The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 16, 1952, Page 11

ou “HE STOPS IN HIS FRACKS |! THAR SOMEBODY ELSE IN AT THAR HENHOUSE-- THAR'S FEETSTEPS ; BEHIND HIM-- HE--UH-- WHAP !#! 4 cov, cLAMMY HAND GRABS HIM BY TH' S* “I CAUGHT YE Setinbed 7 JUST THINK =- My SON THE “STAy- I THOUGHT SHE HAO A DOUBLE- DATE TONIGHT 3 By Fred Lasswell BALLS O' FIRE! t GOT TO SEE HOW (T TARNS OUT SHE WENT WITH FAT BOOB? Wid COULD HEEM AFTER SEENG £ DOUBLE-CROSS HEE! By Roy Gotto oe Barbara Groben, pelea: S49 GOTTA PRAvUL T GIT ¥ Wednesday, April 15, 1952 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Page 13 } 1 BY WILLIAM @, BOGART ssiaiin Chapter 41 OHNNY thought it must be an/ the sudden glow. awful thing to be blind. You have an idea you're heading one direction, and you find yourself, going another. He bumped into a chair, swore, located the table and found one of the candle holders. “Who's got a match?” he said fiercely. Then Nick Walker's big form was beside Johnny ancé he held a match. Kay picked up one of the lighted candles. “I'll carry it,” she said to Johnny. “Hurry.” Johnny ran toward the front hallway, Kay beside him. Nick Walker was lighting another candle. Doctor Clark and Moe followed Johnny and the gifl.- Just as they reachea the foot of the front stairs, the motion of the air blew out the candle in Kay’s hand. Darkness smashed down around them again. Johnny felt for the bannister and went up the stair: in the blacxness, Behind him he heard Nick Walker say, “Here.” There Johnny blinked his eyes against : Kay Bee. beside |him, urging him tewa: door. “Mother!” she half sobbed. His room lights were turned on. Trene's auburn-reg_hair was the first thing he saw. The rest of her slim figure was beyond one of the twin beds. He leaped. that way. But relief fowed through him as he realized the woman was al- ready trying to get up. She was pushing herself up fi the floar with her hands. Hy mass of beautiful hair tum! about her face. on the edge of the bed. Her eyes seared = them. She mtg now what was happenin; ‘or she tried to speak. Then her hand went to her neck. It was Doctor Clark.who said crisply, “Wait a minute!” He pushed everyone aside, bent dawn, looked at Irene's a He gave a start. ia said, don't look so worried. Tin aif rig! Kay sob and fi orp ain hr a ee looked @ Nick Walker, Nick,” she said. The big beamed. “Irene! he said. a k to Doctor 3 ae eke Dea Clark, Then he had Irene Smith seated fe “What it is?” Sesanded Jobrn . | Smit “Someone tried was a dim glow of match light. | her!” The others were caming up the _ Kay, trembling, was now sit- stairs by the time Johnny reach-| ting on the edge of the arm ed _the top. Someone moved quickly along the hall. Johnny sensed the pres- ence of the figure behind him Just as he started towafd-irene’s room. He SPUR, seized a woman's tall slender form, Karen, trembling, said, “Mr. Saxon! Your room ., . Irene... hurry!” Py The others had reached top of the stairs. Walker held the lighted candle now. He saw the nurse, He started ta yell, “What 4 “ “T think ‘she’s hurt,” Karen said. She led the way toward the Jeft wing. aganay started to push past her. He was. aware of a Strong current of air through the hall, and thought a window must the canille in Walker 3 ig fellaw sw: is Ban ed its cular inte a wal backed off. He heard Karen say frantically, “I can’t see!” around her mother’s shoulders. Tears were in her lovely eyes. strangle | Sh “Look,” she cried, “her head’s| minutes. hurt, too!” He was gently mai the woman's throat, sayit quietly, “Don't try to talk yet You're go- ing, to be all right. he understood, nodding. And] ‘w Johnny, his eyes intense, noticed that shet was watching her daughter. She was looking at her in @ Way that was different now. Then her hand reached out and closed over Kay's own. A™ ohnny thought: The shock ++. the falls. ‘ve done trick! She’s alt ti has ¢ doctor, a moment later, was ding a glass of water to Irene’s : mar! e Mv at ge, were taro “Reeth SAP Boo tor Clark solicitously. af Pee: Then Walker had the eandle]any constriction?” lightea again. They had turned he rubbed her fingers acrass into the left wing and were near| her throat. She shook her head. Jonnnys bedroom. At that mo-| "I'm all rij ment the house. Visitors At Key West C. OFC. Mr. and Mrs, Jack Grand, Enid, Oklahotna. Mrs. E. T. Sharp, Victor, N. Y. Mr. and Mrs. T. Wileox, Cottam, Ontario, Canada. Mr. and Mrs. N. Ofstad, Orr, | Minn. Mr. and Mrs, H. B. Montoe, Bethesda, Md. Mrs. W. L. Beach, Qat., Can. E. E. Russell, Miami, Fla. Miss Katherine MeBachern, On- tario, Canada. Mrs. Claude Shoemaker, Frede- rick, Md. Miss Sadie McEachern, Teronte, Ont., Can. Mr. and Mrs. Paul T. Smith, Bir- | mingham, Mich. Smith, Oakview Mrs. Norman H. T. Studley, Co- eonut Grove, Fla Willis J. Schnell, Marion, Iowa . | Mr. at s. ol Newhof, | | By Jose Salinas and Rod Reed |." 34,8..." Ne J. W. and Daisy ass, Lynch Charles Cancel, Jr. New York, LY | Charles 1. Gray, Lynehburg, Va. Waren McMaster, Dansville, N. ¥ | cn Va. | | j Maurice Rothman, Chi Forrest Mott, Mon ni | Mr. and Mrs. J. F. “A | Storm Lake, lowa and Mrs. Rupert Hughes, le, Pa id Mrs. T. J. Towers, Kew bany, N.Y el, Sr., Louisville, eniel, Chicag I Fred J. Hadlick asinn, Minn | Mrs. H. E. Harriman, Bronx | New York Mich. Mrs. Wm. P. Kent, Washington,; B.C. Dr. Muriel Carson, Ds it, Mich Richard N. Schnell, Chicago, Ill. | a / Mr. Anthony J. Paterne, Miami, Arthur B. § Witkes. E. P e lights came on again in] An daughter, Sk N. Y. Miss, Barbara. Calhoun, Strat- Conn. #Miss Florence Hayford, New ¥ork, N.Y. ‘Mrs, W. A: Wheeler, Colling- wood, Ont., Can. Miss Earline Pierce, Richmond, Va. Mr. and Mrs. Dwight M. Wheel- er, Orchard Park, N. ¥. Mrs. Clara Rhodes, Whitewater, Wise. Mr. and Mrs. T. 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