The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-04-29
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BY MARION WHITE Copyright 9 w. We ss.
caovr;obt, 1888, NEA SsrSies, Inc.

leave the ship! at I;Ix,.
mean it to sound as hard as that.
Waiter of fact, I meant exactly
No. the note says: / didn't think
il wise for you to go ashore.
ooh" Still she didn't under
stand what the difference was.
"He means for your own good,
NV dear" the doctor explained
kindly. .,;o
oossin gets around, Miss Miner.
{ don't know anything about this
o,Hara woman, but she's vicious.
There's no doubt of that. The
whole affair is very peculiar. No
woman with any intelligence
would think of leaving a small
fortune in jewels in her cabin,
for anyone to pick up
He was much more friendly
than he had been last night, when
he questioned her in his quarters.
"She seems determined to i'm
plicate you in the matter" he
went on. 81 don't know why. But
didn't want her to have the
chance, when we get to New
York, to try and persuade the pO-
lice that you took the things and
disposed of them in Miami. See
what I mean"
She nodded quickly, and she
breathed more freely than she
had all day.
Incidentally, the pair of them
had their deck chairs drawn up
alongside the gangplank. They
never left the ship all day, and
they watched every soul who
| went ashore, looking for bulges in
their pockets, I suppose.
When he was gone, the doctor
turned to her. "Now, then. You're
! going to get yourself all dressed
| IN in that nice white frock and
you're coming to dinner with
, me-"
She protested quickly.
please don't ask me to go up
to the dining room, DR.. Gray. Ia
much rather have dinner in my
room.
| But Why"
Observation-Disclosures
body will cape at me-" =.
! CAN the more reason you should
be on hand, to prove that their
gaping doesn't bother you in the
least"
cts more than that"
Il was more than that, very
much more. But she couldn't ex-
plain to him. She couldn't tell
him that the real reason she didn't
want to 90. upstairs was because
she couldn't sit through the meal
with Dick across the table, drop
ping his eyes in uneasy regret.
And she wouldn't have Mrs. Por-
ter and Isobel smiling haughtily,
patronizing her in graciously no
bic manner.
| "Come on, now. Meet me up in
! the smoking room and we'll have
! a bottle Of wine together first.
Still she shook her head. Il
haven't the courage, doctor.
: That's the whole truth Of it."
He put his hand on the door
knob. "Well, you're making 1t
mighty lonely for me. Pll be at
that hi gtable with no better COM
pany than few stalks OF cold
celery"
She looked up in quick sur
prise. Where are the others"
young Hamilton and Miss Por-
ter left the ship this morning. He
was in a hurry to catch the early
/ plane for New York, so he told
me. And Mrs. Porter has changed
! her seat so that she can be with
! that old couple from Detroit, you
know the ones I mean :"
But she was scarcely hearing
him. Dick had left the ship that
morning! The words strummed in
her mind, beating a sing-song
! which whirled about in a rising
crescendo of Illustration. He had
! taken the first plane to New
York, without saying goodby,
without leaving any word behind.
And Isobel had gone with him.
She laughed, nervous, tone