The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 3, 1947, Page 3

Pa Baal Len PA 8 dissin. > gE tal ciate ul | aacaeeemeatr ee imeenreniemniemmmntnenenanaiemmmamnnandttettamesedmmelicnaae « ay Chapter 15 TH idea of selling the house did not even occur to Bruce as, two days later, he sat with T’nette close beside him trying to re an answer. But even as he beat his brain he knew there was no answer, at least in money. The answer was that he would return to the band; for Homer might as well have demanded a on dollars as fifteen thousand. Haggardly he looked at T’nette, and he managed a grin. “Well, honey, I guess this sends Doctor Crane back to the piano factory.” ; But T’nette shook her head. ‘ “Not if you don’t want to go back.” Bruce lit a cigarette. “This isn’t ¢ ‘THE KEY WEST CITIZEN MPA AIR By she pat tense sae ee steed SIC OR MEDICINE - By Frank Riordan lots of people would pay quite a bit of money for it.” ; * no, we won't,” he said. “That was part of the bargain— that I’d never take anything away from you.” “It isn’t taking anything away. It’s what you might call—well, replacing one thing for a better. Besides, it’s only for a short while.” Her eyes rested on the green roof that had _ sheltered them, “Years go so fast, don’t they, Bruce?” “Yes,” he said with sudden pas- sion, and his arms tightened about her. “That’s why I want to crowd them full of good things for you.” “Then crowd them full of the very best thing,” she pleaded. “Make them come and go like a— a singing symphony, darling, with you doing what you were meant a question anymore of what Ijto do, want. “You do want to go on with school, don’t you—even if I did muff things in the beginning?” He started to say, “Of course.” He remembered then his doubts, his failure in what should have been a simple examination fo him. He thought of the compli- hi cated months that were ahead of him, and of his strange inability to get back in the old groove. T’nette had every right to know the truth. ) He answered her humbly: } “I honestly don’t know, T’nette.” '| “Oh!” T’nette couldn’t keep the woe from her voice. She hedn’t expected that answer. And, in a way, it made superfluous the sug- gestion she had meant to offer. “Well, in that case—” she began, but she had to stop to gulp back disappointed tears. “Now about this: letter—” “Well, what about it?” he chal- Jenged, and drew her down into his chair. But she could not be off-hand about what she had to say. And so she hid her face against his chest so he could not see her eyes as she gave him .the solution. “The answer is fairly simple, Bruce.” She tried to quiet her trembling body. “We’ll sell the house. It’s a beautiful house, and Even -"Claudia”’ ; ‘ Rae ot pong” ae ee. ay OO eS st rw ich Pad oo rn 6 3 - aye a “I could never sell the place, dearest,” he whispered tenderly. “You belong here—forever.” Fiercely her head shot up. “Quiet,” he commanded, before she had a chance to speak. “I haven't finished. Maybe we could—” Embarrassment silenced m. “Tell me.” “We might be able to—well, sort of get a mortgage.” “Darling!” Her arms flew about him. “That will be better. Ever so much better. Then we won't lose it—not quite.” “Lose what?” . Bruce and T’nette whirled. Nola had come out into the patio. “So you’ve come home,” Nola said somberly to Bruce. “And Tnette looked gorgeous last night —all dressed up for her party.” “Please, Nola—” T’nette began. Nola flung down the Hollywood Reporter. . “Here,” she said, “there’s some interesting gossip about a new redhead in Hollywood—or rather, the Tropics.” . Her words were meaningless to T’nette; but Bruce felt the palms of his hands moistening. “Getting psychopathic,” Bruce muttered as Nola walked away. “Ym afraid so.” T’nette said. Then she bit her lip. She had re- solved not to bother Bruce with household troubles. Listens to A Aom AP Newsfeotures | SERED Se what “was wrong, . “It’s nothing, I'm sure,” she concluded after she had told him about Nola’s visit to Julie’ : “She wouldn’t harm a_ hair But Bruce caught the momen: nen- tary fright in her eyes; her tell him” Julie’s head, I know. But—” It wasn’t easy for T’nette to ask = the sx mga her: ou ais we should ask her to eave?” a “I don’t believe she’s danger- ous,” he commented. ‘T’nette and Bruce re- turned late that afternoon from the bank T’nette had a aus sensation of being:in a house thi was not hers—at least not quite hers, not anymore. For the loan on the house had been made | exactly fis000: woud i Yaak exa , Wou hands within two cake ees After dinner, Bruce said: “Want to tour the praised to the skies?” And as the out special items in the tonéd, a driver of a rubber-neck: bus: Hollywood. Ras tae “That ancient pepper tree there, please note, Mrs. Feene. It’s ‘said the former owners nearly for, te the divorce courts over whether pisces. we, walked, he poitited it should stay or be replaced by.’ orange -trees. a “And over there to your right, Mr. Crane. That was the’ tenta- tive site for a great big swimming pool. But it has been said ‘the owners put off building it because- a little Py little name of Julie, came to live ‘wit! them—” is T’nette’s voice trailed away. Silently they plodded along. °. “Not a bad place to get a.mort- - usd after a gage on,” Bruce m whil e. ' : “Please,” T’nette mimicked the banker. “You give—rever get—a - mortgage.” “And, Mrs. Crane, in California there is no such thing as « mort- gage. 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