The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-09-28

| sprang up. I'm not lyingl And I'm
not going to take that!"
81 don't care whether you
smoked Tanning or not" he said.
II hope you did. It was coming to
him. What makes me sore is that
you don't trust me. After I have
risked everything for you, you are
still lying to mel"
I'm not going to talk to you,
she said, starting for the bedroom.
He siezed her wrist. sOh, yes,
you arel We're going to have this
out here and nowl !. I'm willing
to believe that you shot him with
out knowing what you were doing,
and that you can't remember any
thing about it now. That's natural.
But you couldn't take his money
and put it in your pocket without
knowing what you were doing"
II didn't take his money!"
Listen! broke In that door and
found you two alone in the cabin.
The key was still on the inside Of
the door, and the portfolios were
closed and fastened on the inside.
If you didn't take Fanning's
money, tDho did,"
Perhaps there was somebody
else aboard the yacht. Somebody
of whom we know nothing"
Somebody elsel" said NELL
staring. He dropped her wrist.
flaming had told me more than
once that he had enemies. That
night when we were having dinner
on the yacht thought ! saw some-
body skulking on the dock. Per-
hapS he slipped on board when no.
body was looking and hid himself
below. Perhaps he was hidden in
my cabin"
I'm your cabin?"
There was a clothes closet in
there. / tried the door when first
went in and it was locked. Perhaps
he had locked himself in there?"
Neill laughed harshly. "For
Gods sake don't tell that story to
anybody but me! That's exactly
the kind Of story that every hard
pressed defendant tells when he
has no defensei"
Janet looked at him strangely,
and went quickly into the bed
room. He let her 60, and dropped
on the sofa pressing his head be-
tween his hands. Anger sickened
him so that he could not think.
Chase In The Dark
WHEN she did not return, when
w he heard no sound from the
next room, sudden fear struck
through him and he ran in to look
for her. The room was empty, the
door unbolted and standing open
on the corridor. His anger van
ished then. Snatching up the fash
light, he ran through the corridor
softly calling her name.
"Jenl :. Jenl =. Waltz"
He assumed that there was only
one way she knew: down to e deck
across the dining saloon and the
galley and into the engine room
shaft 1t was the way they had first
come. Surely he could overtake
her before she had gone far. She
had to gRope her way in the dark.
He ran on, occasionally pausing to
listen. He could hear nothing. He
plunged down the two flights.
When he reached the galley, he
realized that he must have passed
her. She had hidden behind some
corner to let him pass. He turned
back. Suppose his anger had rem
dered her completely desperate?
Suppose she returned to the suite
and threw herself out of the VIM
dow? He ran on, sick with fear.
However. there was no sound
ahead Of him. She had not come
back to this part of the vessel. He
ran into the suite and. without
waiting to pull up the rope ladder.
closed the window upon it. and
also the other windows of the ve-
randa. They were very stiff and he
knew she could not open them.
He started down the stairs again.
On ID deck he heard some mouse
like sounds in one of the corridors
and searched IL cabin by cabin.
She was not there. OF course while
he was looking on one side. she
could run through cross passage
and return on the other. It was like
searching a rabbit warren.
TIE went down to f deck again.
While he was in the galley he
heard the clang of an iron door
ahead of him and plunged In the
direction of the sound. She had an-
tered the engine room shaft. She
we going on deck.
Wren he got into the shaft he
heard her far above him racing up
the iron stairs. "Jenl Jenl" he
called. 'sWaitl" He leaped up the
stairs. straining every nerve to
nvertake her before she could pet
out on deck. Before he reached the
ton she was through the door and
rinning forward on the boat deck.
He causht her bv the forward lad
der. and none ton soon. because
across che decks of the other ships
he could see the watrhman's lam
tern coming towards them.
She struggled desperately IN his
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"nuiet. len. for Gods sake!" he
imolore4 her. ~The watchman Is
coming this wav."
"All right. lot him comet I want
him to comet I'm going to give N.Y.
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inris
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