The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-11-17

il-ssls-d room and eat n d1lsssores
and spend your days going
around 70 casting Offices
What about Lee Gray2H
! frowned. "Au right What
aboGt him2n
Hes friend Of hers. isn't
L don't know. If he Is I've
never heard her SPEAK Of hin.
I've never met him.
Peterson rambled over 20 the
W!nnolv and stood jingling the
CONS IN MS pocket and looking
ooi az the morning. He turned
suddenly.
And you don't know anyone
WHO might want 10 Kill her2S
Jumped ID and then thought
better Of Il and sank Imply back
mo ny chair. TO Kin Fert''
sald- Ny voice was such a inv
thing that il surprised ne .---ss
somebody tried 70 kill herr"
he nodded grimly. and damn
near made a good job Of il, too.
she collapsed IN the elevator last
night ana the doctor who was
called discovered she mad a skin
ful OF poison. He notified Us and
We managed % get her 10 Belle
Eae n time She's gong 70 pun
JEFF spoke for TIE first tine.
WAT was the poison?"
Morphine
Where did she get IT."
AT the theater. During the
last act l. seems you got a scene
- your play where everybody
drinks a Toast We'll. that scene
was when Z happened. Head
quarters says there was morphine
n the glass she drank out OF. All
the other glasses were OK"
Se1 lei out an explosive breath.
FoSoned on stagei Godf Poi
soned II front Of a thousand peo-
pc and every one Of them watch
tng II Have you been able %
trace the poison?"
Peterson scoTled Trace nor
phlneg Not q chznce. Every dog
Eor n the country kecss a supply
O. y IN his elice. carries another
supply n MS Gag. Every drug
store has T. You can set il In q
hundrr5 Gaerent W-avz" he
lllrnea % ne. You wouldn't
know anything sboat how this
morphine got In E1iss Blznfon's
gas. ] Cson'E sECpcze.
Je1 sad. before / could opea
my naozt1- '-ahat Do vou know
about aoH i got there
Perhaps A Clue
JEFFERSON reached for q bat
tered rat that lay on TIE eof-
lee table and stuck 4 on the back
Il his head WHAT would I
kaov2 / wasn't there Somebody
Tao vas there viii have 70 tell
re ~ sid pleasantly and
vent o8t The door clicked shut
behind him and I heard his foot
s-eps taslag doWa the stairs Jeff
gave long los whistle and I
nasee IS eEeTGesic Dive as
cDsld nzuaer sor flse telephone. 1
called Bellevue. Miss Carol Blan-
tcz's condition. they told me. vas
faFcrs
Whea car I see herr When
WI s1e b a5ie 70 leaye7
Her eon1. ton was very favor
abe lz1eed. they said
BIt waat 60 know
Her coz5llsgn began the
vE11te nesDal vsice. ! burg up
7 c1Ea-r ard SID the phone
aIoSs - deEk. Suddenly re-
man 5ersa aea Carol had ei#uped
Gown the receiver when che
s1esr1 rs TIE niEat before. rsmsm-
-~-e1 r-e- FACE IS sza stood nHirh-
-1s Tommy ard ne ~ the dp1F-
gay L hsd ben write nnd
-Ea9sn, not with illness usY vita
s--e surprise q oar baing there.
~ %nIle with anxiety ard sssgns-
S--5-is very close % fear Ard fl1ra
A5e&- l grabbed JsH By the
&c I-4' -ls-sn % ne, I know why
N@-yl LOST her voice. why she
-.ll-1 give Up her first opening
s II was because she vas
a-ls-d mat something vas going
. happen % her a the t1esteF
ana sac wanted 70 stay sways"
men WY oid Sae finally corr
suppose because v-e caught
Ter p1onns and knew she was
81 right And # she had simply
refused. % plsy she would have
lost her Job. On inc nor Iitfla
Eo5l- II Sle mad only told usi"
IN froWne1 and shook his
head No. / don't think 50. HaiIa-
E Il Carol really thought that some
Z thing was going 70 happen e her,
that her life was n danger az the
theateT. I cant see her I'd and
walking straight into It job or no
job"
But this isn't lust a lob. JEFF.
It's the start OF 4 career. its
whole new life beginning for her.
A life IN the theater.
Not If its going 70 end the first
night"
walked aimleSSIy around the
room. 4 wish I knew what Il was
all about. One thing / do know.
Voices don't Just snap OF and on
Ike electric lights. You dom
crsak ike a frog one minute and
talk n your ordinary voice the
nzxt. / don't think there vas
ever anything wrong with Carols.
I think she lost her voice 50 she
wouldn't have % 20 70 the thea
ter last night but could stIl play
her part lsler On she did Il
awfully well but she could She's
ane swell little actress
I think I'd Ike % talk 70 CIizE
Bowers about Il What tine does
ne get 70 his oaice2"
About eleven usually" said
And Just What do you think
you're doing?'