The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-05-28
Chapter Is
New York

Will @AA~ AAbN ~ 49, ~ NS~NC -
was hard.
You're hard. You're unfeeling
You care for nothing but climb
inf to the top" he accused her
his ordinary, rather shy calm
broken to tatters. "You love me
but you love career more
You'd rather trample down all
your own human feelings and
stand and sing into little piece
o. tin and have applause, than
have anything real 49, Wifehood,
motherhood, normal human con-
facts
She stared at him. She had
somehow supposed that her real
reason for going to New York
was written across her forehead in
gilt letters. And here was Jordan
lecturing her for being a hard
career girl! She wanted to laugh
and then she felt like crying, a
little. So she did neither one.
She said, more sharply than she
meant, You're like all the rest
O. the men in the world. You
think because / want to do some
thing else more than marry you,
that it applies to all the other
men there are"
He looked at her for a mo-
ment as if she were speaking in
strange language.
you mean -- you mean you
want to find somebody who has
more than l have-who can give
you more than l can give your"
There was no way of explain
Ing Nevertheless she tried once
more
mo, Jordan. It's just that,
while / don't love you enough to
marry you, l might love some
other man enough"
you do love me-" he said.
''You love me, only you don't
know il, you have some crazy
idea in your head from the
movies. We've gone round to-
gether and been good friends,
we've been close, we've been con-
genial, and you've known I've
loved you. I've seen your attitude
TO me. You couldn't have been my
pal--my girl-all this time with
out really loving me. You think
you're the kind that can have
some impossible emotion, go off
the deep end. You're not. You
aren't that kind, | tell you, you're
a career woman"
II ka1 &c
her in his mind that no amount
o. argument on her part would
turn into a truer one. He wanted
her like that-cool to him because
she could not be anything else
to anyone else.
She tried once more.
But IL | think I am, Jordan, 1t
is the same as if it were true.
You'll have to let me find out for
myself"
Unfortunately he snapped al
thi~
THAT means there's a good
chance still. All right, darling
I'll wait" His eyes were emo
tiOnal behind the glasses. "I'll
wait forever. l know you'll come
back to me. If you don't--well, II
come to you"
They were back at Jerry's
leaning 10 each other across one
o. the little glass tables. She
dropped her head. There was nj
use arguing.
Pageant o. Light
THE drive was fun. Molly hac
i made it before. Eileen never
had. They stopped at touris
camps, mostly, but once or twice
they slept in the car, and one
glorious night-when II was tha
or q rainstorm outdoors--spen'
good money on a hotel in Kansas
And eventually they were ir
New York State. Buffalo-Utics
-Albany-the Albany Post Road
the Cross County Parkway. the
Bronx Parkway sliding invisiblS
into the Sawmill River and Henry
Hudson Pathways.
Finally, a last toll bridge, anc
the rafting, staunch little cal
with It's piled luggage and TIVE
excited girls was sliding dowr
along the Hudson River one early
Sentember evening. between tht
tall apartment houses of River,
side Drive, and the river and tho
ships with the Palisades, all elec
trio signs and far-on romantic
whistles.
"Oh, Molly. the lights! It's like
n pageant Eileen gaSped, Molly
fortunately, was driving. Eileen:
eyes focused with excitement or
the starry strings. on the apart
mentS with their hundreds o.
lighted windows, turned eagerly
back again 20 the signs tha
winked off and on forever.
swell. OF course MOLLY
laughed and was a little mother.
lv-.Tve been watching that sug.
ar sign blink for quite a while.
used 10 have boy friend tina
was nuts on sitting on a River
side bench and watching it,
Molly.
"Welle"
"What 49, what sort 81 peopl,
live on Riverside Drive?"
what Sort3 Well--all sorts
Nice. But not, in 4 majority, SO
ciaines: and not very many
Eyllv's keen amused blue eve.
6Ncd EileeR-~"of the sort OK play
b8,A who cable from New Tea
lana Just 20 say 'how's tricks.
You'll find them farther east ol(
pal