The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 14, 1940, Page 4

PAGE FOUR Chapter 36 Derek Awakes — ‘AN heard the tires of a car skid on gravel and heard Derek’s voice. His father stood up and offered her his arm with grave courtesy and led her inside. _-I wish,” he told her when the lights permitted him to look into) Rerarene 0 face, “that son of wine have enough sense to Marry-a girl like you.” ~ She thought, “I don’t care about | his sense or-his cents, if—” Oh. she | was being foolish again. Derek) liked her well enough, no doubt,! he was even very grateful to her,| she surmised. But love? No. He} had his music to love, and Lenore. | Lenore came into the room with | him, her long crimson nails bright against the black cloth of his eve- ning coat. She wore a mink cape, } huge white orchids pinned to the} shoulder, over a sheath of crimson | ph: satin the exact color of her nail} Polish. Her flower-like face was} upturned rapturously to Derek’s.| “She'll get him,” Jan thought| sickly. “She had him once and she'll have him again! Rose wi right when she said ‘She has what it takes’.” Which premise was borne out as the evening progressed. For Derek no sooner finished greeting} his guests, rather Lenore’s, than} she. plesded he play for them.| “One of your own beautiful com- | Positions, darling.” j Derek declined. brusquely. Jan, brought close to him by his father, | observed the familiar, violent look} on his face. His meeting with his} fmother could not have been} happy, she thought pityingly. But} he brightened a little when he} took Jan’s hands and said: “I'm} Sorry I couldn’t pick you up. Lenore appeared startled. “Why, Ricky,” she reproached, “why didn’t you tell me we were sup-| to call for Miss Merriner? | e could have taken her to the boat with us.” She turned a bril-} liant smile on Jan. “The Countess} is‘so charming! I'm giving a tea} for her day after tomorrow and| you must come, my dear,” she| said. Derek's father grunted audibly.| mad is your mother, Derek?” he} “Looking about twenty-five,” Derek said: “The Count is with her. I see you've met Jan.” | “I have. And I like her,” said | the elder Knowles on a note of} challenge to Lenore. “I want to} meet that brother of hers when} he’s convalescent.” | + “Yes,” Jan put in hurriedly, must leave here very earl: Derek. I promised Lance I'd be] at-the hospital before eight in the} mo! 4 | “Tl call you around noon,”| Derek said, genuine sympathy in . his.deep voice. “Is there anything Tean do for him or for you?” Just then a dark-haired girl} linked her arm through Lenore's} and peered in astonishment at Jan. “I've seen you before,” she} asserted. “This summer—Los An-} geles—I have it! You were sketch- ing portraits in a quaint Mexican eet! Fifty cents for a picture in feen minutes, wasn’t it? It must have been just too amusing!” j ‘Til Pay You’ | ‘VERYONE within earshot was| looking and listening, Jan ob- served. She replied quietly, “It took me twenty minutes and it} ‘wasn’t oy amusing. I did! it. for a living. I worked there| most ofthe summer.” | “Good for you,” Derek said. “T'll| Wager you picked up some valu- able experience.” He beamed upon! her pridefully, much to Lenore’s! not quite concealed annoyance. | She said, swiftly, sweetly, Jan: “Then perhaps you would! bring along your crayons, pencils, or whatever it is you use and th some portraits at my tea for the Countess. I'll pay you) well, ‘of course.” | Derek frowned, but Jan, her} lips tightening, said: “Thank you. I shall be glad to help entertain} your guests.” | “In costume, of course?” Lenore} “As you wish.” | The awkward moment lasted until Lenore bore Derek away to the next room. | He looked back over his shoul-| der at Jan and made a frightful} “She usually gets her way,” said | Gregory Knowles. He patted Jan's! shoulder. “Never mind her, my| d@ar. Would you favor a willing! but somewhat Tusty old man with | a er” ie ballroom, she found, was/ ownstairs, a long, bare room with polished floor, a small or-| chestra at one end, a scattering of | aE at exe Know! sai Tegory jowles as/ they waltzed, “I were twenty| years younger I'd court you my- self, Miss Merriner!” Upstairs Lenore tugged Derek out on the veranda, determined ess, the heavy pe: e of flowers’ from the garden be-| a to eet @ proposal matriage, silvery voice ca- Tessed bim, breaking a little as Tourm! “Ricky, I've been @ fool. We all were. I mean about your music, You are a gen- ius, a at composer and we were to fortunately stupid about it. | Ronnie—well, I