The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-02-03

| ways, packing me up IN Wnat
try to dol"
Patsy responded with alacrity
to the overtures of her young sis
ter-in-law. She was enthusiastic
over the house, inclined to pre-
sumo on its generous hospitality.
But Sue gave no signs of resenting
her FREQUENT calls. Patsy was
asked to many of the charming
luncheons the bride gave in the
fall, Patsy and Allen were guests
at the incest of the dinner parties.
Look here, Sue, you don't have
to do this, you know" Allen urged.
ASK us every time you entertain,
I mean. LISTS mighty forgiving
of you to ask us at all. conJidering
well, considering all things!
Patsy, of course, is thrilled to death
every time she comes here; quotes
you, tries to fix her table like yours
that sort of thing!"
IT Sue remembered how the
older girl had scorned those same
ideas and decorations when they
were put forth in her brothers
home, she gave no sign.
'T'm glad, Allen" she replied
simply, and she was glad. She
thought that Allen was looking
better, less careworn these days.
She seized every opportunity to
talk to Patsy as though his happi-
ness were paramount in his wife's
mind as Bob'S was in her own.
Pats was apt to listen with rather
fixed smile.
Measuring Love
."NH, come now, Sue" she
~ drawled one day when she
and Barbara Webb were the only
guests. "You must admit that a
man who gives you what Bob does
deserves more from a woman than
well, Allen, does, for example.
Look at this room" they had
finished luncheon and were back
in the big hvingroom which ran the
length of the house. There's not
prettier place in town than this
is. And it's not just what Ted Will
mington chose, either. You told
me yourself that most of the furni-
ture-the pieces that give it an air,
the most expensive pieces-Bob
picked out himself. When a man
lavishes hand carved Italian
chairs on his wife, and tapestry
worth several thousand dollars a
foot, he'll never lack for the right
kind of appreciation"
Aliens sister flushed resent
fully. at happens that Bob is a
comparatively rich man and can
afford suck things. Allen can't
You know nothing would give him
more pleasure than to buy you
anything you want if he could,
Patsy! And surely wife doesn't
measure her love for her husband
by his income. hate to have you
even imply such thing"
Patsy ran an appreciative hand
over the brocade of her chair.
"The income helps, my dear!
could condone a lot of faults in
a man who gave me house like
this"
Sue did not answer. 1t was Bar
bara who said holly: "Allen's a
million times too good for you,
PatSl And you have exactly the
home that Sue came from, you
know. guess if it was good enough
for her. it ought to satisfy your
The long gray eyes narrowed
maliciously. "It would satisfy you,
Babs. dear; is that what I'm ex-
pected to understand? Too bad
Allen had the bad taste to fall in
love with mere secretary instead
of the socially prominent Miss
Webb! Sorry. Sue. It's just my
plebian bad manners"
Sue said tactfully: Barbara and
Forest and Allen and | all grew up
together, you know. Naturally she
wants Allen to be happy. How is
Marie?" She changed the subject
decisively. I've not seen her for
long time"
There's an easy enough way to
remedy that!" But Immediately
her tone became more concilia-
tory. 1t was no part of her plan to
offend young Mrs. Trenton. Sue.
from a liability, had become an
asset. If the withdrawal of her
share of the housekeeping ex-
penSes had left larger gap than
Patsy liked to think Of, Sues evil
dent desire to be friendly with her
brothers wife was not to be un-
der-rated. There were gifts in
Sues power now: gifts of new
gowns, expensive perfumes, even
Of car if she chose to buy one for
her brother.
Not just yet, of course, she re-
f1ected; not while Sue could hardly
escape, the recollection of that June
day when Patsy had taken out the
girls coupe without her knowl-
edge and practically wrecked it.
One must give her time to forget
that incident, and the quarrel that
had followed.
So now she fastened to erase the
impression of her acid little speech
about Marie.
GAS a matter of fact, Marie has
a new man in tow. Don't ask me
who he is for don't know myself!
| only know" she went on shrewd-
ly. that she's forever borrowing
my best clothes without asking
me. It's nuisance, too. I'm taller
than Marie and the little rascal
actually had the nerve to shorten
a dress Of mine last week. She ex-
planned it was a dire emergency
and she simply had to rifle my
wardrobe" She added with a
careless air: "Allen will have TO
buy me another, that's all. He saws
he can't afford it because his in
Surance comes due this month.
But I tell him he can hardly ex-
pect me to 60 in rags because of