The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-02-02
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! "Supposing Miss Cane is allowed
to give us her point Of view?" broke
| in Poole, his face still to the fire.
Armitage saw Leila's hard face
culver.
at isn't at all heroic one" she
said slowly. 81 thought I'd see IL
could squeeze just few months
fun even If it meant being as miser.
able a little cheat as father. I meant
to own up at the end of your year.
Farrell"
"Pm sure don't know what year
you're talkin' about" sobbed Mrs.
Lodely.
"She means, cnoked Mark, "the
year which Farrell has set aside for
the buying of Barbara. don't sug-
gest with his money, naturally, but
rather with his sterling worth, his
granite viii and so on"
"What has my year got to do
with 1t, Leila?"
Again her slender shoulder
Knocked him.
Barbara would have wanted her
dowry then, I presume, whomever
she married. And now, unless any,
one else wants to sling mud at me,
I'll go and tell father our little game
is up"
Through the uproar that followed,
Armitage heard Leila address him.
"Not fit to wipe Barbara's shoes,
am l Farrell? All the same. IL she
marries you. you'll have to admit
that had something to do with 1t.
Even If it was only by very little
/ opened her eyes,"
She was passing Farrell on her
way to the door. Before his eyes
ner portrait hung for second. He
plunged his hand into his pocket
and pulled out the emerald PEN
dant. He tossed it into the curve of
her arm and it slipped down into her
palm.
"Your fee." he said.
The next second he would have
given a fortune bigger than Bar.
barae to take back action and words.
He and Mark. two twisted DULLES,
tormenting a hunted thing.
"Leila!" he muttered. But she
went out OF the room with her eyes
upon the couch upon which Marks
body lay motionless, while his face
and his hands were twisted with
ecstasy.
She had walked some way before
she realized that the man keeping
pace with hes was Kenneth Poole.
Then
"Want anything" she asked with.
out turning her head.
"only to know where we're go
TIngf"
"To the river"
"Then ] suggest q taxi It's some
way to the river. And we had better
keep it waiting until they've hauled
US out again and taken our names
and addressed
It's not me I'm going to throw In.
Nor you. =. Why aren't you mind,
ing your own business7 ! thought
the one thing we've ever agreed
about was that we're each to mind
our own business"
"You promised to have dinner
with me-"
"It's hours too early FOR dinner"
"If we go to dinner by way Of the
Embankments it will all in the time
nicely. And you'll get up q better
appetite than You had for tea"
II don't know how you can con-
template dinner after the tea yon
ate"
II can always contemplate dinner,
thank providence. even when I'm.
only halfway through breakfast Be.
sides, didn't really enjoy my tea:I
I ate sixty per cent Of It from sheer
habit. Now all this money business,
Is of our chests. we can 60 to O Jolly
little hole / know under the pave
ment In Fleet Streef and do our.
selves properly. After that Q spot
OF vaudeville somewhere and q
snack on the way home. Suit your
Kenneth. you weren't surprised
at what I'd done. Why weren't
your"
II don't quite know. I must have
got 1t from your mind. Telepathy, j
suppose. BY Jove. ] must so IN for
telepathy seriously. believe I'm
tuned In just right to get some peo-t
pies minds Not so long ago i
telepathed Armitage as easily as
making faces Mt him."
poor Farrell Armitage, hen for
give me II Barbara marries' him and
he'll hate me for q rotter II she mar.
ries Mark. and yet he thinks he
has a mind. You're more logical,
youTl hate me always and anyway.
because"
"Hecause7"
Because after spending so many
precious mealtimes In telling me
you've no use for women. you tlnd
yourself hoping one of them won't
jump into tho river"
(copyTleAf. 1883. Jalia crsft-Addanasl
Leila and Psele settle an lmpor.