The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-12-04

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Cali From Peterson

.Sn sreediiy TO take IN all
Clint Bowers living room at once.
I would ike ! said, ato spend
q solid year here"
ANY year at all. Haila.s
Bowers was in the doorway his
eyes t.req and his face drawn. but
ae smiled at us with appreciation
AT ms elbow was the young mar
q whom 0suga had spoken and
mat young man was Steve Brown
Immediately Jeif gave me The
high sign, so high it almost went
completely over nv head n fsLe
care OF Steve, and ] wheedIed him
INTO sitting beside me on the
couch Over bis shoulder I could
see Jeif and Clint talking softly
by the desk, their heads together.
Steve said. How is Carol.
Brave, Honest Steve. she's
Il know" His hands clenched
God Who'd want to do That IN
4 KID like Carol? What could she
have ever done 70 anyone? WIS
should anyone want TO hurt her
at al Let alone want to murder
That's what we're an asking
ourselves And Carol most Of al ,
4 wish He broke of and
stood I'D impatiently. / cast a de-
spairing glance at JEFF and he and
Bowers stopped talking. I could
read nothing from their faces
1ney looked discouraged and
troubled. but there was no hinf
OF anything else Steve rambled
uneaslly over to the big chair be-
SIDE the window and slouched
down IN Il There was an uncom-
Portable silence that the ringing
OF the telephone shattered Bow
ers reached for the phone.
Yes? Oh. yes, Peterson.
Yes. we have what we call a
working script. Everything's in
that. +. Yes. Well, Pho ebe
Thompson has that Yes. of
course you may have It. I'll tele-
phone her right away. No. not
at all Good-by."
He turned to us with a puzzled
expression. Peterson is anxious
70 see the working script of Green
Apples. Apparently he's in a great
hurry to get hold Of it, too"
JEFF nodded. Il think know
why. / was talking to him this
afternoon. They're working on
the poison-put-in-on-stage angle.
1 suppose he wants to see which
OF the actors could possibly have
been close enough to the table for
q long enough time to have done
I'm afraid they won't find
much there. Everyone goes to the
table for one reason or another
during the third act" He reached
under the desk for a phone book,
opened II and began to run his
finger down a page. Thompson
-. God, there are a million Of
theml Where does Phoebe live.
does anyone known"
I was glad for a chance to be
helpful. She lives across the
street from me, right next to the
Esquador Hotel Two forty-nine,
] think it is"
Bowers snapped the book shut
and dialed a number. We could
hear the long buZzes as Phoebe,s
phone rang and then the sound of
Phoebe's voice.
Hello. Phoebel It's Clint Bow
ers. Look. you still have the work
ing script Of the play. haven't
your The police want to have a
look at IL -. Yes. No, Peter
sons sending d man TO your place
to get it; he just wanted you 70
know that he had my permission.
tn be plain-clothes man. name
OF Crowley. Yes =. you're 70
give il to him Thanks, Phoebe"
Tom Is Cleared
7 JUMPED up. ~Crowleyis the
4 man who's taking care Of Carol
nowl That means Carol win be
left alonel JEFF. don't you think
we should 20 back"
JEFF shook his head. Peterson
wouldn't send Crowley away with
cut putting someone else on
guard. She'll be all right. Haila.
sank back again, not terribly
treasured. however. and lit Gig
arctic.
Steve broke the silence that fol-
lowed How are things going.
Jeff Know anything new?@
Nothing much"
Am ! one Of your ten best sus-
pects7" He grinned and looked
more ike Jimmy Stewart than
ever.
Sure, why don't you confess.
Steve?"
what do you want to known"
well !. who is Lee Gray for
instance?"
Good old Lee Grayl She does
my laundry"
Clint Bowers made q sudden
movement and a quiet fell over
US again. This case didn't mean
Carol to Clinton Bowers; 70 him
IL means that Eve North was dead.
We needed 10 force jokes to pre-
vent madness from setting in. but
he was a man bereaved. a man
IN mourning.
Steve got up with a groan.
IF this damn thing would only
get cleared upl This stuff in the
papers, all this foul publicity,
this
He stopped when he realized I
was glaring at him in disgust So
that was the main worry Of the
Stephen Manson Brown, Jr. So
that was the cause Of his agita-
ton. that was why he hated this
mes Somehow ! had never fg-
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