The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-09-07
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Boots Raeburn, IS, and pretty,
is snubbed by wealthy Sylvia
Rivers. Due to Sylvia's gossip,
Boots is forced to, resign from
the Juniorsa Both girls r7live in
Larchneck, fashionable New York
suburb. -~.-.. ...... . ...,. u
Hurt=an Inundated, Boots ac-
cePts the attentions of Russ
Lund, swimming instructor. Mrs.
Raeburn returns from a trip out
of town and Boots breads shcr
mothers hearing what has hap
Pened. On impulse .,she ,marries
Russ who takes her to live with
his brother and his wife. Rus.
has no job and apparently moi
ambition. Soon Boots begins tc
see him as he is. IN rcu.l,
Russ goes to Miami, promising
Boots he will send for her later
She gets a job in a big depart
ment store. After few month.
she has an attack Of influence
and is befriended by Denis Fen
way, younes author. .......
NOW COON WITH THE STORY
CHAPTER XVI
Boots faced Denis Fenway
across the expanse of a white
cloth. There were dropping pink
roses in silver vase but Denis
had set this, vase aside so that he
could see her better. He was
smiling. What a nice smile he
had. she thought idly! And yet
she hadn't in the least liked hin
when she had first met him. He
had seemed so superior -
"snooty," she had called him &c
herself.
$50 you're going back to work
tomorrow" ... ,
81 want-Im terribly anXiou:
to pay you back" she said, hel
voice thickenipg treacherously
She winked back the tears-it
seemed to her that she was such
a fool lately, always weeping
about nothing at all. But Deni.
seemed not to notice, she wa!
glad to observe. He was snub
bing a cigaret out in the heavy
hobnail ash tray. ..a. &c..
81 wish you wouldn't worry 81
much about that" His matter
of-factness was hearteniHg. HI
never asked questions; that wa
one of the nice things abou
him. Other people did - tn,
nurse, even the doctor, Mrs
Mooney and the girls at tn,
store. Everyone was so curl
Gus about her affairs. Not Denis
He accepted things as they were
He knew that she had married
Russ, had broken with her fam
lily. Lois hadn't told him. H,
hadn't seen Lois. He had tolC
her that Lois and DR.. Hart wer,
having a year in Germany. 81
he hadn't known thing abou
about her marriage. ,,.
"But you saw me that. night
coming out of the Willowmere.
Boots persisted. "You-I know
you weren't thinking pleasan
things about me that night"
The veil that sometimes cam,
over Denis dark eyes shut dow
at that moment. She was SORT.
she had said the words. She hat
a feeling she had hurt-perhap
offended him.
eyes, ] saw you" He locke,
away and his air of cold .alcof
ness hurt her. There was Away
something puzzling about Denis
When you warmed to him, il
simnlc friendliness. he was yer!
likely to freeze toward you il
this fashion. You didn't know
what you had said or done tina
was wrong.
Yet she persisted, determined
to turn the knife in the wound
determined to know what his re
actions were
at was the next day we've
were married." she said family
Russ got ME a room there. iHt
was STAYING with his people If
Astoria"
His warm smile flashed ovel
her again. 1t was as if the sur
had come out. There was some
thing almost apologize in his
manner now.
GAS if you needed to explain
that" he said. But she was glad
just the same, that she had ex'
planned. The veil fled from Denis
eyes. There was a warm, friend,
ly note in his deep voice again.
Glory and Lou had accepted
the facts of Russ death with
their usual apathy, rousing them,
TN H. .