The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-10-25
Chapter Three
Gold Incarnated

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HAVING exhausted his patience
IL and the battery on the bell
connecting his desk with that of
his secretary, Angus Gregory
strobe into the room.
Miss Riley Miss Bridget
Riley. do you realize that ! have
been ringing you steadily for the
last five minutes? For the final and
the last time. are you my private
secretary or are you not?"
Bridget snapped a rubber band
on the last sheaf of papers. 81 have
not been your private secretary for
two hours and twenty minutes. You
allowed me three hours to pack up
and get out. I'm eating the time
70 two hours and half"
Swiftly she went to the closet
10 get her hat and coat.
Kathleen watched her father.
Behind perfectly tailored coattails.
his hands were clasped in the
Gregory pose of intense feeling.
They gripped each other for con-
,,ltrol. The war between diplomacy
and stubbornness3 was visible in
the sgitated working Of his heavy
proWSxnas spe Doog OF fpa
KsfsIgluhold up your check" he
sthreatened- luofpeL',, WnLu
sz Bridget fitted a nlitFe hat over
her braitis and smiled at the mir
ror. 81 thought of that" she re-
torted. Il had the Office boy cash
il Immediately upon your sending
il to me-"
@But Miss Riley. Bridget. damn
II all, girl, you can't leave me- Why
don't know how I'll :. well you
can stay until you break someone
in. can't your"
dad. why didn't you think of
that when you ordered her out?"
Angus cast a despairing glance
at his daughter. My dear child.
could not allow anyone to speak
to a Gregory as Bridget Riley
spoke to your Aunt Beatrice.
know Bee is exasperating but she
is Gregory"
Mutiny
"a GREGORY Bridget had
n wheeled from the mirror.
you think your clan is the sun
about which everyone else has to
revolve or fall into space. You
Gregorys hafen't vision enough
to look beyond your own orbit. You
don't know there's anyone else in
the heavens or on the earth. You
think you and your gold are the
heavens and earth. You think that
you are the gold incarnated. Well
you're not. You're nothing but a
big. gilt painted balloon and some
day somebody is going to stick
pin In you"
She smiled at him then, and her
voice lowered to a demure tone,
concluded. "It's been so nice,
knowing YOU"
She was gone. Kathleen looked
at the door through which she
seemed TO have evaporated, then
she looked az her father.
Dad" she warned, remember
the Gregory blood pressure" She
oarted in pursuit.
An express elevator had rushed
Bridget to the street and when
Kathleen reached there, she was
departing in cab. A low swung
golden-red car slid to the curb in
its wake. Kathleen jumped to the
running board.
"Dan," she pleaded. "can you
catch that cab?"
IF yell write to me mither and
tell her died in service" he
sighed. W
The cab had been swallowed
by the traffic ~ didn't know you'd
ever hadlea mother" murmured
kathleen.gaIQ nh h0nI cHeGl
Dan swung the hood of the car
around numblings ssS III fgr
What did you say?" Kathleen
II said" blurted the chauffeur,
belilRerently, "and how in the divil |
did We expect me TO be here. All |
right I'm fred"
The Eslrrying throng paused as |
Kathleenis laugh rang out. mo |
such luck Danny. Get in. I'm riding |
with you"
You can't do that"
oh, can't !. countered Kath- |
leen and swung into the landau |
front seat. Now take me TO tele-
phone and en- route, explain this /
muliny. What's the matter with the |
Gregorys, don't they treat YOU
right pay you well?"
Dan, intent upon putting the
golden car through the maSsed |
traffic. shrugged in resignation.
You're asking for IL" he fore
warned. "You pay US right, but
there's niver thought you give to
Us as humans
Like The Sun
OBVIOUSLY Dan, what do you
~ think Of met" Kathleen asked /
abruptly.
Il don't. I work for YOU"
Suppose you met me at dance
and didn't know / was a Gregory;
that was just some new girl.