The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 12, 1952, Page 6

Page 6 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Friday, Sepiember 12, 1952 BARNEY GOOGLE AND SNUFFY SMITH By Fred Lasswell | y OH,YES, SID! THE DEAR BOYS! THEY PRACTICALLY FILLED uP MY | TRAILER WITH! I HEAR SNUFFY AND SOME OF HIS MOUNTAIN FRIENDS CAME OVER TO "TELL YOU GOODBYE THIS MORNING, WHERE 15 YOUR UNCLE GOIN’? I SAW HIM LEAVE WITH A_HUNDRED-POUND Copr 1992, King Features Syndicate. Inc., World | | | By Paul Robinsur ” GOING SOME * PLACE ? IT'S A TEN-MILE WALI THEN YOU'RE HER HUSBAND “ — You WANTING TO BE MY MANAGER WAS A TRICK TO GET ME IN YouR P TAKE ME BACK TO TOWN /— I'LL | MISS THE BEAUTY Y 4 7 CONTEST |S BI CAST.’ WE'LL HA\ GO ON WITHOUTHER! WAIT JUST FIVE MINUTES MORE! ~~ WE'VE GOT TO RIDE! \'VE BEEN SCOUTING THE RANGE, AND RUSTLERS ARE BUSY WHO CARES 7 I’M GOING TO SLEEP " UN--TH” BASES PLUM LOADED AN’ NOBUDDY ovr iN TH’ NINTH. OOH, OZARK.., WE ONLY GO ONE Ut OV 4 | Key West by National Airlines is } lle low im’ its entirety: Chapter Four GHEPLEY cast a negligent glance at Regan’s bloody and unrec- ognizable face, wrinkling his nose a little as he identified the odor of burned flesh, and then turned back to take Dupré’s hand, as little moved by Regan’s condition as Dupré himself. “These things will happen,” he said carelessly. “Sometimes there’s only one way to deal with them.” Sally moved across the room and seated herself at the table. drawing the glasses and the de- canter toward her. “Won't you have a drink, Mr. Shepley?” she asked sweetly. “It’s from Colonel Masterson’s own distillery above Indian Rock, and I understand it has an excellent flavor.” “Tll_ be most happy to, Miss Sally,” he said gallantly. “More particularly since it’s in such pleasant company.” She smiled at him, eyes half closed, measuring his strength and recklessness and liking what she saw. She mixed the drinl deftly, accepted his relaxed in her great high-backed Jamaica chair as he and André sat down across the table from her. “I hear you’ve a business mat- ter you want to talk over with me, André?” he asked question- ingly, his eyes intent upon the sharp taced ichman across the table. André nodded pleasantly. “I have,” he admitted. “A matter that can mean a great deal of money for all of us. I'll give you the gist of it, and when Pm done you can ask about any details ’'ve overlooked.” Briefly he sketched the story of Meisendorf, the Santa Fe trader who had hidden his gold beside the trail and, in Westport, been murdered for the map that was the only clue to the buried cache. He explained Regan’s proposal that he, Dupré, go out to West- port and thence along the Santa Fe trail to regain the treasure so it might be divided between Regan and hi Simply, al- "orn LANDING Homer ks | getting and | it’s most carelessly, he outlined Regan’s attack upon him and his }own brutal and harsh retaliation. “So,” he ended his story, “that’s | where it stands now. This surly |devil has the map—and we have | he’ll be glad to tell us where he’s hidden it within half an hour after I go to work on him. But Shepley, even after we get the map, we still have to get the gold. I've never even seen the trail, while you've been over it time and time again. I’m willing to put up the map and half the expenses against your knowledge and the other half of the cost. What do you think of it?” Shepley sat in silence for a mo- ment, considering the story An- dré had told, twirling the half- empty glass idly between his fin- gers. “Why,” he said slowly, “the story’s true enough, as far as that goes. I was in West; myself when it all ha and there was a hue and cry when Meisen- dorf was found with his throat cut and his map gone. As far as the money’s concerned, bound to be didicuit, but there's no reason it caat be done. you're pian- ning to make this trip yourself, André?” .. “Of course. If you come in on it, we'll go together.” “And Miss Sally?” “She'll stay here to look after things until I get back.” Shepley