The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 29, 1947, Page 3

MONDAY, DECEMBER 29 1947 “eevee etn SOF Eee IRI Ir a ree eae Chapter 1 r. was a blizzard. The wind got 2 start in Canada and came hing down 150 miles across ke Superior, buckling the four- t-thick ice with ear-stunning nder, The snow was an aerial @valanche that ehoked highways streets of towns and rose like ~ _ in the Upper Michigan e nt office of the Red Roc! aoporter and scowled at his type- two-inch curtain of polid ice and smow covered the windows. A dangling electric bulb ve Brant’s head showered wn yellow light which empha- the hewn-granite plainness of his features, the hazel eyes, ii broad and prominent nose. is hair was black and rumpled, was of medium height and Mauscular, and his age was 28. He wrote: “Again Red Rock fpces utter isolation. Prisoners of storm, we 1300-odd men, Women and children will be alone and interdependent. In the|? mext few days fire, flood or hu- Man cussedness might destroy the Pest of the world, and we be none the wiser. And if human cussed- mess, flood or fire should destroy al ° AP Newsfectures Andy Brant sat in the wer : ; Carol Johnson said, “We need |§ m.-e fire, Andy.” Carol had gold-brown hair, gray-blue eyes and an engaging grin. She was slim, pretty and Seven years younger than Brant. She performed the duties of so- ciety editor, star reporter and ad- vertising solicitor, and earned every penny of her modest salary. Brant paebed pack os chair, up and pried open the cover or stove. He,emptied half a scuttle of coal into its maw. rs Maybe we'll all freeze before it’s over.” he said. “but no use mop date the process.” He called . “Glenn.” A door that led into the rear of the shop opened. A tall, thin man came into the office. His nose was long, red and pointed. He wore a mackinaw and a woolen cap that covered his ears. “Better thaw out,” Brant said. “How's the stuff coming?” Glenn Quarfield, printer and pressman, tished a sack of tobacco out of his pocket and separated a thin leaf from a book of ciga- fette papers. ‘ ‘Not, too bad, if the metal-don’t Brant kicked the base of the stove. “These blizzards! It’s al- ways the same. Everything stops dead except trouble and snow- shoveling.” He rummaged in his desk till he found a newspaper clipping, months old, that had caught his T= front door burst open. An icy gust swept glittering @rains into the office, and lumps Of snow fell from the outer side of the door to the floor. A short, d man came in, white as a ghost from head to foot. “Shut it!” three voices cho- fused. Sheriff Ed Worth = smiled. “Quite a little flurry,” he ob- served in a voice as mild as his “But I can’t complain. rms are like vacations for police officers. No auto accidents, Ro calls out into the county.” “But plenty of barroom fights,” dy said. any day.” Brant perched on the edge of the desk, smoothing the newspa- per clipping. “Ed, I'l] bet you don’t realize how many murderers and criminals there are in Red Rock. For days, now, they won't have anything to do but murder and commit crimes.” The sheriff was unperturbed. “I got the last. murderer two years back, when {indian Steve chopped off his partner’s head, He’s doing a life stretch in Mar- |quette. One or two lumberjacks tried to fight with axes after that, but I whipped the daylights out of ’em.” Worth’s head came only a cou- ple of inches above Brant’s shoul-. ders, yet Brant knew the other Was not so much bragging about his fighting ability as stating an established fact. Worth had a of shoulders as wide as the against which he leaned, and > chest as deep as a cider-barre}. His short bow jegs and long arms had the strength of three | hi ordinary men in them. Brant had seen him pound three ordinary men into insensibility. “There are two murderers in Red. Rock,® Brant said. The sheriff stared. “Huh?” “It says so right here.” Brant held out the clipping. “In any} representative cross-section of the population, one person in 37 wil) commit a crime, and one in 650 will commit murder. Those are figures compiled by the American Bar Association, We have 1,300 people.” “Those highbrows with their figures,” Worth snorted. Quarfield was rolling another cigarette. He said, “Some of the boys are thinking of killing Ral- 4 sheriff slap ed snow from!ston Crane, the new assistant mackinaw. —_—, - Today’ s Lesson: The United Nations and How It Works a @ne of the first of hundreds of schools throughout the world which are adding studies of the United Nations, its Charter and its activities to their @ourses is the high school at Great Neck, New or me a bar- | manager of the paper mill, if he after the holidays. By DON CAMERON A short, broad man came in. eran Minicheasen ee eee __ THE ney wrs room fight is as good” as a. rest{ don’t start. paying the dough he lost playing pok er at -Gene Glebb's poolroom.” “A love murder would make | better, headlines,” Carol .put in. “I looked out the window and s@w Crane house with Ella Macfarlane last | night. He had his arm around her, and she had. her head on. his shoulder. It looked as if she was crying.” “Wait a minute,” Brant said. | 1 “You can't mean Ella.” “Yes, 1 can. ane : like her as well as anybody, even if— She stopped ning and “Boked at Brant. “Oh, ch,” she said. “Andy, 1 clean forgot, - He took his pipe from the desk | abstractedly. “John Macfarlane is a good | friend of mine, and 1 always, did think Ella was ali right. Of course, there’s probably a_per- fect! innocent explanation.” aybe,” Quarfield suggested darkly, “it was Lola Tucker with was out somewhere last night. She’s about the same build as Ella.” Sheriff Worth buttoned: his psc and wrapped his myf- r around his mouth and nose. His voice came dully. “John Macfarlane has got one of the worst tempers I ever saw. Tried his doggonedest to kill a feller who said something about his first wife 12 years ago. Took | four of us to hold him.” He waved his arm vaguely, pulled his fur cap low over his head and opened the door. Brant stared after him. “Whatever he stopped by for,” Brant observed, “he forgot ail about it.” But inwardly he wondered about that ... and worried. (To be continued) York, near U.N. Headquarters. A recommendation that all U.N. Member Countries encourage the addition of similar courses to their school pro- grams was adopted by the General Assembly. Personal Mention lee will return to -Gaineaviie |p WILL YOU SMILE? Sawyers’ Daughter Here Mr. and Mrs. Sidney E. Mathews, students at the versity of Florida, are visiting Mr. and Mrs. Ross | C. Sawyer, 1221 Pearl Mrs. Mathews is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sawyer. The Ma-' Visiting Parents rents, Mr. and Mrs. The Clarks intend to here till after New Year's. Lesser Evil i Mrs. Mary Lowe Clark and! Uni- | daughter, Mary Eleanor, of Mia- | letting your child snatch off my Gainesville, mi, are visiting the former’s pa- | wig?” T. T.! “Sir, if it is just a wig, think street, | Thomspon, 529 Simonton street. | nothing of it. I was afraid that remain the little devil had you.” CITPEN walking past our | “Madam, what do you mean by scalped {Wak YOU SMILE? Way It Happened Kissing Scientist “hase tea E young girl from}. The Biology. Professor: Haye | Iran you done “pny. research work this | Who. had trouble in -findiag af yeart..- i man; | Sophomore: Lots. I spend all my: spare time trying to find iit if bacteria kissing. It was funny, ‘you see, Until she spotted me.... 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