The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-07-22
oeTAGoGs NoUse 1888
BY PHOEBE ATWOOD TAYLOR gs%5@H
Chapter 40
SIS It All Real p

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II Hanson bumped into Asey at
the doorway.
I'VE had 10 shoot, Aseyl" he
said breathlessly. eve had to!
She went for the Carrs-she'd got
II out Of the well, and into the bar
TOW. and she was just making for
sypur roadster when the Cars
came back. And without a second
warning, she pulled that gun and
shot at Tim-we had to shoot
berl"
HHow's Tim?"
"She just winged him, but
vel, We got her" Hanson said.
Asey pushed past Hanson out
doors.
Timothy, gripping his shoulder,
was sitting on the running board
Of the little coupe. Beyond, in the
grass, lay Peg Boone.
rs il all real?" Tim asked
blankly, SIS it all real? Is twas
Il Peg?"
Asey nodded. 1--WE had to let her
know where il was TO get her. We
Just meant for her to - TO hang
herself, as you might say, We"
well, you certainly did" Mrs.
Carr, hugging Emma to her bosom,
peered out Of the coupe. you GER
tainly did. Asey, what's in that
barrow, that she was wheeling?
Whatever made her 60 for Tim
Ike that? Why, she-she went for
himi Like-like Emma went for
the Bird Whatever did she have in
that barroW?"
you can come out now, Gran,
Tim said. Il wish you would, my
arm needs fixing-what is that
stuff, Asey?"
That stuff in the barrow" Asey
said, "that is ambergris."
Half an hour later, Cummings
spread q final piece Of adhesive on
Timothy's arm. and leaned down
20 put the roll back in his bag.
That" he said. "thatll hold you,
! guess. Now just you keep quiet.
and"
Keep quiet nothing" Tim said
sASey, explanations are tedious,
but you'd best begin. How did you
know il was her? How did you
know ii was woman"
Il went back TO the beginnin',"
Asey said, "an' it come over me
that first of, ii was sort of a fem
nine touch TO pin that note ba1'.
on the door for Pam, after takin'
the knife. An it was a feminine
temper. An she smoked cigarettes
an she liked your Turkish best
An she's an athletic sort. / thought
50 when she vaulted the barbed
wire barricade the other day"
"How?" Mrs. Carr said. why?
/ don't-somehow, / can't get this
through my head"
She was up in RoGdy's plane, !"
Asey said. "She seen that lump
after Marina did. Brigham re-
mefnbered her. She was over there
that day-Only no one remem-
bered till we started askin'. She
was"
"Unobtrusive," Tim said, but
there. Everywhere Well, ! got
that much, didn't l. Pam? l said
she was all over the place So she
saw the ambergris from the
plane"
@But Marina had taken the beach
wagon, when she got to land, A"
ASey said. peg didn't have any
way OF geitin' out there From
what we have been able to dis
cover, she took her car out around
the other side of the point, as far
ne she Gould ,rI fhn, Cd ,,.,I lid
But the stuff was gone. | s'pose
s1e seen the tire tracks, an done
her own figurin' as 10 what Marina
wanted Roddy's beach wagon for.
She got her Car an come back
here, an took PANS knife"
Marina's Pet Spot
INHY didn't she take the amber
girls right away. after Sister
and / came back" Pam demanded
you was here, Nettle was here
she begun 10 do some iigurln
We know she was at that party
where Roddy and Marina were. -
What part did Roddy play. cx-
sctly?" Tim asked.
First of. Marina got him 10 say
he'd play holdup, and take the am
bergris from her and Pam. He
came over here to do that. An ne
found Marina dead, an beat it,"
Why didn't he take the amber
Kris7" Mrs. Carr demanded.
He didn't, because he dldn't
know how valuable Il was" ASey
said Not till later, when he
looked into the matter through en-
cyclopedlas an his grandfather S
book on whalin' That had a nice
lot about ambergriS. So Roddy
come over. ingrailatin' himself by
ufferin' rewards. an he must Of
seen Aaron take II 20 the barn.
Later. he took Il out an dumped
% IN the we'll
Well" Tim said. stop az The
WE'LL never heard of an oCtag-
onal vel. How would Roidy
know"
1t was one o. Marina's pet
spots" Asey said. Pam says she
often showed j: u people That's
how he knew ABOUT L. lie dumped
= IN before the barn burned. That
same night. Peg went for Jack S
drawin's while We was all hunun'
the troopers. The mural was done
from her drawin'S you know Ma.
rins swiped EN-"
What" Tim said "N0u mean
Ike she sRiped my old drawing,
-dian't Lorne know lie really
6s3n'.7~
he really didn't" A>e, said