The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-08-08
"And who saws I didn't?"

nnd out IL you did, White continued,
as though he had not heard her,
people never think Of that"
Find out then" /!
"You dirty liari"
The savage whisper ran round the
room and died away long before the
silence was next broken.
"You saw us then?" she said at
last.
White lifted up the bread knife
and laid it at the end Of the table,
out Of her reach.
Eyes; / saw you, this once" he
said, land how many dozens of times
have there been when haven't seen
your"
Jimmy, honestly"
Honestly! My God. that's good,
that's rich that is-honestly! why,
you cheat -"
JIMMY"
What's the matter! Don't you
like being called what you are?"
Don't be fool. Jimmy. this isn't
the first time this has happened to
married people,"
at will be the last time it happens
to me-"
you haven't even listened to
what I've got to say. yet. I couldn't
help tt"
go on"
cit isn't always a woman's
fault, you must realize that, IL
couldn't help it, that's ALL"
''You. LIAR" White at down slowly
in! the chair at the head of the table
and stared at her, his right hand
playing with the handle of the long,
thin bread, knife. And to think 1
once thought you were worth trying
To keep. worth taking risk for 80"
She misunderstood him.
Il know you thought you were
marrying beneath yourself when you
married me-" she said. 81 know
you've always thought yourself a
cut above me. You needn't rub it in.
Well. now you're finding out you're
right that's all. Other people are
human, whatever you are"
LIE looked at her in silence until
L l. she could not bear 1t any longer.
For Gods sake don't sit there like
that. saying nothing and staring at
me as II you were mad. What are
you going to do about 1t any way?"
81 believe what Arthur Burdett
said about you was right. now"
"And when did he say anything
to your" she asked quietly. Last
Monday night?"
For the first time for minutes he
dropped his eyes from hers.
Last Monday night?" she asked
again.
81 was out at Nyeton. where
you're so fond Of. on Monday night"
he said. 1--WE told you that"
"Yes. you've told me. So were the
Buckley gang out at Nyeton. but
you never saw then:."
He raised his head slowly and
met her gaze again and after pause
he spoke in a curiously constrained
voice.
Maybe I wasn't out at Nyeton at
all that night"
The wonan's lips parted and an
involuntary almost noiseless little
"A-ah" escaped her; she looked at
him with fascinated horror begin.
ming to dawn in her eyes. .
Il was beginning to think you
weren't" she whispered. and then
she made fatal mistake: her eyes
fiickered uneasily towards the door.
White seemed to move his chair
almost without rising from it. In its
new position 1t commended both the
back door into the little garden, and
the door into the dining room. Alice
was trapped in the corner of the
kitchen farthest from either, she
took pace backward and flattened
herself against the wall.
White had taken the bread knife
with him when he moved: he was
balancing NOW in his right hand,
watching the point hit the enamel
top Of the table and then bounce up
again.
SO you were beginning to think
never went to Nyeton on Monday
evening, Ell? Why?"
No answer. Every time the knife
point bounced up It caught the light
which ran in sort of golden streak
along the sharp blade. Alice was too
busy watching that to answer.
When | married you." White went
on. ut wasn't you I wanted so much
as something of my own. something
that life couldn't take from me: if
you can understand that. thought
had got it."
"Yes Jimmy. I know about all that.
+. realize what rye done. but for Gods
sake be reasonable"
what do you call being reason
able?"
Whats the use Of going on like
this over something that can't be
helped now? It's not the end Of
everything"
isn't TT" White asked. smiling
and speaking softly.