The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-07-22

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sign Of it was hers. An add that
TO the ambergris-"
"And Marina's taking Jack away
from her in the first place" Pam
said. II think l see"
"Nettie brought that point up"
Asey said. About Jack an Peg.
Well, she got out some time after
three, Peg did, Saturday night, an
painted out the mural with red
lead. From Aaron's stock. Got out
the tree, same as you did, Pam,
that same night. That afternoon,
she'd snatched Elliotts gold key to
the post office from the kid playin'
with it. We got him out Of bed, an
he said it might of been a woman
IN pants. She wears dungarees all
the time"
But why didn't she take the
ambergris at Once?" Pam said.
Gimme time" Asey said. she
had the same trouble you did
transportation. You'd fixed the ga
rage doors, an Marina had the car
key. That meant she had to take
the ambergris out, through the
side door. Wen have to guess a
lot. Like maybe she went to that
party Wlere Marina was, TO try to
get the car key. Thatd of been
the simpler way. Her car amt
much mOre'n a wreck. An she
knew if she started with the am
bergris, she had to keep on gOin'
Anyway when she come here, she
had to kill Marina to get the stuff
An ROddy was around. You see,
he thought that Nettie seen him,
that's why he paid her hush money
Actually, Peg seen him, but she
wasn't sure who it was That's
why she went to Nettie that day
overheard EN-, to find out if
Nettie seen her. Then she realized
later, it must of been Roddy
That's why he got menaced. She
begun to dope out his part in the
ambergris. That's why finally she
killed him"
But how did you know? How
can you prove"
That LittIest Cat
"rTHERE'S always clews," Asey
L said, IF you can find EN- to
fit. In Roddy's car was a yellow
glass bead. Didn't mean anythin
to me till | got to thinkin' about
the clocks here, an that littleSt
cat, with the little beady eyes. You
see, Peggy Boone didn't like clocks
she's the first woman I've seen
for a long time that amt got a
white strip around her wrist, from
Wearin' a watch She didn't like
the ticking of clocks and watches
She didn't have one But when she
set out to kill ROddy, she knew
she needed a time check. So she
took that smallest cat alOng-that
was durin' the time that she was
presumably gettin' her car from
the garage. She got it, She timed il
beautifully. Took Hanson some
time to follow her moves, this
mornin' But she left the little
glass bead from the clock in the
roadster, when she started it.
But the mural-Why was that
ruined?"
Assey smiled. Everyone was
sore" he said, at the way they
was pictured in that thing. What
they was made to look like When
l looked at the pictures Of it
while ago, | thought I'd been
barkin' up the wrong tree. Peg
Boone was an Indian girl. Lorne
hadn't distorted her any"
She was skinnIng some sort
Of animal" Pam said.
"Yup. An she was skjnnin' il;
with a knife" Asey said, held
in her left hand See what I mean?
There you are. anyway. That's
how things happened Marina took
Jack from her, Marina sWIped her
drawings. Marina got the amber
girls first"
Her left hand," Pam sad
Why, ! never thought Of that
bat why didn't Wc think Of her."
Why should we at hrSt?" ASeN
said. She was So sOIcItous about
you-Why not? You pointed e
the ambergriS, When She come
back 10 get that, after KILN
Marina an all. you'd taken it, you
see. But the minute she found
you didn't know, she stopped BEN
SolIcitous. Hanson. | see O'Malle>
an Shorty gettln' out of that Car
an Jennings IS here-I'm goIn
down to avert some murtcrS,"
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