The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 12, 1937, Page 3

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1987. | Dwo’s Com we i a By MARGARET GUION The Characters Nina, a nice girl with flazen hair, has fallen in love with her stepfather. Richard, the charming, well- tailored stepfather, is openly at- tentive to Nina. Honey, Nina’s gay, plump, youthful mother, s crazy about Richard, her new husband. David, a young auto salesman, adores Nina and has urged her to marry him, €aapter 17 S.0.S. To David RICHARDS eyes were less stormy, anda little of the amusement that always lurked there, had returned. “I know, darling, but don’t say it.” He laid a finger against her lips that were still throbbing. “This i: our hour—we can’t undo it by saying how wrong it is... let’s instead, make it so beautiful that we'll always remember its... beauty.” He laughed that low laugh of his, that began way down in his throat. “Whoa, there, sweet - --I can see you're beginning to think, and that’s quite fatal.” His cure was sure-fire. Nina had not been capable of consecutive speech ° or ,. thought since he had first stood@-up and moved the backgammon. table away. And this time when he freed her, she was so completely under his spell, that though she found words, it was as though she were hypnotized. She laughed a laugh that seemed to come from a very far off. “.,. And I lay up in my bed and reasoned it all out so comfortably, that I didn’t really love you. Oh, no! I even used arithmetic ... on my fingers. ...” They laugh: 1 together. “.,, And when I sat at breakfast, and you came in all handsome and beautiful in that black dressing- gown of yours, with silver dragons on it, I said, ‘Nina, my child, snap out of this schoolgirl crush of ers will you?’ . .. Imagine, darl- ing, snap out of it... just like that!” She tried to snap her fingers, but they wouldn't, and he kissed them instead, and Nina saw the end of her brief, lucid interval coming. ‘The next time ‘t --as Richard who found the words, telling her fe little things he loved about ee “.. . the way you lower your eyes and then look up again. The way you're blushing now—s! wly. The way you use your hand: practical little hands, but in ent looking, thanx heaven... I love to watch your mouth when you talk.” Mad, heavy words... impossible not to listen to. “Tt lové—you, Richard. Every- thing.” Nina never knew what suddenly brought her back to reality, to a realization of what she was doing. Perhaps he let go of her hand for a second; or paused too long in casting a spell over her with his words. At any rate she suddenly slipped away from his enchant- ment, and became her true self again. She drew away. “Wait. Darling Richard, wait. Please. This was our stolen hour, I know. I can’t un-say any of the things I've told you, because they're true . . . But if we're to keep the memoty of this beautiful «.. we must end it now, darling. Please understand.” She was pale and shaking—near to tears. “I’ 1 «..T'm Sick now ... suddenly. If you kiss me once more I shall hate ou, hate us both. Nobody can be blamed for having a thing like this overtake them .. . it's Destiny, or something, I suppose .. . But we'd be wicked, wicked to go on!” And then she said it: “Honey ..." and the tears cameynow, enor- mous, individual ones, that welled up from a great unhappiness with- in her. But Richard sought to calm her in the way he thought best, and it was a mistake, Her eyes blazed and she jerked away from him. “Richard! I told you I'd hate us} both, and oh, I do, I do-o-0.” It ended in a sob. An4J still he couldn't—wouldn't let her go. And even with her new deter- mination to do right, she found herself yielding to him .. . but then it was the end. She was more afraid than ever. That kiss was the last kiss. Terrified at herself . . . at Rich- ard... at Life, she turned and ran out into the hall. The dash up the two flights of stairs made her heart throb so that everything jumped before her eyes, in unison with its beats. Her} lun, filled with air and she couldn't think how to let it out * again. Tt wasn’t until she gained her toom, and leaned back against the panel of the locked door, that she Temembered to breathe. ‘Come For Me Now’ 8 el --. hello... David? ‘4... Dear, dear, David, it’s Nina. Did you mean what you said when we were lying on the coats in the station wagon? ... Then you do still want me? Because, David, I need you, want you, in the most i ITAIL-ENDERS HOPE take on the leading Quality Food Store in | game. successful of late in whipping the ithe same tonight. for the Twinklers, Castro and In-‘ |graham fer the Grocerymen. THE KEY WEST CITIZEN STANDINGS onecnce Club— { Quality Food Store .. {Caraballo Red Devils {Roberts Stars T0 WHIP LEADERS Tonight the Roberts Stars will a diamondball league The Stars have been unusually league-leaders and are out to do} I F. Tynes and Goss will battery)! JU terrible sort of a way. If I sound strange, darling, it’s because I’m excited. It came over me so—very —suddenly . . . It did you, too, you say? Then you can understand .. . David, come for me now, will you, darling? Did you hear me? Now. We'll go away somewhere and be | married . . _ What? No, I’m all | right, darling. I just gave a little | gasp, because I had forgotten to breathe...” | “CLASSIFIED COLUMN PAINTING M othe’ on of nd in of neh trib Wood, dee to this Nina put down the French phone that