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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1937. THE KEY WEST CITIZEN PAGE THREB > WINDOW CLEANER SAVED Kentucky petitions Congress for P g 1 J wo’s 0 i: ae J 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 wild about Richard, her recently acquired husband. David, a bright young auto salesman who adores Nina, strives to make her happy on his small salary. Chapter 23 Dinner At Gracie’s | HOPE they like me,” Nina said rather timidly, for her, and backed away from his enfolding rumpling arms, in the nick of time. The very first thing she noticed, when Jack Knight opened the door, was that the two girls behind him were in evening dress. The tall one, in black, had all the} earmarks of a model . . . so chic and svelt was she ... and the short- er one, in flesh-colored crépe, must certainly be Gracie, from David’s description of her. Nina felt like a sophomore from Peoria, in her simple, little Hattie Carnegie creation:»And she had tried to be so thoughtful! “Hi, there, David! and Nina... hello! Gosh, I’rmglad to meet you!” The shorter one, who was Gracie, came forward with a wide smile. Nina relaxed a little. It was go- ing to be easy. Gracie took her arm and whirled her off to the bedroom... a tiny apartment, very taffeta and lacy. The bed was piled high with big dolls and little cushions. Every chair had ei fur cat, or a | the drassing jammed with cards, clippings and snapshots. It looked like the kind of room you see in the movies, where two pretty girls in black undies, plump themselves down on the bed, and “tell all.” From,the moment she went in, Nina had the feeling they could have a lot of fun together. Gracie was undeniably attrac- tive, in a dark, pert sort of way. She had hard, bright eyes, and a comical little nose, and curves that could not fail to be pleasing to the masculine eye. Her flesh-colored evening-gown was not calculated to conceal them ... but it was smart and perfectly all right. Nina might have chosen it, her- self, if it had been her type. It had \cost $16.50, she found out later. Gracie stared at her, as she fixed her hair. “You don’t mind if I stare, do you, Nina? I’ve been so darn’ curi- ous about you. You know when David told us about going around with a new—twist, I knew you must be good ... The boy’s got eyes in his head ... But I had no idea you'd be this good!” “Hey, hold on! You'd better wait till you know me better, Gracie.” “Oh, we'll get along. I'm not worried about that. David's a great kid, isn’t he, Nina?... Crazy about him?” “Umhum, You bet I am!” “Come on in, you look great. Jack's an awful ass, but you'll like him... and Francine and Bill are swell, too, “She models for a wholesale house, and they’re ‘that way’ about each other, like you and David.” Nina felt sure she and Gracie were going to get on. Jack, The Schoolboy OSH! The victuals . . .” Gra- _\J cie shoved her into the liv- ing-room and disappeared. ler living-room didn’t have as much definite character as her bedroom. There was a red lacquer secre- tary, and a black velvet hanging on the wall, with a statue and a fountain painted on it, in oils; and the most ingenious collection of cigarette boxes and ash-trays, that! Nina had ever seen. The rest of the room was nondescript. Sinky chairs, chintz curtains . . . just a cosy, comfortable room. ¥ windows looked out over the Hudson river, and that was the best thing of all. The model, Francine, was lan- idly beautiful, and beautifully anguid. Bill like him, to He was prc remained the perennial schoolboy. His thin blond hair receded in two great bays from his pink fore- about 28, but head. It came way down in a little | ideas about Mis inted peninsula, in the middle. | cided from it, The cut o tion of hi: id remain— | at the Paradise, you know you do! | had together, i that he might fancy himself a bit of a playboy ... but he wasn’t. He was a schoolboy. ‘ He was utterly natural, and in love with life. “How about a little panther sweat?” he suggested, aftr the :n- troductions had been made; and the party was-on. The biggest surprise of the eve- » was Gmacie’s perfectly “deli- cious dinner g..ceoked and served sher own hand, from a kitchen- ette. that, made Nina's look-like a ballroom. BO ‘They all huddled ifftarratcove, and Gracie meandered back and forth with one scrumptious dish after another ... unhurried, at ease, keeping up a running fire of conversation all the while. Nina marvelled at her. Fruit cup. Cream of mushrooms, Chicken Maryland... “How do you do it, Gracie?” “Oh, it’s nothing, my dear, noth- ing. Just a little something I whipped up out of left-overs. No trouble at all... I've only been preparing this lite snack for the last two weeks!” She was wonderful. “You know, Mrs. Day,” began Jack. “Why ‘Mrs. Day?’ Have you any objection to ‘Nina’?” “Not a one in the world! You know, Nina, you deserve to be con- gratulated,..no, I’m not going to say anything nice about that mug of a husband of yours ...I1 was going to congratulate you, because you're the first person who hasn’t made some crack about ‘Day and Knight’... Night and Day, get it?” “Well, I had a narrow escape. It occurred to me, all right.” “Nina,” pt in Francine, “would never think of being so—obvious.” “It was pure Juck,” said Nina modestly. Francine’s Broad A * RANCINE had a slight ten- dency, at first, to be social. “I saw young Willie so and so, the other night, at the Paradise. Amusing place to go, about once a winter, don’t you think?” But Gracie wouldn’t let her get away with it. “What are you trying to do, pal sie? Impress Nina? . . . You live Put your broad A back in moth balls, kid” David smiled at Nina. His eyes said: “I told you she was great, didn’t I?” Nina smiled back at him. Gracie went on. “You should have seen us, Nina, reading all about you in the pa- pers. ‘The former Nina Stafford as the eye-compelling Ice Maiden, in such and such a pageant, ... Were we impressed! . . . How do you like cleaning David’s razor, and putting the top back on the tooth- paste, after him?” “The boy,” said Nina, “ is neat- ness personified, and we have two tubes of toothpaste, I'll have you know!” “What swank! ... and I thought you were One of us!” David said: “Nina is a wonder. Nothing about housekeeping fazes her. When she ran out of butter, one Sunday, she fried my eggs in cold cream. That's initiative for you,” When dinner was over, Gracie whisked up a screen, and the mat- ter of dishes was not referred to. Nina's heart ached for her. “Wouldn’t you let me — help, Gracie?” But her hostess told her: “When you've been poor a little longer, darling, you'll learn to treat dishes with a beautiful disregard. Right now, they're probably the biggest thing in your life. But you'll get over it.” They played red dog, for penny chips, Gracie said: “You've gotta get used to it, Nina... your Monte Carlo days are over, baby!” . . . If anything, Gracie rather harped on the subject of Nina's being poor now. She sat by David, opposite Nina, and kidded her —all very good- naturedly, of course — about her steady losing. . “Here, here bride! Them’s pen- nies you're throwing around: She whispered with David a good deal, and constantly referred to amusing experiences they had the past. Nina began to have a vague— and then a very definite feeling, that Gracie was not as friendly as she appeared. Suddenly, her continu about Nina’s elegant pa new poorness, took o: note. It was-as though ing David's wife . . . could take it Nina became self-conscious and then uncomfortable. She readjusted all ed talk and her a different he was test- seeing if she er previous in, and de- her apparent she was clever and , and could make a plenty mean enemy. uty Copyright, 1937, Margaret Herzog) that, benea o = ursion to Port Tampa Sailing Tuesday, November 23rd, 1937 ADULTS, First Class, round trip CHILDREN, First Class, round trip $15.00 7.50. —S. S. CUBA— Peninsular & Occidental Steamship Company J. H. Costar, Agent "Doings Around The SATANS SWAMPED Golf Links (By GRAVY) eco e e e poe A couple of foursomes were among the missing yesterday and the captain of the Splinters was igone, too. Some member of the Wire Chief team got Joe aside and told him he didn’t have a chance to win, so Curly-locks stay. ed “home and sold nails, Mr.