The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-06-22

Hanson can't get him.
Know anytnin' about amber
girls, Lorne?" Asey asked.
That's what Pam'S always talk
| ing about" Lorne said. What she's
always hunting. ] never under
stood much about it. It's used for
making perfumes, isn't it, or some
thing like that? It's a whales chin,
or tail. never could see why she
made such fuss over II"
'Tt's sort of greyish stuff, !"
Asey said, "that grows in the in
testines of a whale. Fatty an a
little smelly, an sort of streaked
like marble. You can probably get
around. S35 an ounce sor it
"An ounce" Lorne said. An
ounce?"
'Yup. An yesterday, Pam found
lump about 100 pounds out on
the point. And Marina found Pam.
After a Squabble, Marina brought
| it back in Roddy's beach wagon, to
your garage. And"
Where is it now?"
Asey shrugged. pam went over
there later, and found Marina dead,
and she removed il. ] thought she
brought it to Octagon House. It's
not in the cellar, an the cops didn't
uncover it. / don't know where 1t
is"
That's swell for Pam, isn't it?"
Lorne said. "She-oh. But if some
one found il and took it-gee,
you've got to find it for her, haven't
your"
Asey looked at him curiously.
There was no doubt that the fellow
was perfectly sincere.
'Yes, got to find it before some
aone else does" Asey said, IAN
someone else is huntin' it. Now
you don't breathe word of this,
you know. Not to anyone. But can
You think o any part of the house
Where It might be?p
"No," Lorne said. You'd think
from the.outside that the place was
kaKfRlly qQeers but 1t isn't. except
for the shape Of some of the rooms.
and the arrangement. I'll get pen
Gil and see if ! can think it out.
think hard" Asey said as he
got up, while investigate Broth
er Carr. You know, it's just posi-
BILE that this marriage certificate
an note was what he meant, an
not the ambergris-come on"
"All right" Lorne said. 'fYou
know, III keep wondering what
this is going to do to my work."
"Huh?s
'My work" Lorne said. "Of
course this publicity has got me
dozens of offers - but what will
this do--to my work. you see?
Orgy In Quanomet
A SEY nodded, and suppressed a
"A smile. If Lorne had got to the
point where he could gauge his re-
actions to the murder in terms of
his work, then there was little
sense in worrying about him, or
feeling sorry for him.
Il see" Asey said. vYes. / see. z -
As they walked up past the
house, Asey paused by the cellar
window on which he had been
working.
Nights we'll take two seconds. :
he said, ito finish up this pane
here"
Before he finished with the pane.
Peggy Boone came up the road.
vaulted the barbed wire barrier,
and strolled up the driveway.
"Ah," she said. MIR. Fix-it. You
get around, don't you?"
Hes Asey Mayo, Peg" Jack
said. "I've told him everything
Il began to suspect that he was, :"
she said, 'after ! left Nettie's, Your
eyes give you away, you know. Do
you know where Pam is?"
i've got a lot of faith in her, :"
Asey said. "She can take care of
herself"
Il hope so-and have you heard
about the town? Nettie has joined
the midway. and between her and
the fan dancers, it's bedlam.
There's nickel-a-dance joint been
set up Why, the whale place
looks like gold rush camp. Forty
miners on a bust"
How are the local boys taking
it?" Asey asked.
The invasion? Oh, they're try
ing to stop the riot. So is Hanson,
with some of his cops. But you
might as well turn back a cyclone
with a bean blower. Honestly, it's
awfull / haven't seen the like since
the last ho otlea gers dumped their
last loads on the clam fats, and the
town was knee deep with bottles
| for days. It's the same sort of thing,
only they've got something TO do
besides drink And it's not the local
folk. The natives are furiously try
| ing to get the National Guard out,
or something. They'll have to. The
crowds got to the stage here IL
thinks it's fun to start fires"
You're maxim it up" ASey said,
''as you 60 alongl"
SIN notl Peg protested. I'm
not, / tell you it's an orgyl There
were three brush fires when was
up there, and small tent went up
in flames. And they've tipped the
FIRE engine over on its side. OF
course, it's q silly old engine, and
| il looks funny, and that siren
sounds funny but still there's no
reaSon--oh, well. suppose Han
son viii solve the problem some
how. Where are you going7'
Asey looked worried when he
returned.
II can't even get the Office he
said. The line sounds dead
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