The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 10, 1950, Page 3

= tae TUESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1950 PO PO a oe ae * r AP Newstectures Chapter 9 ! “GET into your giad rags,” he told her. “We'll step out in style for a change. Some place where they soak you j down and where t sie for dancing. Rainbow Room? neat spot.” It was “spot” in She and gone to} } the Rainbow Room. It had been | one of their favorite places. The | food was excellen: fect, and Grant had consider the expense. She could not know that Sandy had mentioned going there to- night mainly because he wanted to take her, just once, to the sort of place she had probably fre. quented when she had been mar- j ried to that other husband of her: He could not help, now and} then, falling back into that mo-| rose bitterness. He had been mak- ing a good stiff fight against such | dark moods since they had come to stay at his uncle’s, but he could | not always put up a gay front. | He knew that Stephanie was as unhappy here as he had been at the Lake. He knew did not like the apartment too well —nor his uncle, either. | She had made a brave pretense, | but Sandy had not been misled. | He realized, too, that their sur-| roundings.did not suit her. Steph- } anie did not fit in against such background. She stood out against! it, if not defiantly, obviously. He supposed it was not her} fault. She did not.mean to bea bit superior. snobbish attitude toward poor old Quent. He knew she did not in- arte the Refreshing---And Refreshed DID You REALLY THINK IT WAS SO REFRESHING > was never unkind, and it was not her fault that she could not see} his uncle’s sterling qualities that! At ee agg DOUBLE WEDDING | By Adelaide Humphnes far outdid the grosser ones that | 2 blazed more brightis. He was sorry, however. Quent knew that Stevie did like him. There was no doubt Quent admired Stevie's coal ve- liness. At first he had tried te get the . under that cool skin; but and more lately, the simply kept out of the way He was not fooling Sandy. Sandy knew that his uncle keep. queer hours, but he ai knew that he now stayed out igter and longer than he might nave sounc | had his nephew and his wife t been living with him. Stevie titude, although she would last to know it, had practical driven his uncle out of his o home. He had told Sandy that morning that he had decided to go ~ jouth before the holidays. “If I can get me a reservation, that is.” he had added. “And if you young folks won't mind cele- brating Christmas and New Years without my presence” _| “We'll probably have to spend one of those big days with Stevie's mother,” Sandy had plied. “Maybe both. So you'd have to celebrate without us im any case. If you wanted to have in|™ | your own cronies, as I suppose! you might had we not been im- posing on you, you could go right | * ahead and count us out. And if 1/ 2 get a better job before another year breaks I’may be able to lo- shouldn't impose on you too long, +=* Quent.” j= “You ain't imposing, boy! As in her almost | like to move. But! doubt if you's) t9o% cate a place for us, I feel we —well, © world rece rived. 1] > Afterwards he waste think that know that li'l wifie of yours would. =~ thet evening wnem ne WaeRo the Rambow find a place before another year! | ¥@s the befinming of the end. I know she don't like it here too) stopped Sandy from make some kind of For aime tend it to be snobbish. Stephanie | well—nor your old uncle, neither; | Sa™. when be anc Stephame en |Now, now it's all right!” He’ tered the Rainbow Hoom, was hav to Grant Hale. denial “1 (Te be comunaeds person they Today In History | 1774—Patriots fight British at) Point Pleasant, Va. — called by seme the first conflict of the} Revolutionary. War. 1839—Because of over-specula- tion in cotton, the United States} Bank in Philadelphia closes its doors—starting a country-wide} panic. 1845—Formal opening of the U. S. Naval Academy in Annapo- | lis. | 1852—Minneapolis, Minn. first} | settled. 1883—2 cent postage for half- gunce letters first in effect. =~ 1910—Theodore , Roosevelt - the first President to fly in a plane. | 1911—Outbreak of the Chinese HE CERTAING? FLEW OUT OF HERE FAST WHEN I RECOGNIZED HiM./ w BUT T'vE GOT A FEELING “OU HAVEN'T SEEN THE GLAST OF HIM * Fate’s Great} WIFH ONE PROP GONE, THIS BIRD SWIMS LIKE REPLIED. biggest bargains. Southern Bell Telephone and Revolution—China’s Independ- | lic ence Day. 1919—The Prohibition Enforce-} ment Bil] adopted by the U. S House. - 1942—American planes bomb the Japs off Kiska in the Aleu- tians. / 1943—Americans fight in mud and rain in Italy. \ 1944—Admiral Halsey’s carrier-} based planes off Japan take toll) of more than_50 Jap ships. 4 1947—First of American, -war dead, the bodies of some 3,000) who died at Pearl Harber and} other Pacific battlegrounds, ar-| tive in San Francisco. H 1949—House Armed - Service|}. 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