The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 3, 1937, Page 3

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1987. Jwo’s Co ery By MARGARET GUION HERZOG The Characters Nina, a nice girl with flaxen hair. Honey, Nina’s gay, plump, youthful mother, has brought home a new husband. Richard, Nina’s stepfather, charming, poised, dark -haited, well-tailored an” Honey's junior by 10 years. David, a young auto salesman, ‘met Nina at a party he crashed. He has copper hair and an engag- ing manner. Cordelia is Nina’s closest friend. Chapter Nine A Revealing Flash HEN Richard turned around and came over to them, ‘is face was imperturbaole. Nina introduced him, and after a moment, the Hallidays con- tinued on down, Richard took Nina’s arm. He Le- gan to chuckle softly. His chuckle was different from most people’s ....way down in his throat. “So I'm the ne.s heart throb, am I?” And even in the dusk she could see that his eyes were glow- ing. . . With amusement, probably. he had to make an effort to an- ‘b swer lightly: “You hear every- » Im.er knew such a man. Well-.-s atejyou flattered that they thought) so?” immeasurably, Nina. Immeas- “arably.? { MT was just going to turn ‘round.” T Bog her\legs kept right on walking ad, ‘the e. “I thought ‘you were all ti crowd: at:home?” “My dear child, when . ou left, the party became as a pricked bal- loon. It faded away, immediately. Honey is now prone, with a cold towel on her forehead, and : soda- mint on her tongue. I knew I should overtake you.” Nina glance at him. “You knew that the air would do you good.” “Er... yes.” His legs were not enough longer than hers to make any difference in their strides. He was just under six feet, and {ina was tall--x good five feet seven. It was almost like dancing she thought, they were so —one. Darkness came on all of a sud- den, the way it does in the autumn, and they lit cigarettes and walked for some minutes in silence. Nina began to feel an absurd light-headed feeling; and when they turned ‘round finally, and faced the lights o 59th street glowing in the sky over the dark outlines of the trees—she had an even more absurd feeling that she ~ -would: like to ory--a little..Quite happily, of course . . . because what was there to cry over? Just then Richard said: “Hap- But she could only look at him. Quite without volition, she squeezed his arm up against her side, and he returned the pressure, keeping hers close. Adventure In Africa! ‘HOSE ‘ights ... they're quite heartbreakingly beautiful, aren’t they, Nina?” She ni . “Lights in the darkness have a soft spot in my heart.” He went on: “Once, in Africa, I got separated from my safari .. , wandered half the night through the dense under- ae bigs ae: ea ay ciga~ ret ania i ane the beasts away weg frst, Tcoul only sense that something was fol- lowing me; and then either my hearing became more acut> or my enemy more sure of himself, be- cause I could hear an occasional twig crackle ...abranct mp back that I hadn’t touched . . . I don’t think I neve — Spyware to anything in my life, as I responded Fi to the beauty Mt those camp lights F d pee out into the African night.” He laughed. “I had reason é to. The next morning, ourlead boy a huge bl. * Sod feet from my a - The casual way he spoke of it, * made the horror seem all the more vivid, “Those snug little 59th street pinpoints must seem pretty pale in h I don’t know. They mean home . .. and safety.” “You mention all these places in such an offhand manner, Richard. Budapest . . . Shanghai . What were you doing in a? “Oh, I had a place in Morocco once—with a friend.” He looked amused at some memory. Nina thought she would never get his life straight, and sh* wanted to... not for r oney’s sake, or to get any clue about his char- acter, but just—to kr ow. Sometimes when she had been a little girl, driving in the big open ear with daddy, she had slipped a hand into the huge fur glove with his . . . and she had felt as thougt. she were the same She wanted to feel that way now. \ something soft fell on to her face, and another. It was the first mow ear. “Look, Richsrd .. ip with that rson as he.j But in a few minutes it had turned into rain, “Wait a second,” he told her, “Tl get a cab.” They paused under a street lamp, but though several passed, they were all occupied. After a minute, two cars shot light. The sedan turned south, wut the empty taxi:heeed north, across the way. Richard; whistled, stepped off the curb waving his stick . .. just as he did so, th> driver of the second car changed his mind and wheeled abcut drunkenly. Richard, with his back turned, stood directly in the car’s path. The lan, overloaded with young people, :areened .nadly— evidently quite out of control. Nina called out something, franti- cally, and Richzrd jumped to one side in time. The fender missed him by a bare two inches. He was safe, but Nina stood there trembling. In the fraction of .. second that she had watched him in danger of to her... and she was frightened