The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-06-09
Chapter II
GEoRGIE's CALL

GEoRGIE,s CALL
IN the morning George took a
= walk down the village.
She had offered to help Mrs. Love
lock about thu house as she had al.
ways done before she went TO Amer
lea, and had been bIuntly repnlsed.
"Pve managed without You all
this time. and can 60 on manag-
ing" was all the thanks she re-
ceiyed.
ut hasn't been very long" Geor-
gle reminded her. "Six weeks is no
time at all"
III seems like six years when
you're left to do everything for an
ungrateful man who's never sober"
Mrs. Loyelock retorted. mot that
I'm complaining Heaven knows"
.'It sounds rather like it" George
said. She slipped down from the
table where she had been sitting
swinging her legs. and walked out
OF the house,
II was dull morning. with sus-
picioB of mist hanging about the
trees and fields which seemed to
speak OF heat TO come later in the
day. George walked along slowly.
her eyes very thoughtful
Nicholas Boyd would probably
still be in bed. she decided. She
hated bed herself. It always seemed
such wicked waste Of time: besides
she was always afraid that If she
oversight herself she might miss
something good.
Not that anything very much ever
happened IN the sleepy little village,
but all the same perhaps some day
II might and then II she was asleep
in bed. how would she be able 70
participate in TT
She wondered which room Mrs.
Spears had given Nicholas at the
Bears Head: George knew all the
rooms There was one where Queen
Elizabeth was supposed to have
slept \ II was all old Fafters and still
contained a high four.poster bed.
stead
Georges uncle said II was all rot
about the Queen having ever slept
fhere: be said that II she had occu.
pied half the beds she was supposed
70 have done, she must have spent
her eutire life going from one inn
10 the other At any rate. the Boar's
Head was very old: 1t had secret
passage (blocked up nowl and one
or two old fireplaces.
Mrs. Spears had done her best TO
preserve its antiquity; most OF the
furniture was antique. and last year
when increase OF custom had made
Il necessary to build out the old din.
ing-room. she had insisted on hay.
ing II done I'm keeping. as she ex-
pressed It.
Georgia thought 1t was d pity
Nicholas had not told her where ne
intended t. stay: she might have
helped him by telling him which was
the best anL most comfortable bed.
room. and they might have travelled
down together and shared the same
cab up from the station, which
would have cen cheaper. She Won.
dered what he would say when he
discovered that he had walked right
into the enemy's camp. herself be.
ing the enemy.
Perhaps would at once pack up
and 50 somewhere else, and that
again would DO q pity.
she sighed and Quicksned her
footsteps.
Trouye was lying on the Gag.
stones outside the Bears Head when
George turned the corneF.
NRRs. SPEARS had told her that
AVA years agc old stage coaches
had ratified up over those ilagstones
and had deposited he.powdered
danes and be-ruffled gentlemen at
the door OF tho Boar's Head. she
declared also that Nelson had once
spent the night there on his was To-
Portsmouth. accompanied BY Lady
Hamilton.
As she drew nearer. Trouvt raised
his head and looked up. then when
she spoke his name he waved q vel.
coming tail and rose slowly 10 greet
her. George went down on her
knees and put her arms round him.
He wasn't much OF q dog Il one was
particular abont points: his head
Was too big and his legs too long.
bat George loved him.
some day. when have q home
Of my own. l shall keep = dozen
dogs. was one Of the things which
George erumised herself.