The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-05-11

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81 bought jeff Shows old car"
Her tone conveyed defiance.
"A waste of money" 1t was not
what he meant to say at all
ITS been so long since | had
any ~ can hardly blame me for
not handling it'Wisely"
ThiSywas ths1 kind ofesthing he
could not fight. He feI himself
weakening. Felt his anger oozing.
He didn't want it to ooze. He re-
minded himself that sooner or
later one must take life by the
horns or be tossed up in the,
wreckage. That now or never he,
must assert himself. Shet had be-
Titled him publicly-"You were
lucky to get here"
slow do you .mean-lueky?"
'In that pile of junk" She had
let Gary Brent drive it. Let him
see their poor makeshifts. Let him
see the pass to which her marriage
had brought her
"The drive up was pleasant
compared to my arrival here"
mot trying to tell me you didn't
enjoy meeting Brent?"
IL was referring to having no
place to 60 To feeling like home
less animal" She knew she was
being unfair but she kept right
on. "You provided no place for
me. If it hadn't been for Gary"
If it hadn't been for Gary! The
banked storm of his anger burst
in its fury. He could eight now.
And so you accepted the loan of
a house"
y Judith shrugged Warts a roof
between friends?" I
eff you take that attitude"
What other one can, | take?
Where else could II go2" asked
Judith reasonably-a shade too
reasonably.
"You could have waited an hour
or two until Pike got your tent
up. You preferred to humiliate
me-"
81 didn't give you a thought"
"Your frankness is refreshing.
What sort of fool do you think |
amp"
Landslide
HER shrug was more deadly in
Ii sulting than words.
you're going TO give me
thought from now on, hotly.
"Yes?" lazily.
"How long do you think you
can 60 on cheapening me?"
e.? Cheaper YOU? Impossi-
ble."
He looked at her-a dark wom-
an in white. with blue beads
around her neck-the woman he
had put on a pedestal; the woman
who could make mushroom of
him-c Idly and critically he
looked at her and hated bert
All the suppressed resentment
that had been seething against her
since his wedding day took fire.
Every superior smile and uplifted
eyebrow; every yelled eer:
every real or imagined condescen-
sion clamored for outlet, for re-
taliation. 1t was like the Begin
ming of a landslide-rocks. trees,
houses. grass, earth--all being
loosened. seeping and tumbling
down vast mountain, colliding
violently one with the other. swept
by the hurricane of his rage.
"Cheapening me to Brent"
Her laughter scorched like hot
lava spit from a volcano: You
over rate your importance.
"You over rate yours You're
a woodsman's wife. he gloated.
"iust a woodsman's wife"
"Need you remind me?"
'Yes. When you accept favors
/ can't return"
mo one expects you to return
them"
"So?" II her eyes had not been
so contemptuous-"As Brents
wife you'd have perfect right to
one of those cabins. It's too bad
you didn't marry him before
came along"
You're trying to tell me?"
at may not be too late" Mad
beyond all power of reasoning.
"Ahal" The white sides Of the
tent seemed inadequate 70 hold
his rage. Any second now q would
Tend those walls, go bRowing
through the forest. uncoA Bciolis-
Ilys he came a step neaEer. be Taa-
Mia paper shaded light Wrew a
brownish shadow upon Us face.
From the coppery glean in his
eyes, the sardonic twist TO his lips,
il might have belonged to the
Prince of Darkness himself; II
might have known"
'What?"
THAT for all your high faluting
prating you have a yellow streak
a yard wide"
BE careful. Reuben. youth be
sorry"
"0h no I WON'T I'm through
trying to live by your blasted
codes. You need 10 hear the truth.
You still have what you hartered
for--houSe. lockwood. all your
motheaten grandeur-but you're
squirming out OF your bargain
crying for the moonl You've not
a thought beyond yourself, your
pridei Well have a certain
brand OF pride myself, but you've
never suspected or respected Il.
You've never even SUSPECTED I
might be human,"
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