The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-09-11
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Boots Raeburn. Is, marries
Russ Lund, handsome swimming
instructor, because she doesn'
want to face her parents dis
appointment on learning she has
been snubbcd by the younger SCI
of Larchneck, fashionable New
Yourk suburb.
Russ goes to Miami, promising
to send for Boots later. She get;
a job in a big department store
and takes tiny room in Green
witch village. She becomes i'll
with influenza and is befriendeo
by Denis Fenway, young author
Fenway sees that Boots has a
doctor and nurse and begs he,
not to worry about expense. Aft.
err she RECEIVERS he asks her tc
tea at his apartment. There she
meets beautiful Kay Chillingforc
who has a possessive manner to-
ward Denis.
Just before her illness Boots
received a telegram telling hei
Russ has been killed in a motor
boat accident.
On Christmas day she dine:
with Edward Van Solver, one OF
Denis friends.
NOW co ON WITH THE STORY
CHAPTER xxx
The long, cold, dreary winter
dragged on. And presently there
dawned a day when the light was
golden instead of gray, and white
clouds scudded across the surface
, of sky of heavens own blue
/ And there was the feeling OF
spring in the air,
Boots had seen Isabel twice,
during the winter. She was
starved for news Of her own peo-
pie. When Isabel had greeted
her, enthusiastically, one day
across the counter, Boots had
been quite simply glad to see her
She had made no pretenses. Of.
fered no explanations, for hel
being in Lacy's. Isabel had said
something haltinglv about being
"terribly sorry" to hear about
Russ death. Boots had thanked
her simply. Even now, when she
heard his name and people spoke
of his going, it didn't seem quite
real. 1t was all part of an ole
dream.
Isabel had brought her new:
of the younger set in Larchneck
Sylvia, Isabel contributed, hac
been home for christmas vaca,
ton, docking Cumming" in
mink coat. ("Bua imagine" 1sa
bel had interpotated, Imagine
mink on a girl Fer age!") Anc
somehow this particular comment
had made the old days seem very
far away, the old struggles anc
heartaches unreal. Boots felt
she had grown up. She was liv'
ing a real life now. The bic
question of whether to spend 70
cents or a quarter for lunch, the
saving for a new pair of shoes
the efforts to send ones sales
totals up So that the end of the
week brought appreciation, OF
better still, a raise in ones pay
envelope-all these were real
The other matters, parties at the
Ritz, diamond wrist watches, sill
yer fox scarves and tap dancing
lessons. were so much embroid-
cry. Nice but relatively unim-
portant.
Isabel herself, though sweet
and friendly and confiding as
ever. seemed very young, very
frivolous to Boots now. But she
brought news Of her mother, and
that was important. Mrs. Rae
burn, Isabel reported, was well.
"She misses you dreadfullv still.
Whv don't you go up and see
her."
Boots shook her head, consid-
ering. No, she would not go I'M
til they sent for her. 1t was not
stubbornness that held her back
but pride. Her mother was well
was going about. She must be
happy. Tt was enough to know
that. Later - much later - she
would see her.
And now spring had come to
a waiting world. Last spring she
had been so careless, SO unawake.
Now, in the span of a single
year, She had known love and
heartbreak and her whole life
had been changed. She had not
known what work was, nor how
one struggled for the mere es-
sentials of living. Now she knew.
Perhaps that was why mention of
Sylvia Rivers who had had so
much to do, really, with her
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