The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 6, 1939, Page 3

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6, 19: 39 Meet Mr. ene By Marie YESTERDAY: Locke finds Laura knocked out on the path to his cabin. She doesn’t recover until morning. Locke tells her she must keep secret what happened. Meanwhile, Cecily, worried, gets Donald Hemingway to help her look for Laura. Chapter 32 Odd Behavior ‘OMING toward them was the slight figure of a woman lean- ing on the arm of a tall young man, her face turned up to his. Laura and Locke. As the two couples approached each other the air was electric. Cecily could feel Donald Hem- ingway stiffen. She was conscious of feeling two things in uerself at once: relief to see that Laura was safe, a quick stab of jealousy. Laura’s face had been turned up to Locke’s, the way that she, Cecily, had so often looked at him. Whatever Locké’s reaction, none of them could tell. Laura was nonplussed. She was startled to see Donald there so un- expectediy. Cecily’s presence had destroyed completely her joint plan with Locke to tell her another ves of flushes rose in her iving her a look of blatant id. There was so y for walking,” Locke mented. hey might all have met casual- ly on Fifth Avenue. Cecily said, Oh. Locke ...1...1I don’t believe know Mr. Hemingway.” 'y bowed to each other. if only I could call a taxi get into it, Cecily thought. y doesn’t somebody say some- Why did peuple have’ to look guilty? Laura surprisingl,, broke the ailence. “I was just coming in,” . “It was such a beautiful m ng 1 couldn't resist the im- pulse to take a long walk. I had no idea it was so late. Then then 1... I happened to turn my ankle and . and Locke came along and offered m his arm.” h! Is it turned badly?” Cecily inguired quickly, solicitously. Anything to ease this strain. “Mr. Hemingway dropped in to take you to lunch and 1... 1 thought that we micht walk out and pick you un at vour place.” 3 thinking: Never at vou know Laur. hasn't r ankle. Pay no atten- ¢ thought that Laura’s ‘as in another direction ank vou, Donald. I'm d that I can't lunch with onald murmured that he was[ ought that perhaps the f f them would spend the rest of theit lives. as an inanimate group Standing there by the road- side. And how could she spend an- other minute there when she co*:!dn’t meet Locke’s eyes? She had met them once and for the first time since she had known his lance had dropped be- After that she couldn't how quickly a thought rt through your mind. You «: Laura is in her early ut she s as pretty as a rl and men like Locke girls like Laura. He have been attracted’ to her e time that he was coming they begar to move ld walking as though sticks and his mind ortgages Mortgages ecily thought. aid. “Sister Anne! t do I see in the and breathe, a milady, you shall | na sep saa Speechless ECILY wes never so glad to see anything in her life as the ancient ho! awn lumber wag- on that hove into view and drew up beside them. “Hi. Dod!” Apparently Locke knew all the natives. “We've got a lady here wlio.h s an injured]. e. Do you think you could nee her on that plank that 5 es aS your Carriage?” Dod reckoned he could. Very tenderly, Donald giving no help. Locke assisted Laura to a comparatively safe spot on the single plank between the rear wheels. “When you get home—and you must go home directly—put that ankle in water as hot as you can stand it and keep off it for the rest of the day. It'll be all right tomor- row, I'm sure.” Cecily. anxious to escape, said. “I had better go with Laura.” Laura said. “Oh, it isn’t neces- sary. Cecily.” Cecily couldn’t believe her ears = PR “Locke's right. I really ought to Test and I'll be good as new to- morrow. You'd better get back to the shop, Cecily.” “Since ['m leaving you in good hands, I'll be getting back to work,” Locke said, as Laura drove off. And with no more than awave * 5 beg» your pardon,” Donal« said. Laura called out, “Thank yor for the invitation, Donald. Pleas ask me another time.” Cecily hadn’t seén the expres. sion on Donald’s face but she dié see the desolation on Laura’s be- fore her cart rounded a corner in the road. y Donald and Cecily, speechless their steps. Then Cecily said some- thing bright about the Yacht Club dance, getting, she noted, no re- sponse. Somehow she managed te keep conversation going until Donald escorted her to her door, without once wondering what-his guest at the inn would think of the delay. It was then nearly two o'clock. An odd hour for lunch in Vickersport. But would you tell her, please, if there was anything that wasn’t odd that day? You meet your best friend on the road with the man she knows you are in love with. Fate, that wily playwright, takes the moment when you start look- ing for her to turn up that old cot- tonball of a bank president that she’s foolish enough to fall in love with. You know perfectly well that Laura and Locke are not.interest- ed in each other that way. Or do you? Anyway, you know that Laura is incapable of doing any- thing wrong or unfair. But why did Laura have to lie about. it? And why did Donald have to hear that odious child say that Laura had not been home ail night? While you're asking yourself Laura treat you that way? Why did she say she didri’t need to have you go-home with her? Anyone with half an eye could see that there was nothing wrong with her ankle. What had Locke told Laura? That man could get away with anything! At this very minute Cecily was prepared to think that he’d murder Laura in her bed to get away her wrist - watch with the ten diamond chips. Also, at that