still, Terribl. “Nina <; He hurried ove: to hc saw that the tears were brimming over on to her white cheeks, and put his arm around her. : “T'm all right, my ear...” But it wasn’t that. When she had seer. him standing there, right in the path of the on- coming car,,,she hadn’t called a warning ...or his name... © had cried out: “Darling!” Nina knew now that she loved Just A Silly Girl N Thanksgiving evenin , Nina left the Fenwicks’ dinner- party as early as she decently could. Honey was a_ confirmed stay-out-late-e~ and Nina wanted to be in bed when they got home. She chose to play backgammon, rather than bridge, because it was easier to break up one person’s game, than three. / n¢@ ste chose to play with Tom Halliday, Betty’s brother, because he was so easy to handle. Tom was a nice, ugly, boyish person, whose every remark you could predict. If }-u said it was a grand party, he would say, yes, 't had b2en grand ever ince you came. In other words, you knew where you stood with him. He could be counted on, hich was something. He was one of the people who had asked Nina where she had been all his life, the first time he met her. He was pretty er: 7 fo: her, poor Tom. After four gati.s, she stoppe. without compunction. Tom was so delighted to have h: 1 her choose him, inthe first..place, that his evening was made any way. Nina bade him good night on her shiver; 74th street stoop, and couldn't get up to her room ‘ast enough. She nade ready for the nigh. refusing to think. She concen- trated on creams an¢ lotions, and only let herself go when the lights were out, and she was in bed. Nina was in the first stages of a series of emotional reactions to Richard. In this Present stage, she sought to convince herseli that she was:.’t really in love with him, at all. 75 pia attracted, yes. But not in love. Nina had a good mind, and a pretty fair smattering of psychol- ogy. In a fluttery, excited state... quite out of keeping with he. de- liberate calculations. . she bega1 to count up on her fingers, all her past loves. There! You see? By this method, she told herself, she had explained everything. That 18-year-old St. Paul senior; those two Yale boys— Tony and Frank; that good-look- na golfer, who won the cup at Mid-Ocean, in Bermuda; that crazy Vanderpool kid, last winter . +. all young, immature creatures, beside whom Richard Challoner was the very embodiment of sophistication. The fact that her stepfather would have made many of the current men-about-town seem decidedly bucolic, only add- ed weight to her argument. It was decided then. She was not in love with him, merely be- glamored. So there wa~ nothing to over. She was just a silly girl. She was just about to curl up in @ ball, like a kitten, and go to sleep, with a great load off her mind, when she thought of some- thing. Lord! Had Richard .eard her when she called out “Darling,” :9 frantically? Had he suspected her childish infatuation? More cogitating. Then—no. She thought not, Everybody was “darling” in this indiscri inat: age, and besid-s, he had acted quite naturally on the Tide home. Everything having been settled too conveniently, Nina curled “p in a ball, for the secona time, and this time she went to sleep. (Copyright 1937, Margaret dersog) | David. ray and ridiewlous, cores tor coc*trils with Nina. tom.rrew ay's Birthdays Tod Vilhjalmur Stefansson, noted explorer of the Arctic, bern in Canada, years ago. John W. Finch of Idaho, direc- ter of the U. S. Bureau of Mine ee j jton, D. C., banker, treasurer of jthe U. S. j Chamber of Commerce, born there, 40 years ago. ' » director . York born at Omaha, Nebr., } ago. born at Lebanon, N. Y., 64 years) age. Robert Y. David A. Brown of busin Jewish le: 2 years ago. man. out of the side street on a green } his life, a revealin;, flash had come |: bite her fingernails about, or heave | Today’s Anniversaries 1794—William Cullen Bryant, ‘famed poet and editor, born at Cummington, Mass. Died in New York City, June 12, 1878. 1816—Jubal A. Early, noted Confederate general, born in Franklin Co., Va. Died March 2, 1894, 1830—John Esten Cooke, nov- elist and historian. of _ Virginia, born at Winchester, Va. Died Sept. 27, 1886. 3 1831—Ignatius Donnelly, Min- nesota congressman, reformer, editor and author, born in Phila- delphia. Died in Minneapolis, Jan, 1, 1901. 1840—Thomas Muldrup Logan, Confederate general at 24, Vir- ginia and New York railway fi- nancier, born in Charleston, S. C. Died in New York, Aug. 11, 1914. 1845—Edward D. White, 29th {Chief Justice of the U. S. Su- preme Court, born in Louisiana. Died May 19, 1921. 1854—Jokichi Takamine, New York ‘City’s noted chemist, born in Japan. Diea July 22, 1922. « Today In History COCCOHHEHSOLSOOZESESEOOD 1804—By treaty in St. Louis, the United States bought North- ern Illinois and Southern Wiscon- sin from the Indians. 1838—Madrid declared in state of siege in Carlist War—mobs turn convents, kill clergy, prison- ers on both sides shot. 1883—U. S. Supreme Court decision that an Indian was by birth an alien and dependent. 