The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-04-18
cASr oE CHARACTERS
ny MARION WHITE

CAST OF CHARAI END
JOYCE MINER, heroine; she
took an Easter Cruise.
DICK HAMILTON, hero; he
bumped into the heroine.
ISOBEf. PORTER, traveller; she
sought q mate.
Yesterday: When Dick sudden
" leaves Joyce in the Casino 70
attend O'Hara she assumes he
'ha, gone to Isobel. So her ~nn-
nings do not mean anything 10
her now
CHAPTER XI
Dick followed Mrs. Porter out
10 the bar, a gloomy frown wrlnk-
hnr his brows. Why the devil
should he be called upon to shake
O'Hara out of the D. It's? For
that matter, why should Mrs.
Porter be so ALFRED concerned
about the man? Her job didn't IN
emde playing nurse-maid TO the
passengers.
As if she scnsed his annoyance,
she stopped inside the bar TO ey.
plain: "It'S the management nf
the Casino. Richard. They simply
will not tolerate actions like this
not from the tourists. You
know. the finest families in Cuba
support the Casino, and they
won't have it turned into a cheap
side-ShOw. The company holds me
responsible when things like this
happen though what can do
about it?"
"What can ! do?" he demanded,
trying to keep the irritation out
of his voice.
Help me get him out Of here,
quietly. asked one of the wait
ers. but Mr.. O'Hara resented il.
Said he wouldn't be mauled by
greasy dagOeSs
I'd like to maui him, Dick
Thought. I'd like to dump him into !
the first garbage can | came |
across.
Where's his wife," he asked. |
"SeemS 10 me she can handle him |
better than you or !, or the wait J
ers either. for that matter" !
IL don't know, Richard. III
thought she came with him, but
she must have returned TO the |
boat when she saw the condition |
he was in" This was not alto
gether true, and Mrs. Porter knew |
il. As q matter of fact, she didn't |
want TO find Mrs. 0'Hara.
All evening she had prayed, de-
sDairingly, for just such situa-
ton, for just this sort of logical i
excuse to get Richard away from !
Miss Miner. Now, as she watched !
him go over to the slumbering
Mr.. O'Hara. she leaned YEARLY
against the door and INDUCED her.
self in q, long, tremendous sigh of
relief.
. Why, she asked herself, must
she be continually embroiled i'm
these horrible little subterfuges?
She did not enjoy them. Certain
ly she didn't enjoy deliberately
hurting Miss Miner. The only
balm to her conscience was that
she knew Miss Miner wOnld be
able To take care of herself. In
deed. there were moments when
she washed that lsobel were q
little more like that cool, self i
young woman.
She was so fed up with this
ceaseleSs turmoil. She was so
weary of being charming to peo-
pie, of going places, of packing
trunks. The very day, she would
promise herself, the very day that
lsObel married, she would find
some quiet little place in the coun-
try, where she could live on the
small income her husband had left
her, and settle down to q CON-
Portable middle age. Where she
could let the natural gray of her
hair grow out from beneath the
deceiving henna where she
could relax in easy earelessnesS
. where she would never have
TO be polite 10 another person as
long as, she llNeu.
If only lsobel would marry! If
only she would find someone who
could keep her wants supplied, so
that her mother might have
peace!
So, regardless of Miss Miner,
she must think of her daughter
first, Richard vas the man for
her. From every standpoint, he
was the best they had encountered
on any OF their innumerable
cruises. Tonight his eyes had
lighted when he saw her. If they
could be together for few hours.
She walked over to the corner
table, where he was still trying
to shake some sign of life into
the unconscious O'Hara. His face
wore a long cloak of disgust.
I'D say TO let him alone, Mrs.
Porter" he advised crisply. "Sure-
ly it's no fault OF yours, and the
walters know perfectly well what
TO DO with such eases. I'll
have To get back To Joyce"
Her eyes implOred him. an
have ear brought around to this
side entrance, Richard. Please
just get him to the car. IN
explain to Miss Miner"
All right, If You will"
She hurried out toward the
main entrance, TO look for
Adolph. But she did not stop to
explain to Joyce. Not Just yet,
she told herself. First must find
lSobel.
1t was several moments later
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