The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-06-16


he turned TO George.
run away for q moment"
"I'd like to stay" the girl insisted,
but he shook his head.
"Run away. Iii come down and tell
you all about It" he promised.
"As IL | were child" George
thought resentfully. but she obeyed
and went down to her uncle's II.
brary. and poked the dying fire into
a blaze.
ALI the short way home she had
tried to screw up her courage to ask
the doctor how Nicholas was, but
somehow 1t had been difficult to
speak his name: perhaps when he
came downstairs she would have
more pluck. She heard his footsteps
and went out into the han to meet
him.
"Is 1t indigestion?" she asked, and
wondered why he seemed TO avoid
looking al her.
.rm gOin@ to take her along to
the hospital" he said.
"Hospital?" Georges eyes grew
wide with alarm.
She'll get proper attention there,
he promised her. "And she can not
be nursed here. I'll call In on my way
hack and they'll send the ambu.
lance"
aAmbulanceg" George gaaped
For indigestion2"
"Tm afraid it's something q little
more serious than indigestion" Or.
Dudd said. "But you need not worry:
she'll be all right
|EEoRGTE felt as If the ground was
- slipping from beneath her feet
Lovelock seriously I'LL What was she
TO do without her?
Don't LOOK so alarmed" the doc.
tor said again smiling a little: he
laid q hand on her shoulder. where
Is your uncle7" he asked.
"At the Bears Head, think"
They looked at one another for .
moment, then the doctor said. "Why
didn't you stay In America. Geor.
glsf"
She shook her head dumbly.
"This is not the place for you." he
told her.
why dio everyone say tnatY
George wondered.
ats the only place rye got" she
answered.
well. we'll he patted her
shoulder and turned away. ''I'll call
In and tell your uncle" he said.
"TIe won't care" she answered
dispiritedls che followed him to the
door.
els Mr.. Boyd very ir?" she ven.
tured when he was well outside Ii
the dark garden.
"Boyd7 Boyd2 On. no he's not very
III. Trouble with his leg. that's all.
Well. I'll be getting along"
She stood looking after him TIL
he had driven away and the night
was all quiet again. then she went
slowly upstairs to Mrs. Lovelock.
They're going to take you to the
hospital" she said gently. Mrs.
LOvelock did not speak or move, ana
touched with some Impulse which
she could not explain George took
the woman's work-roughened hand
In hers. 'Is the pain very bad?"
she asked. and was Mortified to see
slow tears creeping from beneath
the closed lids.
Lovelock cryingl Georgie's own
eyes were suddenly wet.
And for the next hour life was
like q bad dream: the ambulance
which she had hitherto only con.
nected with road accidents. stand
ing at the gate. and two strange
men carrying Lovelock away on q
stretcher
ut can't be true" George told
herself as she went back into the
empty house and closed the door.
She went 60 the kitchen because
II seemed the most CHEEKY spot End
knelt down BY the IRE. shivering
llttla
She knew that her uncle would
be furious: he hated anything that
disturbed the selfish routine Of his
life: be would rave and what Mrs.
Lovelock always called "carry on"
Nelly wouldn't be able 10 come
down for the weekend now: every.
thing would be differentiation.
ganixed.
George drew up the hlgh-backed
chair with the red cushion I'm which
Mira. Lovelock always sat and closed
her eyea. Tho silence ard the
warmth Of the IRE on her face we're
soothings presently she slept
She was awakened by the crash
Ing Of the front door: crash that
seemed 60 shake the house and
which sent her 10 her feet stiil half
asleep and trembling in every limb.
TcopyteAt. 1883. Dousgsaas DoranI