told you he! You eS eects "nicks. | ‘ou mi un icky. ‘These last months I learned how auch you mean to me. I love you | chuckled. “You should have seer. j Knowles-Barch' | you, I promise.” She slipped her 1940. Mr. Burch is a member of velopments in Key West. He was | “I'm not. Nor anybody else.” TIDE ... SOCIETY -. se, my dear” Her voice dropped 'Hernandez-Carey Wedding Ceremony the proper emotional | ven: ast wi gid ths lfted ner iragie, pointed | = Monday Night At Catholic Church Sr ae o'crne Regarding her, his black eyes | 2 ‘i ea 3 = t} oe Tre yet a ; Miss l[uerecia Hernandez, ) bride's parents followed the cere-/ turned up the corners of his | daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Amado | mor . mouth. “Meeting you again, bei auger a z a: 2 i = with you, is esbest thing that Hernandez, 1308 Reynolds street,|_ The couple will be at home, 604 ever happened to me,” he repeat- >the | Duval street,- to ‘thei many ed whap he'd said last night 0 | ee : (friends. + “HE * _ *, Among those present*af-the re- “Then I am forgiven?” she |618 . Catholic . Laneg« Mogday | ception were: Mr “ane i pouted. = night. - ‘bert ‘Weech, Mr. ‘You are blessed!” he answered The ceremony was read by: Matcovich, Mr. -and2 Mrs; Hil. | Cote cate push my own Pri Rev. P. J. Kelleher in the Rectory | burn Knowles, Mr. ' you out Ta lost my feeling my (of St. Magy’s Star of the Sea Oscar Miiah~ MP aN@ 7 touch, for music; I'd lost my faith Catholic Church. ‘win Sweeting, in you and, I thought then, faith Paul Furan, of the United. Clyde Carey, Mr. in everyone and everything else. States Navy, and Eloina Hernan-! Collins, Mr. and Mrs. I even tried to destroy myself. ; i Jan pulled me out of the water %°% 2 Sister of the bride, stood chado, Mr. and and showed me what an ignorant, #5 best man and bride's maid, Diaz, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Al egotistical food I'd been. She put respectively. bury, Mr. and me back on my mental as well as The bride wore a gown of Puebla, Mr. and physical feet. If it hadn’t been for white satin lace and carried a: Henriquez, Mr. and Mrs. Otili her my Concerto would never have been written nor played. A "ATION bouquet of stephanotis. The Campo, Mr. and Mrs. Edward vana yesterday afternoon But, Lenore, I wasn’t really my ride maid’s gown was of green! Garcia, Mr. and Mrs. Guillermo | o'clock with 53 own man again until I saw you at taffeta and she carried a bouquet Mrs. second-class Passengers for Key '7, with a colorful historical tab- the beach and realized what you of President Taft’s. i ER West; 22 tons of freight and fi are and that you probably can’t Mrs. Carey was a member of Edna Poore, Carabelle Cerezo, automobiles. Sailing last evening |g help it. There was nothing left of | the graduating class of ’38 of the! Laura Whitmarsh, Felicia Yado., at 6:30 o'clock the vessel carried | for ee oe ae oe ee Convent of Mary Immaculate/ Hilda Yado, Dora Medina, An-| again, Lenore, ever.” and a clerk at Kress’ store for tonia Alvorodiaz, Phyliss Mat-| the past two years. Mr. Carey covitch, Thelma Carey, Ji ‘Famous Last Words’ 5 ‘s ER long nails curved in against a pores Sos ee Se i ital. her palms. “I suppose it’s that?” e stupid, childish artist, Ricky. She’s A-reception at the home of the so obviously in love with you.” Fa Se “She is not!” he scoffed, then her, such a little bit of a thing, driving me to work, clubbing “me -i i into scraping carrots and washing Naptials Monday dishes, threatening me with a starvation if I didn’t bring home Miss Lillie Knowles, daughter! Mr. and Mrs. Paul Hyre, and board money, giving me hail co- of Mrs. Sarah Knowles, and little daughter, Gloria, left over! LOST. lumbia for getting into a fight and Clyde Thompson Burch account! She made a man of me 3. DE erbtieg eae eae te | Reamer rein og a : a 5 ” = 3 | Macon, Ga. “Wfpamous last words” Lenore |by Rev OC Howe tiene _,When the Hyres return in thought, and said, “You loved me | Memorial Methodist Church. | 200ut two weeks they will bring terribly, darling, and I hurt you Mrs. Burch i a f th so. I don’t blame you for not Mrs. Burch is a graduate of the trusting me. I'll make it up to Key West High School, Class of slim white arm over his shoulders, the U S. S. Twiggs, which is now | locked her hands behind his neck i TRANSPORTATION Mrs. Jones and her daughter back TRANSPORTATION WANTED— Green. | o'clock. Monday events include an elab- ton, Texas, Monday or Tues-{orate “Change of the Flags” pag-' Mrs Anderson day, desires