper stared in amazement then grinned there’s no need to go now.” but their eyes k in Doug’s bleeding ear, Hardin’s purpling eye, and the torn and dirti clothes, and it was clear they guessed what had happened and were glad the quarrel was dover for good. ‘ After dinner they gathered in the mess shack around a ipoher game that went on intermittently or months. The hostility that had thickened the air around Hardin since Doug’s arrival was gone and the men relaxed and permitted themselves comments that they’d have held back before. One of the men picked up Norway's accor- dian and squeezed out a tune which Ollie Pedersen accompa- nied with a high tenor and a clash of cutlery. , Doug found himself wishing the big Norwegian were around to witness the new atmosphere. He missed the low rumbling laughter that seemed to originate in the giant logger’s size fifteen boots and climb up through the six- foot-four body, on power until it emerg from his big mouth like the thunderous roar of a long latent volcano. But Nor- way, one of the men explained, had left early to keep a date with his Lily. But his absence during logging operation the next day was really cause for comment and some con- cern on Hardin's part. He de- pended on Norway. When they reached the bunk- house the boss logger put in a call to Elsa. “Norway didn’t report for work today,” he told her. “He’s never done —— like this before. The boys say he had a date with that Indian girl, Lily, last night. Will you call the Inlet.and have someone check with her?” Ten minutes later the answer came through. “Lily didn’t have a date with Norway, Bill. She said it wasn’t very definite and when he didn't show up she just thought he’d changed his mind.” “That’s queer.” “Isn’t it! Norway’s such a con- scientious person. Could some- thing have happened to him?” “IT don’t know but I’ll find out.” As Hardin replaced the receiver his eyes met Doug’s worriedly. “Maybe I was wrong about that As their fingers met in a firm!] knowingly. Some of them looked! shot,” he said. grip, the sound of a shot further relieved. They made no comment (To be continued) ates annie en ey penny, Gardens Offer Plenty Of Fall Work|Nat. Airlines x * * Po Se Sia tetas ke jicing Up Should Be Done With Eye x *« *® On Spring sseciee?” aaa conacac Mle Steps Up Trafic Speed Handling MIAMI, Sept. 9.—National Air- t (Special te The Citizen) ‘lines announced today the crea- 'tion of two new positions to speed handling of increasing interna- i |tional traffic through two of the ig | company’s foreign gateways. | Don O. Kerkow and James D. /Stuart have been named assistant istation managers in charge of in- [ternational operations and cargo jat NAL foreign gateways at New- jark and Tampa, respectively. 'Kerkow transfers from National's . foreign office at Miami. | Stuart comes to the National Airlines organization after two |years as assistant manager of the By KATE PERKINS AP Newstfeatures Writer |Miami office of KLM, Dutch line, jand two years in the same post j}with Expreso Aereo Interamer- : icano. OUND RIDGE, N. Y.—The air hos a brisk feel, the late flow- | ""t1"G. Dobbs, vice president, ers and trees are full of color and the few things left in the ‘traffic, said National anticipates garden are pretty unexciting. ‘a big increase this winter in in- But Fall is no time to sound retreat on garden. There's \ternational operations, which be- plenty of work——planting and policing up the place—to be done /gan with inauguration last Dec. with a sharp eye on next Spring. « 15 of service to Havana from New Once over lightly, here they! LUCKY MAN! | York, Tampa and Miami. are: A certain Manhattan physician | 7< = Give the lawn a fall feeding of |... ‘ . | INTERESTING NOTES ne es ial WHO suffers terribly under the | lA Le denah dn hei hae bone meal or some commercial ,verbal gludengoining of a talk- | fab e ge i sala at a pnd by wih pounds | ative wife, was visited by a walking in soft gro i per 200 square feet, scratched In| troubled woman, who said: | baat ager with a sharp steel ake. sy alge | A new synthetic fiber has been with a wea steel rake i tch ‘; “Oh, doctor, I'm afraid my! : Re-seed bare or straggly patch- : : : j;made from. peanut protein. : husband is losing his mind. | E P es of the lawn with the proper seed mixture. Sometimes I talk to him for | Asia, |the| world’s largest con- ‘hours and then discover that he | Prepare the soil and plant some | hasn't heard a single word I of the perennials you want for! said.” | tinent, covers 17,000,000 square next year. |miles. | “That’s not an affliction, ma-| The tile floors in the Capitol Check the rose bushes and pre- dam,” replied the doctor, envi- 4+ Washington have been ‘in place pare to protest the less hardy ously, “that’s a gift!” ‘or more than 90 years. species with a manure, leaves or ' ———______— : hay cover. (Most hybrids and that might carzy the threate of! Neon is an element present in shrub roses don’t need it.) i bugs and disease. Be sure to burn air only to the extent of 15 mil- Protect the more tender per- ‘corn stalks thoroughly. lionths of a per cent. ennials with hay or leaves. Spade a garden plot deeply , e Plant spring flowering blubs-— ‘and give it a good hearty feed- tulips, hyacinths, narcissus, ero-,ing of fresh manure, followed, if! Cynnecticut boasts the greatest cus—a few weeks before freezing possible, with a dusting of wood |,nown assortment of dinosaur weather is due, in ground pre- ashes for potash. ‘tracks, uncounted millions of pared with deep-dug well-rotted| Store the vegetables for winter ‘yers old. manure. Give them a light cover- ‘use (beets, carrots, cabbages, etc.) geteati tested ing when cold weather has set in. ‘either by burying them—boxed— The growth rings on a fish scale Piant lilies from September into in outside pits. or trenches or | indicate the age of a fish much as November. ‘keeping them in a ventilated tree rings indicate the age of a Set out peonies in September, ‘cold celiar. itree. remembering they like rich, well-| Cover up the strawberry aes prepared soil and are big eaters. plants with some protection (pine = Qnly six per cent of all pas- Transplant evergreens in the needles are very good indeed). senger automobiles registered in early weather, giving them time}, Give the delicate shrubs the the United States in 1946, were to reestablish root growths. benefit of burlap covers to break Jess than five years old. Put cold frames and hot beds the wind blasts and snow. aa in order so that Spring chores; Store left-over seeds in metal; The anoa, of cross-word puzzle will be easy. or glass covered containers. ‘fame, is a small wild buffalo Pick off the last of the toma-! Clean t! garden tools thor- found on the Celebes island and toes—the green ones. Use the oughly, applying a flim of heavy jis the smallest of all wild cattle. biggest and best for slow ripening grease over all the metal parts | acon EES by keeping them wrapped in for protection. During World War II when newspapers in a dark. cool place. Don’t give the garden another submarines were menacing At- Use the others for green tomato thought for about another month Jantic and Caribbean shipping pickle. : ‘when it will be time to start lanes, 1,442,868 tons of sugar Rake off the debris left on the thinking about what seeds to or- were ferried from Havana to Mi- garden plot and burn anything der. ‘gmi (213 miles). , — — me hats netee, wa aciaaiees 1