The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-05-04
EYEN ORCHARD
By MARGARET wIDDEMER

she would love him too much and be
too wounded7 This gay, egotistic
winsomeness, this easily-made love,
scattered to everyone2 All triv-
atty.
I'm not angry with you. IL you
mean that. Is Mitzi with your" She
smiled at him courteously. dropping
his hands.
"Mitzi7" he queried, finging him.
self down on the seat beside her.
why on earth should she be7''
Because unless she is very much
changed she wouldn't like her hus-
band coming alone to see another
woman"
He stared at her. you're crazy.
darling. I'm not ATitz's husbandl It's
you I'm in love within
Il heard you were marrying Mitzi
in a month from the time you both
wrote Marylin."
He flushed; but he answered her.
~Oh come. darling. Mitz always said
lot more than her prayers. We had
hot Irritation. the usual Mitzi rou-
tine. six romantic scenes and part
ing forever except for cocktails to-
morrow afternoonl What did you ex-
pect me to do when you threw met"
"Oh. Denny. why discuss it?" It
all seemed so very far away, miseries
that she did not want to recall
'sMarylin mailed ms Mitzi's letter.
With your postscript"
She faced him now. safe and stead
Ter and able to so on with life in mea-
Surable content; but her own speech
brought back to her that dreadful
time when everything had crashed.
When she stood helpless, with that
terrifying helplessness which the loss
OF money and work gives woman
alone even more than it does man;
hurt and shocked at the discovery
that the friends she had believed in
could be as selfish and irresponsible
toward her as If she was an abandoned
cat Denny. on top Of all this, had
failed her: taken love away, after her
loss of everything else.
Mitzi Prefers Kilian
IT swirled away. She was safe now.
i She had painfully achieved peace
and safety. The memory made
long shiver 60 over her, there in the
fresh sunniness Of the late September
afternoon.
His sensitive face contracted.
MY poor darling" he cried, coming
close and trying to take her in his
arms. You've had a dreadful time.
was so angry didn't know what I
was doing You cared more for that
kid and the household you'd set up
than you did for me. And behaved
like fool, carrying on with Mitzi.
Just tried to forget my Eve-but !
Couldn't couldn't, sweetheart
but you took that letter too hard.
AS a matter of fact, she's probably
writing the same one about Kilian
this minute. and Kilian is postscript-
ing it at her arch request. The cards
are out to the best of my knowledge.
And what about you and George? =.
But you and ] belong to each other in
spite Of everything. Eve. Let's for
get everything. shall we. and start
/ fresh?"
Eve did not answer him immedi-
ately. She saw what had happened.
Mitzi had thrown Denny over for
Kilian who-detestable as he was
had many more Of the things Mitzi
liked. Perhaps she hadn't known she
could get Kilian when she took Denny
on. So Denny had come back. He
probably did like her best, she
thought cody. Denny's ardent face
was close to hers. his hands alive on
her shoulders through the thin silk.
"Come on. sweet. put coat over
that pretty dress and Wen drive over
and find county seat and a village
justice with straws in his hair, and
| get it over with"
! His long smiling eyes looked down
into hers. his breath was on her
mouth. And yet he was really hum
dreds Of miles away. Beautiful eyes,
turning true jade when, as now, he
was moved or excited. She had loved
them as she had loved everything
about Denny. But now they did not
matter at all. Because Of George
Cleveland's eyes, blue as hundred
other mems eyes were blue; ordinary
except in the kindness, real wisdom
and real love and patience and tender.
ness which had always looked at her
out of them.
'Eve, hurry. sweet" It was the
old phrase. demanding affecaonate,
familiar. She stood in the window,
looking at him. She did not love kim
in the least, but her mind bSesu to
work with cold clarity.
copyright. 1887. Margaret sySddemerI
Judge runs away. tomOrrow. sat.