The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-08-03
Chapter a
Serves Us Right

Chapter q
Serves Us Right
Johnny and Rose sought Jan
- out, their faces disturbed and
annoyed.
Where's Derek?" Johnny
asked.
Gone" said Jan. "Gone for
good"
Rose demanded, her eyes hard
and greedy and angry, "Are you
absolutely positive, Jan, you
never at any time had the Slight
est idea of Derek's real IDENTIFY"
HE never told me and I didn't
bother him to find out. Why?"
why? Why?" Rose walled.
"You tell her, Johnny"
swell, it's like this" he started,
seeming vastly irritated with
himself, with Rose and with Jan.
81 found out the girl we saw him
talking to at the Club was an
eastern Socialite by the name of
Lenore Page. / managed an in
PRODUCTION to some people who
knew her and got the low down.
It seems this Derek of yours is
really Derek KnolUleS. He's the
only son of Gregory Knowles,
one of the ten richest fnanciers in
the country, and he's got millions
of his own besides. He was all
set to marry Lenore Page, then
suddenly changed his mind. He
disappeared from New York,
turned up out here at Malibu
Beach, disappeared again, leav-
ing word he'd gone over to watch
the map of China changed"
Good heavensi" ranted Rose,
"to think 1 actually lived in the
same house for UeekS with an
honest to goodness millionaire
and didn't know it. Oh, knew
there was plenty of phoney about
him, but / thought he was a de-
preston pauper-strictly no-ac-
count. I'll never get over this!
Never!"
"And l." Johnny agonized, Gar
gued and quarreled with him all
the time Why, if I'd treated him
right he could have backed me
in a swanky night club with a
big swing band of my own!"
Jan looked at their vexed, dis
appointed faces. She giggled.
Laughter started deep inside of
her and welled out, peal after
peal, helpless laughter, genuine
laughter. She held her sides and
rocked with it, fumbled for a
handkerchief and dabbed at her
streaming eyes.
Johnny glowered, but Rose
caught the infection of JAMS
mirth and smiled widely. SERVES
us right" she declared. Truth is,
! never had a chance with him,
anyhow, so why cry?"
"Just the same" Johnny
snapped, Il can't see why it's so
darned funny to Jan. She had to
wait on him and feed him and
she's always stewing around
about being broke"
I'll tell you" she said, sub
siding. "In the first place your
reaction was terribly silly and
most enlightening. In the second
place Derek asked me only few
days ago If I'd like to have mil
lion dollars and / told him to stop
teasing me about impossible
things!"
THAT is not laughable," John
ny asserted. "After all, he Ger
tainly owes you plenty for all
you did for him. Maybe he toould
have given you a million"
81 wouldn't take it if he did.
And he doesn't owe me anything,
Johnny. He worked and paid his
board. ] let him stay here because
] liked him and wanted him here
Maybe you'll think twice before
you highhat my next roomerl"
She started to giggle again and
Johnny fed.
She Has What 1t Takes
. 0SE placed her hands on JAMS
n shoulders and shook her gent
'ly. stop it, Jan. / suspect a lot
Of this is hysteria," she hazarded
Shrewdly. You're in love with
the man, aren't your"
The younger girl bit her lip. Il
thought l was, guess, but no
more. My being in love with a
millionaire is as ridiculous as
as his being in love with me-"
That's good" Rose said brisk
ly, because that Lenore Page is
still after him from what | un-
derstand, and she certainly has
what it takeSl"
Jan thought miserably, "She
must be the one he TOLD me about
the one who hurt him so dread
fully. Maybe they made up
maybe she went to New York
with him." And abruptly all
laughter, hysterical or otherwise.
left her and she felt wretched be-
cause he had gone and more
wretched because she'd been such
a simpleton as to fall in love with
him.
The next day, dismantling
Derek'S tent on the roof, she
found folded newspaper photo
under the mattress of the army
cot. A picture of a slim, beauti-
full girl in luxurious furs alight-
ing from an airplane. 1t was cap
toned:
Miss Lenore Page, of Boston,
NeU York and Palm Beach, soon
TO tOed Derek Carter KnotUles of
NetD York City IN tphdt promises
10 be one Of the most colorful
and socidll'' important weddings
of The season.
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