The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-04-02
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TURNING from The door. Denny
made . face.
= say. did We put our feet In itlH
How could he-how could he7
A. sigh, Of her stricken face. he
aheaied suddenly.
~Eve-i say. Eve. didn't realize
fou minded" lie sat down again. an
expression Of mingled anger and
ampEemeni on his face. Eve. II you
can .elI me what TO do about Il I'll be
81 rraiefui as q pup. It's all the fault
81 that IDIOT Alizi. with her fatal-fe-
male complex. Somebody must have
tilted her. she's 50 crazy about letting
o. every man she knows Is In love
eiih her,
Go on Eve said.
why. It's Georges father has the
publicity Job IN his pocket IT'S North
ia Steel that's planning a publicity
paftment Of its own. That's why /
had 70 80 On butiering up the old lady.
Miixi gave me this grand chance to
contact her personally. You remember
! dined there the night you came out
here. Everything going like . charm
ahsa nitzi had to indicate to Mrs
Cleveland that { was her hopelessly
adorIns just like billiard and the rest
cf The baseball nine. | thought nothing
~ u. of course. And then Mrs. Cleve-
isnd had 10 take Il seriously. 60 all
fomaniic and gushingi I'd have put
Mia Ia q lie well. It's perfectly
GIrkeuing; but hang Il. darling. II may
make the difference between our get
ting married or not. letting the old
laay's crazy idea ride till Mitzi her.
sElf lets her see she's mistaken, by
telling about another half dozen wor-
s1IpeTa"
he caught Eve In his arms hungrily
On. do love you. my beautiful-my
bIe1zed-Sweet. Il you say so I'll go
sra ghi after the old idiot and tell
her hat I didn't contradict Mitzi's
I.ns because ! had 70 have q Job to
marry you"
Dennys arms had magic. Nothing
uauefed bbi the feel Of them tight
around her. toe pressure Of his mouth
ti9fe on hers. after the long week
apart Suddenly. his long eyes look
Ing deep into hers. she knew she had
been 4 fool 70 be hurt. TO take it all so
seriously. Il had . tricky feeling she
dIdnt Ike and yet II she insisted,
Just 70 vindicate her possession Of
Dsnny. wasn't Il pure vanity?
Tell you what. let's let II ride a
little longer. Give Mitzi chance -.
Or ~ obediently avow myself yours
q the world and damn getting mar
RED 10 youl"
Put that way. Il did seem silly.
she laughed. as one did when
Denny wanted Il TO happen. and
stopped TO put another apple-wood
buuEh on the FIRE.
The Kind Phantom Hands
4 SAY. this is no farmhouse" said
! Denny. lying back on his spine
Ia the big chair across from her in the
Old familiar way. and taking another
cake. Elegant. calls il. Fix it up
bil. and some summer millionaire
would bite. We could never get any
81 this stuff IN an apartment. but even
fhese days they ought TO do US some
thing Don't let Mrs. Cleveland get the
cabinet she was wangling for too
cheap. plutocrats Is plutocratsF He
glanced around. impressed, she could
see. did your people c5iisctg"
NO. they preservedF
Good gosh, the things have pedi-
rrees thenl Why. lamb. they'll start
Us on an apartment and furnish It.
and give US theatsr money 70 a win
ier.- tf1
She didn't know why she wasn't as
excited as he was. She would have
been. before she came. II was all per-
fectly true-but she had played house
with her dolls in the lacquer cabinet;
her people had bent to lay apple
wood from their orchard on those
andirons for 200 years. She shook her,
self 10 throw OF the kind phantom
hands that were beginning to hold
her. and laughed down al her lover.
THAT Is. IL you aren't maddened and
swept of your feet by Mitzil BY the
way. did you mean that about stay
inR7"
May q Ellen really isn't coming
an tomorrow morning. Heaven
above. what prudesl"
Eve began 10 laugh. Everything was
light and right again.
And that isn't the half Of It, deariel
Psychoanalysis isn't in it compared
Niih what everybody in a country
town neighborhood knows about
everybody else. Summer people have