The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-09-29

"Please, Cecily, not thatl How
can you undignify my latest indus
trial effort with such a term?"
II suppose now you're going to
become a great canner?" she
asked, resigned to his nonsense.
"Why not? Not that I'm the do
nestle type, but a smart salesman
knows how to dispose of all his
goods. BY the way, the berry in-
dustry is going full swing. Yester-
day ! sold four quarts of berries
and got an order for more. So,
charming as your company is, ]
must away to my calling"
Where do you berry?" she
asked, casting about for something
to keep him there. !" !
Remember the spot where we
saw the matched roof through the
trees the day we had our steak
supper" Cecily said she did. TITS
near there. You strike off from
the road we traversed, come to a
clump of alders, and back of a
fieldstone wall is the berry picker's
paradise. I call it Locke's Strike.
Or is it that bad?" -
''Very bad" she said readily.
"And ! always count on you for
the best"
do you really?" he asked with
quick change of manner. Cecily
was never prepared for that
change and it found her now COM
pletely disconnected, as always.
The way he Had of searching her
eyes, of questioning the very
depth of her. Asking and never
giving. For she never knew what
he was, thinking,
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CHE nodded her head, the ges.
" 'ture her only answer. She was
unable to say: ] expect everything
good of you.
Abruptly, as usual. he was leav-
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This time she couldn't let him
go. All the things she had scolded
herself about, all the resolutions
she had made not to try to hold
him, to pursue him. were forgot
ten.
you're a very unsatisfactory
person. she said abruptly.
II know am" he answered, as
though he understood her. But
/ warned you, Cecily, that / was.
And now I have something I want
to ask of you"
Eyes"
He tilted her chin up and Cecily
thought: He's going to kiss me
again. .S''
"Just remember that won't
always be unsat; factory. Do you
think you can remember that"
perhaps" she said, drawing
away because she was disap-
pointed, ashamed of being dis
appointed. ~
well, berries won't get off their
pretty branches and bounce into
my pail. I'm off,"
"Goodby." she said. Thank you
for the JAM" tiE
"Pll be back to see how you like
it."
That was nearer then he had
ever come to saying that he would
come again. e---t :"
Laura returned a few minutes
after he left. She wore an impor-
tant news bearing expression.
We'll, what neWs?"
Lord and Lady Rathbone left
this morning!"
mot really Oh, Laura, how
frightfully unpleasant for Mrs.
Brewster! Did you see Miss Cham
pion?" E
"She practically fell on my
neck. dying to talk it over with
someone. Their Highnesses, or
whatever you call 'enn, were sup
posed to stay for the weekend,
but Lady Rathbone had such a
bad night her husband thought
they ought to leave It once"
But the pin? Did it turn up?"
mot a sight or sign of it. Miss
Champion says Mrs. Brewster
holds that Lady Rathbone didn't
have it with her. Anyway it's in
sured.i"
ANY sign of your police off,
cers?" -.
mo excitement at all. Miss
Champion said Mrs. Brewster had
all the servants in last night after
the dinner guests left and con-
WINGED the Rathbones that they
were quite honest and she, Mrs.
Brewster, personally vouched for
the honesty of all her guests. Ger
taiflly no one from your house, and
certainly the Misses Amanda and
Beatrice Smithersgwould have no
use for diamond sunbursts."
And was that all?"
There was one more little
thing. Yesterday afternoon Mrs.
Brewster''s cook, Addie, bought
some raspberries from a man she
had never seen before. She was
awfully busy and asked him to
turn the ice-cream freezer for that
raspberry concoction you were
raving about"
Cecily felt the muscles around
her mouth grow stiff while she
waited to hear more.
"She put the man 20 work out
on the side, porch and left him
there. But she's quite sure that he
couldn't have got into the house
without her knowing it"
who was the man, Laura? You
say it was a man she lad never
seen before? There aren't any men
within miles of Vickersport that
Addie wouldn't know. Why, you
and / know everyone herei"
Il don't know. That's what she
said. And people do come from all
over to sell berries" r.
Cecily said, Laura. where else.
other than the Brewsters', would
a man have been likely to sell four