The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 3, 1951, Page 6

TUESDAY, APRIL 3, 1951 tis ©AaGn pix 4 <4 i Dace ion KEY Wael Ciricnn | eee siti ttianeuiithdncunnisniiltii makes oni UV VV VV VV VVYVVVIVIVIVV III NY BARNEY GOOGLE AND SNUFFY SMITH By Fred Laswell | TIME TRAP LAWSY SAKES !! essT! By ROG PHILLIPS SOMEBODY GO BOLT TH' DOORS AN’ FETCH TH’ PARSON !! LOOK AT THAT SWARM COME ON-- OF FOLKS! WE’LL SNEAK IN TH’ BACK ane” ZT SWOW, SNUFFY ALL OF A SUDDENT I FEEL DRETEUL AW, SHUX, RIDDLES -~ EVER'BODY GITS @ LEETLE AP Newsfeatures NARVOUS ON CISCO, DARLING, YOU NEED NO PANCHO! NAME OF A SAINT, I HAD FORGOTTEN / COULDN'T I KEEP HIM! I MUST GO GET XN eLazes! wHy ) | ABOUT PANCHO ATA MY FOOL. MOUTH SHUT TIME LIKE THIS P oS HOW! YOU KNOW CISCO KID? ME LOOK FOR HIM MUCH QUICK! Chapter 13 JAL NELSON pausea outside} the door to s and Joe's room as he closed it, his eyes speculatively on the blank door panel. Then he left the hotel, his footsteps purposeful and hurried. He nig a bus at the corner. Several blocks later he trans- ferred to another bus. When he got off he walked unhurriedly until he came to an alley. Just before he reached it he casually suveyed the street to make sure the few nedestrians in sight were not no- ticing him. As he came even with the alley he dartec in. It was dark here. Not dark enough yet to be black, but enough so that he could be sure no one glancing down the alley from the street would be able to see him, He paused in a doorway, getting his bearings then carefully count- ed his measured steps along the building walls, his hands lightly trailing along the wall surface to guide him. When he stopped he elt around carefully until his fingers told him he had found the right brick. From his pocket he took a small bit of permanently magnetized meta! and touched it to the brick. Inside there was a faint click. The magnet in Val’s fingers had at- tracted a small bit of iron inside the brick; causing it to swing for- ward and close a contact that con- nected a hidden phone to a pri- vate wire. Concealed under the false brick front was a_micro- phone pickup and a small loud- speaker. so that after the connec- tion was made he could speak to the blank wall in a low voice and also hear the soft spoken replies. When he finished and removed the magnet metal the connection would be broken. “Yes?” a voice vibrated from Two blocks further on he casually entered a public lavatory, depos- ited a nickel in a cein slot, and entered a stall, Seconds later the “oceupied” notice slipped around to “unoccupied” without the door having been opened. This was one of the many entrances into the underground network of passages | and rooms of the Custodians. He had squeezed through a nar- row opening in the back wall of the stall onto an elevator that dropped slowly as soon as he had shut the panel, When the elevator stopped a door opened. He stepped out into Arthur Granger's private office. Besides the gray haired presi- dent of the Custodians Neal Smith and Craig Blanning were there. From the expressions on their faces at Val’s coming, they had been waiting for some time. He grinned at them and made an O with thumb and finger. “Ev- erything’s set,” he said. “Then the Vargians acted on your suggestion to give them a free hand for the present?” Neal asked. “Right,” Val said, sitting on the edge of the desk. “I just reported to them through the alley phone contact and was told there’d be no further instructions tonight, but to check and make sure Ray and Joe hadn't discovered the eavesdropper they put in their room.” He looked at Arthur Granger with admiration tinged with some- thing else. “That was a very good act you put on about Nelva being your daughter,” he said. “It should keep them in line unless Nelva manages to contact Ray Bradley again by telepathy.” “It was easy,” Arthur Granger said, trying to squelch a smile that rose against his will. “Hiding my face with my hands made it Joe?” Neal Smith,asked...“You've been with thenr all day:”-*-++ ig alan afl’ they’ cldfim, said i come from th ers. In 19 as. Cc of honesty, integrity, They did most of their reacting on trust and faith. Pragmatism was just. a crude abstraction, Dialec- tical materialismi was being prac- ticed by a few fools in Russi th angle of modern under the grandic Aristotelian log s fumbling > that man 2 a of today woulc y Joe, let alone occur to them matter of course.” “It’s refreshing to know them Craig Blanning said “They're like children. . stumble onto something and play around at telephones with it Then they come into the future to rescue the damsel in distress like in some dated story book.” His eyes held a mixture of liking and respect. “I’ll bet they’d die under torture before they'd re- veal this hiding place—if it came right down to it.” “They’re knights in shining ar. mor, all right,” Val said, smiling. “In fact, they’d probably come to the conclusion we. weren't for them if they learned the Vargians know all about. us and that we know the Vargians know all about us. They would be unable to un- derstand the complexities of the present situation. They’d cease to trust us. They'd become con- fused.” “Or,” Neal Smith said softly, “they'd make us look like ama- teurs. They’d catch us unawares. They’d be licked until the last in- stant—and come out on top.” HE MEANS YOU, "hy “ HE WANTS.) ABOLT IT, the wall with bare audibility. It} simple.” al r nr To " was a deep, cavernous voice—but| “It almost convinced me,” Val ‘They're going to come out on the quality of that Voice might] said, giving Arthur a keen glance. tops anyway,” Arthur Granger Sar “THE SCHOOL GOES WD AS ETTA BE-. THE CHEER LEADE/2S GO INTO ACTION.’ have been altered by the effects of the brick sounding board. “Nelson,” Val said briefly. “No further instructions,” the cavernous voice said, “There is an eavesdroppez installed in their room in the usual place, Please check to make sure it is not dis- covered. You're excused.” Yal put the magnet back in his pocket and returned to the street. “Are you sure it isn’t true?” Arthur shrugged in disdain. “Are you relying on facts now?” he asked. “If you are you’re no use to us. “That's right,” Val Nelson said woodenly. “I must consider both alternatives in my reactions—just as. you must consider always the possibility of my being a traitor.” “What do you think of Ray and “YOU know the way I mean,” Neal said. “Yes,” Arthur said, his face be- coming strained, “I know, We all do. So do the Vargians, Strange, how events can focus until every- thing, past and future, hangs on one insignificant event—like Ray finding. Nelva.” , {Zo be continued), Today In History 1860-—First pony express riders FLY NA TIONAL akc > leave Sacramento for the East,| . , wey Lge a ce | Pas nate. ya? an@ St. Joseph, Mo., for the West, 7 an oan * 1882—Outlaw Jesse James 'kill- ¥ a ’ ed from behind by one of his own ba By Tom Sims and B. 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