The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-12-22


lGtedly suspects Nina Of caring
too mucE for Richard.
Chapter 81
David's Note
A S NINA walked back 10 the
"A Ritz, she was trying to be a
Pollyanna, and think how she
might have gone on just thinking
how cunning and gay David was,
and how much she liked the color
of his hair, if there had been no
Richard to compare him with. How
she rpight have missed really -ap-
preciating him i. and his love.
She took taxi and drove to the
station.
Seven fifty-five.
1t was damp and smelly. Unex-
pected p1ffs of 1steam came cut
from under the engine as she
walked By. Aon The wet boards to
her parlor car; two cars bumped
Hp against each other with crash
and locked, and Nina jumped ner
vously.
All her fears came back. She
Shivered, and was miserable. s
North Philadelphia, next st0p!
Heavens, were they only that
far? And she realized it was the
same cry, and the sa. conductor,
and the same thought on her part,
as the evening before.
At 10: 55 they pulled into the
Pennsylvania station. At ii she
was on her way home.
Would David, by some happy
chance, have oversight, with no
Nina to tug him into wakefulness?
Was there any possibility that he
might still be at home?
Button she called, Darling
Button, are you here?"
But she didn't men that, because
she was lugging Button close. She
meant David.
And when she spoke to the dog,
she said: "Good-old David There.
there, David 49,. :" and didn't know
what she was saying.
She was sobbing, too, and she
didn't know that either.
Now that the ordeal of getting
herself back was over, she seemed
drained of all strength.
With one hand on Buttons bony
head, she went to the telephone
She had dialed the number of the
salesroom, and the operator was
just answering, wheI she saw the
note. She put the receiver down.
and stared at the white envelope.
She could see: ''Nina" written
across the front. It was proppe on
the mantel--where it stood out
against the blue walls.
Nina"
Not scrawled -hastily-the way
David scribbled down telephone
messageg-or memoranda-or the
way he tore OF a note to her. if he
had gone out Unexpectedly.
But "Nina." The letters were
formed with precision. The whole
underlined -.
Even before she read 1t, her
spirits had reached new low
mark. Her heart had never been
50 near to standing still.
sThis Is The End
NINA
y ''You viii lderssand why
this Is the end Of you and me. as z
team-m we ever were one-when |
] tell you that your mother called
this morning from the 74th !
street house Don't worry ~ didn't |
give You and Richard away. bun
she told me Of her own accord |
that she had decided me- to 70 to
Tuxedo, but that as her husband
had run down to Atlantic City for |
q day or so she would like you to /
come and stay with her If YOU
could Is. Well. that's the sorry |
II pretty we'll covers the situation,
as Tar as can sec, and ii pretty |
well washes us up, doesn't it, I've
tried not To see what was going on
Nina, because ! loved you pretty |
terribly, and anyway, ] just /
hung on, like a fool. But I'm |
through, now. Exit David, and SO
forth. DO what you like with /
the furniture we bought - I've /
cleared out my own personal /
things I'll send you . check IN a /
day or so-and later on we ezn /
get together on--what are they |
called, in your world2-the neccs-
sary arrangements Well, /
that's that, / guess, but no. there's
one question I'D like 10 ask you i
Would you have really taken that /
new apartment? Let me sign mp
for another year of this sort Of /
thing? Do you call that on.
Lord. what the heli7 What differ
ence does it make--nOwg J"
Something else was started. aa1
khen il had been crossed out.
Il was just signed: David"
way down at the bottom. II was
the one thing that wasn't written
enthusiastically. =.
'Tm sorry, Mrs, Day. Mr.. bay ic
IN conference. with he mana ger
"In--eonfereneeg"
ayes, Mrs. Day. I'll have h.a.
call you"