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Rival Adventure
Cameron Dockery
CHAPTER XIV
Aline leaned back against the
pillows. . . .
“All right, I promise you, Miss
Kirkman.”
“You really mean that?”
“Cartiers don’t break their
words.”
Lotus took a deep breath and
plunged ahead.
“To begin with, my name is
not Rosa Kirkman and I am not
a professional entertainer.”
She heard a gasp in the dark
ness. “What and who are you,
then?”
“I can’t go into that now—you
must believe me.”
“All right, go on.”
“Stacy Corbin does not love
you.”
“I can’t believe that.”
“It’s quite true, however.”
Lotus repeated her conversa
tion with Stacy on the previous
day. “He also told me about his
father’s business deal maneuver
ing your family out of Belle
Fleur.”
“That’s one reason I intend
marrying Stacy,” Aline said sud
denly, “to get Belle Fleur back
in the family.”
“Isn’t that rather an extreme
measure?” Lotus asked gently.
“There’s always divorce,” Aline
Cartier said, —and settlements.
If Stacy acted the way you say
he intends to, I would have
grounds.”
“But, Aline, you don’t realize
what you’re saying. Things may
not work out that way—you
might have children.”
“I want children some day and
I want them to have Belle Fleur.”
“But—but—” Lotus floundered
helplessly. She had expected
tears, recriminations, even a few
curses, but not this indomitable
stubbornness.
“You see, Rosa —or whatever
your real name is—Belle Fleur
meant just about everything to
my grandfather and aunt. They
had to let it go to protect their
stockholders. They had put all
their hopes in my brother An
drew —he was to carry on the
family name and business and,
of course, inherit Belle Fleur.
Well, he was killed in the Pa
cific, so it’s up to me now.”
“But you’re charming and at
tractive. There must be dozens
of New Orleans boys of fine fam-
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ily who’d like to marry you.”
“But only the Corbin’s own
Belle Fleur.”
“If I could prove to you that
Stacy didn’t love you, that he
was only following his father’s
orders, that they were seeking
the honorable Cartier name and
its valuable connections and a
place in New Orleans society,
would you change your mind?”
“I suppose I’d have to.”
“Well, then, at 11 o’clock to
morrow night you be in the
bathroom between our rooms
listening at the door. I think you
will hear something that will
dissuade you from marrying Sta
cy Corbin.”
In the morning, before Aline
was up, Lotus slipped into her
bathing suit and swam from the
grassy slope to the anchored
swimming float. Her shoulder
was still tender, but she swam
with graceful, distance-consum
ing strokes. When she reached
the white-painted platform, she
stretched herself full length in
the sun on the diving .board. A
few moments later she heard the
lazy splash of strong masculine
arms cleaving the water.
Stacy, his tanned body drip
ping, pulled himself up on the
planking.
“Hi, sweet—l saw you stroll
ing down for a dip and couldn’t
resist the temptation to join
you.”
“What about Aline—and your’
father?”
She laughed teasingly and
rolled over on the diving board
so that her figure was displayed
to full advantage.
“The dickens with them!”
Stacy scrowled at her.
“Tsk, tsk, that’s not the right
attitude. After all, you’re going
to marry the girl, and she is
pretty, Stacy.”.
“Rosa, you’ve got more sex ap
peal in your little finger than
she has in her whole body.”
“I think you’re wrong there.
Aline has a sort of old-fashioned
charm that Southern men prob
ably find pretty fetching.”
“Oh, no doubt of that,” he
agreed fairly. “She has a bunch
of the local yokels clamoring for
her attention. But I like some
thing a little more warm-blood
ed.” His eyes caressed her slim,
well-built body.
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“Like me, Stacy?”
“Yes, like you!”
He laughed mockingly and
noddecj her head toward Belle
Fleur. “Sb sorry I can’t oblige.
Here comes the girl of your
dreams.” *
None of them saw Lotus leave
for the other end of the island.
She waited patiently, but Law
rence did not appear. At last,
she turned to leave, when her
eye fell on Lachene rounding the
house and heading for her spot.
She was standing in deep sha
dow —he had not yet seen her,
nor did she want him to see her
leaving this place where he had
caught her twice before. The
circumstances would be too sus
picious.
She started to step out, to
warn Lawrence, then suddenly
she checked herself —the occu
pant of the pirogue was not
Lawrence!
She recognized the queer,
stunted, dungaree-clad figure
and the swarthy, bearded face
as that of the helper who had
been on the island from which
she had escaped to Belle Fleur.
He was poling agitatedly toward
the edge of the lawn; even be
fore Lachene reached him, he
began to chatter in an excited
Cajun patois that was unintelli
gible to Lotus. The two men
talked for a few minutes, both
gesticulating widely, then the
man in the pirogue shoved off
and Lachene returned to the
house. Lotus sighed gratefully—
here was her means of getting
Stacy to her room!
The French clock at the end of
the hall chimed a tinkling 11.
The last musical note was fol
lowed by a light rap on Lotus
door. She opened it and Stacy’s
golden head was outlined against
the light; her own room was in
darkness.
“You’re alone, Stacy?”
“Yes, Dad’s down in his study
and Aline’s gone to bed.”