was really French, because | she had brought it back frum Paris with her and had had difficulty | having it installed. It was painted the same soft green that was in her decorative color scheme, and as she looked at it now, she wished ! she had left it its orig.nal black. It looked slightly Broadway, she i thought ... and then laughed at herself; an unbalanced, flighty little laugh. i She began to concentrate on | packing — sensibly — things that | she would need; and with accom- plishing the commonplace. is’ she regained some of Ther eommipn { Sense, as well. , She realized that she had sound- ed 2xtremely hysterical, but she had also done the right thing. Five minutes more with Rich- ard, and . . . she shuddered at her- self. And five minutes with him tomorrow, or the next day... c> the next month . .. it would still be the same. Something irrevoca- ble, like this marriage she was planning, that w-s the only way mene a stop to it. ut this marriage must go through. If David thought, for one instant, that she was ill, or hysteri- cal, or tight . . . or anything, he would never take advantage of her condition, even to bring about something so very important to him. He was like that. And when she thought of his dearness, and his gaiety, and his underlying ‘ineness, she had the feeling o! Pexty steal over her, that she had felt before. “T have David” She would play fair with him. Just this one secret thing that she would fight to over- come .,, and after that, truth and honesty between them. They would be p= Ppy- They would! There. Her bag was closed. Now for her case with all the creams and lotions; she knew that David would be confounded by them and immensely amused. Richard had known the manufac- turer's mark and most of their uses. He had stood in front f her bathroom dressing-table and said knowing, complimentary things about her being a living advertise- ment of their efficacy. Nina re- mernbered how she had loved the shape of his sleek, dark head, as he stood under the bright daylight lamp . . . But no! That was part of her new rule, she must stop—re- membering. ‘Wait A Minute!’ ‘HE was putting on her black hat, with the-tvo little green wings on either side, that matched the shade of her street dress, when she heard the bell ring, far below. She slipped into her broadtail coat, grabbed up her two bags and ran down the stairs. Richard was not in the living- Toom, The backgammon table was there, the half-played game a poignant reminder . . . ind the rumpled cushions on the sofa . . but she took a deep breath, and opened the front door. “David!” “Nina . . . sweetheart!” They clung to each other for q long moment. “I have my bags—see? ready, I am,' David.” “But Angel ... . May I come in a minute? I must talk with you first. What is this, Nina? Do you really love me, darling? . .. I mean, you aren’t doing something you'll regret? PF want you with everything that’s i.. me, you know that, but...” She interrupted. “Then that's all we need to know, David. I want you the same way. What does it matter how we “8 All doesn't, if you're as sure as I am.” And there was all heaven in his eyes. She was so sincere in her need | of him, that he felt it . . . the sin- cerity; and if he mistook her need | of him, for love . .. it was as well that he did, Nina though She told him, silent }let you down, David,” . . opened the door, again. | “But it was not as simple: as all PAINTING AND _ INTERIOR DECORATING, outside and in-; side work expe! sonable prices. Free cheerfully given. HUHNE, rear street. PERSONAL MEN New Ostrex Tonic “Pablets contain ‘raw ‘oyster ‘invigorators and other stimulants: 'One'dose | *? starts new pép.’ ‘Value’ $100. Special. priee 95e:2" Call;' write Gardner’s Pharmacy: VV. owédd-thar—fri-tf BICYCLES BICYCLES FOR RENT, by hour,| day, week or month. J. R. 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FLINT Pocccceceqcescsecosesccs | Ay and “Wally” is very democratic, arch might have too. ees fared less happily than in On the whole, it would have | Key West. been a profitable visit for all;Key West, Fla., jeoncerned and the former mon- Nov. 7, 1937. e} 1751—Margaret Corbin, hero-| We understood - that Edward jine of the Revolutionary War, born in Franklin Co., Pa. Died|@%d “Wally” Windsor had prom- jJan. 16, 1800. ised to visit Key West on their dis: raveled further, & e eat housing tour and it is 1770—Joseph Hopkinson, Phil-|&"°** 20¥S™= { ladelphia. lawyer-judge, son of a|@Ppointing to many that the royal ae a the Declaration of In-! wanderers “stood us up,” so to Pdepentéite, author of | F lumbia;”) born there. Died Jan, | speak, at the last minute. They,) 15, 1842. |at least, will never know the fun} ‘they missed. For the feeling is} eth Cady Stanton, 'that the Windsors would have fenjoyed Key West and might,| movement, among the country’s | : cas great reformers, born at Johns. eventually, have come to roost on |town, N. ¥Y. Died Oct. 26, 1902.| Whitehead street. He is the sort of man who ould have dropped in at Slop-| ’s” of an evening for a snifter! jwith the boys, or spent an after-| |noon shooting pool at Mr. Gar-' fj 1830—Justin McCarthy, Ivi You might have, ist and historian, born. Died|seen him and Wallace April 24, 1912. jsodas and banana-splits at Gard-| 5 | or splashing in the limpid} peer semuermemeds inventor | waters of the sub base. He is a! 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