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chapter 40
pfRVKKSE spirit roso In Sally
A afternoon and overcame her
tM of caution and her natural
,fn ’ „ 0 that she found herself de-
that she would go to the Casa
1, Flo that night *Uh Fred Proc
-1 The Sally of the morning would
' ca iied such a decision Insanity,
u this was a different Sally, a reck
soundlessly curious Sally, who
iedded to take a chance and try to
Leaver the secret of the kidnaping
' j rhe road house. Though she did
pot realize It at the time. It was In a
: rpn , measure Ted’s announcement
Lt the dart had been smeared with
fV phoi<l verms that caused her to
abandon caution and see this thing
through on her own.
jto when Proctor returned shortly
Lfore dinner.. She said, “I’ve been
tonkins about that Casa del Rio
place" '
»y fS r he said, cocking an eye
brow. ■
••yd love to go.”
“You would?” He spoke mildly,
hut looked searchingly into her
eyes. • ■:. , \
-Yen You’re perfectly right, Mr.
proctor, w-e do need a little fun.
what with the—”
He noticed the pause. “Yes," .he
atrreed. ”1 know just how you feel.
I think we’ve both felt a tittle—
restrained?— these last few days.
All right. Sally. About 10 o’clock,
shall we say? They don’t really get
started tip there much before that.
11l tell you! I haven’t been to
movie since the Lord knows wheri.
How would you like to run over to
the Vivian? We can have a sea
food dinner at Cattaneo’s. then take
in the movie.” He reached for the
evening paper which lay on the table
beside his chair. “Yes, looks like a
good picture.”
“What is it 7 ” Sally asked.
"Warren William, In that thing
they’ve done about the Ivar Kreu
-sfr case The Swedish match king,
you know ”
"I like Warren William," she said.
■He’s one of my pets."
'Looks like John Barrymore.”
Prodtor commented,
“He'makes me think of somebody
;!?e, though," Sally said.
"Yes?”
"Yes T don’t know, but there are
times when 1 think you resemble
him a lot."
Proctor laughed. “I do?” he said.
"TVn. I’ve been wasting my time in
Florida. Perhaps I'd better go to
Hollywood. Would you like to come
alone as my manager—or, better yet,
as my leading woman?”
"You'd he good.” she said, a mis
chievousness ruling her tongue.
'You were born to be an actor."
Proctor merely smiled at her as If
the suggestion were causing him
some secret'amusement.
"Then, shall we do that?” he asked.
"Dinner, the movie and the Casa del
Rio?"
"I’d love it.” Sally said.
"Good.” He looked at her with
what Sally thought must be admira
tion Let him; she’d show him!
TheV left the house at seven. In
the We sedan. Sally's curiosity as to
whether Ted would drive was settled
when she saw I’roc tor step down
from the wheel as she came to the
door He helped her into the front
seat and came tn beside her. So
they were going to be alone? She
felt the comforting weight of the lit
tle automatic in her bag and smiled
to herself.
As on the occasion of the yacht
trip the ear moved down the drive
without lights and proceeded slowly
north, and in a moment another
•edan appeared from the side of the
roerl nnd led the way. Sally turned
tnd saw what she expected—another
rar bringing up the rear. When
they came to the southern edge of
? lio populated section of the penin
"ila, Proctor switched on the lights,
dim, and the other drivers followed
lilt l example.
They crossed the river by the
lower bridge, turned north onto
Roach street and parked across from
the restaurant, the other two cars
Parking also For an hour they sat
over their delicious dinner which in
cluded the famous shrimp of the
Halifax country and baked sea bass.
Then they returned to the car, and
though the distance was scarcely
f ' v ° blocks, drove around to the lit
tle theater, the two guarding .sedans
accompanying them.
