The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-11-02
DON'T MARRY THE MAN

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told Kathleen, as the woman re-
tired from the room. They have
a softness for red-haired people.
| Old Angus had hair like a carrot
top when he was young"
IA carrot top" came icily from
Kathleen, "is green. But I'm glad
someone likes it. I met that Mac.
Donald person and he positively
insulted me because of my hair"
The girls thought Kit-Smyth
laughed unnecessarily loud and
long. 'The MacDonalds can't take
it. They can do what they want to
doll up their town but they haven't
a mine like ours and that's what
counts in the long rum"
According to Kit-Smyth, an
swering a call from The Golden
Girl, the Gregorys had consented
to renting their house.
"You can move in, Immediately"
he assured them.
He sent for a house-boy, a young
Ute Indian and this "Joey- wide
eyes," looked at Kathleen and
swore silent allegiance to her.
Joey-wide-eyes, whose name
was promptly abbreviated to Joey
by the girls, took them first to the
hotel to pick up their car and bag
gage while he drove on to open
| the house.
Approaching her grandfather's
home, Kathleen felt a strange in.
terest. When there had been dis
cussion of family, background. it
lshad always, hereto fore, revolved
around her mothers family. With
out anafyzing the clans motive,
she bad accepted a. heritage eef
knights and ladies' bsrQnjal castles
and estates. From what she bad
heard, Old Angus, Gregory5Wase far
from genteel. She felt sudden kim
ship. There were times when she
longed to be definitely barbarous.
Spartan Simplicity
THE front door of heavy oak
swung open and the girls
stepped Immediately into the liv-
ing room.
Kathleen looked around, then
looked at Bridget.
"This," remarked her friend, sis
what is known as Spartan sim
plicity."
II like it." declared Kathleen.
belligerently.
sum-" agreed Bridget. "Person.
ally, ! could do with some cush-
ions"
They followed Joey to the Sec
ond floor where three bedrooms
boasted of furniture as Gargan-
tuan in size as they were unyield-
ing in surface.
Bridget chose the smallest Of the
three because the north windows
gave view to a cone-shaped peak.
and because "the fireplace is with
in heating distance of the bed"
Kathleen hurried to the master
room. 1t opened south and west
with a view that would be awe
inspiring once the windows were
cleared of their layers of dirt.
"Ill take this" she stated.
mo. Miss" protested Joey. "Old
Angus depart from this bed. His
woman depart from here. too"
81 still like il" she said.
"But Miss Cleo" walled Joey.
"some time spirit he come back
70 place from where depart, and
who know, maybe spirit of Old
Angus and Old Angus woman
don't like you"
A little chill began coursing up
and down Kathleen's spine. She
looked at the wide bed. Her grand
parents had died on that. Shed
never encountered death in any
form. The thought of it gave her a
most unpleasant sensation.
Then her heels set. "I'll be
blessed if I'm going to let the
ghosts of anyone's ancestors run
me out of a room I've chosen"
joey departed for town with a
list Bridget had made out for him.
She had surveyed the kitchen,
which was the half-cabin OF the
feud, opened a { few doors and
closed them qujcklSs,f sno1s5 v5-
And a cat Joey shop. sor o cat
win a DOZEN kittensI There are,
mise Use il here as biz as AQhkeyssg1sa
~ ask r. ats,e Joey bad infoFmeax
Kathleen wandered about the
house, on an Inspection tour. She
found framed lithographs Of The
Golden Girl in all its stages of de-
velopment. There were two gaudi.
ly painted Photographic enlarge
ments in convex frames. One was
her grandfather. no one but Old
Angus could have grown a beard
like that. She expected to hear q
voice boom through at any mo-
ment.
She studied the second with
swift interest. Was this young wo-
man her grandmother? But she
was beautiful--with the rich, Ian
guild beauty of the Latin race. And
she reminded her of someone. es-
pecially the eS with their pas
Sionate defiance. -.
Just as the living room had
shown The Golden Girl in its va
riouS stages OF development, the
pictures in the master bedroom
revealed photographs Of her IA
Their, and of herself. from baby
hood to the day of the old mans
death.
Kathleen removed these imme-
diately.
Suddenly she realized that tbs
house was hers, her very cwn. The
mine might be shared by other
members OF the elan. but this prop
erty belonged to the immediate
descendants Of the Angus Greg
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