The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-03-25

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them to stop. They had bounced
over the concrete wall. Observers
said they sat like two people
carved in marble Only the car
seemed alive as it gathered speed.
There was no sound from them
as they went over the cliff.
The heavy car dropped to the
ledge below, shattering con-
crete wall. But the two people
in it were catapulted into the wa
ter that dashed and churned on
the rocks below. Their bodies had
not been found.
But why? Why would they do
a thing like that" Lovely asked
Roger insistently. 81 can't see any
reason Just because their daugh-
ter didn't marry the man she in
tended to. Lots of engagements
are broken. Engagements don't
mean so much"
And Roger could only say:
Il wouldn't know. angel. I
wouldn't know"
81 feel almost as if I'd killed
them" Lovely said. She shivered
slightly as she stood at the win
dow and looked out over the
beauty of the Cosgrave place with
shrubbery and trees beginning to
hint of fall.
You shouldn't, honey bee"
Roger put his arm around her and
rested his cheek against her hair.
You had nothing to do with it.
People make their own lives"
Lovely turned to him impul-
Sivelv.
ooh, Roger-if you should ever
stop loving me-want someone
else"
His kiss silenced watever else
she would have said.
That time will never come" he
said solemnly.
Lovely dressed for dinner that
night. Roger glanced at her in
surprise. He'd forgotten to tell
her they didn't dress for family
dinner in the country. And she
looked so beautiful that it made
it right. Lovely had a gift for
clothes that would enchant a
masculine public She knew in
stinctively how to wear them.
And she loved them with some
thing that was more than vanity.
Roger was grateful to Marcia
when he saw that she too had put
on something extra She must. he
realized. have been aware that
Lovely was dressing and so had
tactfully dressed herself. That
would be Marcia.
Cosgrave looked a trace startled
at the magnificence of his ladies
and then complimented them
both.
That was sweet of your ia
Their" Lovely said afterwards to
Roger. 81 mean to compliment
your mother" 1t shed light on a
different life, this middle aged
man still saving pleasant, COM
plmentary things.
That evening Lovely trailed
Roger about the place. She went
to the kennels with him for a
lost look at the Bedlingtons and
Kerry Blues. She brushed their
soft coats and was pleased by the
alteration in their soft brown eyes
rs they looked up at her. She
n'"led up Streak's puppies, limp
with sleep. and cooed over them.
Roger watched. pleased.
"Streak's honoring you," he
said. She wouldn't let manv peo-
pie pick up one of her babies.
She's very careful mother"
| Late Visitors
IT was later that night the cards
L Lovely had sent her friends
announcing the date Of her
homecoming bore fruit.
The Cosgrave mansion was
wrapped in the shadows of night
and the silence of sleep as a car
turned uncertainty in the drive.
This the place." voice
asked out of the darkness.
Yeah! Look at them gates!
Lovely sure got herself a sweet
set up!"
Yeah boy! When Lovely sees
u.s."
The car picked up speed. A
second one turned into the drive
and then a third. They began a
great honking. a sort of rhythmic
salute. Voices in hilarious song
| broke sharply into the soft still
ness of early autumn night. And
the singing gathered in volume
until it rose raucously under the
windows of the Cosgrave man.
sion.
In the house Lovely stirred in
/ her sleep. Her dream of the old
/ days in the CITY had been so vivid
that she had actually heard
voices. She listened. She wasn't
dreaming. l. dawned on her
slowly. Those were real voices she
/ heard.
She slipped out Of bed and went
TO the window. Leaning out she
/ called brightly:
"Hi-vah, Hi-yah gang"
She turned back TO Roger then.
He VAS sitting up in bed. his
night Light on. He had intended
saying he'd 90 down and ask them
/ 10 come back some other time for
their party. but the frank delight
/ on L0vely's face stayed the words.
/ Lovely was pulling on soft
/ velvet robe. fastening a large or
. rameatal buckle a. her slim waist
when Marcia's voice spoke al
their door
Roger what is it," she asked
Some friends q Lovely's,"
RoEer said quietly
The ksiS!" Lovely's voice
~ipp I'D With happiness. ~I'ua 90
.ng eoNn 30 let them IN Hurry
lar az Hurry, Hurry"
Roger was getting up slowly.