The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 17, 1937, Page 4

PAGE FOU Jwo's Company By MARGARET GUION HERZOG The Characters Nina has married David, trying to escape her intense love for her stepfather. Richard, the charming, well- tailored stepfather, tried‘ to pre= vent her marriage. Honey, Nina's gay, plump, youthful mother, is crazy about Richard, her recently acquired husband. David, a bright young auto salesman who worships Nina, has eloped with her—at Nina’s sug- gestion. Chapter 21 Afraid To Go Home INA had urged her mother not} to hurry home. | Richard would still be away, she pointed out, and she herself was plunging right into house- keeping. .. . She suggested that Honey carry out her original plans with Horse- face, and then, the apartment w and they could have more time together. The truth of it was, Nina did not | want to see her mother just yet.| She wasn’t ready. She wanted to convince herself that she could be perfectly happy with David, before being reminded that she had married him out of loyalty to Honey. Grudgingly, her mother con-| sented. Button arrived one afternoon in a frenzy of excitement. To show his appreciation at being reunited with the family, he did his darnedest to wreck the pees knocking things over with is ineredibly strong tail, leaving wet nose marks on the day-bed cushions, and generally doing his} Poor best to express his joy. He even glanced longingly at the synthetic dogwood, blooming so temptingly beyond his teach. “Now, if those were only lower,” he told Nina and David with his eyes, “I'd know how to leave my mark on them, too.” But they weren't, and he could only look. “He's going to be a great com- panion for you, Nina,” said David. And Nina answered: “Ye-e-es” «+. a touch doubtful But.she really gaging young fell: fter a honeymoon that was strung out to 10 days by virtue of two weekends, David went back to his salesroom in the Broadway au- tomobile district, and Nina took up the study of cooking and bed- making in a big way. She knew haw she liked a bed to feel, and food to taste, but she had no idea how to produce re- sults. Burnt fingers, an aching track, and frequent trips to the incinera- tor with inedible dishes, seemed to be the only reward of her labors. And at that, she probably didn’t take as many stupid mistakes as most inexperienced brides, because she:put her very good mind to it ...and didn’t bother with trying to-do deliberately amusing things, that would’make good telling but bad eating afterward. Her fault Jay in that she was too ambitious, She spent long hours cleaning the nickel gadgets on the stove with silver polish, because she was 80 strong for an immaculate kitch- en, and found that she had barely time to mop the floor, before Da- vid came home. She gave difficult and, unneces- gary personal-maid attention to the ‘appointments in the bedroom, and then had to rush the essen- tials, like bed-making, and carpet sweeping. The dishes she threw a were soufflés and biscuits... not hamburger and potatoes, But she soon learned that there is in- variably a bakery around the cor- ner, from every love-nest; and that a goth coverict and a whisk of the Vacuum cover a multitude of sins, “Phe Fried Egg Situation H their third Sunday morning, when she had forgotten the butter t the fried eggs that David had asked for... had no lard or grease of any kind, and finally surmount- ed°the seemingly insurmountable difficulty by using cold cream. David said they and only turned ny his stomach aft they were fessed. That “love the en- were excellent, and clutched ards ... when n con- e out pt to would > and here was no money for she did not realize s worked out did house- that important problem of m: a ER proudest moment was on} s|like a Dutch Unc blessing, really, because it kept her busy for weeks. When Honey and Richard came home on the same day, there was nothing for it, but to face the mu- BIG 5000 y a Nina wouldn't goto the house op 74th St. until the evening, when Dayid could go with her. | She was terribly, terribly, afraid. He took her in his.arms just be- fore they went, and rumpled her a little—a thing Richard. never, never would have done, no matter at what fever pitch his ardor—and told Nina not to worry about his slight contretemps with her step- father. : “I won't insult him, precious,” David promised, spene par & little-boy brushed and washed. “He's probably a very fine fellow ...only the form in which he chose to express his concern for you, happened to strike me the wrong way, that’s all. Maybe when he sees I don’t breathe in my soup or balance peas on my knife, he'll ,| think more highly of me.” “David, you’re a lamb, and he was beastly, only, you know, some- times when people are perturbed ...’ Why couldn’t she just let it go? Why did she have to stand up for him? And the old truth came back to her with astounding force, because she had not allowed her- self to think of it, She was stand- ing up for. Richard because she was in love with him, that was why; and she didn’t any more deserve to be accepting David's devotion, and his care and hard-earned money, than... than... Oh, it was a dreadful muddle. ‘ “ ., you know they say things, David dear, that they’re sorry for afterwards.” David's left eyebrow hinted at his doubt of Richard’s ever being sorry for anything ... but he said: “Oh, sure, forget it, sweetheart. Thave.” . So Nina let it drop. _ x David kissed her again—causing another return trip to her dress- ing table for repairs—and they started off, at last. ‘The Yellow Frock AVID had asked her to wear the deceptively ingénue yellow frock he had seen hanging in her crowded closet, and which she had worn on her fatal last evening at home. She had started to tell a fib about it involuntarily ... that it was torn, soiled, anything to keep from wearing it. {jut then, she had checked her: There was to be truth between them in all things possible—even the littlest things; so she took it, and pressed in, and wore it—shivering. If Rich- ard remembered .., But she was shivering for more reason than the wearing of the yel- low dress, as they stood on the stoop of her mother’s house, and when Richard himself, opened the front door, smiling, welcoming, beautifully groomed — David had to push her forward ... actually. Her feet wouldn’t work. “Well—y ou two runaways. Hello! How are you?” He mae have «sent them off with his blessings, the way he be- haved. Nina was grateful. (Oh, Richard, you divine, heav- enly creature. Don't be ‘too nice! Behave a little badly ... that I may be—free!) And. Honey ... If Nina had had to give a one-word description of | her “mother’s attitude, she would have said: “Fluttery.” Honey cried: “My baby!” and waved her little plump hands in the air; and kissed David and called him every name but David. ee each time; and wept tut the least little bit, so that her ue eyes looked like rainy April skies. It was Richard—who might have been suspected of causing difficul- ties—who ‘really did the most to carry things off smoothly. , Honey. was unreliable, lapsing into long, preoccupied statings at David, and: then bursting into ex- cited chatter, interrupting some- onselse. Nina was so troubled by her own traitorous heart, that she felt sick and behaved like an absurd pup- pet. And David . . . well, David, was really all right. It was the two } Men—disliking each other as they | did—who carried the evening to |@ certain degree of success. Honey said: “I can't believe it! Are you nice, young man? Is he whet to.you, Nina? I can't be-lieve itt” | And Richard sa’ : “I behaved , Honey; you | should have heard me! ‘How dare you carry off this unwilling ; maiden ...?’ and a!) the rest of it.” He laughed—apparently all hearti- | mess, without rancor. “Nina wired you were in a frenzy.” Richard laughed in. “After all, what's te fun of be- | ing a stepfather if you can’t go. on & parental orgy once in a While? ides...” he glanced at Nina, } “it didn’t make much di what I said, did it?” (Copyright, 192%, Margaret Hereeg) Nima realizes, tomerrew, that she wants Richard's leve most of all. Effective May 30, 1937 8. 8. Leaves Port Tampa on S P. M., arriving Key West 7 A CUBA undays and Wednesdays at 4:00 . M. Mondays and Thursdays. Leaves Key West Mondays and Thursdays 8:30 A. M. for Havana Leaves Key West Tuesdays and Fridays § P. M. for Port Tampa, Fia, For further information and rates call Phome 14 4. H. COSTAR, Agent. 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Caro, wife of the} judge of municipal court, left on) bus of the Florida Motor Lines this morning for Miami and after a brief stay there will leave for; Tampa where she will visit rel- atives. | Miss Dorothy Knowles left over the highway this morning for a visit with relatives and friends in Miami. Fred H. Farwell, representing the Reconstruction Finance Cor- poration, who was in the city for a business visit and looking over business and property conditions, left yesterday afternoon by plane for Miami. Mrs. Delphone Valenzuela and two children Joyce and Joan, left yesterday afternoon on the Steam- ship Cuba for Tampa where they will visit for a while with rel- atives. J. W. Clayton, who was in Key West for a business visit with a number of dealers who handle the} products of the packing company he represents, left yesterday for Tampa headquarters. MONROE THEATER George Brent-Jos. Hutchinson in MOUNTAIN JUSTICE Loretta Young-Adolphe Menjou mas CAFE METROPOLE Matinee: Balcony, 10c; Orches- tra, 15-20c; Night: 15-25¢ !FOR, RENT—Upper THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Garden ‘Club To Hold Meeting ’ | There will be a meeting of the; Garden Club and Tree Guild held 4 o'clock, at the Public rooms. Dinner Party For Tonight the Key West Electric | on Friday afternoon, beginning at’ Benefit {Pavilion for members and A dinner-party will be given by Company Association tonight at Library }8:30 at the Boca Chica Dance} local Fishing Camp the last few) their 1 All members are requested to| families. be in attendance. | CLASSIFIED COLUMN eocce PERSONAL Renner z Pee | OLD AT 40! GET PEP.| MEN New Ostrex Tonic Tablets} contain raw oyster invigorators/ and other stimulants. One dose starts new pep. 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