moment, Cecily would like to have strangled some- one to get rid of the frustrations that choked her. ‘Please Come’ r SEEMED to her <hat day that every person who came into the shop came in merely to find some- one to talk to. She discussed ton- silectomies with one woman, the loss of nuances in translations with another! She picked out love sto- ties for a fierce-browed old lad did up a gift package for an it James Elroy Flecker for someone else. She exchanged books in the circulating department. Stamp. Write the date on * e card. Six cents. Fifteen cents. The little strong-box was filled that day, but it gave her no satisfaction. She got out her-cost sheets and calculated the cost of taking her new stock back to New York. She attendant on opening a shop. in New York. But figures flew out of her mind. She couldn’t make her- self Write neat columns. Cecily was fed up’ with books, With people. With Cecily Stuart. At five o'clock she drew the Venetian blinds in the window, banked the fire in the hearth and put up the fire~screen. She tidied the effects of the day's’ business, put away her cards and put on her coat. She was angrily tucking her hair under her blue felt when the knocker on the door thudded heavily. “No more customers,” she said under her breath. “I'm tired of waiting on people.” The knoc’.ing was insistent. She sighed and opened the door. There was a little girl there. “I gotta note,” she said, holding it out in her grimy hand: Cecily tore open the envelope. “Please come out, Cecily,” Laura had written. “I want to talk to you.” There'was.nothing more but Laura’s name. Cecily felt as though a weight had been lifted from her heart. It was bad enotigh ‘to lose ‘Locke; it was a tragedy to lose her friend. Cecily said, patiently, “I’m try- ing to understand, Laura. if only you'd tell-me-something!” Laura’s face, under her brave rouge, was white. Her head throbbed with ‘pain’ and she couldn’t tell that to Cecily. The pain kept coming between her and what she was trying to Say ‘to the other girl. She wished ‘that she cculd take a sedative and ‘shut out all the imps that possessed her mind. Shut out the memory of Donald’s cold face. _ She had watched it soften dur- ing those weeks that she’d known him, watched the light in his eyes grow warm, and in that warmth she had blossomed. “Surely there is a simple ex- planation,” Cecily persisted: “Tm trying to give you one. I've said all there is to say.” Laura made a turn about her living-room and stared out the window mo- rosely. “I did go to Locke’s er or I started to... that is, as I told you on. the telephone. I did talk to him, and I feel the same way'l did when I talked to you in the noon. But what was said+-well, I of his hand he turned and walked back the way he and Laura had} come i “Pinch me,” Cecily ;whispered when she could get her voice. ! Seeveccocvececsecce Today’s Birthdays Laurence A. Steinhardt, U. S. Ambassador John Van A. MacMurray, Am- bassador to Turkey, born Carole Lombard, screen star, can’t tell you.” They. were right back where they started from. Continued Monday. ® born at Fort Wayne, Ind. 31} years ago. | Janet'Gaynor, screen star, born jin Chicago, 82 years ago. David Dietz of Cleveland ago. for the first ‘few yards, retraced; questions, Miss Stuart, why did | valid, hunted down a copy of | tried to wrestle with the problems | to Soviet Russia, |Scripps-Howard Science editor, | born in New York, 47 years ago. |born in Cleveland, 42 years ago. ' Dr. Clatence C. Little, manag- |Diaz *_ . ing director of the American So- Jones ciety for the Control of Cancer, Perez Schenectady, N. Y., 58 years ago. born at Brookline, Mass., 51 years ‘Reds And Ya Today; Play ‘Tomorrow (Special to, NEW YORK, Oct. 6—Cincin- jnati Reds arrived at Redlands Park in their home town early this afternoon — determination written all over their faces. “Nothing like four-straight lick- ings is going to happen to us” was the consensus of remarks heard on all sides as a good-sized crowd presented itself: to ‘wel- come the badly drooping spirits of the National League cham- pions. And, it is pretty generally con- ceded that the Yankees are going to find a different story in the home lair of the Reds.” Proof of that fact is the opinion of base- ball writers in attendance at the tirst two games in New York to the effect that “both teams play- ed wonderful games”. The Yanks got the breaks—now it’s the Red- legs’ turn was the upshot state- ment made. Third gume in the series will be played tomorrow afternoon, followed by the fourth game Sunday. Providing the Yanks don’t, make a clean sweep of the| series, the fifth game will be) played in Cincinnati Monday— The following major colleges ton; Uiah University vs. Wyom- nationwide are scheduled to meet!jng; Washburn vs. |in footbail games tomorrow: Fordham vs. Alabama; Arkan- jtions centered jand any disappointment | tense. ga Saturday’s Football Games (St. Louis); Washington, State vs. | | University of Southern Californi: THE KEY WEST CITIZEN nks'Rest {*** FI PIPSIL ALIS Lo ‘SIS LEIS LISS ESS DSS SMM: | ‘The Citizen) ;then, if more games are needed to decide the title, the sixth and} jseventh games. will be played in} |New York on next Wednesday | and Thursday. CHICAGO INTER-CITY | SERIES TIED 1 |’ CHICAGO, Oct. 6.—Chicago| | White Sox defeated Chciago, 9 to! ‘2, yesterday in the second game! lof their city-championship series. {Cubs won the first game Wednes- | | day. Today’s Horoscope | Today gives strong desire, a | eager mind and a progressive dis- position. 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