It was the next move that sur
prised Sally tlie most As they ap
proached the theater. Proctor slo'ved
down and the loading car shot ahead
to the end of the block at the inter
action of Beach street and Orange
avenue, and drew to the curb. Proc
tor tinned into the garage a few
f oors below the theater and they left
thejp sedan there. When (hey came
out on foot. Sally saw that the rear
f ir was parked at the corner above,
on Palmetto, just opposite the city
coll and facing north so it could
c ' v; ng to the right and be in front
of the theater in a matter of seconds.
After the movie Sally saw their
oon i£r waiting for them directly in
’ on t °f the theater, a negro from
no garage at the wheel. The negro I
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• ,
She half closed her eyes and floated with him.
. got out and. opened the door. Proc
i tor paid him, helped Sally in, took
the wheel and drove east, toward
Beaeli street. Sally saw the front
• car leave the curb and swing to the
left, up Beach street heading north,
and looking behind, saw *he rear car
following them again,. This, she told
hefself, was peculiar efficiency. Evi
dently Proctor still considered ills life
genuinely in danger.
As they passed through Ormond
and drove north on the Dixie high
way, parallel to the moon-silvered
river, Sally began to feel for the first
time that evening the real danger
of the situation she had plunged into
head foremost. A few miles up this
road, hidden by a grove of these
great mossy oaks lay the Casa del
Rio.
Soon the leading car slowed down
and turned into the drive Sally
recognized as the entrance to the
road house. Proctor stopped for a
moment and waited, then drove in.
Sally saw their leading car now
facing them in the parking
space, ready, she realized, to make a
quick departure at any time. For a
moment she wondered the driver
had obtained such an advantageous,
front row place. When she saw
Proctor call over the negro attendant
and slip a bill into his hand, she
realized. The negro moved another
car and made a place for Proctor,
who backed into it. The rear car
had not come in. Sally judged it
must be htriden in tlie trees along
tlie drive, nearer the highway,
“We’ll wait just a moment,” Proc
tor said softly.
Sitting next to him in the half
darkness Sally saw three couples
leave the first car. one by one. She
was amazed to learn that the auto
mobile had contained women as well
as men. The couples walked up to
the entrance and were lost within.
From the road came three more
couples, one at a time, and they, too.
went in. Then, after a minute or
two. Proctor stepped down and led
Sally through the maze of parked
automobiles to the door As they
passed their leading car she saw
that one man remained in the front
seat.
Entering the road house, Sally felt
her stomach go cold and sink, but it
was too late now to turn back. Just
beyond the ticket window they passed
a short, husky, bald man in horn
rimmed glasses. He stared at them,
turned and vanished in the crowd.
It was incongruous that the place
should seem so merry, so uncon
cerned with her excitement and
probable danger. The orchestra
played as if each musician had been
innoculated with a potent drug pro
ducing a hilarious type of insanity.
Gyrating ip front was the leader,
brandishing a clarinet as if it were
an African witch-doctor’s sceptre.
“Oh. it don’t mean a thing,” he
wailed, his eyes upturned and glassy,
his every muscle quivering, "if it
ain't got that swing . ,
Seated at their table, they ordered,
then rose to dance. Sally was care
ful to keep with her the little bag
containing the automatic. As she
approached the crowded floor she
caught a glimpse of the pretty, Span
ish-looking waitress who had brought
Slattery’s message to Ted. The girl
was staring at her, wide-eyed, and
at Proctor.
Proctor was an ‘excellent dancer.
Sally had learned that on the yacht,
but tonight, on a larger floor and to
I better music, he bronchi her a new
HENDERSON, (N.CJ DAILY DISPATCH, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1938 1
experience in dancing. She half
closed her eyes and floated with him
over the smooth floor. “Oh. it don’t
mean a thing if it ain’t got that
swing!” brayed the leader.
They had started* at the end ®f
the dance. The music came to a
violent conclusion. Back at their
table, Prdctor called their waitress.
“I’d like to see Mr. Constantine,” he
said.
