The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-09-11

Dance in school? Could we = to
/ this muster
/ Eve can do anything we have
| to- he assured her.
/ She ran into the tent and GOT
Ia long striped scarf and TIED az
1 about his waist. She fell. strangely
i light hearted as If she had drunk
Iof Omar's Cup that clears today
/ Of past regret and future fears.
4 "Don't be too rough, remember
| this dress" she warned him.;
He smiled into her eyes. I'll pe
gentle. he promised, and she feit
/ that in some obscure way ne was
1 teasing her. well try a tango
next he said.
i aReady,D shouted Mackey. and
started the music with a flourish.
/ one Of the camels began to dance.
! His master made him kneel. muz-
Tiled him and sat down beside
him.
Sherwood whispered in Anne,s
ear as he whirled her, wish
] they'd all dismount.
The cook and his assistant were
1 clearing away the table in the
tent. Another camel became rest
i less and was brought to his knees.
The audience clapped when she
finished. Sherwood said, you We
a very pretty kick.
Mackey struck up an old waltz
tune and Sherwood came over
ana took, Anne in his arms and
circled the dancing space to the
| slow sweet music. She felt a
/ tenseness about him as if he were
| holding himself under iron con-
| troll M IN
'sOur audience believes that this
is our wedding night, Anne" and
he kissed her. guiding her into the,
tent.
Mackey tumbled after them and
snatched close the flaps. He was
trembling with excitement. Then
Anne saw a revolver in Sher-
woods hand and remembered his
dropping down by one of the SOL
diers several times.
@Now what?" she demanded.
Nothing, I'm afraid" he said.
"The next move is theirs. We
know only that they won't harm
you in a way that is called muir
der in this part of the world"
They heard voices, unexcited, the
grumbling of the camels as they
rose and the slow shuttle of pad
ded feet
We'll probably hear from them
as soon as the fellow discovers
the loss of his gum" surmised
Mackey and put the harmonica
to his mouth again.
Anne looked longing1y at the
nallet In one corner of the tent
and then sat down on the rug,
drawing Ter golden, fluffy skirts
about her. Presently she rested
her head on her knees. She was
unbearably drowsy and weak,
and when she looked up again
with an effort, she saw that Sher-
woods head was weaving from
Gle to side. She thought for a
morent he must be drunk.
1--we been drugged," he NUT
tered, making an Intellectual effort
TO rise to his feet.
Anne put hand to her throat.
Now she knew what was the matt
ter with her.
Mackey stared from one to the
other of them in CONSERVATION.
'Those stuffed olives!" he cried
suddenly. Il thought it was funny
we'd have anything so foreign to
the country as stuffed olives:
They banked on every one of US
eating them. Well, / didn't. He
took the gun from SherWood's
neryeless hand and went out.
Anne managed to crawl to the
pallet before she lost conscious
ness.
Deserted
THE sun was shining warm on
Il the tent when she woke up.
She rose and stumbled to the tent
entrance and looked out.
The floor of the basin lay bare
of movement except for a light
breeze rippling the surface of the
tiny lake. No man, no camel, not
even The signs of their campfire
had been left. Her swimming suit
and the mems trunks hung on the
tent lines where they had been
thrown the night before. Wo
Then she saw SherWood's body,
lying, face down on the path to
/ the falls. s4B s3t1 ssssf3,
The next thing she knew. she
lay on the pallet again and some
one was gently shaking her shout
der trying to waken her.
She lifted heavy lids and met
| Sherwood's troubled grey eyes,
the hair on top of his head
RULED into linkept ringlets.
You're alive and unframed"
she exclaimed with growing Won
der and delight
$50 are YOU. he replied as if
! the words were needed to give
him conviction of the fact. Il
found you lying outside and you
/ wouldn't waken SO let you sleep
while / explored.
He helped her sit up and they
rested bit, her shoulder against
/ his breast. The tent flaps had been
! thrown back and they could gaze
out on the lonely barren land
scape bright with sunlight. Pres
entity she moved away that she
might look into his face the more
easily. He had shaved. she saw.
1 and changed TO whipcords.
aWhat do you know" she
asked rdrnmaging for comb in
j her bag. dill
sOnly what my eyes tell me.
/ You and ! are here absolutely
4 alone. Mackey gone--the natives
gone-the camels gone. The camel
| fieas gone. The lake Is too salt
| for a shrimp to live in Even
green mold refuses to grow on
| the barren clay of the stream
bank from the falls to the lake"