| John Washington Pinder got all ithe glory but also a little defeat} from a close friend but read be-| |low and feel sorry for John: { It was agreed in the beginning that John would play with Millie and Joe would take Cookie but thi final arrangement was Mr. Pin {der got Mr, Ike Parks and since} \Joe was not around they took Mr. jChares Salas and the Mr. Profes- jsor Pro Handsome Horace O’Bry-| }ant. Now, you know brains are jgood, especially when used at the ‘right time. The last dinner} match Mr. Professor was grow- 'ling all over the place because he! ihad a 92 score to make. But yesterday, he was against people jhe could beat and so turned in a 44-41 score which was the test of \the crowd. Even the seven from out of the rough on No. 2 did not worry the beautiful one. Mr. Ike Parks was next, 86, and Mr. Salas came through with 87, while Mr. jnine runs, {The first man to face Baker sin- | GROCERS, 17705 USUALLY DEPENDABLE CLAR- ENCE GATES WAS WILD LAST NIGHT AT PARK Caraballo Red Devils swamped Quality ayview Park, 17 to 5, Clarence “Cigarette Gates, usually dependable, star on the mound for the Groce: in five and one-third innings walked eight and struck out eight. He gave up five hits and allowed Castro lieved him and pitch- d to only two batters, both of rhom-walked. Baker went to the rescue and fared a little better. cled but the next struck out to end the frame. In the seventh frame, Baker walked three and was. touched for three hits, which sent him to the showers. y McCarthy finished the game. Dough wag nicked for four safe- ties and three runs, J. Walker went the full route for the Red Devils, walking but; two and fanning five. Caraballo, who hit threé’ safely | in four times at bat, was the lead er with the stick. , Hopkins, Mc! Carthy and. Sterling each connect! ed for two out of four. ;Pindet had a 96 and a lot of pain jbut tonight he will have to feed two good appetites. Mr, Charlie Ketchum and Mr. Old Bye Sands always lose to Mr. Earl Julian and Mr. Melvin Rus- sell on the last hole and yester- day was no exception. It was by two points again and Mr. Sands is becoming a bit discouraged on account of Mr. Julian will shoot anything from 100 to 120 in ordin- ary playing (especially as At- wood’s partner) but in dinner games he makes 90 to 93 and Thursday was no exception.. So Mr, Duke of Rock Sound is a bit down in the mouth and hopes his friend and neighbor has_ the toothache and will be unable to eat. Mr. Ketchum says if they don’t eat, he will have their share on account of he hates to pay for things that go to waste, Mr. William Pious Watking and Mr. E. F_ Tibbetts elected to take the measure of Mr. Samuella Goldsmith and Mr. Captain Sling- luff but they were not big enough takers and so they were on the wrong side of the score. It seems that Mr. Captain Slingluff (who was once a Major on board ship on account of the skipper of the same boat says you can’t have but one captain aboard) got away to a good start playingly and ended in a good way, figuratively, while Mr Pious Watkins was bad at the start and worse at the last and Mr. Tibbetts was unable to decide which he would be but agreed that he was a good loser and so the day ended happily. Mr. Red Milligan, Mr. Harris, Mr. Ned McCarthy, Mr. Cookie Mesa and Mr, Bones Knowles were without partners, friends or opponents and so play- ed each other and everybody won rand lost and all report a very nice time but say they hope it doesn’t happen again. Curry f Mr. Doe William P. Kemp and ‘Mr. Lionel Hammersleigh Plum- mer were eight up on Mr. Otto Kirchheiner and Mr, Leo Hughes when they stopped counting but Mr. Plummer and Mr. Otto do not} ‘know exactly how this happened. |Mr. Penababe got 84 strokes (by| [virtue of four pars in succession jon the beginning of the second nine) while Mr. J. Otto got 86 which almost nonplussed himself; while Mr. Leo Hughes was hunt- jing around for the fairway most} jof the day and took 100 doing }same. Mr. Plummer says he en-| |joyed the game as much (on ac-} count of he won) that he wishes) to play same every day but with} the stipulation that he will always be a winner. Mr. Hughes admits that if he hag another day like/ Thursday in the near future he |will promptly reserve himself a j place in a padded cell. } The dinner will begin promptly at.7 o'clock tonight and the head n says to ple be on time so he can s eating early. | | } SISTER WEDS BROTHER Warren: Mo.—The rage of Mary Lee Williams, to Ben Ipock was annulle t was discovered that the brother, from whom she ated babyhood f their parents. y Ben had lived about s les from where the ‘lived with her foster-parenta, re. m whe was red m was +TYPEWRITID Sterling’s two. hits were, dou- bles. _MeCarthy, Hopkins, Castro, Caraballo and Hernandez | each poled a two-bagger. Baker executed an unassisted double play. Carbonell and Ster- ling made a double-killing, as did Castro and Caraballo and Caraballo and Valdes, Score by innings: R. H. E. Devils ...011 125 403—17 13 1 Grocers 100 003 010— 5 9 5 Batteries: J. Walker. and H. 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