The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-11-30
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sells the IamllV antiques 10 pay
debts of her father, now dead.
On the day of the sale a young
man, stopped by motor trouble,
comes to her home to telephone.
After he leaves Ann finds a blue
vase missing and in its place a
note signed PIX" and $50.
Ann gets work as a librarian
and becomes friendly with Sarah
Kent, also employed at the Ii
brary. She meets Tony Mickle,
commercial artist, and is attract
ed by him, though Sarah warns
her that Tony is tickle and ir-
responsible. Ann sees Tony fire.
quently and realizes she is falling
in love with him.
She sees the young man who
bought the blue vase and learns
he is Peter Kendall, III, wealthy,
prominent and engaged to Val
eria Bennett, society girl. Val
eria has 10 sympathy with Peters
ambition and plays around with
wild crowd.
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CHAPTER VIII
In the entrance hall Valera
raised her lips for Peters kiss.
Darling, I'm not letting you stay
I've simply got to get some
sleep. You know Pm on that
Junior League ticket sale. So
you'll have to rush along"
81 was going away" Peter
said. "You forget Pm a working
man. It's after 2 o'clock"
81 do forget" Valeria answer
ed, because there's no reason
why you should be-"
Peter said nothing. He and Va
leria had been over this same
ground so many times. She
couldn't see that Il man shouldn't
be satisfied to sit back and do
nothing, living on money he
hadn't earned.
QuiXotic," Valera had called
him. Well, she wasn't really ma
ture yet. Twenty-Five years of
being babied. He fought down
the Impotence he always felt
when the question Of continuing
his work-the work for which he
had been trained and about which
he dreamed-came up between
them.
His only ally was his grand
father, who believed in men
working. That was because he,
himself, had worked hard all his
life until the last few years. He
had built his vast fortune by
hard work.
All the other members Of the
Kendall family were on Valeria's
side.
"Valeria's right" his mother
would say. cts absurd to wait
until you finish the Willard job
before you marry. You have
plenty of money of your own"
Everyone agreed that it was
foolish to wait until he complet-
ed his first big architectural job
the Willard building-before
he and Valeria married. Peter
wanted every stone in place and
the last finishing touch put to
the interior before he sailed on
the six months tour of Europe
he and Valeria had planned for
their wedding trip.
Valera didn't want to wait to
be married, yet she was unWill-
ing to compromise by taking
brief trip to Florida as a honey
moon and then sailing for Eu-
rope after the work was COM
pieted. She had decided that if
Peter were going to be stubborn,
she would be stubborn too. She
had refused to announce the en-
gagement. She had the feeling
that she was furnishing him.
Moreover, a girls good time was
certainly slowed up after her en-
gagement was known. Lots of
the men who were the most fun
dropped off.
Valera waited until she heard
Peters car moving off. Then
she crossed the living room and
switched on the light in the sun
parlor. A man who had been
lying on the lounge got to his
feet.
"Forty minutes late. l was
about to walk out on you"
'I'm terribly sorry. Dirk,
please--Tm punishedw She broke
from his grasp and ran into her
room. She was slipping out of
the white crepe and getting into
a flame-colored chiffon when her
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