The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-05-06
Chapter 20
Exhibit A

THOUGHT l might 60 to the
l. clambake today" Kay told
Asey. How about your"
"Oh, I've got to Sc. Brinley,
when he has a spare moment.
don't want to tear him away from
his duty"
Where's Eloise?" Kay didn't
sound as though she really cared
a whoop.
Upstairs, guess. The other
maid, Sally, is supposed to be
lookin' after her." ASey hesitated.
KAY, what's on your mind? What's
botherin' you?"
Nothing"
Nothing except what?"
"Oh. look - it isn't anything,
really. It's-tell me. do shotguns
kick"
They've been known to. Why?"
well, would they kick enough
70 make some mark, like black
and blue mark?"
They might"
mot going to help me out one
bit, are you? Well, last night, after
all the furry, Jane and had a
cigarette together, in my room be.
fore we went to bed. She was in an
an awful state. I feel sorry about
her. I remember all about her,
now. Her father was one of the"
Zone of the brokers who
jumped" Asey said. II know. ]
heard about it any number Of
times" ..--......
'That still doesn't make it fun
ny" Kay returned. Il say, it's odd
how the depression worked, isn't
II? Some people crashed through,
and some slumped, and some like
Jane-well, it just didn't touch
them. Oh, she went through it, and
1t touched her in a way. but I don't
suppose it's done a thing to the
way she thinks. She won't accept
things and make the best of them,
she just gripes around-where was
j, anyway, before L got all involved
with the depression"
81 think" Asey said, "you were
about TO break It to me that Jane
had funny bruiSe in the general
section Of her right shoulder. Was
that it?"
How" Kay said. ''how you must
exasperate some peoplel It took my
eye, somehow. | couldn't seem to
look away from that black and
blue spot. When she saw I was
staring at IL, she got awfully EN-.
barrassed. She launched into a lot
OF unnecessary explanations, all
about cellar steps and falling down
them"
eff you'd ever seen those cellar
steps in the kitchen up there at the
hollow, you wouldn't treat'em so
lightly" Asey told her. II nearly
broke my neck on'em twice the
other night. But she explained. did
she?"
"Endlessly. feel like squealer,
but il seemed a point to consider.
Oh. you don't think so? Let it pass,
then. Have ! time for a swim be-
fore il rains?"
Before Asey could answer, Dr..
Cummings arrived.
Asey said. Mrs. Brinley was up
on the ferris wheel with your wife,
wasn't she? Do you know where j.
Arthur was durin' that timer"
That ferris wheel obsesses you, "
Cummings said. 81 never knew
anything like it. Open your mouth,
and out pop the words ferris
wheel"
He wants to know what makes
the wheel 60 around" Kay said.
That's his trouble"
Have your laugh" Asey lighted
his pipe. "And then when you get
through. tell me about J. Arthur"
Thoph's Pond
COSH, ! don't know. don't
" seem to recall even seeing
him. He must have been. around
somewhere. ] never notice him
much, one way or another. And
he wasn't carrying gun, like Mike
Slade, or being very spectacular.
I wouldn't know about him. I'll
think il over while ] chat with
Eloise."
He was grinning widely when he
returned.
Just don't know what" he
said. we're going to do. Just com.
pletely unnerved, that awful face
Of that awful man, always did mis-
trust a communist, horrid people,
the poor Gar and those sweet Lit.
tie girls, deserved something much
better I'm sure, although as
always say. there was Rasputin. I"
You've caught it." Asey said,
'fbut don't give it to us. It is
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