The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 29, 1932, Page 3

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1982, Precio uying Barbara = ‘by Salina Cief-Addamps ¢ Asthe of “100 curt manave 997989069496 00000 2000088800 050S 80920060 099000 BYNOFSID: Forres. armitage been ‘o—by Mark did of Leila, { Chapter 16 “THE VICAR’S POND [T= Reverend. Hayden Frore eat i beside his pond and stirred in {it with a muddy stick, | From the banks of the pond, | which was at the bottom of the \garden, he could look ont over {Kings Mallard and meditate upon jthe fifteen thousand destinies | which, bounded by the golden bay jand the purple hills, wove their | Ways in and out of that strange pattern that is daily life, 2 | Round him, as he sat and dabbled \absorbediy, the garden tay neg- jlected and wild. For—“1 will not be known asa saintly olf man who |Joves roses and children,” be would vow to his intimates. “Any other kind of saintly old man, if you must, but not the kind that dodders. round with a basket and a pruning knife; and 1 don’t ‘like children—or. only a very few, vety Clean ones, I like the creatures in my ‘pond.” A step behind him made him turn —and his stick nearly slid into the ‘water. “You know you're being childish, |Vicar, and you're ashamed of your self,” declared Leila Cane, advanc ing upon him. “I say, Lella—watch that creature behind the big green stone—I’ll send him over to the bank.”' (The stick plunged and tapped). “There mow! There he goes. What @’you think of him” “I think he’s very well suited to, jis disgusting little pool.” “No, no, he’s not so bad. "Watch ‘him peer at me round that. old tin. \Now, does he remind you of any one?” | “Yes, Of father.” The vicar began to laugh again and laughed until he had to wipe ‘tears from his eyes. “You are a mischievous old thing!” smiled Lella, lighting a cigarette from a leather case, “But ne certainly is terribly like father.” Amusement left ber voica, “Like father, dodging .and hiding and ‘ag the botrom of his die neat head the town at her deet “Oh no, my dear Leila! One pool, you know, is very like another. Kings Mallard, Toxeter, London, New York—all much the same ex- cept for size.” “I wish 1 bad @ pond.” “Aren't you going’to marry Fan rell?” asked the vicar. “No, By the way, he’s coming up presently to see you before he goes, back to Town,” sho added, “and 4 want a lift, You don’t mind my ‘waylaying him here?” “Not at all. 1 was afraid you had ‘some to tea.” The old eyes twinkled welievedly, The vicar did not like tea but almost every day some charitable matron or other made it ‘her business to call and preside over the tray and the singing kettle. “I never thought you would catch Warrell, when it came to the point,” she added with that devastating frankness that glinted under his ‘amiability like chaimmall under a ailken skirt. : Leila flushed s little but. smiled. ‘This mischievous, incalculable, wise old man was the only‘huhinn’ for whom she felt any depth of fection; possibly because she was a sate “But you'd—you'd have given us your blessing if—" “Of course, my dear, if you bad asked it!* He touched her hand, gentleness itself. “Now, suppose you-stop running after rich and ‘Wrong-headed roung men and man ry for love instead. It used to be fashionable, you know; it will be ‘again, Fashions, I'm told, always ome back. And you've got too much money already.” “Father's money. Every time 1 epend twenty shillings, nineteen of them—whisper together.” “I daresay they do.” The vicar Was tranquil. “They've plenty to ) Whisper about.” “Vicar, do you know whom Fan rell wants to marry?—Barbara Quentin. He's gone quite mad about her. No, not mad—granite-bard. [m- [Diacadle purpose, Caveman, He met her yesterday afternoon and proposed to her in the ¢ They were out all night—" “My dear Leila!” “But they were! Arguing lke hell. She kept on wiping her shoes on him and he kept on kissing them. | Or words to that effect, He didn’t | come back to South-the-Water tin | nearly breakfast. 