She walked over to stand be
tween the French windows and
the locked bathroom door; a
faint fustle told her that Aline
was behind it. Stacy closed the
door into the hall and followed
her.
“What was it you wanted to
see me about, sweet?”
She reached up and took the
lapels of his coat in her fingers.
She was wearing a lacy, berib
boned negligee that Chloe had
put in her suitcase; a heavy Pa
risian perfume still clung to it.
“Stacy, I’m afraid. I saw one of
those men from the island this
afternoon —he came in a pirogue
and was talking to Lachene.”
His hands came up and tight
ened on hers. “Stop worrying
about them, Rosa —I told you
I’d take care of you.”
“But what would he be doing
here?”
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EXPENSES
CHATTOOGA COUNTY
April, 1947
OPERATING EXPENSES:
Administrative - 51,510.39
Public Buildings & Bridges 741.44
Courts - 732.41
Roads 3 ’ 68139
Health & Vital Statistics 43.75
Support of Poor 344.44
County & Home Dem. Agents 271.99
Welfare 529.47
Med'., Indigent Sick 7,873.20
NEW EQUIPMENT:
Shovel -11,844.00
Less Credit ... 4,000.00
Net 7,844.00
Truck 2.206.58
Miscellaneous New Equipment - 432.61
Overhaul of Grader ---- 5,027.35
Received from State for paving $6,308.90
Disbursed to L. J. Bahin Co. (Holland Road) 6.308.90
Withholding Tax Remitted 163.90
Total Operating Expenses $29,856.54
CASH ON HAND, APRIL 1, 1947 $79,840.27
CASH ON HAND’, MAY 1, 1947 $60,763.41
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approved March 26, 1947.
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“I don’t know, but I’ll find out, I
if it will make you happy.”
She swayed toward him. “You
are so good to me, Stacy.”
, His hands went around her
waist now, pulling her toward
him. “You’re attractive, Rosa!”;
She felt a sense of urgency.
She must get him to talk, to ex
pose himself and his father for
what they were. Aline might not
be too patient.
“Stacy, are you going to mar
ry Aline?”
“I don’t Xnow. I thought I had
her about talked into it, but she
has been pretty evasive all day.”
His tone was satisfactorily disin
terested.
“You don’t love her, do you?”
“Os course not! I’ve already
told you that.”
“Then, why—l simply don’t
understand.”
“Rosa, are you going to make
me repeat all that?” Dad wants
the social position, prestige and
business connections that the
Cartier name can give us. I think
he’s got ideas about dabbling in
the bagasse business, too.”
“You mean the Cartiers’ new
enterprise?”
“Sure. The old man ought to
kick off some day soon and
Aline wouldn’t know anything
about business. Dad thinks it
would be pretty nice if he could
manage things for her." Hej
chuckled sarcastically. “Dad’s a
pretty far-sighted guy, isn’t he?”
“He certainly seems to be.”
Surely, Aline has heard enough
to be convinced. Lotus had made
Stacy convict himself with his
own words—getting rid of him
was going to be another - propo
sition. His fingers began playing
with the velvet bow at the low
V of her negligee.
“Why are we standing here
wasting words about Aline?” he
demanded querulously. “I’d lots
rather be holding you in my
arms.
“Please, Stacy, I’m not in the
mood for romance tonight.”
A face was thrust around the
edge of the French window. The
eyes seemed to gleam wickedly;
it was dark, but not so dark that
she couldn’t recognize the sar
donic expression of Stu Law
rence!
Immediately, Stacy sensed the
difference in her embrace. “Now
what’s wrong?” he asked petu
lantly.
She withdrew from his arms.
“I’m sure I heard your father
calling.”
“Oh, rot! You’re making it up
to get rid of me.”
“No, No, I’m not.”
As if to Sbnfirm her lie, Cur
tis Corbin’s voice, urgent and
tinged with annoyance, drifted
up the stairs.
“The devil!” Stacy muttered.
“He never lets up for a minute.
I’ll be right back, Rosa.”
“Not tonight, Stacy, I’m tired.”
A moment later, Stu Lawrence
slipped from the balcony. Sil
houetted against the white co
lonnades and the starlight, he
looked unusually tall.
“My apologies for breaking up
such an inspiring love scene,” he
whispered crisply. “That was not
my intention, I assure you.”
“That was not a love scene,”
she protested.
His teeth flashed in a cynical'
grin. “You owe me no explana
tions —I’m not coricerned with
your love life.”
“I tljink you’re being deliber
ately nasty. You’re not being fair
about this at all; please let me
explain.”
His fists clenched and relaxed.
“I really haven’t time to listen
to it now. I just came to warn
you to try to get the Cartiers to
go home tomorrow. Things are
about to start popping and I
don’t want them here when they
do.”
“Did you find out something? ’
“Many things. Among them,
that no taxidermist in New Or
leans had the job of stuffing
that snake, so it looks as though
the dope came in the boa’s skin,
with the live snake as a protec
tive decoy. It would take forever
to search this place for the stuff,
.so we’ve got to precipitate some
thing that will make Corbin
himself reveal its hiding place—
it must be worth almost a mil
lion dollars.”
(To Be Continued)
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