nodded thoughtfully. “It might work out,” he admitted. “What were your plans on di- viding the money—if we get it, that is?” Aras hesitated. It was a ques- tion he had been weighing in his mind ever since he had sent Sally to call Shepley upstairs. “Well,” he said slowly, “the way it stands now, there could be four of us mixed up in this thing —you, Regan, Sally, and myself. I was going to give a him! I think I can promise you} ‘AP Newsteatures fourth, but since he’s so hard to {get along with I think he'll be lucky to get as much as an eighth. Suppose you take a fourth and | Sally, and I will divided what's le Poker-faced, Shepley consid- ered the offer. It would mean a little more than six thousand dol- lars for Regan, twelve thousand for himself, and thirty-two thou- sand for the Duprés. Actually, it was not too ungenerous, but he was not the man to toss in his jhand without attempting to ia- crease his share of the pot. “There’s quite a difference be tween twelve thousand and thirty- two thousand,” he suggested. “Es- pecially when I pay half the costs and take all the responsibility after we leave Westport.” “That’s right,” Dupré admitted, “but on the other hand, if it wasn’t for us you wouldn't be in the way of making even twelve thousand dollars out of this.” He paused, studying Shepley’s face, weighing the odds in his quick-witted, facile gambler’s mind, “We'll do better in the end if we don’t quarre! at the start,” he ; admitted. “Let's make a deal. Well out Regan’s share to five thousand aad divide the rest be- tween us. Thaf’x fifteen thousand | apiece for the three uf us.” Shepley felt a giow of satistac- tion. He had cast the dice once and the hazard had won. As he ws no min to Ie a bet go un- | covered or uatried, neither was he so poor a gambier that he would try to pus: his luck too far. Smiling, he lifted his glass to Sally and then to Dupré. “It’s good enough for me,” he agreed. “Let’s take a drink to our good luck—and to our friend ee fifty thousand dol- ars.” His eyer smiled at Sally above his glass as they drank, and she allowed a look to creep into her own eyes that might have meant anything or nothing; an under- standing, a pledge, a promise—or nothing. “Well,” he glanced questioning- ly at André, “hadn’t we better take a look at the map?” (Te be continsea) aitinay ——~ ‘National Me |At Lackland ‘Press Release © Praises K.W. Sent To Travel Editors Throughout The Nation By NAL Miami Offices The kind of publicity given to | revealed in this glowing press re- e which NAL has sent to travel | editcrs of newspapers throughout || the country. t : ; The Citizen prints the release be- k “Lapped by water shaded from | deep violet to pale green and as | jeclear as any that comes from a | tap, Key West, Fla.. derives al-| most its entire living from the sea: from the Navy, tourists and com- mercial fishing. tiny island is linked to Mi- niles or 47 minutes dis- |tant by National Airlines (and Mi- ami is four hours from New York, or three and a quarter from New | Orleans) over one of the most sce | nic air routes in the country. NAL, | operating three round-trips a day, | reports that pleasure travel to Key | been growing steadily in | nter and summer, and that rite way of sightseeing is | an economical, convenient | I car. | presidential stamp of ap- is noticeable on the town wh as changed the name 1 school and a road There was already reet. At the corner where Ma ‘et street intersects fruman Avenue, souvenir hunters e kept local police busy replac- | the street sign. Oddly enough been no similar trouble izabeth street meets Tru- | e | a Ma Ke est is one of the few Am- erican cities where turtle steak “tu: and other native ies abound. And visi ns hand ler from M block and s s that the two-st se r- s pes Air Ferce Base | | | oq Air Force Photo HORACE R. AVERETTE, JR. | 19, son of Mrs. Floyd B. Sands, | 172-C Poinciana pleting | his AF basic air at tion course Force Base, Texas. 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