The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 8, 1936, Page 3

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, NEVERMIND THE LADY - NEVER MIND THE LADY ~ 1936, : NEVER MIND THE LADY - NEVER MIND THE LADY NEVER MIND THE LADY (NEVER MIND THE LADY SYNOPSIS: By accident Terry Willett finds out that Allaire West is in Washington, and gets off the New York train there with a girl he has met casually in Ray West's pri- vate car, the “Debutante 11.” Al- laire and he have met for one hec- tio day in the tropics ana neither has been able to forget the other since, Allaire. however has the un- comfortable feeling that Terry has Tun out on her. And Terry ta not in the best of moods. for he just has buried his father in his old home in Virginia. Chapter 21 STOPOVER AY WEST'S rather vapid name of “Débutante LI” for his private car had been a polite, nose thumbing gesture of his own toward his wift. It was no secret that he had named the car after her. Eleanor West had been a princess among débutantes in Washington's: gay sociai and diplomatic circle. She had been possessed of a cultivated beauty and a finishing school vi- vacity, and when she reclaimed the Position that had been hers before she married Raybrrne West, she was older in years, not in values. She still cultivated her beauty as- siduously and the effervescent and innocuous vivacity bred of French governesses, exclusive finishing schools, and bachelor cotillions was still the foundation of her charm. She blended the mode of life of two generations. She patronized the arts, gave elaborate balls, and led fashionable drives to provide starv- ing Zulus with collar butons, On the other hand,.she held gay youthful cocktail sgirées, skirmished provocatively with handsome young men, and followed occasional affairs to their logical conclusion. “You won't enjoy it at all,” Puff told Terry darkly as they had a bite of supper in a smart little restaurant near DuPont Circle. “You can have a lot more fun stringing along with me tonight. 1 have a swell party on. Lots of fun.” “This is just a stopover, Puff. 1 have business in New York, and all my luggage is in a hotel up there.” “What hotel?” Willett didn't see what difference that made, but he told her. “Well, we can have a lot of fun in New York, too. | know that town like the palm of my hand.” “I'm not looking for fun exactly.” “You never have, | think,” said the girl. “High time you were get- ting on to yourselt.” They went out on the sidewalk and called taxis. In the door of hers Puff paused. “If you don’t, find Allaire,” she said, “I live at the Mayflower, big boy.” She smiled at him. “Call, come in person, or send out thought waves. We can have a lot of fun.” She was gone. Terry looked after her a moment. Pretty girl with dark hair seeming to endow her eyes with that violet color—and so what? Good luck to the lieutenant from Fort Myer whose saber had been junked by Congress. Then he climbed into his taxi and gave the address Puff had furnished him. The West home was a stone man- sion on Massachusetts Avenue with a courtyard guarded by a wall and two large black drawbridgelike doors, one labeled “In” and the other “Qut.” Terry got out before the lighted portico and regarded the place curi- ously a moment. He never would have thought that girl had so much money. Funny world. Some people Sweat all their lives and stayed broke, and others bought a gross of sea breezes and a deck chair every time the sun got too hot. ‘HE butler who answered the door looked a little surprised. It was that interlude before the dinpes hour and this. young man not only had no evening clothes, but there,had been Do word to expect him: fle would fee if Miss West was at home. Willett came into a broad hall lit by great crystal chandeliers shining down on a parquet floor. He sat down in a chair and twirled his hat around aimlessly in his hands. Then the butler returned and ush- ered him into a small reception room —a strange room for that cold man- sion of stone and crystal. There was a warm loungy air about it—the kind of place that reminded one of a corner of a smoking room on @ luxurious ocean liner—the small sailing ship model on the mantel. Piece, the dark rug, and an tmper- ceptible feeling of vibration that emanated from the solid firmness of the furniture, the slow-ticking brass- bound clock, and the regularly spaced dimmed lights supported by little rods of grilled iron from oaken walls, “Miss West will receive you here, sir,” said the butler. “Thank you