The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-08-29
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girl in Larchneck, fashionable
New York suburb, but her faith
er's financil reverses make it hare
for her to keep up with he,
crowd. Wealthy Sylvia Rivers
schemes to force Boots to resign
from the Juniors. Deeply hurt
Boots accepts the attentions OF
Russ Lund, the swimming instruc'
tor.
She realizes she is in love with
Russ when he tells her he is go
ing away. He wants her to elope
with him but Boots asks for time
to think it over. She breads the
time when her mother will hea,
about her withdrawal from th'
club.
Unhappy and restless, Boots
goes for a morning walk ans
meets Denis Fenway, young au
thor. They have a long talk an;
Denis is moved by the girls obvi
Gus unhappiness. He wonder
what is troubling her.
Boots goes to New York on
shopping trip and on the trail
meets Russ. Again he asks he
to marry him and she is half
persuaded.
NOW co ON WITH THE STORY
CHAPTER XVIII
The headache which had swoop
ed down upon Boots in the glar
ing heat of the day was indeed
devastating one She had had lit
tie sleep the night before. He,
early rising and the tangled emo
itions of the previous hours hal
worked havoc with her health!
young body. Now. as she Leaned
back in the grateful GOODNESS O.
the taxi with Russ strong arm
/ laid protectively across her shout
ders, it seemed to her perfectl.
right, perfectly natural that sh'
should do as he suggested. Sh,
was miserable-she was half sicl
with pain and fatigue as she fol
lowed him across the dim ant
darkened lobby of some strange
hotel. Her head was fairly split
ting.
She scarcely heard what wa
said to her nor noticed that thu
clerk, rendering the pen, glanced
, at her curiously. She only knew
in aim sort of way, that Rus!
called her his sister. He woult
register for her. he said. She wa:
ill.
Then they were in an elevator
Russ still carrying the cowhide
bag. The car stopped at the lOtf
floor Russ. the big, tagged key
in his hand. fitted it into a lock
Boots glanced around her in
curiously. The narrow room with
the cream colored walls, the ma.
hogany bed, the typical hote,
dresser with it's glass top all
vaguely puzzled her. She only
knew that she longed to sink
down into the GOODNESS of the
white pillows, to draw the cover
let over her head and sleep.
81 hate to leave you here
alone" she heard a voice saying
to her as from a distance. Ihro
mist she looked up at the face
of the man beside her. you're
sick, kiddy," he said.
She would be all right, she said.
If he would get her some aspirin
. why, then, she would get to
sleep. She would be all right.
She thought of her own shabby,
wide-windowed room under the
caves with the shades drawn
against the hot, battering sun
shine. Her own bed with its blue
spread. 1t all seemed very
far away. Tomorrow she would
put her hand in this mans, take
his name. That was what mar
riage meant. Beyond that she
knew nothing the pain beat
at her temples like live thing
"Call the desk and order some
food if you need it," she heard
Rus saying. "I'll call you in an
hour"
X y i
When she awoke it was quite
dark. The square of window be-
low the blue shade showed yellow
against the blackness of the walls.
She sat up, pushing her hair back
from her face, her mind logged
for an instant. Oh, she was all
right. She was in the Willow
mere where Russ had left her.
She must call her mother. Why,
her mother would be frantic.
What had she been thinking of?
The phone rang four or five
times, rang a dozen times more.