The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-12-05

wedding Bells
pEFcRE the brakes hsd besn
- lammed q. Jel1 was cut Of the
TAX Clint Bowers wss elise D.
hind MN. The elevator door sIid
open - ] reached H. JEFF he'd Sc
key II his hard while ne wnr~
taken Up. A bell rang q the tstssr5
up. - 70 q
The boy Looked 81 hin and
opened ais Eu1th. But taa e1eva-
% went On Fast the third floor.
~ tne sixth 7 locked with =
prayer for crowlay's bulky hgare.
The hau was empty.
Ny heart dropped with . dull.
6lck kn1mp. We went down the
passage and JEFF slid the key into
the oooE and opened IL
Steve Brown was there. stand
Ing n the middle Of NY living
room. Close 70 him was Carol. Her
arms we're ciaSped around his
neck and Steve's head was bent
over hers and he was kissing her.
! leaned back against TIE wall
and snorted. Ny knees were wob-
bling and ] was out Of breath 50
me snort was feeble one. but
they heard IL Steve raised his
head startled, and than 4 sheepish
grin crawled over his face when
he saw Us.
Carol flushed ard made an effort
70 pun away but he held her firm
y 70 him with one arr sros1rs
her shoulders. Putting his hand
under her chin be tilted her lace
I'D 70 his.
The Jig Is up, CAROL He
turned TO Is. "Ars you following
me BY any chances
BY any chancel" / hooted
we followed you here hsIIbert =,
keep you from numbering Carroll"
He stared al rs incTedulouslv.
Prom numbering carolls he re-
peafed. pulling her closer 70 him
I'm not going 10 murder Carol
I'm going 70 marry her"
We're were going to be
married" Carol echoed IN > SnsI n
voice
You're going to be married !"
Ny echo was even smaller.
7 certainly hope so JEFF said
primly. He Topped into a chair
and expelled al the breath he
had been holding for the pzst ten
minutes in Z gigantic sigh Of re-
lief I still couldn't MANAGE IA pei
As Tar as chair.
Congratulations, Pm glad. =
Clint said, his face lightened IN
. smile
BE happy. children JEFF said
and have children, but please
bring them up to take better care
of their keys
Steve froEned before his face
broke into an embarrassed grin.
On- Carols key ] thought /
might have lost It al CIint's
You did. And I found 4. And
we've been chasing you with a.
long rope TO put around your
neck-"
I just heard about It from
Carol How Jinx came I'D with his
tale of man at the door. She
should've told you it was /. II
you'd asked me, would have.
You mean Carol knew all the
timer / managed to gasp.
sure she knew. She gave me
the key Sunday night Incidental
y, ] did Just what you figured I
had done. JEFF. walked up the
stairs let myself IN an waited BY
the window, watching for Carol
70 come And when ] saw that
Halla was with her, that she
hadn't gone to that party after
all, scrammed. But you were
awful wrong on one point didn't
come 10 Kill Carol ! came to
praise her and incidentally. whip
up some Texas hash"
Texas Hash
TEXAS hash" / repeated.
somewhat Historically. There
was pause while JEFF and Clint
and ] all looked at each other
mumbling Texas hash
Yeah, " Steve said, Texas
hash You eat IL It's delicious.
And it's a nice thing to cook when
you're alone with your girl: yea
don't have TO watch Il
Look, Jed said. Let's al sd
down and Steve vii start at the
beginning. We sat Steve and the
studio couch beside Carol He
reached for her hand and their
eyes met and said things 10 each
other.
The beginning Steve said. ais
that Carol and ] fell IN love, al
most at once. We want 10 get mar
Red and there are l.. well, there
are obstacles. The obstacles are
my family Not that they'd diszp-
prove Of Carol once they met her;
they'd love her, but IFS Just that
they're 50 dead set against the
fheater. You probably know what
q row they raised when got my
first Job. Wei. Fm afraid that's
what il would be al over again
with Carol and ] don't want that
So we hit upon 4 plan and i was
a pretty damn good enc. too. We
were going to keep Cur engage
ment quiet, not let a breath Of Il
slip out until this show was over,
and then ] was going % take Carol
home and she was 70 play dumb
about the theater until they'd sort
OF got 70 know each other. The
gags million years cid. know.