The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-12-17
Chapter "a
Fears And Wonderings

Fears Ana WOndeTIngs
II HAVE told your mother that
! she has merely strained a
heart muscle, and must rest it for
a while" DR.. Fellows explained
to Nina. She must not be alarmed
about her condition, you see, be-
cause she should lie as quiet as a
mouse for weeks but if she
worried and fretted over herself,
it would not do her the good it
should"
81 see. I'll stay with her all ]
can, Doctor, and try to keep her
calm and cheerful. :"
after a week o. so there will
have to be more tests made, but
for the present she must stay in
bed"
Nina said: 'Ts it-dangerous?"
And he answered thoughtfully:
'Tt-could be. Our jop is to keep
1t from reaching an advanced
state. Though I'm bound to say,
it has progressed rather rapidly,
as there were no alarming symp-
toms-other than fatigue-in the
spring, when I recommended that
she take the cruise. -"
"Dr. Fellows, you'll tell me-
honestly - how she is getting
along, won't your"
Eyes, my dear"
Il have a right to know"
"Of course, Nina. :"
Nina was over at the 74th street
house within the hour.
And what, she inquired, sis
the matter with you, my love?"
pretending not to know. "A hang?
Were you out last night, Honey?"
mo, it's just one of old DR.. Fell
lows little ideas, baby. He says
I've strained muscle round nv
heart or something silly. Inn
aginel Wants me to stay in bed
a week but have no intention
of obeying him, of counsel"
Honey looked rebellious and
babyish, in her great ornate bed,
but there were faint blue shadows
under her blue eyes -. reflections,
they looked like; and once or
twice Nina saw her vince little,
as from a sharp pain.
Nina saw that it was going 90
be a job keeping her mother there,
in bed. and she said: Well, you'd
better be good and do what he
says. darling -"
David's SkepticaI Look
CHE was so full of thoughts about
- Honey, when she returned
home. that her own problems were
forgotten: but when David came
in, and she spoke to him about her
mother they all came back
again.
there a lot, David. She loathes
staying in bed, and DR.. Fellows
says she simply must. If I'm at the
house every day :. right there
where ! can talk to her when she
gets restless.
1t was. then her own problem
came back.
David had glanced at her, with
a peculiar slxeptical look in his
eye. and then walked over to the
nantel.
Nina realized what was the mat
ter at once if il was anything
s. if she wasn't just imagining
things.
II could look as though she We're
manufacturing an excuse to be
near Richard. David could think
that it was ridiculous for Nina to
have to hover constantly over her
mother TO keep her in bed. =.
She said quickly: You don't
know Honey as well as ] do. dar-
ling. She's swfullv bad about adj
hitting she's siek. Why, rye seen
her get up and start fussing round
her room, when the nurse was out,
and she was near to pneumonia.
one TING. realiyl She's an infant,
and you We simply got to watch
her."
Had she said enOughf Too
mucha
This weighing her words and
David's this interpreting his
every look, was intolerable. II
would be too much for her soon
He said: "WeII-watch her then
Of course. Nina And after q min
ute: sim frightfully sorry. /.
there anything ] could dor"
run IN and see her sometime
Kid her about her important-
sounding ailment she's not 4
worry.
So David did run in. the very
next afternoon. most unexpected
"; and as luck would have It
Honey had Just gone To- sleep
Nina was coming down the stair!
with her hat on. 20 SO on al er-
rand for her mother and Rich
ard had Just come IN. He wa
standing at the foot Of the steps
with his hat still in his hands.
II looked for all the world, wheE
Bridget held open the front dool