1 wish you'd seen | father’s face!” She threw a stone | at the creature in the pond. “I’ve -been roped in.on Farrell’s side—by, | Parrell—and J expect you will too, That's one teason why thought you'd better know about it” | “Ab!” said the vicar, “Thank you. | But Pm not sure I am so easily | roped. man dooked up and saw them.. “I feel rather dike that myself,” | he said in bis quiet, indrawr voice. “My @ear, dear boy... . Some time ago 1 remember thinking that if he and Barbara Quentin met he might | be attracted to her. Very powertully | attracted: 1 remember thinking what a tragedy that would make of | Ais life, ... It’ very disheartening | to think that I’ve preached fortitude | to others all these years and yet Bow here 1 sit without a shred of it, . +. 4 am dismayed at the thought ‘of tragedy for my boy.” “When you listen to him,” re- | marked Leila, swallowing the petty | Jealousy, “you're not so. sure about | the tragedy part of it. He’s dead | sure he'll get her.” She forced a laugh. “He doesn’t reckon on Mark.’= | “He doesn’t reckon on Barbara.” The vicar stared down into Kings Mallard; Leila. stated down into the | pond, “he'sun was near the rim of a cloud and there was ¢ chilly little wint, She got up. “I'm \getting bered with your pond. Let’s wait indoors for Far. rell.” “Yes, one does get bored with it,” agreed the vicar, not moving. “But one cories back to it. And one gets augry and frightened abont it, but still.on. comes back to ft, You'll find that.” He picked up his stick egain and Stirred violently; then Acaned forward and watched tho miniature upheaval in the little watet-world—the obscurity, the commotion. “What did you really come to see me about?” he asked, suddenly shrewd. : “1 wanted—1 suppose 1 wanted advice. But I don’t ” “I think I have given you all the advice | can... Ha, there’s little eugery-face darting about again! Barbare Quentin, knowing that she J "s love him?” ronldn’t it wipe out . ost of my “No, my dear Leila, it would not. You have too nice a conscience for that.” “Vicar!” “1 beg your pardon. I corgot that ity an insult to youth to tell it that its spiritual fashions aro fashions that have—come back.:. What i ‘am trying to remind you of is that even if Farrell marries Barbara— even if you marry Mark—” “L can't talk about—that,” she mattered Tho vicar swong round in his seat and cockeé a piercing bright | eye up to hers. “—you will still have .o do some. thing,” he concluded tranquilly, “about those nineteen whispering shillings.” She stood silent. A slim, unyield- ing, t:asheathed figure... . It would \e nice—in a way—to be what he thought her. . .. She looked @own :ho hillaide and saw a distant, elimbing car, Farrell's Devalet. She said hurriedly, as though Far rell would stop her— P “Hels butted in on thelr wedding, anyway. He told me Barbara had ‘agreed to postpone marrying Mark for aye.” “When did she agree to this?” “Last aight.” “Then 1 think she must have | changed her mind, because only ‘an hour ago Mark Lodely was up here asking me to marry thea. at nine o'clock cext Thursday moruing in- Stead of at twelve, as previously ar ranged. He said, if 1 recollect, that | he would be on his way to London and » uldn’t want to be kept wait ing.” “But Farrell told me that he'd made Barbara promise—" “1 don’t think that any promise will effectively separate two peopie who genuinely intend to marry,” said the viear. “Personally, 1 shail have my breakfast half an hour eariter on Thursday. { dislike being hurried and nine is certainly on the early side” | (Copyright, 1982, Julia Cleft-addams) Farreit drives away with Leua, tomorrow, and struggies to a certain damning emerald. An innovation handicap air race » donor of the THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Amateur Air Pilots to Race for Trophy from Daytona Beach to Coral Gal to fifty fi; yi 4 Associati nent possession of the new Henry L. Doherty Trophy and by the United States Amateur Air Pilots’ Association. The . the Association’s second annual winter cruise to Florida in which fc their wives will participate. Left inset, John.