The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-10-18
Chapter 4. "a
plRE Truth

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DIRE TRUTH
MRS, RODGERS watched Caro-
= line turn away and begin to 60
down the bill. Then she took ster
TOWARDS the stiIe. but almost in the
get Of taking Il she swung about
IKEA boat when the current catches
4 She called.
miss Caroline! Miss carolInel"
And Caroline came back. She
qiah't want to come back. but she
came.
= mustn't miss my train" she
ED.
There's time said Mrs. Rodgers,
and took her BY the sleeve.
Caroline turned cold with dread
ef what she was going to hear.
Miss Caroline. said Mrs. Rod.
sgks.
cafoline's eyes besought her.
NY dear, you'd best know and ha'
done. with It. That torn out page
oh, mol" said Caroline. mol"
You'd best know II. my dear.
1<lt. Henry's no Inter, and it's what
sAe seen with her own eyes. She
took pertickler notice. because there
NePn't no name signed on that
PAGE. =
mo name7'
mo name. my dear-nothing but
The fnger-pfints and two great big
Initials getting on for a couple Of
inches high. She took pertlckler
notice. and when the book was
found pushed down behind the book.
ease like told you, she took . look
q Il. and that there identical page
vas gone. ! s'poss I didn't ought to
tell you what the initials was. but
what's the good OF baking the bread
iEyou don't take It out Of the ovenl"
Caroline tried to pull her sleeve
away. but she couldn't speak. Mrs.
Rodgers voice doomed IN her ears.
Mrs. Henry won't talk unless
she's asked. and its not FOR me to
say whether she'll be asked or no,
but Il 80 be she IL. she's bound to
tell the truth--not that she or any.
one else around these parts nd want
% set 9 young gentleman that was
well liked, and bis family respected.
into trouble.
BAT there's q name that as been
mentioned. and Mrs. Henry's own
nephew - Willie Bowman, that's
been his caddy at golf many and
n1auy time aEore he went on to
foreign parts-WiIIie seen him In
tie. drive getting on Tor midnight.
and hasn't told no one. only his aunt
and me.
And what we're you doing. Wii.
LEI she says. and Of course he
hadn't got word TO say. she know.
ing same Is everyone else that hes
carrying on with that Eighty piece,
GLADYS Garrett. down at the Cricket
ag'a Arms."
Caroline's head swan. Through q
iunlbled whiri OF irrelevant anecdote
something horrible advanced upon
her. she wanted to run away. but
shs couldn't.
Mrs. Rodgers dropped her voice to
epenetratlng whisper.
IT VAS Mr.. Jim Randall as Willie
seen~~and the initials on the tore
out page was ]. R"
Cernline's mouth made ! sound
less r0hss There was no sound. be.
cause abe did not seem to have any
breath. She pulled away from Mrs.
Rodgers and ran down the hin. as IL
b. running she could set away from
Jiri's name.
4sHE clock Of ST. Mary Magda-
= lene's church struck halEpast
twelve a. Caroline turned into
Grove Road. The things that Mrs.
Rodgers had told her were all
locked away In I dark secret cup
beard Il the back cf her mind. She
wasn't soing to let herself look az
them on think about them until she
and Jim could look at them together.
What she had got to do now was
- Be sensible and practical and
basinesslika. She had to prove from
the entry In the register that e.
wasn't Jim who had married that
horrible NestA woman On July 2sth.
4 etood 10 reason that 4 wasn't Jim.
bat she had got 70 prove f.
Well one glance at the register
would 10 that because abe would
&noW Jlm's writing anywhere. and
ehe was cutie sure that the entry
,woaidn't be n Jfms writing.