The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-10-08
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phenomenal extent of the irri-
tation. Otherwise his suspicious
might have been reused"
"Of course the chaplain kept
the brief case in order to prove
his identity" ! said. couldn't
seem to get over calling him the
chaplain "What was Felicia do
ing all this timer"
Going quietly about her BUSH
ness. She drove home, locked her
car in the garage and waited for
the wrong girdle TO arrive"
Il rode as far as the Post Ex-
change with her that afternoon"
recalled, shivering little. Ger
aid, you don't mean"
The body was unqueStionably
in the back of the car. Was she
nervous. not anxious for your
company"
Eyes. suggested going in
with her and she put me off. She
went to see the-the chaplain, too.
in the hospital. She was going to
buy him some underwear.
Very cool. She made use Of
everything. Even zimmerman.
think he really inspired her. OF
course she stole his second in
sigma and planted it in the
burned car-what? Did you say
something's"
'Nothing-go on" I was re-
Numbering what the orderly had
said the night before that rang
a bell in my brain. That his uni
form blouse always hung in the
kitchen when he wore a white
coat to wait on table.
The Authentic Touch
"CHE made people laugh at the
- chaplain's panties, and they
couldn't take the chaplain seri-
ouSly. Same way with the girdle.
Always the authentic touch. How
could anyone question the pre-
dicament of woman caught out
in public clothed only in her
girdle?
"She drove that car out beyond
the target range herself and
ditched it, first having arranged
the corpse in the drivers seat
remember, he was a small man,
and Felicia no weakling. A little
kerosene spilled here and there,
candle sheltered from draft
that would take an hour or more
TO burn down until it could ignite
the soaked cushions. or oil-soaked
rags"
'She was scared white when
she got back to the club"
Il don't doubt it. Suppose she
had been Seen-Suppose the can
die had gone out. They must have
used carbon monoxide on the
chaplain, in case the fire failed
and the car was discovered too
soon. Or she could always have
gone back, in the small hours
when everyone was asleep and
made certain the second time"
Gerald. who was Felicia? And
why should she plan two awful
crimes like that? Not just for
money. l can't believe anyone
would do such things just for
money. The theft Of a child-and
the cold-blooded murder of a
good man"
The worst crimes are Tor
money" Gerald said with quiet
bitterness. "And they are usually
committed by people who have
convinced themselves that they
have a grudge against the world.
Like Sandra. You read that part
OF her document, didn't you? The
rest Of 1.-THE discriminating part
told how they fooled her, too.
At least, the chaplain did; she
never knew Felicia was in it. She
simply knew Bridewell was an
impoStor; but when she confronted
him with her knowledge he
claimed to be a friend of the real
chaplain. The story they Matched
was that the chaplain had been
refused leave to &c to the bedside
of dying relative and that he,
Bridewe1, had agreed to attempt
the harmless deception"
"And Sandra believed that?"
$50 she said; but perhaps she
didn't, really. At any rate, she
saw a chance OF turning a penny
and hadn't the wit to make the
obvious deduction when the car
was burned. or to realize that she
was playing with dynamite. The
nearest she came to the truth was
to think he might be a spy.
But that was later. after Ivan
was killed. when she didn't really
care what happened. Ivan had
been in Hollywood and, pennilesS,
had hitch-hiked or bummed his
way as far as Chicago. He came
TO her for money-probably not
the first she lad given him. When
you and Julia interrupted them
on the barge-yeS, Colonel Pen
nant told me all that-they made
an appointment to meet there
later after the party broke up.
That was why Sandra was so
long in giving the alarm.
she waited until Mimi was
asleep, borrowed her car and
drove back out TO the beach. ex-
pecting to find Ivan waiting for
her there. He was there. all right,
but she didn't find him. He must
have been killed by Bridewell
while you girls were absent from
the barge. And it was undoubted-
ly meant to look like an acci-
dent
"a he nnnffruad