The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-11-25
Chapter Six
Course Of Action

Course Of Action
TUCK was irate. "Michaeps goi
4 a secret and he won't tell me
what it is"
Hes a lawyer, Tuck. Lawyers
can't tell their wives everything. I"
"Poof. This hasn't anything to
do with lawyering. It's secret
about this house, Bunny, about
this place we're living in. Some
thing awful-and here we're right
in it, and that Michael thinks he's
going to keep it from U.s."
Surely, Tuck-isn't it your i'm
agination again?" Bunny surveyed
her friend laughingly.
Bunny, stop talking to me like
that tell you, ] know i'll can see
il. So could you, Bunny Temple,
If you'd look. Why-didn't you
see how shifty and funny that
gardener was? He was scared to
death to talk for fear we'd find
out something. And I'll just bet
that surprised Michael, too; he
wouldn't have asked Higgins any
thing in front of me if he'd ex-
pected him to know anything. And
that boy-sicking his dog on my
cat just in time to keep Higgins
from saying something"
From saying what?"
Il don't knew. Something. Some
thing about the MurchisonS. And
then he tells us all this stuff about
burglars just because he wants us
70 go away-and Miss Lissey
doesn't want us nere-and Mi
chaePS father does want us here,
Bunny-and you know what an
old fox he is. / tell you, Bunny,
were living in a mystery"
Bunny dropped down on the
porch steps and surveyed Tuck's
flushed face and shining eyes with
interest. Il begin almost to see
glimmerings of sense in what
you're saying. Tuck" she said
slowly. when you start mention
ing the District Attorney. Did you
know that met him on the street,
and he asked me pointblank if
were coming out here with you?"
"He did? Really?"
Bunny nodded.
There" said Tuck. "That Just
goes to show. / knew he had some
thing up his sleeve. He didn't want
me 10 be here alone, even in the
daytime. He's nice thing even if
ha e RHnnxy che hrnlyA 1H
suddenly, what do you sui bose il
is2 A murder? Do you suppose ;"
she shuddered.
Don't be silly, Tuck. If it were
a murder the boy and the gardener
wouldn't be mixed up in it."
And Miss Lissey-they're ter
ribly queer. Bunny. But Michael
makes me so crosSl He let me sit
here on the steps and tell him
everything / know about Duncan
MurchisOn and Miss Lissey and
everything. and he didn't tell me a
thingi II isn't fair. Bunny. And now
he's gone over there with Gordon
tent indeedl" she shifted. Hes
gone over there with Gordon just
TO ask him questions. Questions!'
"But Tuck-about what? Cues
tions about what?" Bunny's brow
was wrinkled.
That's it. About what? Bunny,
let's find out!'
Charlotte Jean
TUCK, looking out over q gar
l. den from which the morning sun
had not yet taken all the dew, muir
INJURED to herself, Il wish | had a
crystal. ! wish had something
could ask questions and get the
right answers" She tapped idly on
the screen as she communed thus
with Nature and herself.
1t certainly seemed important to
get information from somewhere
and since Tuck had nc crystal and
wouldn't have known what to do
with it if she had. she was forced
10 consider other ways of attaining
her object; and in very few min
utes her mind had arrived at the
possible solution of the telephone
book. She few through the study
door to the little table just inside
the dining room door, upon which
stood the telephone with its direc-
tory lying beside it. She opened the
book quickly and thumbed over its
pages.
ID. d. d. she muttered.
att isn't common name. He said
she lived with the Devoes.".
BEG your pardon, Mrs. For
roster. ma'am?" Charlotte Jean,
busy putting shining blue and
white china into the cabinet.
turned.
Il wasn't saying anything, Char
lotte Jean" Tuck answered absent
ly.
mo. Mrs. Forester" Charlotte
Jean replied obligingly. She took
out yellow bowl and gave it an
extra polish.
There it Isl" Tuck cried. 81
knew il - but - surely -" She
turned to the mai6 suddenly
charlotte Jean, isn't this house
Number Ten. University Cam
pus?"
at is, Mrs. Forester. or shall !
60 and look?"
''Of course it is. ! knew it, Well
where would Number Eight,
University Campus be?"
1T would be the house down al
the end of the Horseshoe like, Mrs.
Forester. ma'am, wouldn't it? The
one next to the old maids house.
Miss Lissey's," Tuck corrected