The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 4, 1937, Page 3

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, , 1937. HERZOG “]wo’s Company By MARGARET GUION The Characters Nina, a nice girl with flaxen hair, has fallen in love with her stepfather. Honey, Nina’s gay, plump, youthful mother, has brought home a new husband. Richard, Nina’s charming, well- tailored stepfather, pays consid- erable attention to Nina, David, a young auto salesman, crashed a party, met Nina and his heart turned over. Cordelia is Nina’s closest friend. Chapter 10 *You’re Good For Me” UT Nina’s reasoning had all been too convenient, too easy -.. too brief. The second stage came on at breakfast. She had been quite wrong, she found. As she sat sipping her chilled ‘apefruit juice, in her new Amer- ican Beauty pajamas, she thought: “Now I must snap out of this schoolgirl lapse of mine.” But when her stepfather ap- peared in a black dressing-gown with dragons on it, she thought: “Oh, Lord! I can’t!” She loved him, and it couldn’t be helped. But she loved him nice- ly and quietly, and nobody need ever even, suspect it. Instead of awing inwardly at her vitals, like a cancér, it gave her a warm, glowing feéling inside: Something to be i'treasured rather than ashamed. of: j F | pie beatific Second stage lasted | all of three days. She had théught it would last forevér. She’ should have-known_better. ‘Ihat was a bad beginning, Five weeks, 2 days, and 13 hours since she had walked in, all un- suspecting, and found her new stepfather. He proceeded to go from bad to worse. _ “There’ve been great goings ‘on in your life since I left you that night, haven’t there?” She had to laugh. “Tl say there havet”. + He was gay and ridiculous the entire two hours he stayed. He was no more ridiculous on |» four cocktails, than he was on none. That, Nina liked about him. She thought it was the only pos- sible feature he and Richard could have in common... Not that Rich- ard was ever ridiculous, but that he knew how to hold his drinks. When he left, David said: “You won’t be an old meany and let me get too crazy about you, if you're going to pull a ‘pish tush’ on me, when I wax serious ... will you Nina?” And Nina said: “I'm never an old meany, darling, and ‘pish tush’ isn’t in my vocabulary.” “Is ‘nuts'?” “Nor ‘nuts.’” “You realize, of course, that you're practically accepting me this minute...” And she said, with more feeling Nina soon found herself pro- gressing to the stage where she wanted to talk about it... wanted people to know; and immediately, of course, upon the heels of this hideous discovery, came remorse, and self-reviling thoughts about loyalty to her mother. Nina felt sick all over. In the Plaza movies, one after- noon, Cordelia had said: “How are ou and Richard making out, darl- if that had been the beginning of Nina had wanted to talk and talk about him; how marvelously they got on together; how marvelous he was to Honey; how marvelously he fitted into the household. Cordelia had had to shush her, because the feature picture had started. And it was then that Nina had begun to be afraid, Oh, To Laugh About It! HE went about then, in a paral- ysis of fear lest someone would suspect it... Honey... Richard, himself. She dreaded goodnights, and good mornings, lest he should uch her, and the warm bi should come rushing into her cheeks, She felt that she walked awkwardly, talked in a liar constrained way when she was with him, in an effort to abuser normal. Sometimes her 4 elt as though she had been out in a cold wind . . . stiff and frozen almost, when she had to reply to some cas- ao compliment. It was unbear- able. And it wasn’t only the effort of trying to hide the signs of her, well, call it infatuation..[t was try- ing to kill the germ at the root of the infection, And ‘that she could not seem to do. It was as though Richard were launching a diabolical campaign to win her; to make her suffer, and hate herself more, One night he said to Carrie Van Alstyne, right in front of Hone: and Nina: “I'm proud of myself, Carrie. There aren’t many men who could keep their heads, with two such beautiful women in the house.” And Horseface had said, coquet- tishly: “Are you referring to Hon- ey and = eee fella’?” Honey gigel @ Oh, to be able to laugh about it! , ,Nina thought with = of the been herse! @ girl who only a he days ago, lying 4 con- ® cerned, between her’ péach-col- ored sheets, Rausing it out on her fingers that she really didn’t love @ him at all; who had been able to * curl up, and go to sleep after- wards, And she thought, with loathing, of the girl she was—now; admit- tedly in love with her own moth. er’s husband ... trembling at his with every Dick and Harry who asked her. And she was so nice to David, when he came back from his sip and called up, that he ap- _ within an hour... wit utton, and a happy gleam in his e es. She was inordinately glad to see him. He had interested her more than any young man in ages . . . before Richard Challoner a red, of course ... and she oped against hope that his charm would help bring her back to nor- mal again. Not Pull A ‘Pish Tush’? “EJEL-LO, David!” “Gosh, Nina, I'm glad to see ip It's been 5 weeks, 2 days, and 3 hours too long!” “You stick around, David Day. You're good for me.” than she meagg.to: “You stick around, David Day, do you hear? You’re good for me,” And she was sorry immediately, for David was no longer a medi- um-successful salesman of small cars, he was a king among men. Button, of the dubious ancestry, was a full-blooded wolfhound, an they strode out into the dusk with conquerors’ tread. She turned round from the door, to find Richard looking at her from half-way down the stairs. _He had on a white tie and eve- ning trousers, but a royal blue vel- vet smoking jacket instead of a tail coat. He said: “I dressed early . . . thought we might whip up a cock- tail, you and L The old feeling of paralysis came over her, “T’ve just had two,” she an- swered, “but I think I could go an- other.” _ There were still enough mak- ings for a fresh shakerful, in the living-room. (Copyright, 1987, 2targaret Herzog) Richard invents an errhnd .t> be with Nina, tomorrow. NEW LINER FOR U. S. Washington.— Newport News Co construction of a Manhattan and Wash U. S. Lines at a cost 000 was accepted on 30, it was annou Joseph P. Kennedy, ch the U. S. Martiw Construction of the to begin at once, to t within 852 days The eraft will be built fire-resisting material VICTIM, HER MOTHER er iSTARS HOPE TO }be within a ‘leading Quality Food Store |E. 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