The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-10-14


ing With an unlighted cigarette
looked out Of the window. The Miss
Borings, who kept q genteel wool.
shop In Mickleham Street, sat prim.
| II side by side In their neat, dowdy
blue serge coats and skirts. They
wore identical tucked muslin
blouses with high collars and rolled
gold colIar-suppofts, and twin hats
OF dark blue straw with plain black
ribbons.
The schoolboY next to them waa
immersed ID the latest mystery
thriller. The old gentleman with the
beard went On ming his pipe. And
the young married conpla DEPOSITS
Caroline continued to hold one n
others hands.
Snails have no charm to unite o
carriage full Of Strangers IN d COM
mon bond Of interest. But no sooner
had the stout woman pronounced
the name Van Berg than everyone
had something to say.
"It's . queer thing they don't
seem to catch the man that shot Mr..
Van Berg" she said, and the school
boy emerged from his thriller with
jerk.
aThsy say they've rot . clue" he
began.
"That doesn't mean very much,s
said the old man. He tapped his
pipe. "The sort Of thing they say to
keep the public Quiet-like throw.
ing 8 bone to dog"
The girl with the large blde eyes
rolled them IL the shy young man
and gigeled.
The stout woman famed herself.
Il was up ct the Hall yesterday,
"Packham Hall?" said both Miss
Behring'S together.
|THE stout woman nodded.
! Cooks my brothers second
wife's cousinin-law, and took her
over q couple Of pots Of honey. The
shop stuft'e that watered down she
don't relish II, so took her some
OF mine -neysr been before where
they didn't keep their own bees. and
don't like u.
.And then 10 have q murder, or
next door TO It, wen, she don't think
shell etay-such An upset, ana not
what she's used to. Why. when she
heard the shot, she come over that
queer she couldn't have got ont OF
bed. not q IL had been the house on
IRE.
Mrs Rogers she says--thnt -
ine my nanas--'lfrs. Rogers, give
you my solemn identical word,
Just pulled the clothes ever my head
and waited to see II | Was going 20
BE mufdefe1 In my bed she don't
look her right color pet
Il don's know how, 1 should feel
Il | was to hear SOMEONE being shot
in the middle Of the nisht." SAID the
young married woman.
u know what you'd do" said her
husband pinch me. same as you're
doing now.
The girl giggied. and the Miss
BorihsH eon9hed.
"Ahlp said Mrs. Rodgers. aIt isr.t
everyone that's got someone to
pinch. I'm : widow meselk, and SOS
Mrs. Henry that i've been telling
you about. Her 'usband was 4 p'lice
man. 20 Il doesn't put her about
having the police IN and cut ana eli
over the place. ~ you might eny---
and maybe she'd got told thing or
two az she wouldn't have got told
4 tlE weren't Tor her 'usbanGs oilcIal
position"
everyone leaned forward . little.
The shy young man barss Into
speech.
"nld shs ten yUu whom they sus-
pected?"
mrs. Rodgers shock her head.
Were there any finger prints9.
sad the achoolboy. They'll eet him
Il lhtfe were
aAhl" said MFn Rodgers darkiy.
sWeli. I don't know e ought to
say, but seeing a. we're all friends
here She paused. tanning her.
self
Caroline caught the inside OF her !.
lip hstwsen her teeth. Her hands
held eaeh other hard. A general mur.
muir encouraged Mrs. Rodgers TO
proceed.
well. IT'S something e. hasn't rot
into the papers--I can ten you that
and everyone In the house told not
to sag Z word. Theyid have Ken
then from knowing Il 90 Be they
could. but when there's . tray and
glasses took Cor ingsr prints. there's
SONG to - talk IN the servants hall
whether or no.
-Ah-r said the old nan win the
beard.
ceroline's grip RELAXED q trias.
She knew lAh already: Il Wa whas
Jlm had told her. Bar tksa 4
msAnt--il meant Ne haa rsmsm-
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