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PAGE FOUK Gypsy, Chapter One BROKEN ENGAGEMENT HERE had never been a woman in the house as long as Dirk could remember. Just he, his brother Rupert, and their father. And now, just he and Rupert. Unless, of course, you called Mary, the housekeeper, a woman. In Dirk’s rather hazy opinion, Mary was a voice, a black apron, and a bunch of keys. And naturally there were housemaids and laundresses, and twenty or so years ago there had been Dirk’s nurse-maids, Gene- vieve in particular. But there had been no woman in command of this unobtrusive processional. However, there would be a woman now. Lowrie Wood, with its great stone castle that had overlooked the Hudson from the gloom of oaks and hedged gardens for more than a hundred years, was to have a mistress again. Elinor Flem- ing’s mother had gone at last, and ©. Weather : 'Y MARGARET BELL HOUSTON Elinor was due to marry Rupert to ‘whom she had been engaged for six years. Dirk was glad. seemed to belo fortnight or moving with through the b or sitting . Elinor had always z to Lowrie. Every dined there, ing queenliness ul vaulted rooms, Rupert at the , With the por- d gone Jorises ‘om the wall. ight. Old Tim- “Il am going to marry Gage Seymour,” Elinor said. othy who had been with the family since the days of Dirk’s grandfather, had seemed to divine that there was something spec.al in the occasion, The tall silver épergne in the center of the table, freighted with tanger ines and black Ribier grapes, glis- tened as if with recent polishing. There were fresh candles in the ancient candelabra on either side, and a bit more crystal, a bit more silver than usual on the lustrous old damask cloth. Rupert was thirty-four, five years older than Elinor, handsome in a swarthy, somewhat heavy way. Si- lent, darkly flushed, he sat twisting the.stem of his wine-glass, watching the red burgundy sparkle, waver— twisting the glass, now and then glancing at Elinor. He was waiting, it seemed to Dirk. Watching Elinor, and waiting. No one would have suspected that the men were brothers. Dirk, ten years younger, chestnut-haired, blue- eye, brown from polo and tennis and motoring bareheaded in the sun, might have belonged to a different Tace. He was disturbed by Rupert’s behavior. It was the way Rupert had acted the day the stock-market went down—and down. That was a month before their father had died—their father who had held that a lawyer should never touch the market, Since then Rupert had been differ. ent. But Elinor would change all that, IRK, sustaining the conversation as best he could, glanced now and then at Elinor. Her face in the candlelight looked pale under the Smooth coiffure of ash-blond hair. Over her white gown she wore the flame-c ‘ored Chinese shawl that had belonged to Rupert's and Dirk’s mother. The house was cold, though summer was not entirely gone. It was always a little drafty, a little cold, They realized this when Elinor came, and so they kept the shawl in the drawing-room to lay about her shoulders, It smelled of the sandal- wood cabinet in which it stayed, and Dirk who could not remember his mother, associated its fragrance and vividness solely with Elinor. A corsage of violets and small white roses was <t her waist to- night. One of the roses she had pinned on the lapel of Dirk’s white flannel coat. “Be nice to Isabel,” she had said. Isabel was her cousin whom Dirk was taking later to a dance. Dirk, glancing now at Elinor, saw her straighten slightly in her chair, and become, if anything, a little paler. She waited until Timothy had left the room, and then she said in a low voice, but distinctly, “We may as well have it out now, Rupert. I’m not staying after din- ner.” Dirk made a slight movement to- ward departure, and she turned to him. “Please don’t .0, Dirk. I want vou to hear what I have to say. And 1 want you to take me home after- ward.” Rupert, who had not stirred, looked up. JIis fingers still twisted the stem of the glass. His large head with its shock of dark hair was lowered and slightly turned away, but his eyes rested on Elinor. Dirk thought again of the day Rupert had watched the ticker. Watched it as it went down. Rupert said in his low, rather pleasant voice. “Dirk to take you home?” “I won't ride with you when you’ve been drinking,” Elinor an- swered. “You know that.” She spoke quietly, but Dirk had a feeling that she would not be so candid where he not present. She wanted him pv:sent that she might speak freely, and she wanted to speak freely here, with the long table between them—here, rather than in her own home. (“Be there at dinner, Dirk, dear,” she had said. “Isabel and the others can wait.”) Dirk was aware that he had caught Rupert’s uneasiness. Elinor said, apparently undisturbed by the slight and bitter smile that had been Rupert’s only answer, “I waited as Mother asked me to. She knew she was going to die, and she asked me to wait, to stay beside her. Six years I waited.” Rupert answered, still with the slight smile, “I waited, too.” “But I will not wait,” she went on, “for you to stop drinking.” “Does that imply.” inquired Rupert, “that you will marry me at once?” She affected to ignore the pleas- antry. 