The waitress looked at him m tt
he had said “I’ve just touched off •
bomb under this table,” but she
bowed and said, “Yes, sir, I’M toll
him.” i
“Fred Proctor is the name,” lj»
added, and the girl was gone as ft
she had seen a grinning- ghost.- -
Proctor made no explanation
Sally. Tn a few moments she saw
a man approaching whom she recog
nized from Ted’s description as Con
stantine, a cadaverous, pallid little
man with a sharp beak and a fright
ening composure.
Proctor did not rise, nor did he
smile. Constantine bowed .curtly
with his gaunt neck and stood rigid
by the table.
“Sit down, Mr. Constantine,” Proc
tor said.
Constantine sat down as if on the
point of a bayonet.
Constantirfe n&tcled.
“Os course you know Mis 3
Gwynne," Proctor said.
“I am sorry,” Constantine apolo
gized in his dry, hard little voice.
“Oh.” Proctor arose. Constantine
arose with him. “Miss Gwynne. ex
cuse me. May I present Mr. Con
stantine?”
"How do you do, Mr. Constantine.”
Sally said with a sweetness she
hoped could be called malicious.
Constantine me.rely bowed curtly
again and resumed his seat.
“What do you want, Mr. Proctor?”
lie asked in that emotionless voice.
“Oh,” said Proctor, easily, “noth
ing. Nothing—just now. Just
thought I’d say ‘hello’ since I was
here. Good orchestra, Mr. Constan
tine.”
Constantine nodded. He began to
rise, looking questioningly at Proc
tor. “You will excuse me, then—”
“Certainly, cert ainly,” P r o.ct o r
agreed, also rising. “You’re busy, I
imagine?”
“Very,” said Constantine, with a
nod at them both, a nod like an
eagle’s quick peck.
Proctor watched him hurry
through the crowd .toward the office.
“Pleasant little chap,” he remarked
to Sally. “Oh —oh, they're playing
•Let’s Turn Out the Lights’. Shall
we dance?”
After a few .more dances Proctor
looked at his watch. ,
“Getting along,” he said. “Shal-J;
we go home? Don’t if you don’t
want to. Perfectly all right with
me,' but I’ve a hard day ahead to*
morrow and—” ' •* *
“I'm rather tired myself,” Sally
agreed. .
They arose and left without event.
As they walked down the path to
the parking space Sally saw the lit
tle bald man in the glasses staring
after them.
Proctor sat in the car a few min
utes before starting the motor.
Meanwhile Sally saw several couples
come out and realized it was the rest
of their strange “party”. When
finally they drove down the winding,
white road to the highway, she saw
another car ahead of them.
IT a fth: COM TIN TIED)
Thinks “New Deal” Must
Not Destroy Initiative
Two Percent of Population Has Wrought Nation’s
Great Development, and M ust Be Allowed Incentive,
Babson Says; Employment Slowly Increasing
BY ROGER W. BABSON,
Copyright 1933, Publishers
Financial Bureau.
Babson Park, Mass., Sept. I.—When
one is considering the future of busi
ness and securities, the employment
situation should not be forgotten. Di
vidends are dependent on sales; sales
'are (on .customers; cus
tomers are dependent on the wage
with which to buy. Employment fig
urges should be as important to the
investcr as to the welfare worker.
Statistics Very Hopeful.
the low point in March, both
employment and payrolls have scored
substantial increases. ’ Naturally a
jump of 42 per cent in productive ac
tivity would necessarily require more
men and larger payrolls. In July 4Q0,-
000 workers were given jobs and dou
ble that number in August. The na
tion’s weekly pay envelope is $60,-
000,000 larger today than in Marqh.
On a comparative basis, payrolls
have shown a 46 per cent increase,
while employment has advanced only
26 per cent, indicating that the num
ber of new jobs has not kept pace
with wage increases. But in spite of
the fact that over two million peo
ple have found jobs since March, un
employment still remains one of our
most burdensome and critical pro
blems.
