The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-12-21
MAY l err. call a boy?"
But Nina was through talking to
She walked down the hall.
The Last Train Has Left!

VaLOr, she paused,
Now that it was all over, the
1 tears were very near.
She took several deep breaths
and tried TO steady herself, be-
cause there was a lot of thinking
to be done. After a minute she rang
| the bell, and went down to the
] front desk. It was half-paSt nine.
I've changed my plans, she
lsaid TO the young clerk in evening
fclothes, who had talked with her
twhen she first came. What train
4 can I take to get me back to New
York tonight"
I'm sorry, miss" the man
looked fittingly disturbed, "the last
train for New York left at 7:55."
"Oh :. thank you - and to
the bellboy: I'm going down to
the taxi stand"
Now the tears were perilously
close. No train tonight! No way OF
getting back to David :. of spill
ing over and confessing, and cry
ing ii all out into his arms. -. AL
night long, away from him. to suf-
! fer and worry. -.
She said: "Just round to the
Ritz. please and the taxi-driver
looked so disgruntled at the short
mess Of the drive that she wanted
to cry out: please don't be cross.
Please be kind to mel"
They showed her into a room
overlooking the ocean that was so
gay with Powered chintz and lat
ticed wallpaper, that she felt all
the lonelier-the sadder--the more
frightened.
She couldn't get to the telephone
fa,t enoegn 10 call the apartment.
| Naturally, she couldn't go into
details over the long distance--or
could she2 No. No. of course not;
| but she could at least hear his
! voicc-let him hear hers, all lov-
lag. Tell him that she would be
Il back in the morning. 49,.
4 .EIold the wire, plee-uzz," said
/ the operator, and Nina held it; and
presently began that buZZin g
Sound which indicates ones num-
| Der is being rung.
| Such a pleasant sound when you
| are anxious to get someone. +.
| Buzz. Stop Buzz. :. Such a heart
| breaking sound, when it goes on
and on, and you are afraid you
| won't.
Keep on ringing. operator. ;"
She had to reach him!
| But stlll the buzzing went on at
regular intervals. She could inn
! agine Button bowling. -. Finally,
| she hung up.
Sleerless Night of Agony
| a FTERWARDS, Nina never
i - knew how she got through
that night. without going stark,
staring crazy.
/ Over and over she tried to figure
vid's discovering what had hap-
pened, before she could tell him.
He couldn't call the hotel where
Richard was staying, because she
remembered now, that she hadn't
said the name in her note. She had
| just said: Will call you tomor-
row."
If he suspected something and
telephoned the 7Ath street house,
would Bridget just say Mrs. Chal-
| loner was out of town? Or would
she say Tuxedo? And anyway
| wouldn't David ask where Honey
lhad gone--if he suspected enough
| to call?
Now, after midnight, all un-
dressed and in bed, Nina sudden.
lly realized how awful it was to
| be forced 70 spend the night here.
Y. How damning II would look TO
David j. !. IL he found out. Should
she have hired car :. a plane2
| II she slept at all, 1t was only for
so few minutes at a time, that she
was not conscious of it.
She was so nervous, after her
nearly sleepleSs night, that she de.
cided not to call David until she
reached town. She would surely
! give away the fact that something
was the matter.
| When her breakfast came, she
could drink only the coffee -. a
whole potful She felt little bet
ter then and went down and paid
her bill. and out on TO the board
walk for a few minutes stroll be-
fore train time.
She thought of the times she had
been TO Atlantic City as a little
girl. with daddy; and with Honey
and Aunt Carrie. that time after
the chickenpox.
Life had been so simple then
all she wanted was to grow up to
be pretty and gay, like her mother,
and have q good time, and be pre-
sented at court, and marry a nice
boy, who would be the envy of all
her friends, and live with her, like
daddy was with Honey. On yes,
and maybe. some day, have q pink
satin corset with rosebuds. -.
| Life had been simple in those
DAYS.
Nina had been a nice. good little
| girl. How had all this hap
| pened 70 her :. 2 If only she could
begin all over again! But then
could she ever have loved David,
| as fully and deeply as she did
| now2 She must try TO think of that
side Of it--Sinee ii was impossible
TO be q little girl again, and make
her life over.
| (Cepyvt0Af. 1881. Morceref HerxasJ
| 4 note frem David awaits Nina 1t