1 am not a reformer,” she said, ‘ve told you before that I have no illusions along those lines, These, two years have been wretched enough to show me what it might be—afterward. If you don’t stop now, you wouldn’t stop then. I've lost hope. It’s just as your father ; said. It is Dirk who will carry on the name.” Rupert laughed, His dark glance | “’ moved to Dirk. “Good old name!” he said. IRK thought hotly. “She’s wrong, Rupert can do anything with a jury. Father always said so.” Memories of Rupert’s pleadings came to him. Rupert, keen-witted, magnetic, coldly arraying his evi- ' dence. “Father was angr, about Rupert's losses,” Dirk thought, “when he said that.” “Oh, as to the name,” Elinor con- sidered. “It goes of its own momen- tum. You inherited it along with your father’s practice. Many people don’t even stop to realize that the old firm of Joris no longer includes him, and is just you and Dirk and your cousin Sanford. Even so, going at the rate you are, it won't take long to undermine it.” “Are you forgetting,” pert, “that Dirk—to say nothing of Sanford, who is a Joris, too—will be here to repair the ravages of my pickshovel, or my dynamite, or whatever it is one uses to under- mine old names?” nm your case,” said Elinor, “it’s gin.” “Brandy, please,” he corrected. “Be just, if not merciful.” “Does it matter? In any case, you’ve destroyed my hope in you, and my faith.” Hard that they two had been doomed to draw toward each other, Dirk thought now. Many girls would have found no objection to Rupert’s drinking, and there were members | of his own sex who accorded his talents in that direction an envious respect. Elinor came of dignified, rather conventional people. Her grandfa- | ther was a bishop, and she herself had always seemed to Dirk like ; some figure from a stained-glass | window. Strange tt t she should | have stepped down from her violet niche to accept the earthy, faun-like Rupert, erratic even before he had | begun his heavier drinking. Somewhere back in the family there had been a Croon Joris who was a little mad. How else could they explain the violent and out- rageous things he did? His portrait by Jan Steen—a rare thing—hung now above Elinor’s head, like a sword of Damccles. | Dirk could not account for the comparison moving so darkly through his mind, except that the Portrait might have been of Rupert, dressed in seventeenth-century ar mor and cape.... He came back wit* a start. Elinor | had said something more. She had said something .n a voice that held no trace of breaking. The words were still vibrating in the room. “Iam going to marry Gage Sey- mour,” she had said, and the stem of Rupert’s wine-glass had snapped in his fingers. The bow] of the glass had toppled, rolled, lay in a red stain. Elinor seemed not to see. (Copsricht, 1936 Margaret Bell Houston) Tomorrow, Elinor and Dirk make a painful Journey in the rain. DPD LE SI LIS SPOUT TTOO TOT M. SPI LI IS | SUBSCRIBE for THE CITIZEN | 20c WEEKLY BIE TI IIIIII SIS IIS SIS SIS GOOD LLHs | THE KEY WEST CITIZEN TWO VESSELS LET [PATRIOTICORDER |" ‘1 DOWN FROM WAYS asked Ru- | | Pe | Lighthouse Tender Poppy and. district barge Number 1, which went on the ways last week for regular cleaning and painting of | the hu ame off the ways terday and are ready for sei Tender Pojnciana went out th’ mo:ning with Assistant Superin- 'tendent H. B. Haskins on board for the purpose of checking the ’s compasses, S- = | woseescccccccccccsnccces | ‘PERSONAL MENTION rae x a: — . formerly engineer in charge of the sewer- ‘age project in Key West and who ‘recently igned, left yesterday afternoon for Tampa en route to Fernandina where je will be} | joined by Mrs. Bogart, now visit-/ ting in Gainesville. Mrs. Romey Tynes was a pas- senger on the Cuba yesterday aft- ernoon going to Tampa and from there to Indianap Ind., where she will spend a vacation with her sister, Mrs. Jess Duncan. General Harry C. Hale, U. S. A., retired. who owns his home in Key West and spends about months here eaqi year, left yes terday for Tampa en route to New York for the summer, accom- panied by his chauffeur, Thomas, Bocheff and Mrs. Bocheff. i McClanahan leit yes- oon for Tampa where H he wi atl spend a brief visit cting to return r : few County Commissioners Wm. R. Porter and Norberg Thompson, who were enjoying a brief vaca- ising’ among the Keys and ‘fishing, have returned. Mrs. Pauline Hemingway left vy plane yesterday afternoon for fiami and was, this morning, to take passage by plane for Ha- vana to join her husband, Ernest i Hemingway. who is fishing for, | marl in in Cuban waters. H M. H. Lockyear, of Evansville, Indiana, was an arrival over the highway yesterday for a_ short ivisit here in the interests of the Townsend Pension Plan, Key West as the guest of her brother, Fernando Roberts, mily, and nephew and_ niece, and Mrs. Haydn Illingworth. ft on the Cuba yesterday for tate. : [Tampa en route to her home jin | Philadelphia after : vacation. | Jackson S. Golden, manager of ithe Hotel Colonial, and Mrs. | Golden, left with their car yester- |day afternoon on the Cuba for ; Tampa and from there will visit fa number of cities including ; Washington and New York and 1 spend some time at their old ifiome in Columbus. Ohio, expect- iing to be absent for about two ‘months on their vacation. a delightful POLICEMAN SENT TO JAIL | TOMS RIVER, N. J..