The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 23, 1947, Page 3

Pe ee ee ee men eee A een oe oa Chapter 14 Jom could not suppress a grin. “You ought to know, baby,” he teased her. Susan looked at him sharply and demanded in an angry voice, “Just what do you mean by that? You don’t have to be insulting, do you?” “No, I don’t mean to be insult- ing. Matter of fact, I’m compli- menting you on your skill.” “Then what do you mean?” “What I’m trying to say is that you ought to know how it’s done. When you tell a whopper, you really make it stick. The tale you told the other night about being married and having a_ houseful of kids was a lulu. And you had hays 6 A believing it — even Steve Gellis, who may be a louse but is certainly no fool.” “Oh. You would bring that up, wouldn’t you?” Susan’s anger had given way to distress. She looked at John accusingly. “You know very well that I was pushed into that. I certainly couldn’t sit there like a dope, with that dreadful Bella Gaines egging me on. What was I. supposed to do—take it? Well, I just couldn’t.” “Of course you couldn’t—more power to you, Susie.” “Oh, I’ve been mortified tg death ever since. I could hardly look Steve Gellis in the face the next morning. I suppose that was why I played such a terrible game of tennis.” “But you did a pretty swell job on that story, Susie, my love. Steve still halfway believes it. If you hadn’t been so adamant about. having four kids, he’d have swallowed the whole thing. He probably would have given you a raise on the strength of it. Two kids would have been okay. But four kids—holy cow!—you for- get there’s a time element in- volved.” “I—I never ae of that,” Susan stammered. “I—I—” “Well, did,” said John. “I could have throttled you. I tried to tip you off that you had only two, but’ you got stubborn and raised the ante to «four. Two children, I figured, would be the greatest of plenty for a girl of THE KEY WEST CITIZEN ea age. Why the heck did you ave to: say four?” SUSAN was angry again. Her cheeks were scarlet and she exclaimed, a little nonsensically, “That’s my business. If I chose to have four children, it’s none of your affair, John Bates. Who are ou, to dictate the size of my amily?” John’s eyes twinkled with amusement. “We-e-ll—”. he be- an, and burst into a gale of aughter. An instant Jater Susan was mnaguing with him. n She got up and began to brush the sand off her bathing suit. “Shall we join the rest of the— er—daisy-pickers? I’m sure they are back from the wars by this time.” John struggled to his - feet, groaning as he did so. “I guess we'd better. Steve is probably throwing conniption fits. And I'd better start doing something about this sunburn. If I remem- ber correctly, it’s a big night to- night. We’re supposed to go into town and oe the night clubs red. I wouldn’t want to disgrace you appearing at the Club Peli- can looking like a boiled owl.” “You know, Johnnie,” said Susan, lowering her eyes and twirling the strap of her bathing suit around her fingers, “some- how I dread tonight. Several weeks ago, when made _ the reservations at the theater and re club, I thought it would be un.” “Well, won’t it?” asked John, knowing very well that, as far as he was concerned, it would be anything but fun. “No. It won’t. And you know it,” she blurted out. “It'll be just another endurance test, and I’m afraid I can’t take it. Oh, I know I sound like an awful moocher, but these people do dreadful things to me.’ John nodded. me?” “They make me _ feel—well, sort of useless and helpless, as if there’s no sense trying to help anybody any more,” Susan went on. “It’s their strange viewpoint, Il suppose. They don’t want to be happy—not really. If stay around them much longer. I'll be thinking like them. acting like them, maybe looking like them. “You’re telling TRAILER TOURISTS WARNED ON SAFETY PRECAUTIONS AP Newsteatures AN FRANCISCO.—Touring with a trailer this summer? From the land that sees more trailers than any other, the California State Automobile Association offers these rules: The trailer solves.some problems, creates others. .Like a turtle, you carry your roof with you, but you also are slower an ordinary ¢ 2 car. Keep well to the right on and heavier than wide roads, and on narrow roads pull aside now and then to let traffic piled up behind get past. Control Speed Never go faster than 50 miles : ; per hour. In most cases it’s safer | SONORA, Calif—(AP).—Folks } county | jare touchy about the beavers | which game wardens have been | to go slower. Your extra width, length and weight hooked on behind means | more care in starting, stopping, { i Beaver Rustlers Worry California up¥ here: in» ‘Tuolumne planting around. J. Whittle heard a shot on his ete etee iell ‘sory notes. Attorney Tag a te i ates I—I guess I'm just sick and tired of the whole thing.” oy John caught her arm and drew her close to him. Her nearness in. toxicated his senses, and he Was a little annoyed to hear himsélf.— . saying: ~ “Poor baby. So they’re shoot= ° ' ing your illusions plumb to hell, eh? What do you say, sugar— shall we chuck the whole thing? 7 How. about us scramming—to- gether?” “Oh, but we couldn’t do that. I'd be out of a job and I'd be scared. to live. Maybe I should have let myself drown after all,” she . added, at this “Here goes my freedom,” thought John, but he rose to the occasion and said with all the gallantry he could muster on such short notice: ; laughing a trifle shakily © melodramatic statement. .' Don’t forget I’ve still got . “You don’t have to worry, baby. You won’t starve as long | as I have a job. Any time you say, we'll get married. I’m take ing you away from all this.” She drew away from him; once more the unpredictable Susan. “Oh, no, you're not! I’m seeing this thing through if it kills me. | It probably will. But as for :get- ting married—why, you're crazy, John Bates. Didn’t I just tell. you I don’t intend to marry anybody —ever?” : She hadn’t told him that—not precisely. But John was a little relieved. He’d sooner marry Susan - than anybody, he reflected. He liked her a whole lot—loved her, in fact. However, he wasn’t get- ting married to anybody, if it .was humanly possible to keep from it. He wanted to go places and’ do things. ee wie Hand in hand they walked in silence down the beach, across the greensward, toward the big house, each absorbed in his. own thoughts. Susan was thinking: “He’s sweet. He’ll make ‘some _ girl a fine husband. Too bad'I'm not interested in marriage.” . And John Bates was thinking: “Good grief, that was a narrow escape! Maybe I’d better scram— and pronto. If I stick around here much longer Ill be insisting: that she marry me, and I won't .give her a minute’s peace till she does.” (To be continued) a en Religious Groups Must Pay Stamp Taxes. On Notes (Special to. The Citizen) ' TALLAHASSEE, July 23:—Re- ligious organizations enjoy “some immupities from taxes, but are not exempt from paying docu- mentary stamp taxes on promis- General J. Tom Watson, in an opinion to Clerk of the. Circuit Mathas of DeLand, said that neither the law .nor. the, consti- tution. exempts«relizioge* i- zations from the necessity of buy- ing stamps to put on their prom- issory notes. PEELS MAN’S HEART > passing and overtaking other ve-|ranch. Sure enough, there was "LIKE ORANGE” hicles. a couple of boys skinning a beav- Different states require differ-!eg, Whittle held them while his | MEMPHIS, Tenn.—In an effort ent equipment for trailers. In!son ran for the game wardens, to save Johnny Bridges from a California you need a license. an who said they had planted the , “lingering, unhappy and certain approved signal device, a side- peaver only an hour before. ; death,” a surgeon opened Brid- view mirror, safety chain, clear-! [pn court, the boys were fined ges’ chest and, holding his heart ance and running lights, and ‘$50 each. in one hand, with his other brakes if the trailer weighs more j}hand peeled away the leathery than 1,500 pounds. | In the vast majority of states'outer tissues that had . been Learn how to back up. Beione year residence is required hardening and drawing up, re- sure your car and trailer are in pefore divorce procedings may stricting the organ’s beat. 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