In order to have a clear grasp i) f
what we must expect this winrtJr, it
may be well to review employment
figures during the last three years. In
the winter of 1930 the depression had
not begun in earnest. Os tihe 49,000,000
gainful workers in the United States,
only 5,000,000 were jobless. The de
pression had really gotten under way
by 1931. During that winter 8,000,000
people were out of work. In the cold
months of 1932 the crisis was reach
ed. There were at least 12,000,000 peo
ple’ with no means of livelihood. In
other words, one individual out of
every four was forced to accept char
ity or live on his reserve. Suffering
and hardship were immeasurable.
Winter Outlook,
When President Roosevelt assumed
office in March, he and his advisers
immediately began work on a business
resovery program to prevent another
winter surh as we had (just gone thro
ugh. Their first impulse was to work
with the idea of a cheaper or of a
managed currency in mind. However,
while the delegates were bickering
over currency problems at London,
the administration hit upon the idea
of controlling indnst.ry rather than
of controlling currency. Accordingly,
the blanket work and wage code was
enacted.
The “brain trust’’ has now institut
ed a share-the-work movement on a
nation-wide basis in a supreme effort
to avert another winter of misery. Un
doubtedly, this means the creation of
millions of new positions and jobs.
Consequently, the employment situa
tion will not be as acute as last win
ter, but don’t expect that everybody
will have a job by Christmas. The
public works program has been very
slow in getting under way. Unem
ployment will still be a serious bur
den during the cold months ahead.
What of the rears Ahead?
Eventually the administration’s re
covery program, aided by a natural
improvement in. business conditions,
will bring about a more normal em
ployment situation. I am in full sym
pathy with every measure that is
adopted to reduce suffering and hard
ship. However, I feel it my duty to
call attention to one extremely im
portant fundamental that evidently is
intentionally disregarded or entirely
forgotten today. That is, the “New
Deal” may redistribute wealth, jobs,
and profits, but it can not be a per
manent success unless it also redis
tributes those qualities of industry,
integrity, judgment,, self
control and courage.
These intangible qualities are the
fundamentals on which the growth of
the United States has been based. If
these characteristics can be redistri
buted, the “New Deal” will be suc
cessful. but not otherwise. There must
be a stampede to pull the cart of pros
perity as well as to ride upon it.
Wage workers must not fool themsel
ves with the idea, of "perpetual mo
tion” in industry. If we redistribute
jobs and prosperity, but not initia
tive and courage, we will be only
“stacking the deck” rather than ac
tually redealing the cards.
What History Teaches.
The past two weeks I have visited
many of the small manufacturing
towns of New England. Their growth,
which began about 75 years ago was
due to some one industrial pioneer
with the courgae an dinitiattve to es
tablish a small manufacturing busi
ness. In most of the se towns expan
sion and growth ended with the death
cf this one man. Likewise a study
of economic history and business sta-
tistics shows that the prosperity of
the United States in the last half cen
tury was largely due to the foresight
and activity of a few industrial lead
ers.
For example the vision of Collis B.
Huntington in building the Southern
Pacific railroad across the Arizona de
sert resulted in the development of
the righ Imperial Valley of Califor
nia. The huge growth of Detroit m
the last thirty years was due to the
invention and successful commercial
ization of the automobile by a fdw
pioneers. If the “New Deal” can con
vert the two per cent of the popula
tion which has been largely respon
sible for our industrial growth, into
four per cent, then it will accomplish
its purpose. Otherwise the “New
Deal” fails.
My Personal Opinion.
It is easy to talk about a “New
Deal” and devise plans for redistri
buting jobs, but this does not increase
the total hours of employment. It is
easy to set a minimum wage, but
this does not necessarily increase
total payrolls. The profit incentive
is as strong today as ti was when
the first railroad was built in the
Untied States. It is all very well for
college professors and sociologists to
talk about sharing property and
wealth, but they should not forget
that our great industrial development
was largely due to the efforts of two
prpr cent of the population.
