The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-12-01
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By MARGARET cuoN HEROIC y u
RCARET CuION HEROIC

that the big shots had their eye on
him.
Nina was very proud.
Oracle Nolan had been away for
several months. Nina had not seen
her since the night up on River
side drive. Temporarily out of
work. Oracle had slblet her three
room apartment to a girl friend,
and gone TO visit her family, near
Rochester. She was expected back
about the middle of August.
Except for Jack Knight, and
once when the model, Francine,
and her boy friend Bill dropped in,
Nina and David were very much
alone. a#3 bged al IT..
She had any number Of friends
at the two Long Island Hamptons,
at Newport, up in Westchester
but following their original plan
of not trying to keep up with the
dashing crowd, the Days had
pretty well dropped out of things.
Weekends were busy for David,
demonstrating cars, so that they
could not accept the few invita-
tons they received, even If they
had thought it advisable.
Carl Semple had gone away for
the summer, so that even that OPP
portunity for a change now and
then was denied them.
CarPs attitude about Hester had
surprised great many people :. !.
and aroused admiration in all.
Virtually, it had been: Good for
herl Something has been the mat
ter with Hester, all these years:
my love hasn't been able to rouse
her :. J. we'll then, since she's been
wanting this thing so long, and so
desperately I'm glad she had the
CUTS to- seize the opportunity,
when it came along. hope she'll
be happyl"
He was helping with a divorce,
doing everything In his power to
make this terrific new step easy
for her. He had written both Hes
ter and Rian and wished them luck.
The autumn would see him back
with his horses, at Harmony. His
old life would go on. He was quite
splendid about it.
Hot And Sticky
a S JULY wore on, the heat be-
( came pretty intense and steady.
Nina watched the girls in the
street who went about in low
backed, sleeveless summer dresses
and no stockings, as though they
were in the country -. and envied
them. Why couldn't she kick over
the traces, forget her foolish sense
of what was correct for town, and
be comfortable, too? But she
couldn't.
She felt that the heat was be-
ginning to get her-she had never
been in the city before, after the
first of June--but she held on. She
went about in the daytime in pa
jamas, and stayed in the darkened
apartment as much as she possibly
could, so as to be fresh for David
in the evenings; but it was becom-
ing Increasingly difficult to feel
really fresh ever.
Nina could play tennis, or golf
in the broiling sun, become per-
fectly apoplectic, and then 90 for
a swim and feel marvellous
fresh as a daisy and ready to dance
all night. But this kind of heat was
different.
She took money from her allow-
ance and tried swimming in some
of the city pools-the Shelton was
the nearest-but it was not worth
the effort. If she marketed and
cleaned the apartment beforehand,
she was so weary that she didn't
give a darn about it when the time
came 10 go; and If she swan first,
the subsequent work took all the
good results away.
She grew to loathe the hot pave
ments, and the sticky asphalt. One
day, when her french heel sank
into a particularly mushy part Of
Lexington avenue. and her stock
inged foot came right out and
plopped down into the sticky
street she burst into tears, she
was so angry.
She kept telling herself to take
il easy, but it didn't do any good.
David stopped telling her thai
she was looking marvellous, be-
cause she wasn't; and his own
freshness and vitality and abound-
ing good spirits were a constant
source of Irritation to her, poor
soul, insteadlof a comfort.
One evening, when he thought
she had had enough of a spell of
cooking, he took her to Schrafft's
for dinner.
Nina was SO excited at being
with a menu she hadn't
prepared herself, that she couldn't
make up her mind what to choose:
and after much changing of orders,
David said to the waitress: AS
for me, I'll just have the leg Of q
chair, without Russian dressings
;, and sent the poor girl away in
stitches.
And he took Nina to Long Beach.
when he could, and helped with
the dishes, when she would let
him. and generally behaved like
an angel but had she ever said
il was fan in New York in the
summer
Godl She must have been craxyl
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