to contact party eant, tracing the history of St! pleased with the current showing going all or part of way. Share Augustine under successive gov-| with them forsa visit here. Young man leaving for Hous-' ‘“Royal Spanish Ball” and a pub- }lic fiesta in the Ancient City |Plaza are also scheduled for Sat- purday night. - |. High Mass is to be celebrated | \Sunday morning in Old Fort ‘Green, with the Most RewAge leto Giovanni Cicognami, Apos- "—Dimaond ring with gold tolic Delegate to the United telling me I was shiftless and no- ; : viay, the highway today. for a’ visit. setting. Reasonable reward for States, presiding. Later in the 3 ve nday,. with Mrs. Hyre’s cousin, Mrs._ rtetutn. Box X, cio The Citizen. day a public reception in honor} i ee 3 augl3-3t|of the large group of visiting ‘Catholic dignitaries is scheduled, to be followed by a benediction Ve 'leau depicting the founding of WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14 1960 and historic address at Old Fort! and pressed her lips to his moutl, | eon 2 Brooklyn. ‘of pictures by local artists. expenses. Jack Crawley, The ernments. In the evening a/ The newly-weds left over the He suffered her a moment be- , . j a fore roughly disengaging her highway yesterday afternoon on! WHEN YOU SEE the water- clasp. He ‘heard a door slam; (their honeymoon to New York. [color painting by Marjorie heard heavy footsteps. —, a = “Well,” demanded his father, ) Stevens in the window of the pockets, “are you going to marry Lenore?” “No!” Derek declared violently. current show of pictures by Lenore gasped. “I don’t know pone ot mer Wee what’s wrong with him,” she com- i z plained, dabbing at her eyes with lucky voter who is drawn irom a wisp of lace. “Perhaps his suc- : those voting for the most met Electric Range, et | cess s unbalanced him.” N happenings im ular picture. The drawing ' i a Page ent Sef saenitee ta ae Geer ee — at 3:00 p. m. Friday, August ; rear 014 Varela St. augl2-Iwk| + best regards when you see her” yy a ee ‘The Citizen, sponsored by ees |APARTMENT. All modern con- Lenore glared at both men, ihe WPA Key West Art Center. 2 Fal he turned with stif dignity into the 2 Seas “| THE RECENT STORY in The. veniences. Apply 602 Duval jouse, leaving them alone. THE UND HAMmERs ‘Citizen about young Charles; . street, rear, or to Army and) “Where is Jan?” Derek asked, ao = Jerome Thompson, woodcarver. . Navy Store. augl4-3tx is heard again around the Art > . ~ H and native of Key West, catches | SS from the shock of Lenore’s asser- |up the place got under way this = attention. Many will recall; STREET. He eae plata tion that Jan loved him, even week. The city is sponsoring ‘h¢ Premier of the paintings of STREET. Hot water, i conveniences. suddenly wanting to be with her, js his heart still thudding strangely ,Center as plans for brightening ace he didn’t for a moment /moterial for the new roof over = z the street front and a carpenter 5 n venkins is driving her home. ; She came with me just now to | has just been added to the staff pyr cree tag morass aon * tell you goodnight, but evidently by W. P. A. Some new decora- Sate ‘siaghe sae decided not to intrude on the tions, sign and painting will soon _™0St Sratifying to learn of grow- charming scene you presented be added to the building. ing interest in creative art in with Lenore in this prop moon- ‘i | Key West. This has been the light! Derek, you're a fool!” He - hi . stamped off into the garden. | ABRARY ~ BOOKS AND neg ee eee eee Derek rested his long, lazy |MAGAZINES—those on art and 5, th ae ith the length on the wide railing, not |artists are particularly desired'*°F the Pas orn H feeling the chill breeze on his for the Art Reference Library at/@Ssistance of the National Arts 917. Bieming St. apri7-tt | face, not hearing the noise from Program of the Works Projects within the penton g So Jan thought the Key West Art Center. Also, ie and Lenore—could Lenore : at the Art Center continuous ex- sibly be right about Jan? No. a subscription it would be most! * “" = Perhaps. Damn it all, he didn't welcome by all members who al- | hibitions changing every two or -AP. want Jan laboring under false de- , ready find the library helpful for ‘Tee weeks, representing the} SITE, lusions! And why didn’t he? art reference desi; costumes, | best art of the past and present’ His eyes closed. He was again, in a €S, and of the local artists. This faney, living in the old red house, ¢t- Address Miss Mary Morgan. | Don Suity to view fine aft with! surrounded cl crouching ham- Fay of res wrpeame orga inet el for adults and urger stan and rioto con- or the Art Center direc! ; 5 s i fusion, He saw Jan, a battered } ed children 4s naturally stimulating SE Ee ee een. | PROUSEVELT 25 UIE Rf cuve Seer: ween, ae ‘oming in with a morning's cai ; eritage o: man beings. It | AN of fish; Jan, miserable and forlorn CAMP. held this summer at the se Cabawa. ; a 2 San Carlos Book Store on Duval: ATTRACTIVE. 