The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 15, 1952, Page 10

Page 10 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Wednesday, October 15, 1952 BARNEY GOOGLE AND SNUFFY SMITH IN LIKE JUGHAID WILL FAKE UP ENNY TIME WIF A LEETLE FELLER LIKE ES } OVER AN’ PLAY WIF LEETLE EBENEEZER AN’ BLESS HIS - HEART !! t HEAR THE PHONE RINGING DOWNSTAIRS - I GUESS JARVIS ig ISN'T BACK YET- = -~ AS A CITIZEN I MADE A RECORD OFTHIS FAIR / OF MY NEXT POLITICAL ‘fey F SPEECH.’ WANT TO LaSal’l wa! Now 1 cHooT aT ) ay THE PISTOL FLAGH. Ts. OZARK IKE 2... yrs TW PLANE RESERVATIONS GIDDY YAP !! BACK TO TH’ CORRAL, YE OL BAG O' BONES !! I GOT TO GIT HOME FER VITTLES OH-REALLY ? WELL-I SORT OF EXPECTED SOME- THING LIKE THAT! THREE HOURS AN' THUTTY MINUTES Jaan BABY SETTIN' @ 30¢ PER HOUR-- A= YE OWE ME 67 05 : CASH ON TH’ 3 BARREL HEAD !! THAT. WAS THE HOSPITAL CALLING/ JARVIS IS IN THE EMERGENCY WARD -= IT SEEMS HE SAMPLED THE CAKE YOU BAKED! -IF I AM WHO ISTHE > FN OUR HITCH-HIKIN® LUCK HOLS OUT, DINAH, WE . OUGHTA GIT THAR ANY Chapter 31 was neither night nor morning when he pulled up in front of Sally’s cabin three phe dark torrent of rain med the moon and the stars sky all through the cabin was a shapeless mass neath the trees, still and lone! Gieught picking its way through dieli, picking its way the cracks of a shuttered window. Almost at the verge of exhaus- tion, his sodden clothes cold and harsh against Itis body, he climbed down from the wagon and plodded ica ap oe alarm from start up in quivering the_ chair where she had been dozing beside the window. She ran across the room and then she oe him inside, her hands fingers trembling as she slammed the door shut be- hind his back. He stared at her in amazement. “What the hell, Sally—” Migs © they’re hunting for Be From St. Louis! They were here two days ago and I told them you weren't coming back—you were going to Chihuahua. But, oh, Clay, they'll come back!” dis face darkened as he con- sidered the news. “Blaine Shepley, of course.” She nodded, her eyes wide and frightened in the pale, sweet oval of her face. “It’s his father. He's sworn he'll see you hanged. He's offered a reward for you—” She hesitated, her face twisted with terror. When she finished the sen- tence her voice was no more than a whisper: “Dead or alive!” He moved somberly across the room, his eyes bleak and brooding, his mouth thin and cold. “Just now!” he said bitterly. “Just when everything was be- ginning to work out.” Then he turned back to face Sally, and as he looked at her some of the harshness faded from his face. He smiled grimly, but with the old dancing light of de- . fiance beginning to burn in his eyes, “Hell, Sally,” he exclaimed, “we always knew it had to come sooner or later. Now—we've got to do something about it.” eves Prepared For Headache If a guilty conscience ‘gives a headache to the thieves who broke into the Picadilly lunchroom at Southard and Francis streets some- time Saturday night, they will be prepared to take care of. the situa- tion. Among the items listed as stolen was ome package of B. C. headache powders, Police officer Lionel Soriano was called to the lunchroom Sunday at 9:15 a. m. to investigate the rob- bery. The front door lock had been removed with a screw driver and thieves had ransacked the lunch- room taking with them $12 in cash, a $15 ham, five cartons of ciga- rettes, 2 boxes of cigars, $5 worth of candy and gum, razor blades and the packet of headache powder. They left by the back door. Accurate check .of the missing items was made by owner Sam Ike Cuts Birthday z aaeey dog. He laughed, patting her shoulder gently and eae bar to laugh with him. “Well, hell,” he said Ughtly, “T’ve hunted plenty of dogs I never found—and they're a long way from finding me right now. He led her over to a chair be- side the open fire and held it in- vitingly until she sank hopelessly into it, "t more, honey,” he said soot ingly. “Just let me think about this for a minute or two.” Her eyes followed him as he turned away and walked slowly things Ive been doing here. a have to plan for you.’ tse are S “Now tell me about your boats. —— got three of them, haven't you: 5 She nodded. “Yes, of course,” she impatiently. “I wrote you about them while you were . Santa.Fe.” have agents in St. Louis who a dollar to be made on the other of a smile as she vi down the length of the room. The | beneath rain still drummed out its funereal | ability. tatoo on the roof, and it seemed to her for a hysterical instant that it was the sound of horses’ —e @ posse of grim-faced, vengeful men. Then the fantasy dissolved, for Clay was coming a_half-smile twisting his mouth, He rested one elbow on the mantel and looked down at her, his face grave but the smile still warm and alive just behind his eyes. “Sally,” he suggested, “how would you like to tell me about your steamboats?” The inconsequence of the ques- tion. qarted her erect in her chair. “Clay!” she protested. “You must take this seriously. We can’t waste time i about the Wells who discdvered the robbery when he opened his place of busi- ness the following morning. Realtor Decries Vote Complacency DAYTONA BEACH #®— More people are interested in baseball than who will be the next Presi- dent, the Florida Realtors Associa- tion was told Tuesday, William R. Darragh, Atlanta, National Association of Manufac- turers, said “an estimated 100 mil- lion Americans, twice as many as hoofs | brit be able to get around my neck.” : (Te be contineed) this study. The polls, however, re- veal that despite an increased istration and the more people will vote this than an the last, the sad mains that about half Americans who will vote yet given much thought to the sues brought out in the campaign.” Darraugh said this was “alarming” estimate bee e “most students of government be- lieve that it is better to have as educated public interested in the issues of a campaign than it is te | get out a large vote,” Southern division manager of the | Gov, Fuller Warren, addressing the realtors Monday, said that un- less the state allots more money to advertise Florida “it is going have ever voted in a presidential | start shrinking.” election, were more than mildly | interested in the outcome of the recent World Series. “A majority of these Ameri- } cans,” he continued in an address, He asked the — “throw your whole oe an adequate appropriation” to ad- vertise Florida when the 1952 islature meets. The $500,000 “had studied the teams and had | expenditure, he said, is “a token then made a choice in the light of ‘ gesture.” Cake Amuceted Pree Wireghot GENERAL DWIGHT DP. EISENHOWER gris seedy to cut » terthdey coke pememiod bie | oc the eve of his Sind terthdey by Bleenhower workers i New Orleans’ Tth Ward Mra Eine i howe: watches as the General prepares te rum the mnife through the bugs cake. +