The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-05-29

tits one of the few places in the city
| that still have the Irish walters. The
type is fast disappearing. I'll be:
every one of these men have been hers
20 years or more"
How very interesting!" said: 'Yoq
know I love everything that is old.
| IA shioned so much that I think some.
times I really was meant TO have
lived in mid-Victorian days.
Thank heaven you didn't" re
| turned DR.. Petit, and the expression
of his eyes which accompanied tha
| words made me drop mine and wish
for a moment that had not accepted
his prescription Of d square meal
before starting on my homeWard jour-
ney to Marvin.
I had no desire to see DR.. Petit IN
a sentimental mood. I had had one
slight experience with him, when his
feelings for me had overcome hts
usual poise, and I did not care 70
have another. There was a vague
disturbed feeling in my mind also thai:
this dinner with DR.. Petit alone was
very like the proverbia1 playing witt
fire. I FASTENED to change the sub
ject.
Everything looks very clean here
said banally enough.
Eyes, doesnit," DIR. Petit returned
in kind, but there was an amused ex-
preston in his eyes which told me that:
he had recognized my little rusc.
At the Gate.
His next remark startled me afresh
do you know whether one of th9
taxi drivers in Crest Haven would
make trip to New York tonight?|
he asked.
az don't know-why?" I faltered
Because" he answered, quietly, II
must get back to New York tonight
There will be no train back from Nlr-I
via after we reach there"
"You surely are not going TO Mari
vim tonight" I exclaimed aghas
There is no possible need for it. III
you win simply see me on the train
most grateful
II did not think you were capahAi
Of making SO silly a remark" I'll
young physician rejoined. "Of cours@
you know, really, that would cut II
my right hand rather than leave raa
to make your way home at midn-I
to a lonely suburb like Marvin"
who is making an extremely si'fE
remark now?" retorted, and indeed. II
was intensely annoyed at DR.. Pettit'E
words. They We're theatrical enough
to come from the lips Of Harry Tn
derwood, but there was a grim earH'i
estness about them that disliked eyed
more than I did Mr.. Underwood'I
flamboyant banter.
"You have not yet answered ny
question about the Crest Haven taxi
drivers" DIR. Petit reminded me- and
there was something in his tone' thai:
compelled me to give him the informa'
ton he asked.
81 am sure any of the taxi conDaniss
could furnish you a driver back"
said.
THANK you. And will you tell re
the best company"
THE Crest Haven Taxi Company
THANK you again. If you will -,
cuse me for a few moments WI.
telephone out there, tell them = IT,
US, and then take me back u the CITY
He rose and went to the te1@Phe"
leaving me in the words Of the .'g
style novelists a 'prey 10 n1tnE,
emotions" Gratitude to Dr.. I79,'I, lo'
his solicitous care of me was tenn
pered by dismay at the though d.
what the Crest Haven and MaT'.
gossips would cay when they sAo.,'
know Of my arrival at midnight y. ."'
company OF a stranger.
And what Dicky's mother you'd 81
when arrived home without my ms.
band! / could but family irnagin" p"
rage! But there seemed no proSl'
OF my seeing Diclky. Nhfr" ~
gone when he had flung himself 7>..
from the balcony in Madison -.
Garden when he saw DR.. PetIit Se'''
beside me had no idea. Il
Tt was therefore with the gre1t
surprise, not unrnixed with apr.
sion, that when our very eT'r".
meal had been concluded. and va D.,
ing taken a taxicab to the Pears
vania station. came toward the e''
leading to the Long Island tra'".
caught sight of Dicky standing ..
guard. scrutinizing every one VI"
passed.
ITO be continued)