&, Reaves, President of the Doherty, ; center, the Trophy;,.and lower,.a Doherty and the Florida Year-Round Clubs, which will fly Hicksville, L. L, Jan. 3. The handicap race is open to both Florida Year-Round Clubs Handicap Race, Each the manufact: Urer's: ‘SCHOOL TEAM TO '- PLAY DEMOLAYS | ST. JOSEPH’S AGGREGATION WILL MEET 10A CLASS ALSO TONIGHT | Much interest has been aroused |by the scheduled basketball game |to be played tonight between the fast going DeMolay quintet and the Junior Class of — the School, practicing regularly they are both in good shape it is shown, an” a hard fought game. can be expected by those attending. The DeMolays have been victor- ious in two out of four tries, while Inter-Class tournament. They ‘were victorious in their game with jthe Independents whith opened the season. Cates, DeMdlay guard, will again be seen in the lineup. The Juniors have based their hopes on the Cates-Bethel combina- |tion, which, if once started, will jeause the DeMolays plenty of j trouble, it is stated. |. There will be a preliminary ! game between the St. Joseph team and the 10A class. A small ad- mission will be charged to cover the expense of the games. Following are the line-ups: DeMolays Position E. Johnson ft J. Lopez f J. Kirschenbaum c J. Baker & { Juniors W. Cates R. Bethel M. Wallace J. Watkins P. Sawy Parties and dances—Puff’s head’s in a whirl: “Meet my little friend “here” “Do meet Miss Squirrel.” “Meet this one,’ “Meet that one” and “You must know her-” Says Puffy: “I really should charge se much per.” and vee e TODAY IN sees oe ecesn 1832—James Hillhouse, Con- HISTORY THE ARTMAN PRESS PRIN TING (IN THE CITIZEN BLDG. ecooseeussoesooes necticut lawyer and U. S. Sena- tor, died, aged 78. 1845—Texas admitted to State- hood. 1851—First Y. M. C. A. in eoun- try established in Beston. 1876—Railroad bridge near Ashtabula, Ohio, gave way while a train was passing over it—nearly, 100 lost lives. ba 1895—Historic ride of Dr. Jame- ‘son into Transvaal, South Africa. High} As both teams have been | ®* the Juniors were ranners-up in the} 2-29 | Basketball aan To Be \Complete Arrangements | Played Tomorrow Night| For Basketball League There will be a doubleheader of Arrangements have been prac- ecietes Be dca ncanen tay completed to have a bas- The first game will be between fketball league going within she the Alumni girls and High School |next 10 days. At the last meeting, girls, while the second. will be alheld five teams applied for ad- contest between the Alumni boys | mission to the league, the first igen mare ae start at rao game a Seen = to s yayes ‘ : 4 ae | anuary 6. ere wil e of- and one on Friday. j who attend. Hl Officers were elected and the rep- e|ficials appointed to govern jgames. Teams that were j resented and have entered the *lleague are: High School, De- | 1752—Nathan Dane, eminent! Molays, St. Joseph School, Stone | Massachusetts jurist and states-|Church Celtics, and the Alumni. man, born in Ipswich, Mass. Died! The first game to be played will jin Beverly, Mass., Feb. 15, 1835.{be between the DeMolays and the. i BEE Alumni. The winner of the league |. 1798-—-Laurens.P. Hickok, not-jwill be sent to the state tourna- jed Presbyterian clergyman, educa-} ment up state that will be held this, jtor and philosopher of his day, year during the early part of jborn in Bethel, Conn. j Died at! March. | Amherst, Mass., May 6, 1888, BENJAMIN LOPEZ FUNERAL HOME | .1800—Charles Goodyear, ae coverer of the art of vulcanizing jrubber, born at New Haven, Conn. " \Died in New York City, July 1; Se SBOE coat g 1860. 24-lieur Anrbuinaee Servies | i ‘Skilled Hmbatmer, Piantie Surgery | 1808—Andrew Johnson, 17th President of the United States, born at Raleigh, N. C. Died in Carter Co., Tenn., July 30, 1875. | 1809—William Ewart Glad- jstone, England’s great Liberal ‘statesman of the latter part of the {19th century, born. Died May |19, 1898, | 1830—Ezra Meeker, who led one of the first overland parties to Oregon, born in. Hamilton, 'Co., 0 Died in Seattle, Wash., i 928. #2833—John J. Ingalls, noted | Kansas U. S. Senator, bern in} | Middleton, Died at East | Las Vegas,’ } REO BOOKLETS NEWSPAPERS LABELS LETTERHEADS ENVELOPES BUSINESS CARDS § OFFICE FORMS STATEMENTS BILLHEADS, ETC. NOTEHEADS POSTERS | TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS i liam Mitchell, of Virgini onestimeshead of the Army Air Corps, born in France, 53 years Dr. William P. Few, president of Duke University, born at Green- jvile, S. C., 65 years ago. | Dr. George Thomas, president of ‘the University of Utah, bern at Hyde Park, Utah, 66 years ago. {. Charles A. Miller, Utica, jlaWyer and bank presideat, born there. 65 years ago. » ard W. Fenton, Chicago ba cr, born at Indianapolis, 55} years ago. 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