The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-05-27


a yawn. 'T-what?" '''>
did anyone take my car to-
night?"
Zone of your cops had it, didn't
he2" the boy looked at Lane and
yawned again. II don't know. ]
been so busy today"
90 Listen listen As As icy said, "how lons
ooh, since twelve. I can see il
anyone comes for gas, or they blow
their horn" the boy yawned again.
Or"
Come on" Asey said to Lane.
"This isn't goin' to get us any
place. The fact r'mair1s, we seen
your car, Kay an l, an we got
some reason to b'lieve your car
was the one we been chasin', if you
could call it that"
Kay reminded him of the tail
light.
"You could twist that" Asey
said. Brown sedan, Dashed fender,
radio"
"Brinley" Lane said. "Brinley!"
What about him?"
'Brinley's got a brown sedan"
Lane said. Dashed fender-Mrs.
B. Dashed it this Afternoon against
a phone pole! Fellow in a trailer
crowded her off the road. And
their tail light doesn't work, be-
cause she was so upset after hit
ting the phone pole that she
backed too far, and smashed the
tail light to smithereens. I was
there"
Lets" Asey said, "call on Brin-
ley"
Figuring
Just as their car pulled up to the
- walk in front of the Brinleys'
house, a brown sedan with a
Dashed fender turned into the
driveway.
]. Arthur, rather sketchily clad,
greeted the group with amaze
ment.
rs anything new the matter?"
he inquired anxiously."
"Asey!" Kay's shrek ma de
Asey's hair stand on end. Look
in this back seat! Look! Lookp
Sprawled grotesquely across the
back seat of Brinley's sedan was
the top-hatted, tail-coated dummy.
"Oh, that?" Brinley laughed.
isn't that one of Mary Randall's
figures? I thought so. Look, there's
Bessie at the door-she's worried
about Amos. I must go in and"
Rain or no rain," Asey said,
DOG or no dog, you stay right here
an tell me about that figure!"
Why, it was in the road" Brin.
ley said. "At first ! thought there'd
been an accident. 1t did look like
someone injured lying there. Then
saw what it was, so ] picked it up
and brought it back. I guess some
boy stole it, and then dropped it off
to fool someone"
Where have you 'been?"
Amos" Brinley shook his head.
Poor Amos, our little"
Black dog" Asey said. II know.
What of him now"
why, Bessie had guests this af-
ternoon, and one of them fed Amos
a whole solid box of chocolate
creams-of course we didn't know
it till now. Amos loves chocolate
creams, but oh, how sick they
make him! He was so sick, and
BESSIE was so worried, ! though
I'd better take him to DR.. Graves. :"
With Mrs. Brinley in the hall
were Madame Meaux and Weston.
''What're you doin' here?" Asey
asked the latter.
They phoned me from the
Town Hall that the cups were
gone, and ! came over here to see
Arthur" Weston said. ~ offered
to go with Arthur, but he seemed
to think"
Protection" Mrs. Brinley said.
II always think you feel so much
safer, somehow, with a man
around. And with everything that
has happened, naturally I'm I'M
easy, and I know that Madame
Meaux is, too, though she's been
Just as brave as anything, so
made Arthur 60 alone. with Amos
and Weston stayed with us. And i:
was more than twelve minutes,
dear. It took you seventeen min
uteS, to the time you came in the
drive. We timed you. You see"
she explained to Asey, "Arthur
bet he could 60 TO DR.. Graves and
back in twelve minutes.
Lane, Hamilton and Kay fol-
lowed ASey outdoors.
Il STILL" Lane was thoroughly
bewildered, Il still would like to
know what you have been doing,
and what about this figure, and
your car and the slaShed tires, and
what about my car, and brown
cars, and Brinley-"
81. Arthur" Asey said, striding
down the walk. "haS managed to
ease himself out of something else.
That dog! l s'pose if it wasn't dog,
it'd be a cat, or white mice. Seven
teen minutes lets him out, with
people to check either end"
Why was the figure dropped
out, Asey?" Kay asked.
ASey went to Brinley's sedan
and lifted the dummy out of the
back seat and carried it over to the
troopers car.
Come long" he said. getting in
behind the wheel.
They careened down the road to
the hollow.
Take that figure in, Ham," Asey
said. 'I'll take the other"
He walked over to the other
beaver-hatted dummy, tugged it
into the living room, and stood it
beside the one he had taken from
Brinley's car.