—Convict-! ed of buglary. Albert Murphy was | dismissed from the police in this | j city and sent to jail for six} . months. UNIQUE BONUS | CANTON. N. Y.—Latest off- i time occupation of the prisoners; at the St. Lawerence county jail; {in this city is k ¢ cockroaches. | They get bonuses for destroying , the peste: | Be sure to attend “Station B. =| H A. Amateur Hour.” SS | Subserive to The zen—200c | | weekly. | | WILLIAM C. HODGES } William C. Hodges, “Home-! stead Bill” submits his candidacy! jfor Governor of Florida to the! people of this State subject to} the Democratic June Primaries. In asking for the vote of the peo- iple he announces his opposition toj a Sales Tax and all nuisance} }taxes and declares himself in! {favor of both old age and moth-' jers pensions, $5.00 automobile; |tags, and taking the gas tax off! ithe boats of fishermen and farm | tractors when they are used in! ya :industry. He stands four-square| ‘for the preservation of the Home- — {stead Exemption Amendment and j the enlargement of its scope. He; :worked for this Amendment} |through all the long years of his} service in the Senate and in the fight before the people for its} | ratification, left his office, took} a sound wagon and went to every: city, village and hamlet in the ' State urging the people to ratify the Amendment. (Paid Political Advertisement) Mrs. Louisa A. Hill, who was in ne and inorthern Lake. region, TO HOLD MEETING There will be a meeting of the P. O. of A. held tomorrow eve- ning at the hall on Duval street at which time the annual memo- rial services will be held. The inembers of the P. O. S. of A. are invited to attend and as-j sist in the exercises, it is stated.’ POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY ELEC, TION, JUNE 2, 1936 Cocccccccesenccccce For Governor JERRY W. CARTER 5 éccuienoe - DAN CHAPPELL as HE WEATHER : i | Highest = 4 . ! Lowest Mean Normal Mean Yesterday’s Precipitation Normal Precipitation Thine soar ont ‘Tomorrow's Almanac Sun rises Sun sets Moon rises Moon sets . Last quarter, May 14 1:12 ‘bemorrow's Ti AM. 4:06 -48 Ins. ! pn | High Low . ---- 92:18) Bora ae 8 a.m, today: Sea level, 29.96, 10:14! WEA ORECAST (Till 8 p. m., Thursday) i Key West and Vicinity: Gen- erally fa'r tonight and Thursday; gentle winds, mostly casterly. Florida: Generally fair tonight and Thursday, except possibly a seattered thundershowers in extreme north portion Thursday + afternoon, Jacksonville to Florida Straits and East Gulf: Gentle winds, mostly easterly over south por- tion, and variable over north por- tion becoming northwest or north and partly overcast weather to- night and Thursday, with a few! widely scattered showers Thurs-' day. i wr 2R CONDITIONS — | A low pressure area centered over the Canadian Province of, Ontario overspreads most of the Lake region and Ohio Valley this! morning, Sault Ste.-Marie, Mich.,! 29.74 inches, ang pressure is mod- taly low over far western dis- Phoenix, Arizona, Rose- and Seattle, Wash., ‘hile a high pres-} ive area has moved in over the; ms States, Huron. S. D.. 30.40: inches, and pressure is relatevly! high over most of the Gulf and South Atlantic States. Light to moderate showers and thunder- | torms have occvrred during the ‘ast 24 hours from Arkansas and Missouri northeastward over the} Lake region and portions of the} North Atlantic States, and on the| Florida Keys, and there has been! light rain on the Pacific coast! from San Francisco northward and in Colorado. Temperatures! have fallen in most sections from the Dakotas eastward over the with read- ings near freezing and heavy} frost in North Dakota; while/ warm weather cont’nues ‘through- out the greater part of the re-j mainder of the country. GS. KENNEDY, Official in Charge | Major “BOWL’S” gong, is com-| ling to ‘Key West. i CLASSIFIED COLUMN FOR RENT FURNISHED APARTMENT with} electric ice box. 1001 Eaton! Eo State Treasurer “TED LANCASTER “Por ‘State Comptroller‘ I. MUNCY ANDERSON For Representative to State Legislature T. S. CARO WEDNESDAY, MAY 13 *| COUNCIL HEARS TAX RESOLUTION 1826, Joe VIEWS AND REVIEWS What They Say Whether Right Or Wrong _ CCCCSO See Se cereesceeseee E. H. Lane, who calls himself i little busi man trying to get along”: “I've been pretty busy the last three years jook: mg own, b during ”) Wasstington Denald Richburg, former head of NRA: “The NRA was unfortunate be- | cause of its interference with the responsibility as well as the free- dom of management.” Fred Rogers Fairchild, Professor _ of Political Economics: “Economic depression ix not brought about by too much For Representative to State ‘ Legisiature BERNIE C. PAPY (For Re-Election) For County Judge ROGELIO GOMEZ For County . Judge RAYMOND R. LORD C. SAM B. CURRY For Sheriff NATHAN C. NILES For Sheriff RALPH B. PINDER For Shaats) KARL O. THOMPSON (For Re-Election) For Tax Collector FRANK H. LADD (For Re-E:ection) — Tax Collecter JOE C. MCMAHON For County Commissioner Fifth District W. A. 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