very much,” said Wil- lett pglitely. by David Garth NEVER MIND THE LADY (NEVER MIND THE LADY NEVER MIND THE LADY He lit a cigaret, looked around him curiously, and decided this “being received” business was quite evi- dently an ornate function. it seemed a long time before Al iaire finally appeared. It was quite a time. Willett had started his third cigaret. But suddenly she was there! She made him think of a slim shaft of silver as she stood on the thresh- old, an evening gown of something shimmering clinging closely about her. for a moment neither spoke. They looked at each other almost as if searching for something. Silver is a cold color and so was an intangible current in the air— like a draught coming from some unknown place. Terry sensed that immediately. He had a crazy idea that he was being inspected like a prize onll, The girl made no move, “Hello,” he said, and grinned. “Surprised to see me?” The girl nodded her head grace fully. “I didn’t believe it at first,” she saic calmly. “Of all people—the en- gineer. What are you doing in a civilized part of the world? Why, Id rather imagined you'd be in dark- est Africa by now.” “That’s quite a distance from South America.” “Pretty far,” she agreed, “to run.” HE came into the room and ex- tended a hand. A French diplo- mat would undoubtedly have kissed it; there was something of that in her manner. Willett held it, unre sponsive, in his. Her dark eyes, ca- pable of saying so much, seemed only Politely expectant. “Yes,” she said, withdrawing her hand, “I had thought of you in dark- est Africa in a pith helmet, slugging whiskey from a demijohn over your shoulder and romantically defying the jungle to put up a thirty-story grass hut for the Timbuctu Waist Garment Company, Incorporated. Do sit down.” Willet sat down. He felt vaguely disappointed—there was something vibrant and lively missing here. Sur- prise, he could have understood, but not this total lack of spontaneity. “L ran across your trail today,” he said finally. “Met your father on the Washington trai: “He often uses the ‘Old Domin- ion,’” she acceded. There was another silence. Well, that was that. Her father often used the “Old Dominion.” Good thing that was settled. “I thought I'd follow you up,” he resumed. “Did you? I'm very gratified, but —why?” Why? Perfectly natural question of course, but this barrier of coolness was beginning to annoy him. She seemed a part of the cold reserved beauty of her home. “I wanted to see you again. After all," he pointed out, with a brief- appearing smile, “you saved my life.” He'd had his life saved and saved lives himself five or six times in the course of his hectic racing existence. Tt hadn't been anything particular noteworthy until this girl had cov- ered him. She flushed slightly, but said noth- ing. Again he was disappointed. “Did you get off all right?” he asked abrutply. “Very well, thanks, Mr. Fox saw to it admirably.” “George is good at that kind of thing.” “I don't know what I would have done without him. He stood by won- derfully.” She waved a hand to dis- miss the subject. “Well, Mr. Willett, what lies before you now?” He didn’t answer immediately. He was trying to figure out this strange behavior. “You know,” he said slowly, “you act as though you'd seen me once in your life.” Allaire gave a surprised - little laugh. . “How aany times, exactly, have I seen you?” “Once,” said Willett. “It didn’t make much impression on you.” “It was a most entertaining eve ning,”she corrected. Entertaining evening! It had been a vital evening in his life, that’s what it had been. And she called it entertaining. She really was snooty! A rich girl who had stepped off the sightseeing bus to take a little side excursion of her own and be vastly entertained while all the forces of life passed before her eyes in quick succession — lights, and shadows, and death. He wasn't a chauffeur being inter. viewed for a position. He felt like that man Perry on the train had felt —seven kinds of a fool. “Entertaining?” he repeated. “You may have thought it entertaining, but I wasn’t so damned amused.” (Copyright, 1988, by Davia Garth) Terry is not pleased by what happens, tomorrow. Today’s Horoscope, Today’s native should have re- markable powers of expression in} music and poetry. The nature! will be mild, and if the full pow-} ers of the mind will be exerted you may easily become a_ bene- factor to mankind. There will be! trials, but patience will carry on} to victory. Subscribe to The Citizen. KEY WEST COLONIAL