The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-07-18

SQuaWk, you didn't get SEARCH
Won were as game as they come.
And YOU have a feeling for line
and fradition--oh, I've seen the
way you look back at that house.
As If you knew what 1t meant. as
II YOU felt the same way l do
about itl You've got all this.
but what do you do about it,
II act like a puppet Of fortune,
Eve supplied obligingly. Il act
as IL had no mind of my own"
.sExactly!" Brett agreed with
too much alacrity, Eve thought.
But he gave her no time to pro-
ooh, I don't blame you--under-
stand that. It's probably my own
sour disposition that keeps me
from trying to subject you to a
life of hardship"
Eve, laughing, leaned toward
him. "You think ! couldn't take
know darn well you
couldn't"
But Brett's actions were at
variance with his words. He
looked at the face so near his
own, iIlumined just then by the
clear, cold light of a three
quarter moon that had struggled
from behind the clouds.
Brett forgot that he had
brought Eve here to make her
realize that this was more to him
than just a casual holiday. He
forgot that she and Neil were en-
gagged. He lost himself in the
| thought that her face was near
his. And before he realized 1t, his
arms were around her and he was
| kissing her with all the pent-up
longing of the past few days.
/ Eve found after q moment that
they were both standing; that
Brett's arms were still closely
4 around her, his cheek against
hers. She remembered the night
i Neil had kissed her--it seemed so
| long ago!--when she had Won
| dered If other girls noticed such
mundane things as the sound OF
waves beating against the shore
when they were being kissed.
1 She knew the answer now.
/ She had not heard anything;
| she had felt nothing but a light
ness and the warm touch of his
lips on hers. She had not known
when they rose or how they
came to be standing, his arms
around her, his lips against her
throat. She could scarcely call
back the surroundings, even
though she looked hard at the
bare stretch of beach and tried
to draw away, so that she might
tell him what had happened be-
tween Neil and herself.
ASPIRATIONS
EVEN as she drew away, she fell
~ that sense of dreaminess rise
before her. llumined by the new
ly born moon, a small hillocl
. down the beach seemed spot
lighted as if upon a stage. Ant
therein keeping with her feel
ing of unreality-Were the twt
sisters: Marguerite and Clemen
I tine.
! They stood together, as Mrs
: Jackson had said they always did
their hands claSped Eve could sc,
. the sheen of the dark-toned satin
! and the lightness Of the sprigget
I muslin.
0 But now it was not Gina anc
0 herself, dressed up to surprise
the others. These figures wer,
!. e-ghostly-outlined by thu
moon. And as Eve watched, Mar
q guerite turned toward the light
! haired, fragile form. one arm up
Y raised Eve caught the CLINT o
+ steel in the uncertain light.
i Just then, as if he could no
! stop himself. Brett said longing
ly:
Eve! My darlingr'
"Brett--oh, Brett!. Ewes word.
e were a sob, out their intensity
a made him turn and look, as sht
: did, along the stretch of coast
S Eve needed only the tightenin,
2 OF his arm to tell her that hi
8 had seen the tableau before them
z II he had not seen it, she Nigh
e have thought her own excited i'm
agination had created the picture
S But now that Brett, too, wa.
q watching 80.
: Eve screamed shrilly, hysteri
4 cally, unable to stop the higl
r wailing sounds that came from hel
throat. She was aware of Bret
: shaking her, Shaping her lightly
~ But still she could not clamp he
ell lips together as she was trying Il
ell do. Even Bretts hand, held owe
'tl her mouth, could not quiet her.
s-3a Only jules voice. breatnles
e from her rush across the sands
a brought her back to reality.
Eve, darling! What frightenet
you? Don't cry severe ali here
o What's the natter"
e For answer Eve could oni,
e point down the shore, where Ia
t bright knife in Marguerite's hanl
r was slowly descending toward th
s still form Of the second ghost.
G The group stood, frozen. unbe
lieving--and yet believing. Hot
. could anybody doubt the presenc
| OF the two figures IL they sas
them, Eve thought. Especially
1 a man like Brett saw them?
( For Brett might seem too deep
ly immersed in his own AFFAIR."
4 too self-centered to notice man,
4 small things that other mel
r noticed. But nobody could accus
4 him of fligftiness, or of imagin
8 ing things that did not exist.
3 And Brett saw the two visitor
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