The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-05-29

per. 80.
She undressed and crept into bed.
D1RK met Hope at one o'clock at
~ the Lawyers Club. She had at.
tended to her deposit at the bank
and had already done bit of shop.
ping.
Dirk was conscious that the black
dress looked somehow different, less
demure-saw that the change in 1t
was due to the hat. a rakish scrap
with curling feather.
Stunning" he said.
She sparkled. Look under the
table,"
He looked. and as he did not come
UP at once.
my shoes!" she explained.
"Oh. your shoes! should say"
He came up then to find the waiter
at grave attention.
After lunch he took Hope to the
Joris Offices few doors away. Grave
and dignified quarters that had once
commanded view of lower Manhat-
tan and the Battery. but that now
were hemmed in by new growths of
steel and stone.
Amid the encircling monoliths
there seemed something stable in
the dingy comfort of the Joris Of
fees, something rooted and secure.
The presence of Judge Blaise Joris.
Dirk's and Rupert's father, seemed
still to pervade the place, as the light
Of master star continues to fall on
the earth long after the star has
passed. !.
Hope met Sanford Joris. and the
members Of the Joris staff. fingered
in Rupert's private sanctum. She
was interested in his secretary-efH-
cient, thirty-odd-in the books on
his glassed-in shelves, in the street
below his window.
Dirk finally enticed her forth to
look at his own office, and the morn
ing paper which lay on his desk.
He had folded the paper at the &C.
count of the wedding. 1t was short. a
mere announcement, and she read
it quickly.
Dirk explained that Connolly had
mislaid some of the data.
"Your- fathers name. for one
thing. and the city you hail from. Or
it may be Connolly doesn't know the
items that belong in the society col
umns. At any rate. have them. and
tomorrow's issue :"
She turned to him, a little pale.
please don't. One account is
enough"
81 think so. too." Dirk answered.
She had seemed slightly relieved on
reading the notice. grateful appar-
emily for it's brevity. There would be
no second account if she did not wish
it. He went with her to the elevator.
$50 you're going shopping?"
She answered thoughtfully.
what color does he like-for eve
ming. | mean?"
Dirk hardly knew Rupert's pref
erence in colors, and mentioned his
own.
white" he said.
1t might be Rupert's color, at that,
since Elinor so often wore it. He re-
flected that a box had come for Ru.
pert that morning. small. precious
looking box. He himself had signed
for it. and carried it up to Rupert's
room. Rupert having already left for
White Plains.
He dreaded the moment when Ru-
pert should find the box, dreaded it
for Hope. She with her anxiety as to
Rupert's choice in colors!
white" he said again, for after
all it mattered greatly to himself
what she should wear. white. and
for daytime, brown-that sort of
rusty brown"
She thanked him gravely, stepped
into the elevator. and smiling good.
by, disappeared.
D UPERT found the box on his ar
An rival home. 1t contained the
jewels he had given Elinor during
the six years of their engagement.
He opened it. looking at the strand
OF pearls that had been his mothers.
the twin bracelets he had bought at
Carriers. the brooch. the ring, the
necklace. -.
Their very touch, he had thought,
would be like touching the flesh of
Elinor. He would have thought. too,
that. receiving this box from her. he
would have sat down to an evenings
steady drinking.
He looked at his watch. Hope
would be in her room. he reflected.
He had telephoned her two hours
before that he would not be home
before eight, that she was to have
dinner without him. and be dressed
for their evening together. She was
dressing now. Nora assisting her.
He had met Nora going to her room
on his arrival.
Rupert lifted out the strand Of his
mothers pearls. and, opening a
small. inner drawer of his desk,
dropped them within. Then. the box
of jewels in his hand. he knocked on
the door Of Hopes room.
(cofyriSht. 1888. Ns,sarss BsH Ressfcs)
Dirk has q difficult moment, to.