The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-12-27
TWO'S COMPANY
By Margaret Guion Herzog

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dazed state-saturated with grief,
so that she was incapable of abb
sorhing much more pain. But
/ today was different.
We've separated :" The
words, the first time she had
spoken them, stung her into new,
dreadful awareness of how true
they were.
David was as lost to her as
Honey, lying so peacefully out
there under her masses of flowers.
Honey was as lost to her-as
David.
She said: sour lease is up next
week I'll go to the apartment to-
morrow and make arrangements
TO store the furniture-or sell it
or something. I'll just stay on here
a while, / guess, until Richard and
decide about the house"
"I'u come and work with you,
Nina, darling" said Cordelia
quickly.
And Nina said: "Oh-wiIl your"
a little vaguely and hurried
out of the room, because she found
that she was beginning to cry.
Richard and Nina were alone
that night for dinner.
When she came down the stairs,
in her new plain black dress, he
was waiting for her in the hall,
and she saw that he looked older,
and--worn, and that there was a
| sick look In his ewes. ~,
She felt sorry for him. -
Nina )" he put his hand on
the railing and looked Up at her
About David. ! T.. la
Il know, Richard. ] can see that
you are really sorry, and it makes
me want to be very fair with you
=. No matter what especial thing
brought it to a climax, it was as
much my fault as yours. ! realize
that. 2 She came on down and laid
her hand on his arm for a moment.
"It's--done, now. Let's try and be
thankful that If Honey had to go
she went while she was still
happy -. before she, too, was
| hurt, by us.
They went in to the living
room, and Richard said: But
that's ii, Nina, If / only could have
worked to make her happy -
And Nina thought: Poor Rich
ard heSs--moved, now. But
he'll never be different. After me,
there would have been someone
else. He couldn't have made Honey
happy, for long. It isn't in him.
But she said:
ooh, / don't know, Richard. I'm
beginning to think that there's a
certain amount of--paying up to
be done, for every wrong ). even
If people who haven't been in
volved have to do some of the pay
! ing If she had lived, I'm afraid
Honey would have had to, too.
This way, it's just You and ! !.
and David, for while. She's !.
out of it."
You're paying - heavily, poor
little Nina"
Yes. Yes. / am"
Just An Old Shoe Tree
a T the apartment, next day,
"A Nina seemed to be surround
ed by people who were joyous, but
who were trying to hide it on ac-
count of her.
Cordelia-so happy in her love
for Carl; McDuff-q quite swollen
with pride because he had been
| promoted to one of the company's
larger apartment houses; the
bride and groom, who stopped in,
all thrifty and gaspy. at first, be-
fore they knew, to measure the
windows for curtains; and even
poor darling Button, who was al
most frantic with JOY after he
thought he had been forgotten !.
Nina forced herself to work
hard at the packing; the arrange
ments with the storage people.
She tried not to remember; but
with the disposal of each article
of furniture each everything,
there would come to her some
thing gay and amusing that David
had said about it. or done 70 it.
The whole place was so full of
him, that after Nina had packed
her clothes and personal belong
ings she could stand it no more.
Finish the linen for me, viii
you. Cordelia, dear2 think
I've had enough for today
The professional packers would
be in tomorrow. One days work
for them, and the movers would
arrive on the following morning.
Then It would be over. There
would be nothing left Of the home
that Nina and David had worked
over together.
Cordelia never asked what the
trouble was. She wouldn't until
Nina felt like telling her, If she
ever did. But she must have sus-
peesed that Nina was pretty near
4 " broken over the separation;
that David had been the one to
so.
what have you got there. Cor
della. DEAR" Nina asked as she
was leaving.
/ Her friend had something be-
hind her back.
Nothing, darling ~ I'm just
clearing 'vp. Run along. III be over
1 presently.
But Nina wanted to know.
please, Cordelia.
SITS nothing. dear just -
old shoe-tree.
"ohi Here. I'll take IL. -. Nina
put out her hand. and then drew
I Il back again. No. Never mind.
Just 5. throw Il away. -
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