If we destroy the profit incentive
then we handicap the initiative of the
best two per cent of our present pop
ulation. Probably this message will do
no good. The nation is sold on the
“New Deal.” • The fact nevertheless
remains that if we want to reduce un
employment permanently we must en
courage the two per cent to again
build, invent and develop. Unfortun
ately this means giving them certain
freedom of action and large profits
as an incentive, but if it will bring
back prosperity and put our 10,000,000
or more unemployed to work again,
the result justifies the social objec
tions .
Conclusions.
The depression was greatly over
done, so that a sustained upward
swing is now inevitable, whatever the
administration may or may not at
tempt. Added to this, a great punch is
now being given in an earnest attempt
to hasten the natural recovery. What
this attempt can accomplish in con
nection with increasing jobs as well
as ppayrolls the next few weeks will
tell. However, from both a humani
tarian and business point of view, we
should all help the NRA administra
tors in this great national share-the
work movement.
Business, as estimated by the Bab
sonchart, now stands at 36 per cent
above a year ago. and only 18 per
cent below normal.
SET OUT WEDNESDAY
ON A FISHING JAUNT
FROM SOUTH CREEK
(Continued from Page One.)
day night, but no fear was held for
the men, friends believing they had
stopped at some point on the trip.
Only after the body of Cutler was
found did searchers spread out to
look for the rmeaeinng sx.
The boat used was described as of
crude construction, and no one was
found who witnessed the tragedy.
Since the bodies were found near
the point where the men shoved off,
it was believed the boat sank before
traveling any great distance. No part
of the boat ws discovered.
While efforts went forwrd to learn
(he fate of the two missing men,
Sheriff William Rumley began an in
vestigation to learn, if possible, what
led to the drownings.
All Sales Suspend In Both
Carolinas on Governors Plea
(Continued from page one.?
Monday to request Secretary Wallace
to take steps to increase the price of
tobacco.
In beta States the closings are
voluntary. Earl V. Wbb, of Kinston,
N. C., president of the Eastern Car
olina Warehousemen’s Association,
and W. 11. Daniel, of Mullins, presi
dent of the South Carolina Belt As-
PHOTOPLAYS
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TODAY
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Added Comedy
“TORCHY TUftNS TURTLE”
Admission (to all) 11c
TOMORROW
Bob Steele in
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10c PLUS lc TAX
MOON 11c
TODAY TOMORROW
HOOT GIBSON in
‘‘COWBOY COUNCILOR”
sociation of Tobacco Warehousemen!,
assured the governors, however, of (the
full cooperation of their organizations.
WAREHOUSEMEN AT WILSON
ACT TODAY UPON HOLIDAY
Wrilaon, Sept ‘ 1 (AP)—Tobacco
warehousemen here will take aation
on the proposed tobacco holiday in
'North Carolina after conclusion of
today’s sales. ,
iPriioe trends were unchanged to
day, with 750,000 or more 'pounds of
'the weed on auction floors.
Reynolds Plans To
Speak For Repeal
(Continued from Page one.)
feels much better. While in Hot
Springs, tht senator drank a gallon
of mineral water every day, took the
mineral baths regularly and took re
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gular outdoor exercise every day, con
sisting principally of golf. As a re
sult, he is in better health than he
has been in many months, his friends
say.
There is a possibility that in addi
tion to making the two Statewide
radio speeches this fall. Reynolds may
also find it possible to make one or
two other speeches in strategic cen
ters during the campaign. But a de
cision as to any other speeches will
have to wait on developments. It is
known, of course, that Senator Rey
nolds is greatly interested in the re
peal election, since he was nominated
and elected to the Senate largely up
on a repeal platform. As a result, he
intends to take an active part in the
campaign for repeal, prior to the elec
tion of November 7, despite the fact
that Senator J. W. Bailey and other
of the Democratic leaders in the State
are playing a hands off role in the
campaign this fall.