The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-03-31
ALONG CAME CINDERELLA
I'D By WHEN GREY 4

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looked at her with peculiar In
tentness. It didn't seem right that
gentle fragile Emily should be
starting back to New York at such
an hour. Her back was to the
nursery door. She turned sharply
Eand then looked back at him
smiling.
], Better let me call taxi" she
Said.
"Why?" Roger asked.
Lovely might come and find
you were not here"
1T would be too bad if my love
for my wife could make a weak
ling of me-"
Lovely was not in the house
when Roger and Emily arrived
but when he went to their room
moment before starting with
Emily she was sitting there. a
book in her hand.
Roger paused. Lovely! l didn't
know you were here!" A glad
note was in his voice, sudden
warmth in his heart.
you and Emily were busy
with Getta. l didn't want to dis
turb you"
I'm taking Emily to the train"
Roger said. rather aWkWardly. 1t
was a difficult situation somehow.
though nothing had been said that
might indicate it.
"Was Lovely home?" Emily
asked as they rode down the hill
through the deep tranquility of
the night.
Eyes, but why did you ask.
How did you know"
81 felt" Emily started to say.
II thought once while we were
in Getta's room l felt her looking
at us. When l turned there was
no one. But l just had the feel
ing" She did not finish. and they
rode the rest of the way in ST
lence.
But. Roger thought, Lovely was
like that You could feel her.
There was something electric
about her. Roger remembered it
the first time he had ever looked
at her. 1t had reached out to him
then.
Unfair Competition
YOU came right back" Lovely
L said when he le-entered their
room.
yes" he said quietly. He was
thinking.
you would From Emily"
"What do you mean?" Turning
to her quickly. his tie N his hand.
"Emily's all right"
Eyes, that's just the trouble.
She's too much all right. Emily's
perfect that's what she is"
Il don't understand"
well" Lovely spoke thought
fully. She's unfair competition. l
mean she's so good and so square
you can't do anything about her.
Now if it had been me tonight
and I got that kind of chance at
you, loving you the way she does,
you'd never have gotten back
from me so quickly-if ever at
all. Then | could fight with you
about her when you did come.
= what / mean?"
."3c~h2Ds | do" Roger was sit
.Ng down quietly taking off his
shoes. He thought he did under
stand what Lovely was trying tc
set a..
"And as it is there's just moth
ing can do. She's so fair and so
right all the time i can't even hate
her and call her names for being
the other woman in your life. And
Roger" she paused and looked at
him long, Il am horribly jealous
of her. Horribly" Her voice was
low and tender.
"You. Lovely? Jealous of
Emily?" AS if he was startled that
such an idea could ever have &C.
| Cured to her.
"Oh, Roger" She was up swift
ly and across the room on her
knees in front of him, in his arms
held close against his heart.
Lovely! Lovely" His cheek
against er bright hair. his voice
weighted with emotion. II was
miserable today without you!
| Miserable!"
"And I, darling" She chung to
him with something like madness
| in her arms and lips. II should
have known. Katie and Bill had
| each other There wasn't a reason
in the world for my being there.
I should have gone with you. A
woman always belongs with her
man. Oh. Roger. ! love youi Love
| you, Love YOU" He realized only
/ then how lonely he had been all
/ afternoon and evening.
Winter was throwing its chill.
/ dull gray mantle over the hills OF
Westchester The Hudson was cold
and dark between its banks and
planes were silhouetted against
the above it. And Roger. always
interested in flying. turned to il
seriously. But Sunday remained a
day of reunion for the Cosgrave
family.
And on this afternoon Win
Ramsey was in the kennels work
ing with the dogs he hoped would
/ star al the big February show in
Madison Square Garden Lovely
vas there with him. When she
/ came back 10 the house at dusk
! Roger smelied liquor on her
breath. as she bent over Getta
in the room Marcia had fitted as
/ a nursery.
| sFWe1I what's yvrorr wffh
that?" she asked. "You were in
here with Emily. ] was out there
with Win. So what, darling7"
Emily iyn't in this. Lovely"
! Roger said quietly
oh. she isnt7" with irony.
+ " TX. ir~'t IN ltf"