The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-08-07
RESORT. Ia HOTEL ..ssz i! e.:

! haps Bill, in his gray flannel shirt
and dungarees, seemed a bit cal
! low beside the breezy Lefty
Ponds. She said, ''What gives you
the right to be shocked at any
thing 1 do? l don't seem to re-
! call"
ooh, Pm sorry Something Of
| his hurt was revealed in his face
II didn't mean to be presumptu-
Gus.
He turned to the skillet again
and. silent, secured it TO shining
radiance. Ann got up and went
back to the fire, and joined LEFTY
Ponds.
| Lefty asked, ,"Who is the boy
friend with whom you've been OK
changing confidential words?"
ooh, Just a boy l met IN the
travel office back in the city,
she said. "He sold me this vaca-
ton. He thinks he goes with It,.
Lefty was a little indignant:
"Well, he had cheek, | must say!
He talked as though he had known
you a million years"
Il think he means we'll, Ann
said. "And | don't think he's had
much time for the amenities-the
little things he should know about
comtship and girls
We'll. tell him not to practice
on YOU" Lefty said holly: This
was to be my evening with you.
Let's leave this crowd and go on
some place else
mo. No." Ann said. 81 could
not do that. That would be self
ish. This is the hotel party. We
have to be loyal" -.
Lefty tossed a stone into the
fire. "Just as you say" he told
he. Cant we take a stroll down
The lake shore and then come
back" -.
Ann eyed him with a knowing
smile. ''You think lot of your
self. don't you?" she said. But
She smiled when she said 1t. Il
have no doubt that you are at
tractive to lot of women. You
are ruthless.
Lefty laughed. "Not when my
wife is around! But don't get a
rise out of me. I'll Just stick
around. l like you. | like your
reserve. And please, don't be so
exclusivew
After Lefty had gone to his
room, Ann stood on the veranda
and watched the moonlight on
the water. Lefty had asked them
to 90 to a night club but for some
inexplicable reason she didn't
want to 90. She knew Bill Ware
couldn't afford such things, and
she didn't want to embarrass him.
Bill had gone to the bathouse
dock to talk to Ralph Spring, the
boatman. He wanted to hire a
canoe for two weeks.
Bill came up the path as Ann
was ready to go upstairs. His
voice detained her. Don't go IN,
pleasew he said.
She stood in the path of the
moonlight on the porch, and Bill
merely stood there, thinking now,
beautiful she was.
"Tm sorry-about tonight,
Ann said.
ooh, Pm sorry he amended.
perhaps it was selfish of me. |
make breaks all the time-with
girls. 1 guess it's the old work
aday harness chatting me. But III
get free of it for two weeks" He
squared his shoulders, and again
she boxed at the startling white
throat. The moonlight painted
his bare head with gold.
You are going to enjoy this
mountain air." she said. do you
like a climb"
will you?" he said eagerly. 81
mean-will you climb mountain
with me? I've just rented a canoe
for the two weeks, and l intend
to 90 in for everything. Get fit
for the old grind again. Feel like
a man. How about tomorrow"
Pm sorry. l promised to go
sailing on st. Regis Lake with a
boy. It'll take all day."
''With that married man, Bill
asked holly. with Lefty"
She smiled. "No, not with Lefty.
His name is Jaime Laird"
ooh that 1adp Rill said, and
his spirits fell. 81 talked to him
at the office. Playboy. l sold
him this vacation" He laughed,
a, little ruefully. 'Now wish |
had sent him to the seashore. But