The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-09-02
Chapter Four
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HECILY busted off her hands
~ and, leaning YEARLY on the
shelf that was level with her ell
bows, studied the other girl while
her brow furroWed. "Hilda, are
you sure you mean 1t? I mean,
wouldn't you rather | sent this
stuff TO storage? It doesn't seem
right that you should put all your
furniture away. think you're do
ing this as fine gesture of friend
ship to take this place off my
hands"
Don't be ridicl" Hilda answered
casually. ''Pm delighted to live in
new surroundings. had to move
anyway. and it isn't costing me
anything to store my stuff in Ned's
warehouse. He has lots of room.
Suppose you 60 and get tidied up
and we'll have something to eat?"
She had heard the footsteps she
had been waiting for in the area
way that led to The apartment.
A moment later there was q
great TODD as enthusiastic hands
pounded on the door. Hilda might
have been completely deaf for all
the attention she gave to the thun-
der.
Cecily opened the door and was
greeted with shouts and song.
WELL" she said, and pretended
TO grumble when she saw her
friends with their arms filled with
bulky packages as they pushed
through the door, filling the small
room. Whats the meaning of
this?"
"A party. darlingl" Jean Tuthill,
who was young and very unim-
portant assistant to the society ed
itor of a New York newspaper,
explained; and then they were all
talking at once.
II brought my camera along"
Ted Pryor said. Until few weeks
before Ted had been near the edge
Of starvation. as most of them in
that group, with the exception of
Cecily. had been during their two
year friendship.
"And l." explained Paul Gorio,
who had been born Paul Jones and
dropped the Jones part-illustri-
GUS as the combination had been
when he embraced a singers ca
reer, wore my beret to lend a Be-
hemian atmosphere"
did you bring your guitar?"
Cecily asked. That's so m u C h
more important"
Paul didn't need his beret to
lend the right atmosphere. 1t be-
gan when LuciuS Fennelly'S bride
proudly produced huge kettle Of
hot spaghetti and Lucius brought
forth the makings o. gargantuan
green salad. Someone else had
brought a rare old cheese and
Hilda dove under lounge TO drag
out case of beer.
'Its the first surprise party I've
ever had" Cecily said later and
remembered that it was the first
party that Doug hadn't shared.
Doug had sailed with the KendalIs
the night before and the next day
she was to leave by motor for
Vickersport. ITS practically my
debut"
Her voice wasn't as gay as she
intended il should be.
Hastily. Patricia Fennelly said,
Don't talk of debuts, Cecily.
Were afraid that you'll desert us
now that you're going in for high
life"
High life?" Cecily asked, laugh
ing.
''Of course il will be. Lucius says
he bets you'll be having breakfast
IN bed every morning and caviar
for dinner every night. Oh. we
read our newspapers, we do. and
We know how Madame Darrell
livesl You'll be yachting and q. :"
"Oh, please let's not talk about
g." Cecily said before she realized
what she was saying, or how much
Of her reluctance, and unhappi-
ness was in her voice,
Furious And Frustrated
AFTER the supper had been
n cleared away and the lamps
turned off until there was only d
dim. golden light in the room. they
sang TO the accompaniment of
Paufs guitar. as they had done so
many happy times before.
Cecily could not sing. Her throat
was tight. In the pleasant dimneSS,
through the wells of smoke. over
and over again her eyes travelled
slowly about the room which she
had made into a home. A home
that she was leaving and did not
know that she could ever have
again.
II had seemed so modest when
she wrote the checks to pay for its
maintenance. Now il seemed, since
there were no more checks, to be
the height of elegance and COM
fort.
She tried to think of the autumn
and her return. But for her, Time
had stopped still. There was only
the summer and. after that. she
could not foresee the future. She
only knew that Doug must go on Il
medical college and that somehow
she must find a way to earn nel
living.
When she thought of her owl
inadeQuateneSS, she felt furious
and frustrated. She was young
ambitious nd intelligent. ; nj