The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-05-28
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Eileen colored.

IT didn't" she began to say.
and stopped, because she had.
Cheer up, my sweet" Molly
continued. She ran down the
ramp at Fifty-seventh Street.
We're heading to his hideout
right now. SWank, that's me-"
She whisked the car expertly be-
tween laundering trucks and
whizzing sedans east on Fifty
seventh and took along breath
of relaxation. Gosh, that's
corner-when you've been play
ing round desert trails, where the
worst you can find is a coupla
Weigands."
''But Molly, for heavens sake,
you're not taking an apartment
east"
There's east and east" Molly
said. II don't know whether !
| told you our plans about the
flower shop. We've got a chance
for a place on Third Avenue, in
the Fifties. Just about perfect, if
you ask me: Near enough to Park
and the smart cross-street apart
ments so that people who want
flowers cheap can slide out and
get them. You wouldn't think
how many people that get their
names in the society columns and
the night-club list want to buy
things cheap, from delicatessen to
posfes."
Che Jro,ya avparf1u On
BY the next night she and Eli
cen were as settled into New
York as though they had always
belonged there. ...s..-..
Molly knew her neighborhood.
Without much trouble the girls
found a fourth-story apartment
in a brownstone house, on the
edge of the better-claSs tene-
ments, but also not too far from
the place where the flower shop,
that goal of Molly's ambitions,
was to be. 49,,
Molly left Eileen to settle in.
1t felt little cramped after the
spacious, sunlit rooms in the
white apartment house in Denver.
You climbed three flights OF
stairs. There was a narrow slip
of bedroom for one of them; a
living room which the other
would have to use; a bath be-
tween, old, too roomy, lighted by
a skylight; there was a kitchen
cite which was far from being
roomy enough. 1t was furnished
rather gloomily and casually; a
cot bed in one room, a davenport
in the other, various sorts of
chairs and draperies that Eileen
decided to change whether it
proved extravagant or not.
But, standing at the little win
dow, she could see the East Riv-
er. The boats went up and down,
lighted and lovely. The stars
showed, in a scrap of sky beyond.
Eileen had always lived inland,
and this was wonderful.
All The Chances
NEW YORK. All the chances in
1 ' the world. Chances for a
bright. pretty, well-trained girl
who had always had chances
hurled at her. Big radio networks.
Big Office buildings. And,
somewhere, sometime, gay,
swift-voiced, gray-eyed man call
ing her or wiring her after a
broadcast; or perhaps the same
man coming in to interview one
Of the big men in an Office where
she was the smart, efficient sec-
rotary or even Office manager.
And seeing her, in her low-cut
satin, moving away from the
mike; or in the junior partners
office, fresh from dictation in her
smart office frock, poised and
alert and charmingly capable. :.
She was a romantic idiot, she
told herself, moving hastily away
from the window, and shutting
down the sash, so that the dust
smelt sharply flying from the
curtains. She began to sing to
herself as she moved round the
shabby room rearranging the
furniture.
Molly shot in, unbreathed from
! the stairs, but full of excitement.
"Was it time l got here?" she
demanded rhetorically. what do
you suppose was happening?"
She whiSked her hat and coat
methodically off, and had them
hung in the little closet.
Il was just in time. That dope
of a RiS had decided that it was
too much of a risk to take out
notes to swing his half Of the
shops. And his brother Nick says,
Well, Molly, you know how he is.
/ couldn't swing it alone. I sure
am grateful to you Nick says,
You're the only person l know
/ that can build a fire under Ris.'
How did you come to know
Ris and Nick?" Eileen inquired
curiously,
Went TO school with them.
Pop and Nom split up when we
were kids; Pop went to New York
and took two Of us along" Molly
explained casually. After a
while he went back to Plute, but
/ OF tlat Tune was sort or hoIed-
/ in in the big city. Once you get
used to it you hate TO leave. What
shall We do, go out or get some
thing in? Does the gas ring
work."
! She investigated, found IL did,
and they decided on getting
something in. Eileen thought with
certain amusement of Molly.
and her height Of ambition
cashier in dehcatessen, wife to
q small florist.
Wen. being happy was what
counted. after all And il happi-
ness, 70 you. meant a dreamy
eyed young Greek in an lift
ting dress coat who had 90 be