The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-06-26
Chapter 25
THE cABLEGRAM

THE cABLEGRAM !,
,HEoRGIE went home with a.
strange feeling Of excitement. 1t
almost seemed as If the closed doors
sof Life. as other people knew 1t, had
SLOWLY begun to open and let her
through.
She sighed and let herself into
the house. 1t was FIVE o'clock and
there was a smell Of burning toast
in the house; why was 1t that Mrs
iDriIl could never make toast with.
tout burning It. George wondered
ltmpatiently. and she thought rather
wlstfuIly OF the wonderful lunch
she had had; tea would probably
hare been just as good If they had
had It IN the same restaurant.
Mrs. Drill came out o. the kitchen.
Your uncle's been hoIlerin' all
lover the place for you," she said.
where is her" Georgia asked.
@Gons out. but there's a telegram
lon the dining-room table. and he
IsaId ! was to tell you to read It."
/ George went into the dining
room: the telegram lay on the tray
beside an empty tumbier. and she
took II up with a vague feeling Of
ldietaste.
Whoever could be sending tele.
lgram7 She could not remember ever
Having seen one in the house be.
fore. This was on different paper TO
the usual ones TOO; she looked at
the printed heading curiously.
| II was cable, brief but to the
Ipoint.
Arriving Friday the twenty-sec-
end. Evelyn"
George always thought It seemed
funny her mother should invariably
align herself by her christian name
and not Mother"
Friday the twenty-second was
lnsxt Friday; funny they should have
l troubled Z. cable her at all. She was
Of such little Importance in the life
TOT this woman who would sign her.
self Evelyn.
Mrs. Drill spoke from the door
way.
mo bad news, I hopper" She was
All inQuisitiveness.
~No. only that my mother IL com
lng home.1 George said.
"That win be NICE" Mrs. Drill said
. trife disappoIntedly; to her way
lcf thinking kilograms only meant
lpns thing. and that was bad news.
ehB waited q moment and then
went back to the kitchen to finish
burning the toast.
tWHEN Edward bancroft came
~ home later in the evening. he
could talk Of nothing else but the
cAblegram; ne seemed to consider
Il a. q personal Insult.
wasting money--the kind Of
thing an empty headed woman
would do. why the devil, does she
want you 10 know that she arrives
on Friday the twenty-second? She's
not coming to SEQ you. I'll bet q
Ever"
Il think II was kind OF her."
George said.
~KIndl" Edward Bancroft reared
IKE q bull. "She doesn't know the
meaning of the word. Where's the
whiskyf-
George escaped. She went out
into the garden and looked at the
moon. II was a young moon like a
thin sickle. and It lay on its back,
which Loyelock had always de.
clarsa was a bad sign.
She supposed that tbs same moon
shone down on Germany, where
Nicholas would soon be: they would
have that In common anyway: not
that ne cared whether they had any
thing In common or not
George opened the creaking iron
gate and looked out into the road.
u was nearly nine o'clock. and
everything was very stlll.
up IN \ tree somewhere an owl
called moarnfully. and away In the
distance dog was barking: they
we're the only sounds 10 be heard
except a slow footstep coming down
I the road.
7 A slow. uneven footstep,
Georges heart missed a beat:
she would know that footstep any
where: surely ~ she were dead and
iii paused ever her grave she would
know a.
Rha stood alarms hnr heart beaf