1904—Republic of Panama pro- claimed. 1917—First clash of Ameri- cang and Germans at front, 1925—German paper mark of- ficially established in Berln at 420 billion to the dollar. LEGALS THE KEY WEST CITIZEN (NCLE rn Today’s Horoscope eeecccccecaceescs . Today’s nature is passionate, watchful;vand perhaps timid. It ;may be very distrustful of some- thing not_real, and yet be ob- livious of things actually present in fact The native may be more cautious than really wise or far- sighted, and thus be taken un- jawares by some turn of circum- stance entirel, ived. POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS CITY ELECTiON, NOVEMBER 9, 1937 Jed Williker opines as how th’ most important bills before Con- gress now are th’ “bills 0’ th’ nation.” After th’ church picnic some peo- ple were painfully conscious o’ havin’ their cake after eatin’ it. For Mayor WILLARD M. ALBURY J For Mayor FRANK DELANEY Municipal park acreage in 655] of the larger cities of the United For Police Justice States inc: T. S. CARO (For Re-Election) ed 49 per cent be- tween 1925 and 1935,” PAGE THRE? *]to address a church affair and!for governor, how TOOTHPICK TOPICS By C. G. FLINT ee ys, cultivate a serious atti tude for, though the world loves a clown, it quickly forgets him. Acquire the look of a serious pur- pose in life and doors open that pats otherwise slam. I am reminded of a_ politician who was in demand as an afte James Newill-Carrol Hughes in RENFREW OF THE ROYAL MOUNTED COMEDY AND SHORT REEL BENJAMIN LOPEZ FUNERAL HOME Serving Key West Half Century 24-Hour Ambulance Service Licensed Embalmer Phone 135 Night 696-W | | | t | | | | | i jing on a serious problem of| many votes arrived to find several hundred| would I get from this audience?” very serious people; which alarm-} “Four,” was the reply. “Mine and ed him as he had planned speak-|My wife’s, because you accepted our invitation, and presumably yours and your wife’s. But if you had selected a more serious cheer, and lighten the gloom, he topic, si government econe- changed his subject to his own} my, had them all. early farm life. Roars of laugh-|They just think you're a good ter punctuated his address and'talker with no serious purpose in after it was over and everybody} life.” was in a good humor he asked; the chairman, “If I were running economy in state government.. To; Oct. 31, 1937. Sample Ballots Now for Sale For Police Justice ABELARDO LOPEZ, JR. For City Councilman BENJ. (BEN) ADAMS For City Councilman W. P. ARCHER (For Re-Election) For City Councilman ELWOOD CARBONELL For, City Councilman JOHN CARBONELL, JR. For City Councilman WILLIAM A. FREEMAN (For Re-Election) For City Councilman WM. H. MONSALVATGE AN PIERCE B For City Councilman FRANK O. ROBERTS (For Re-Election) TEXACO NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR. TAX DEED (Senate Bill No. 163) a NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, ‘That Elmer K, Wilson, holder of Tax Cert te No. 126, issued the 4th day of June, A. D. 1934, has filed samé in my office and has made application for a tax deed to be issued thereon. Said certificate embraces the following described property in the County of Monroe, State of Florida, to- Sq. 16, T aid certificate shall be rding to law, the described therein will be sold to the highest bidder at the court use door on the first Mon- day in the month of December, 1937, which is the 6th day of De- cember, 1937. ted this 3rd day of November, redeemed 4) Ross C Sawyer k of Circuit Court of Monroe County, Florida nov3-10-17-24, NOTICE OF APPL TION FOR TAX DE m, holder of Tax issued the 4 day of June . 1934, has f fame in my office and has m application for a tax deed to be thereon. Said certificate em- Bree the following described prop- erty in the County of Monroe, State Wilso t Co. Si 17, as recorded in Monroe punty Records. assessment of the said prop- under the said certificate is- was in the name of Francis J. Unless said certificate shall be redeemed according to law, the property described therein will be sold to the highest bidder at the court house door on the first Mon- day in the month of Dece 1937, which is the 6th day of cember, 1937. Dated this 3rd day of November, 937 De- C Sawyer of Monroe County, Florida. Nov3-10-17-2 NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR TAX DEED (Senate BIN, NOTICE ¥ That JuliaJ. Certificate “No. i f August, A. D. n my office and hi ation for a tax deed sued thereon. Said certificate em- braces the following described geop- the County of Monroe, Btate | | r. 18, Cook as recorded in Mon- re © $th day « Ross C Sawyer et Monroe 24,1 For City ‘Councilman ' JIM ROBERTS (For Re-Election) “FIRE CHIEF GASOLINE PAUL’S TIRE SHOP Cor. Fleming and White Sts. For City Councilman WILL E. P. ROBERTS For City Councilman |BENJ. (BEN) SAUNDERRS —Courteous Service— PHONE 65 ee eT TREVOR AND MORRIS INC. For City Councilman S. 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