The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-10-14
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"A Lot OF Telling
"IXTHERE is Philip"

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"A Lot OF Telling
~KNHERE is Philip"
w in Jail, ma'am."
I beg your pardon?" Locke
Knocked.
Say, you even got me mixed
mp" The sheriff roared at his joke.
Olivia said, MIR. Callen isn't Mr..
Callen." as though that explained
He's a long wanted jewel thief,
o member of an international
ring" DR.. Macdonald said.
Cecily said, "And I'm the Queen
Of the May. l suppose. Or, am I de-
tirious?"
Gloria said, eff you'll all keep
quiet I'll try to make it plain. Ce-
ely, Philip Callen is really Slick
Rawlins. Only he's really :"
Gloria broke down. laughing. She
reached across Cecily's cot and
elutched Locke's good hand. "This
Is Philip Callen, you little liarl
Your fiancel"
Cecily sat up.
mo, she isn't a liar, Miss Watts.
She is my fiancee. aren't you. dar-
ling?"
in that case" Olivia pro-
nounced, wrapping her quilt about
her, Il suggest that we go and have
q look at the remnants of my house
and allow Cecily's fiance to tell her
the story himself"
Don't forget your jewels, Moth
sr," Gloria said, picking up the
leather case that had been lying
on the table. "You ought to have
learned lesson tonight"
Cecily's eyes avoided Locke's-
only he wasn't Locke. any more
as the others went out.
Then she said, "I wish I could
crawl under this cot"
He said. shall WEI"
"Oh, Locke i mean -"
~Locke's my NAME" he said. "T
told you it was. Philip Locke Cal
len"
"You told it to me once before
and / didn't believe you. Oh, dar-
ling, how can you ever forget the
way I've treated you'll The things
/ thought about you'll Only / didn't
down In my heart"
81 know more about your heart
than you do. young lady, and Pm
going to spend the rest of my life
telling you about it."
You'll have a lot Of telling to
dol And you might start now. I'm
completely in the dark. You seem
to be everybody's darling as well
as mine. OF course, that's not unex'
pected exactly except that they
don't know you as well as ] do You
see that's the surprising thing
about it. ! didn't know that they
knew you"
''They didn't. Cecily, never no.
ticed before that your nose turns
up. ] thought you were only turn
ing it up at me-"
~rn do worse than that If you
don't go on"
We'll, then, not only was l I'M
known here but am also practi-
cally unknown everywhere and
that's, the way it all began"
Pulp Writer
a RE you really going to talk
"A sense?" she pleaded.
eff ! don't look at you / may be
able to. Otherwise my mind wan
ders. All right i. all right, look
out for that bad arm. Now then
I'm pulp writer. which mean:
that nobody ever heard of me be.
cause use a string of pen names
i did have one book to which
carelessly attached my real name
And that one book didn't make me
famous. AS far as / knew. no one
had ever heard of Philip Callen.
He struggled to get at cigarette
with his left hand. Cecily managed
II for him.
I'm going to be help to you.
she said.
"You are, my love. got this" he
indicated his helpless hand. SLUG
ging a guy right on the kisser."
What's kiSser?"
He demonstrated.
We'll probably have to spend
the winter here if I'm to hear the
rest of this story" she said pa
tiently.
Imagine my surprise one brigh
summer morning to discover vi;
the New York Chronicle that l.
Philip Callen, no less--'prominen
author was the house guest of the
distinguished Madame Darrell"
Il saw that clipping. In fact
sent II to Jean Tuthill of the Chron
icIe myself"
Providence moves in a strange
way >. Well, sir. / says to myself
I'd better take myself for a LITTLE
trip and find out what poor biloxi
has TO use my name. Then, on tina
foFtuitous night when ! fell int
your clutches Cecily made
face at him and got kissed for he
trouble. Where was /? Oh, yes
that first nigh: :. | discovered tina
you seemed startled when l toll
you my rear name. SEE, Philip
this lady knows that bird and may
be we can find out something Blu