The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-11-21

Why"
Just deciding to be a detective
uoesRt make you cnc. ] supaese
= 1ga picked Up . Saxophone ycu
eouldn'i i I didn't pick it l:sa
Anyway. 4 can play 4 sly j s.sss<;
to before met YOU.
You talk like detective ana
that's something a good detective
never does.
Why are you sore at me7s
I'm not. I'm Iust nervous. Poor
little carol and well. maybe
In Being self-centered. But
Carol and ! are Tnommates: we
drink out Of the same bathroom
4ou know my interest in this
Sn't purely financial even If II
uoeS mean that we can get mar
ried # l succeed. ! don't want
anything to happen 10 Carol or
70 you either, except mamen-
4 know, JEFF. I hope You can
do something
I've done something aixeadv. =
WHAT
7 had ideas about all this be-
fore I talked to Bowers. i
Look. has Carol said anything to
yoN about it2p
Just that her voice did 20. and
II did come back and she was
calling Tommy Nelson when we
came IA and found her
Yeah. / checked ION that.
Phoebe says that the phune rang
about elzht-thirty and that some
one asked 70 speak to Tom Nell
son and then a second later. hung
up. She knows Il was Carol
Well, that fixes that. Nov what
d. you know
Not much. But there are a lat
Of things I'm going to find out.
Like who IN hell IS this Lee
Gray2"
You have a neat little task
there. What else9r
WHY IS the great Greeley Nor
ris so bored BY this whole husi-
ness? And why did he know that
Lee Gray was Womansh
shook my head II don't
think there's anything there. He's
bored because that's the kind OF
person he Is. and he called Lee
Gray her because that was the
first sex that flashed into his
head.
@He doesn't impress me as
ever saying the first thing that
flashes into his head. He says the
best thing
~Hess a ratl"
Il ike him"
"All right, you like him What
7 want TO know why Alice
Mcdonald made such a hurried
exit last night as soon as she
found out that Carol wasn't 20
ing to play
You mean rs soon as she found
out that she was going 70 play
Carols part
Ny way IS more significant
But all right. Another thing,
where IS Eve North today?"
Il think know. JEFF.
IF you do you can be my
assistant. Where7"
in her apartment" said
smuglY Il could have told Peter
son If we hadn't been in Clint's
Office when he asked. l couldn't
say it in front Of Clint But where
would you be if you we're Eve
North this morning after you had
opened your papers and saw that
every critic in town had roasted
you numerically You'd be
locked in your apartment wita
orders TO your maid that y3u were
At home TO no one And tha-
said corclusively, is wlerc Eve
North Is.
Where Is Evs2
~ExCEFT she ISL"
IL ~fiuh2"
sI've BEEN to her pl,ce. The
alexandria. It's an apartment
hotel. The man 1t the dezk sad
she was out.
of course she'd leave orders
, "Waiti wrote her a note and
when the guy put il in her box !
could see that there was a tele-
} gram there"
Well. Monsieur PQiEqtg"
kilograms aren't left sitting
around. They're delivered if pos
s'Yes,p I said doubtfully.
II wasn't satisfied either. used
deceit. Very degrading. being
detective. I said to the clerk. I
see Auntie Eve didn't get my
wirel =
"Auntie Evel She'd love that
We'll, the clerk fell for my
gag and told me that Eve and her
maid had left early this morning
The maid was carrying q travelling
aBut that doesn't mean neces-
sarily that she was going to leave
town.
mo, she could have gone to the
Bronx Zoo and the bag could
have been filed with peanuts. ex-
eept that / asked the doorman and
he remembered that Ewes maid
had told the cab driver TO 20 TO
the Pennsylvania Station.
"But il still may mean nothing.
Sure. maybe she has a secret
son at Princeton That's some
thing I'd be ashamed Of"
Don't be so Dartmouth.
when an actress gets up early
IN the AN. after an opening
night and leaves town. i means
something.
you can ask her tonight at the
theater.
IF she's at the theater tonight
The telephone shrilled At my
elbow and / jumped. This BUSH
ness was getting me. II was Philip