The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1934-02-12
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| against his own interest TO aid q
white man. one who had saved his
life. in fact. deserved safety at the
least.
One more consequence OF a girls
sudden action In Hollywood weeks
before. That slap had precipitated
9 train Of deatf--like the string Of
dominoes when the end one had
been pushed over by the casual fin
ger of a child.
Il would not seem so utterly
tragic. Frank decided. IL there were
anything he could do to right mat
tiers. Once again, and with, the ut
most WEAKNESS. he surveyed the
field" There was the wiRdoY.
there was the door. He thought sud
denly Of the observation OF the
ehiele buyer he had met in New
York.
Once, q generation ago, Yueatan
had been the exile of central Mexi-
can criminals, sent there for their
various crimes.
|. Il seemed more than probable
that these people. appropriating
this ancient city, had established
this iungle.hidden community. They,
would have mingled with the na-
tives they found there.
Also there would have, been
scarcity OF women. -.
Greene" he said suddenly. "If
you stand against that wall. under
The window. I'd Ike to use your
hack for ladder"
obediently the m aller man
braced himself against the wall. At
the fourth try. Grahame gave il up.
Sweat, from the heat and pain,
streamed down his face. The rooms
walls weayed slowly about.
TO USE" he gasped. "Pm too
heavy for. you, and cant get
high enough to drag up with my
left arm. Let me stand there and
you do the climbing
cts going to hurt you" replied
Greene douhtfully.
Grahame wiped the Precipitation
from his eyes.
~You should have been a dentist"
he grinned, and placed himself
against the wall.
The smaller man put his foot
in Grahame's belt and struggled,
so that he had both feet upon
Ora h,ame s LETT shoulder. To
Grahame, the pain In his torn back
muscles was exquisite.
TITS open country" Greene spoke
swiftly. eWe could get through this
window II we could cut the bars. |
can see the base of the great pyra-,
mid OF to the left about a quarter
of amile. There, lot of buildings
like this one, some larger. some
smaller.
Say Z. :" His tone was incred-
ulous @Here IL funny one. Some
one has scratched lot OF words on
the SIN. guess you'd call It q. j
under the bars here. II says
Never mind" muttered Grahame
hoarsely. Cant hold you up much
longer"
Just q minute more" pleaded
Greene. Its dated only a few
months ago. December 18th. It's
signed it's signed i. by all
that's holy. its signed by Langtoh,
who fell In the ocean last year!
Gfahame.
The blood left Grahame's head.
He felt new strength flowing into
him. The pain even. seemed to
abate as he heard the little mans
voice cry out that there was q mes
sage scratched on the stone sill of
the barred opening. by Langton.
What does It sayf'
December IS. Log covering trip
until mid-aay December Is win be
found In map case on ship. Storm
passed and visibility became good
about -four r. N. Gas almost ex-
hausted. when sighted ruins. Ship
undamaged IN landing. Taken here
- armed natives three days ago.
NJ guard tells ne am to be sacri-
seed By the ahkin-the high.priest
-on the central pyramid and
thrown into the cen0te.
December 10 Ahkin here TODAY.
Was taken to ship. Am to teach
them to fiH They are sending run.
ners cor gasoline. For good-be-
havior they lei me. take some food
from the ship - chocolate bars.
chewing gum and pop back here.
december 20. No use. Guard
says tomorrow some festival begins
and am 70 die. Il would not Be so
bad IL these people were ignorant In
dams, bat some are as white as I
am. I win copy q message and put
II IN q bottle. Perhaps goodhye!'
"That'a ell. said Mr.. Greene. He
slid down to the foar. Il found this
up there He extended his hand.
Within Il was a fragment Of glasa
Probably Langton scratched his
message with this. Busted . bottle
and used the pieces They said his
message was written In blood. and
he used another Elasa splinter for
thai guess Grahame frowned
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