The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-05-07
Chapter 26
Warren's Report
" A ND let's talk about something
IA else" said PoIlv.


mo. I've made up my mind you
ought to marry David Wiley, and
get it over with. If you keep on
fooling around like this. you'll
lose him. Mark my words!"
Listen, Aunt Susan" said Pol.
ly, "if David's that easily lost.
don't want him. If he can't wait
until he's in better position tc
have a wife, why, he-he-can &c
sit on a tackp
"Piffle and nonsensew said Aunt
Susan. Il mind a couple | knew
way back when / was girl, who
got married on twenty dollars a
month and were perfectly happy
And they didn't starve, either"
Twenty dollars then was prac-
tically the equivalent of one hun
dred dollars today" said Polly
$50 there!" , .....'.
so there yourself" said Aunt
Susan. You're a stubborn, will
full grill"
IF you're so strong for marry
ing on empty pocketbooks," said
Polly. why didn't you ever mar
ry, Aunt Susan?"
"The only man who ever asked
me-" said Aunt Susan, got
thrown from his horse. I've told
you that before. John Mason was
his name. He was a mighty nice
man, too--but IL lost him"
Weren't there others?"
Eyes, but none of them cared
about me except as a sister or a
cousin or something. And none of
them came up to what John was"
Polly hung up the dish towel.
well, living in the past doesn't
do any good. Aunt Susan" she
said. Lets go out and work on
those rose bushes while it's still
light. Those drafted little insects
we're trying to eliminate certain
ly do multiply. Sometimes I'm
convinced the spray works on
them like a tonic"
Aunt Susan put away her ia
vorite coffee cup.
''Mebbe living in the past don't
do any good" she said, but il
folks showed more sense in plan
ming their futures. they'd have a
lot nicer pasts to talk about"
That" laughed Polly. sounds
exactly like an epigraml"
She picked up a small tin
spreyer and went out through the
hall
Presently Aunt Susan followed
ner. -.
The Spring
TT WAS only a three-hour train
ride over to Portsmouth, SO
Warren Mcneil was able to make
u there and back in a day. He got
back to Ardendale late that eve
ming. And as soon as he had fin
ished his dinner at the hotel. he
walked out to the Wiley cottage.
David and Peter had Just got
ten back from the Inn.
Hello, there!" David said. Let
me get my pipe Sit down and
light up"
peter gone to bed?" Warren
asked.
He's going there" David said.
"He was all in. We got the foun-
tain to working, and his enthusi-
asm for the gushing water wore
him down."
Warren sat down in a low
rocker and stretched out his legs.
When David re-joined him, he had
his pipe going. David lit his.
Now" he said, lets have it.
What's the verdict? What did the
laboratory test show?n
Nothing especially lexciting, !"
said Warren. SIN afraid the
waters not of any especial service
so far as infantile PARALYSIS vic
TINS are concerned. But. ii does
have some rather good curative
qualities"
Good for the liver?"
Warren nodded. yes, and for
a general toning up" He grinned.
mo need my using all the medi-
cal terms the laboratory man put
into the report. They'd sound like
a lot OF Chinese. However, he
thinks We have valuable proper
~ in the spring"
Does he think it's worth ad-
vertising, investing money in?"
Eyes"
but it's no good so far as kids
like Peter are concerned"
Only so far as the part the
pool plays"
How do you meant"
Il mean the swimming and the
exercise and the sun is good for
kids like Peter" said Warren.
And drinking the spring water
Is bound TO be beneficial 10 them;
that is. 10 a certain extent"
DO you think that's what has
helped PetegG You know. he has
been improving rapidly"
Yes. The swimming. the sun
Highland drinking the water has
had a lot 10 do with H." Warren
laughed. Hes swallowed an aw-
full lot you know. trying 70 learn
the Australian crawl" Then. more
seriously. he said. Frankly, Da-
vid, think that Peters viii to get
we'll his plaekinesS his deep
seated desire 20 be like ether bows.
has had more 10 do with his prog
reSs than anything else"
But that doesn't lessen your
interest in making the old Inn
into a Sa0atoriuas. does III"
Certainly notl' said Warren.
Tim as enthusiastic rs ever. After