The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-01-07
"Gol Be away! I have not mone


nov, not anything. | am break.
Which why should checks write
when have not any money!" There
was a great deal of noise but she
tapped the sketches in their faces
and at last pushed the other artist
bodily outside. "Me-genius, you
| miscree-ationsI" she shouted, slam
med the door upon them and came
| to sit upon the couch next to Mark.
They're, better than anyone
else's. so far. They're me. What are
they appearing in?" She had aban.
doned her "jargon" without any ex-
PLANTATION, and Marks surprised
chuckle was tribute to her good
| sense.
"D'you mean, what periodical?
None. I've not offered them any.
| where"
You're giving them to me, them"
"oh dear no! II you want them
you can buy them. Pm asking
twenty pounds each for them"
Miss Raoul. still in her makeup
and her velvet. leapt to her feet,
swore that she would throw him
out after the others and sat down
again beside him.
II can't pay you for a Bit" she
informed him. Il really am broke"
Then you'd better borrow from
someone. I'm broke too! and, in any
case, made up my mind years ago
I'd never be careless about money
if had chance of making any"
Il can't borrow. There's no one
left to borrow from. Unless--I might
get a flyer out of Farrell Armitage."
you'll do no such thing" said
Mark sharply. "IIi do all the bor-
rowing from Armitage. He's mine"
She rellnquished the sketches
abruptly, went back to her dress
ing-table and stared at herself in
the glass.
you're a bit above yourself,
aren't you, Mr.. Mark LodeIy? Hon.
estly?"
I'm the usual temperamental
artist. Ask AFmitage."
"You can't pull that stuff with me
I've got a temperament myself!
What's behind you? What are you
doing?p
Hating and loving"
She clicked her fingers impatient.
ly.
who? Why?" AS he did not re-
ply, she answered herself-"one Of
the people you hate is Farrell
Armitage. / understand that. Why
do you take such a lot from him,
them"
Perhaps because ! rather think
he's taking something from me-"
Mark had spoken on impulse and
because he liked the sound of the
retort. And certainly. q part of his
mind, perceptively alert had toyed
with the idea that Armitage might
be sentimentally interested in Bar
bara.
, But 1t was an idea barely worth
weighing. II didn't really matter
whether it had any foundation. Bar
bara would never-it was family
ridiculous to think of Barbara, the
patient homemaker, as deserving in
favor of monied life. A slow-mov-
Ing. plodding, home-loving creature
barbara: an excellent type to
settle down with, one day: a beauti.
full background to life.
What did you say?" he asked
Miss Raoul.
Il said I'd back Farrell Armitage
against you any day OF the week IL
he has really made up his mind to
anything. He knows how to work
and you don't"
Quite undisturbed Mark again In.
dicated the sketches.
There's work in those"
I'm not so sure that there IS"
Miss Raoul examined them anew.
They're good, | don't deny that,
but in way Pm an easy subject
just because am such a freak.
There's good deal more luck than
Judgment about your work. so far"
This was q shrewd hit and secret.
ly Mark accepted it, but coming
from Patsy Raoui It reused him to
retaliation.
"Tho same applies to your per-
Torrance tonight" he retorted.
"Your ugliness was q make-weight
You relied on 1t heavily in the sur
gerry sketch. You couldn't have held
tho stage three minutes with an or
binary pink and white kind of
countenance."
There's hard work behind it,
anyway" Miss Raoul thumped the
table. you can't work like do,
haven't got the CUTS"
Il haven't as healthy body
'Neyer mind that, you're the kind
that won't work TO your own ca
paeity and youn sit and make out
It's the fault OF being cripple! Yon
can't swing that pathetic stun on me
any more than the temperament. So
don't try."
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torture his hostess. Menoay.