The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1932-11-25
Chapter So
HEART TO HEART

RESPONSIVENESS is up TO you. San
: ta." said Give. 40 kiss and
lcuddie isn't forgiveness Before one
can forgive. one needs to under
Istand. II one doesn't upro0t The
causes OF disaster, he walks
lstraisht out and tumbles into the
Same traps"
@There oughtn't to be traps on
the road to heaven" she whispered,
Don't get you"
+Your road to heaven you called
Imea
sDid II Ny steep ascent. tc
heaven would be closer to facts.
Isz1sct that's how Iappear to you
@No, Give. Every day ron grow
ldsarer."
Cant we stop exaggerating?" He
Ibik HIS lip. "There are things We
ought to learn about each other"
She became wide-eyed and pan
dcky.
g0n my honor, I've never kept
ANY secrets" f .a
"Only the ones that I've prevented
vou from telling. On what grounds
did you obtain your divorce from
Dsks"
''You could have learned that any
time. You would never allow me to
mention him. The grounds were
cruelty"
What constitutes cruelty7'
"The phrase is elastic. 1t can in.
clude anything from yawning to
feeding vitriol to babies"
ct could include, for instance, the
scene we're now enacting?"
She flung herself at him, needless
OF whether her embraces were ID.
uored.
"Rhe fool I've been to kill your az.
Eectioni''
For the first time he ceased to
look through her. Her soft arms
were about him. The weight Of her
body dragging on him. Her head
was thrown back. her face implor.
Ding. She was no longer the master.
kul young matron who'd sailed
ahead. shaping both their lives. She
was yielding, adorable. adorins.
STOPPING to her long white throat,
Ihe met her half way in forgiveness.
MOT O word spoken.
He laughed. and snatchsd his
idressihg-gown from the bed and
wrapped It around her.
"And now where shall ! seat
your"
"I,li flop" Collapslng cross-leg.
lged.on the carpet, she grimaced up
at him. "It smells Of you'll mean
the dressing-gown. It smells Of for
siyeness. won't bleat. Let's have
what's coming to me-"
/ Coming to US BOTH" he correct
LED. II wish you'd smoke--do some.
thing natural. Here!" He handed
her his lighted cigarette.
Selling his fingers. she drew her
1ips across them.
: II daren't be tender" He patted
her head and dived for the chair
he had vacated.
Having regained II. he crouched,
shaking . finger at her 40 though
she were puppy.
II mean business--Eo let's cut ont
the palhos and the comedy. YAster-
day you walked out on me and {
didn't flnd Il q BIT funny. Today
Iyour guilty conscience has made
you afraid that I'll do the same By
you. II ron were only trying to
throw q scare into me. sou we're
Iidiotic. ! might have taken your
Iilstaste for me at face value.
that's how divorces start, BY
one party taking the others actions
Iaf face value. Perhaps l haven't
been easy to live with. AZ flrst r
didn't earn enough to contribute
mr. proper share. Then losing my
Sob. A2 regards your previous mar
Eiage. / own / haven't been reason.
able"
you've been q lamb" she
purrsd: 'I'm the one who's been
But why did you ask
|me on what grounds I got rid Of
|Dickyg"
~Becauses He interrupted
|hfmsslf. You're not playing the
game. Santa: you're edging nearer.
Because I've found him to be an
Isxceedingly pleasant fellow"
PARTY manners" She shook her
head. TRY being married to him.
|Toes me another cigarette
sBut the same thing might be
|eAid Of me. dearest--;hat any
pleasantness possess Is party man
lners. II ! allow my wife to con-
tract the habit OF boiling. where
DO ret oF!s
Get this into your thick head.
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