The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-06-13
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chapter n
Pursued Again

lLEEN cllmDeo up 10 the little
~ room where she had lived
with Molly, that evening, feeling
as if everything in between had
been a dream. Molly shrieked
and Rugged her: just the same
cheerful red-cheeked pony-built
girl They sat down on the I'M
tidily made bed together in the
old way, and Eileen told her tale.
Eileen had forgotten how COM
forting that unbridled Irish SYM
pathy could be.
''Sure, to hell with them ALL"
Molly said when the story was as
far on as the divorce. "But you're
in a good job now? / must say /
think you were too high-fninded
about the cash. =. And Ely,
can't give you back the whole
two thousand. Would FIVE hun
dred of it,"
mo, / don't want II, Molly, you
darling idiot What l do want )"
She went on with her story:
Lewis Delevan, just as she was
settling into training for won
derful career, wanting to marry
her. But, if you'd see whether
Ris could take me back?"
I'm marrying Ris myself next
month";" Molly said. That's where
] put the fifteen hundred. We
bought in with a nursery garden
in Rye" She sat back as if she
had thrown a bombshell.
ooh, how lovely" Eileen said
with delight.
After another long silence Mol
~ went on, "I,m an ungrateful
pig to be saying it, Eileen, and
I'm fond of you as well you know
Well save up and pay back every
penny sooner or later. But won't
risk having you back; Ris was too
crazy over you and that's the
truth. Nor do see what's wrong
with this Delevan man, Couldn't
you get to caring enough2"
There was Martin" Eileen
said.
"And a fine sweetie he turned
out to be--Imarrying you for q
good Joke and he tied UP with the
Dempster woman. I'd have taken
a sound sum from him, he'd never
have been missing ii. AT Eileen's
look she added, you mean you
really cared?"
Even Molly thought she'd mar
ried Martin for what he had,
Then Molly said unexpectedly,
"You poor lamb But all the more
I'd give the other his chance. Just
try can you have a taste for him"
Molly Rugged her again. They
parted good friends.
She couldn't blame Molly. After
all, what she said added up to
good sense. Lewis Delevan wasn't
htirrying her. She could 60 on,
now she knew, thinking it over.
She had been bracing uncon-
sciously against his charm, she
had somehow been vaguely dis
trusting him. And what good
were her intuitions? She'd trusted
Martin. She'd give Lewis fair
. chance, let herself 60. She went
home, on the decision.
As time passed she found that
he kept his promise at the Office.
But he was seeing her more and
more out OF Office hours. He was
calling for her at the Y.W.C.A,
where impressed seer etarie 5
thenceforward were potter be-
cause she knew Mr.. Delevan of
the Willesdon Institute. He was
taking her to theaters and lee
lures. Presently she had a raise.
Explosion
CHE supposed herself TO be drift
- ing, giving Lewis his chance.
She woke TO her mistake one eve
ming when, calling for her in her
pretty one-room apartment, he
said abruptly, Eve won't 90 to
Rand School tonight. don't see
half enough of you" And had
her in his arms.
What emerged after a brief
volcanic scene was the fact that
Lewis had not supposed her to be
thinking over her decision. He
was taking their eventual mar
riage for granted.
"You love me. whether you adj
nit il or not" he said. I'VE
haven't time for old-fashioned
couuetries IN this moment of the
world. have great things to do.
With your help ! can do them. !
need you. You need me,
The deep rough convinced
voice, the dominant blazing eyes.
nearly swept her under. So far as
Lewis was concerned, when he
left her that night, feeling as If
she had been through hurri-
cane. il was settled. Eileen sat
down III the trim chintz room that
was still beating with the intens-
ity 81 Lewis Delevan's person
atty. She tried to think. No.
There was no good reason why
Ii should not be settled.
But the next morning, as she
sat down 10 table OF blueprints
under the efficient il hostile eyes
Of Miss Perry in charge Of re-
search. Ii came 10 her that she
couldn't 20 on till she had got
help on her problem from some
one who knew Lewis. Violetta
Lee might be a little old-fash-
ion and sentimental, but she was
an ever-present help In time oil
trouble. Instead Of telephoning
Eileen ran down the corridor e
date Miss Lee for luncheon OUT
OF Miss perry's hearing.
Miss Lees usually neat. gray
walled room was In confusion
The glass topped desk was
cleared Of its feminine knick-
xnaeks and silver-framed photo
graphs and little notices undes
the glass. Only neat stack 81
typed papers orderly folders
gray-covered reports, lay beside
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