The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-11-29
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5eei1ng ] was in the extrs
pressing room on the third foor
was reading a scripk and nv
door was closed and the fra
snlnS ! heard was Haila shrek
IS ns2ocE murder opened the
s1sgE ka1M. vent cut On thn STAIRS
and looked down. There vas si,rs,
crowd ksy that time I couIdrst
see what had .hapuened Thm
someone stepped hack. EIr. pefar-
son ! think, and ] saw Ewes body.
mats al / saw a. heard or know.
Satis6adss
Not quite. Do you know any,
thing about this Lee 7ray71
Dir. Peterson's little Sir Echo.
aren't youz shs tainted. aNo. /
cont Until Peterson asked me
I'd never heard the name. Appa-
renfiy nobody else has either I'm
beginning t. doubt that there IS
sucn q person She laughed sud-
denly. This IS productive in
terviews isn't III Is that all2 May
20 now"
No, there's one thing more
Why did you rush out Of the the
atre on opening night2
The laughter died IN her face.
That's none Of your business"
Il think II Is It might be very
important 70 know why you
would throw up a chance you'd
waited years for at the very last
minute Why did you do il.
AIice7-
7 tell you Il doesn't concern
you Il wasn't anything az ali
She turned 70 me. IF you and
Tommy hadn't got hyzterical i
/ would have been al right. was
back IN plenty Of time.
You should have told Tommy
you were going
de ne wouldn't have let
me 60" she murnbled-
JEFF said, x think you had bet
ter come clean, Alice. Il vii help
In The long run, The police aren't
very sympathetic toward people
VINO keep secrets
She stood I'D, her hack to Us.
and slid the palm OF her hand
discordznfly over the piano keys.
The police don't know about
that. Tommy won't tel them
And unless You OF Haila
-HaiIa wouldn't tel on you"
JEFF sid But would"
She turned and her eyes went
70 Jefs face and then, uncer-
tainly, 10 mine. She opened her
mouth and closed ii At last she
said: No. its none OF your damn
business why ! did il It's impor-
tant only 70 me I don't know
who poisoned Carol Blan ton,
though God knows there ought to
be plenty OF people who'd like %.
A little parasite who uses the the
atex as steppingst0ne. who cares
nothing about 4 -
New Angle
IL WAS tired Of hearing Carol
A kicked around. sCarol loves
the theater and she loves TO act
You've got her al wrong. AEce
Have II What about Tommy
Neilson7"
Jef looked at me questioning
81 shrugged my Shoulders
aA1ice win have to tell Us what
about Tommy Nelson / don't
know
Don't Be naTve," Alice snorted-
Tommy IS eating his heart out
for BIznton and she's stringing
him along, playing him for all
he's got"
I almost laughed aloud IT her
accusation That isn't true.
Alice, its absurd When a girl
goes out gold digging she doesn't
pick one Of the poorest people IN
all New YORK And poor Tommy
doesn't have a thing
That's what makes It 50 hor-.
rible. ! suppose you think she's
capable Of loving hin for him
self"
Loving Tommy / did laugh
then. Why, Alice. she hardly
knows him. Hes no more % her
than Philip Ashley or Clint Bow
ers Or Nick. the dooruan
Alice, tell me something. JEFF
said quietly. ~Are you and Tom
my are you Just real good
4 should have known you'd
think that No. We Ike each
other; we understand each otner.
Tons = srezl person: he's going
TO mem something 70 the kasater
one OF these days. That's why !
4 hate To see him thrown around
b. Z scheming little parasite like
Blanton, cheap little
Alice, you're going to make
me think that you hate Carol.
and hate, you know. lezdg 70 muir
der. Hate ard jealousy. You cant
4 prove that you DIDN'T poison carol
and murder Eve. just ike a lot
Of other people can't. 50 II ] were
you / wouldn't talk this way"
Alice clenched her fists. her
face deathlv pale. I'm not jealous
OF her and 7 don't hate her. 7
wouldn't take the chance of ruin
ing my life by killing her. She
isn't worth i. Now please leave
me alone"
She almost ran from the room.
We could hear her stumbling Up
/ the stairs and a second later q
door slammed above Us. ! boxed
at JEFF.
sCnon." he said There might
/ * some fresh air outside
There was too mueh The wind.
zinuing viciQuzly down Eifty-
/ third Street. caught me with my
hands I'd and . kzU driver
stopped his cah u watch me col
I lecf my skirts. Jezk strobe up to
[ the nrinning moron
/ shouted: no. Jea Don't make
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