3-ROOM tossing his cigar into the gard ; = shoviue his hase atiateeee street, you will hurry down to NISHED APARTMENT the Center to cast your vote for adults. Artcraft Studio, the most popular picture in the Charles and New streets. watercolor will be given to the FIVE-ROOM if anyone would like to donate a| Administration there have been} “E="FOR SALE augl3-5t final “birthday fiesta” will be held in the Ancient City Plaza. | among the recent arrivals in Key FOR RENT Steamship service to Ficrida is} West from Pensacols for 2 visit maintained by Clyde-Mallory| with her brother and sister-in- aos Lines. To*facilitate attendance|law, Mr. and Mrs. Chester for at “La Fiesta Grande”, the line| Thompson, at their home on Mar- Cor. will issue all-inclusive _round-| garet street. es trip tickets from New York to! aug9-lwk ‘St. Augustine that will provide GE, Refrigerator, , ddd Opposite Tift’s > 2 < & So a fi Ch hed heduh de diddidd hdd, over Lance and Rose and Norma; Harris Elementary School, opens is to be regretted that all those | ~ good Used: Cars has just arriv- Jan, dancing in his arms, six the Annual Exhibition today and. 5 ai i dances for a quarter. Clinging to will continue through Friday, themselves - pet Art, gt the him on the roller coaster. Telling August 16th. The work of all de- hve not taken advantage of # him he was no good. Adopting | partments will be on display and ‘@Cilities available and in- him into her family, adding his oe Art Project i rti siya cidentally given support to the burden to her already heavily | the Art Project is particularly in-| +402 of a Center devoted to com- loaded young shoulders, ordering | terested in the Mural Decoration munity art interests. Apprecia- - him to work, to practice, to re- | which the Art Students are pro- tion however is fast growing and habilitate himself, and all of the ducing under the tutelage of F time knowing nothing about him, | Roger L. Wilcox. This mural is OTe local people are visiting the |W AN'TED — Small furnished taking him as was! Wait—that 5 . i: night she'd bawled him conceived, designed and pain bers as they come to a realization hadn’t she said—“I wacdediokalp by the mural group of the Art ted exhibitions and becoming mem-| Apartment. i and bath necessary. you. I had faith’in you.” Yes, she |Class and will be suitable for | °f the many benefits it brings to’; Phone I14/or write P.O. Box| had. He'd forgotten, lost himself | permanent hanging in a school | the 0% a in his music, put her words away building. in a safety deposit vault of his mind, determined for months to think of nothing but his beloved ' Concerto, his gift for sibene g which had miraculously ret to. Dry Tortugas. Mr. Puderer, a) 0000 Us Sen nononay, citer. former trustee of the Center, 2S qupugueeeeeteiaieestiiin oe waki my, Ztven him | artist and landscape- architect is spiritual as well as sical life. i i a } What if acmasthing stent hap. Particularly interested in art de- Tommie’s Skating Palace pen to her, all alone in New York? Beginners, 10 to 11:30 A. Mi- mak enced aon a eee = er 8:00 10 1000 Bo ith imagins ock and horror, , Evenings io a feeling empty and lost and alone. ‘ealth: Recreation in a world he neither trusted nor ee ee ee | liked. i : Rochelle Hudson—Glenn Ford | ammasement Ectablishment I love her,” he said out loud, BABIES FOR SALE astonished to hear himself saying those three woes. 4% eve her, and 'm going to tell her so, and I h Lenore, for once in her life, told the truth!” Te be continued. Polk county, long Florida’s greatest producer of citrus, ship- ped more fruit last year than any other county in the United States, beating Los Angeles county by over 2,000 cars. Polk also is pushing the west Coast Mrs. Virginia Simmons of Ben- ton Harbor, Mich., has filed suit for divorce five times against the same husband. , to Please Your Palate for leadership in the vegetable ORDER YOUR POUND TODAY field. j augl4-1t! stopovers at gay Miami and Jack- FURNISHED ‘sonville. Se ae ~ . Also, - APARTMENT. 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