The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-06-06

lifOtt&g SaIQ. mere goes the ffOFD
again-I'll dash out"
Asey started to follow him, but
remembering Pam Frye. he first
ran upstairs to the bedroom. There
was a note stuck on the door. Dear
Asey, | am taking nap. am ex-
hausted. but call me when you
need me for anything. Pam"
Asey hesitated, and then thought,
as he carefully locked the door and
pocketed the key, the Lord knew
she needed a nap.
Outdoors he found Timothy
standing beside small coupe
parked in the driveway.
My grandmother. Mrs. Carr"
he said With Emma"
The white haired woman inside
was too absurdly young looking to
be anyone's grandmother. Asey
said so, to Mrs Cars delight.
There, Tim, she said. that's
the sort of gallantry | miss in your
contemporaries. IL watch Emma.
she's getting out"
The largest Persian cat Asey had
ever seen jumped with dignity
from the seat down to the grass.
She's still rufled," Mrs. Carr
said. "Just the sight Of brass but
tons annoys her, and there were so
many over there. Has Jimmy told
you how we yearned to kin Ma
rina, and that we're bot.i left hand
ed? And what's to be done about
Pam Erye-0f course she didn't kill
Marina, she's much too nice child.
But everyone seems TO think so.
That Aunt Nettie person-do you
know that Nettie?"
Asey found it hard to maintain
his prejudices against Tim Carr
and his grandmother Perhaps, he
decided, they were just naturally
expansive and chatty. Perhaps
they just couldn't help it. On the
other hand, under the circum-
stances, their very matter of fact
attitude was in itself suspicious.
Aunt Nettie Hobbs" Asey said,
''has been a pain in folkses' necks
as long as l can remember. An it's
kind of hard to sum her up too"
'C0mbing The House
MRS. CARR announced tartly
w that she personally could sum
up Aunt Nettie in several words,
and that nothing but modesty pre-
vented her from doing so. ''She
takes jelly and custards to the
sick" Mrs. Carr said. And after
she departs, the sick promptly die.
Yes, / know the Aunt Nettie type.
But the stinker-dear me, Jimmy,
you do add such foul words to my
vocabulary! But the stinker was
identifying the knife that killed
Marina as Pam Frye's-"
"She uh. Was she?" Asey
caught himself just in time to keep
from adding that Pam had adj
mitted that the knife was hers.
Eyes, / knew it was. recognized
it. But listen here. Pam was away,
this afternoon when we all de-
cided to 60 to this clambake, and
we left a note for her, and | per-
sonally stuck it on the back door
with that knife-it was just sitting
there, that knife, on the railing. To-
night l noticed that the note was
still on the door. but it was held up
by pin. A common pin. And"
And bviousl Timothy
chimed in, Pam Frye wouldn't
remove the knife and then pin the
note back againl That's just silly.
What we think is, someone passing
by grabbed the knife, and the same
person used the knife to kill Ma
rina with, knowing that it would
Pam. Doesn't that seem
likely?'
Asey admitted that it did.
And that Nettie!" Mrs. Carr
said Indignantly. There she stood,
when we left, telling Elordes of po-
lice and all those reporters that
Pam must have had the knife on
her belt this evening, because she
had on the beltl That woman is a
she should be forcibly re-
And so should the police.
Did Tim tell you they're simply
csmbing Oetagon House?"
"Combing-What for?" Asey de-
thinking instantly of the
That was hidden there,
somewhere.
This Nettie saw Pam run out of
the garage, and she saw Jack
Lorne stumble
What was Nettie dom back
there or" he amended hastily,
hadn't she gone, or what?"
shed come back for her peck
she said. She is" Mrs. Carr
said, ''one Of those women who al
ways strews things SO she can have
, legitimate excuse to return and
stand outside the door and find out
what's being said about her after
ihe went. Anyway. Nettie started
Tor home. but returned in time to
zee Pam dashing off. and Nettie
wasn't sure that Pam hadn't
dashed into Octagon House"
Il amt sure but what Nettie
be forcihly restrained.
70 on.
well. that floor plants sim
ply fascinating the police. All
hose odd closets, all alike, and
Everything. They were banging
he wall for hideaways, or secret
panels, or something. Jimmy mad
To so down and stop them from
moving the coal in the cellar"
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