HOTEL In the Center of the Business and Theater District First Class—Fireproof— THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Fee PARK TEN | WON ITS FIRST GAME | SOCIAL LEAGUE DEBUT WAS) OVERWHELMING VIC- ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS Happenings That Affect the Dinner Pails, Dividend Checks and Tax Bills of Every Individual; Na- tional and International Problems Insep- Today’s Anniversaries 1735—John Carroll, first Gath- | Olic bishop in the United States, | Baltimore’s first archbishop, born DQIGDMALOGL COMING EVENTS The following events cover the week of January 5 to January 11: WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8 Monroe—“Charley Chan’s Se- arable From Local Welfare TORY As Business Week recently re-1 The Stowers Park ten. made its| Marked, “Politics will be king at! : & tlie 1936 Congress.” Social Diamondball League debut ‘=Bigmocratic members, looking! | yesterday afternoon and over-| forward to November when their whelmingly defeated the Sanitary! party must again go before shes Department. The finaly score of| people in search of another en-} { the contest was 15 to 4, bet aa of Bates ere i wi jo__ everything | a wes pitched sithe at manstécture votes. Republican Stickney, eh deepal Mee Saad members, again longing for aie : i tive in seekin; for the Health ten, lasting five| Wil! beredually active tn Sectne innings, being relieved by Clar- SOREN WAY S05 BOTY : ill give their party the national Be Gates, who finished the con-| Te Stash = AS Bee test. - +, | ago. P. Mesa and J. Esquinaldo hit|*#y os. and indlustry jen WEE | home runs. - ’ 5 i sult, is nervous and dubious. Pol- ates led the hitters with four! itical ‘onflicts always. result in, 1 Ree eee oe ave times at bat. | harm to:industry. Things are done, carries: oan cence nee Lin the name of vote-getting, that od aa rely SUES CROME ACE ALODE Je business leaders regard as_ inde- ee Sena MH ndez,|fensible. Things which business. Esquinaldo and Gates were out, | leaders regard as essential, are | Pepa? aera not done, because congressmen; standing in the field. A. Castro } i i and Gonzalez starred for the los-,7¢s@rd'them as politically dan-, = gerous ‘or unimportant. It is an old} Score by innings: ;axiomythat a national election Stowers Park— year is a bad business year. i 103 151 202—15 14 3 For 1936 the issues are many,! Sanitary Department— vastly important, and highly ex-j 300 000 001— 4 9 65: Plosive:Here are some of ane Batteries: M. Tynes and Hop-! things on the congressional calen- kins; C. Stickney, C. Gates and/dar, along with opinion taken; Salinero, ‘from a consensus of the views of] pe ee jmany experts, as to what is going to happen when Congre: gress in every administration since Wilson’s, has been vetoed Veterans’ Bonus—Long a thorn This afternoon, beginning at} b Harding. Coolidge, Hoover and jby ' in the side of presidents,. the j bonus has been passed by Con- i will cross bats with the Admin-\never been able to muster play the Research Department ag-{the outlook has changed greatly| same time. When these games have played each club in the will have participated in contests, tain that, even though the Pres- been | ident vetoes the bill again, it will league | be passed. three; AAA—Most Republicans as twell as Democrats are for this wAct. Reason: They believe it to ibe extremely popular in the great ‘agricultural states, which are a potent factor in any election. The processing tax phase of the Act, which produces the money with e e e SOCIAL LEAGUE STANDING which to pay cash benefits to ‘farmers, is now before the Su- Waid: Pet, | preme Court. If it is held un- Stowers Park .1 0 1.000} constitutional, it seems inevitable Administration 1 1 .500!that new excise taxes will be Research Department 1 1 .500{ created, or higher rates estab- Sanitary Department 1. 2 .333| lished an old excise tax in order MARINE HOSPITAL | terday and is now in the Marine Hospital. His many friends wish him a Oscar Ward, the popular pitch- er of the Busy Bee Bakery dia- mondball ten, was taken ill yes- Club— speedy recovery and the writer hopes for not only a quick recov- ery but that he will be out there on the mound in the next few days. Serena had hak A, Less Than A Dollar Puts A General Electric Refrigerator In Your Home ID. ISL ALALAARAAAA AA Lek dh hed boded ded dahl, We want you to try one of these refrigerators and see for yourself how eco- nomical in operating cost it is. 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