New Britain herald., 1926-02-06

you in if you came"
 Mir, Hilton thought there w4s something he could do. You cam" pretty well recommended" he add cd, turning toward Mary and smil- ing.
 She bushcd. and started typing furiously.
 How much education have you had?" asked the chief clerk.
 Two years of college. ] didn't graduate, l enlisted during the war, and when it was over l didn't go back to school"
 What branch?"
 Air service"
 "I see" Hilton surveyed the tall figure for a moment, then--"1 think I'll take you on. Rand. Twenty-Five 9 week is all I can give you to start. When can you begin?"
 I'm ready to take my coat off right now, Mr. Hilton,'
 The passing days brought no word from Mooney. nor did they bring Rand any success in his search for Olga Maynard. Jimmy was q frequent visitor at police headquarters, where he had been referred by the chief to Lieutenant O'Day, q gruff old war horse whom Jimmy, nevertheless, liked instant
 He saw much of Mary. They had even met outside one day during lunch hour-quite acidentally-and had eaten together, she insisting on paying her own check.
 He asked her 10 let him call. He had been trying for days to sum mon enough courage to ask her, and when he did he cursed himsel, for his schoolboy shyness and stam- mering.
 Why certainly" she said warmly. and made him sorry he hadn't ask cd her before.
 Her mother was Q widow. Her chief complaint against life, he found when he called, was the fact that Mary had 10 work.
 The Lowells, he gathered from her conversation had once amounted to something"
 "Mother does live so much In the past" Mary confided to Jimmy lat or. When father was living we never thought about money TherN seemed 10 be plenty of 1t. He died suddenly and his affairs were not in the best of shape. What little money was left after things had been settled was soon gone. It was necessary for me to leave school. Mother thinks it perfectly dreadful 10 have to depend on me for sup. port. rather like 1t myself. I'm perfectly thrilled about my work"
 Jimmy got the impress sion of hortiiity on the part of Mrs. Lowell, He felt somehow that she hoped Mary would marry we'll someone with q lot of money. .. He felt uncomfortable in her pres enco.
 A few nights later he took Mary 10 the theatcr,
 Don't let's go home just yet" he suggested afterward. Being alone with her had made him unaccount- ably gay. "I feel like dissipating. What do you say If we go some place and get a bite to eat and Iancc?"
 Lovely" she agreed. wen go 10 the Cafe Madrid. The music there is wonderful"
 They found the Madrid filled with . noisy crowd; they were lucky 10 get table,
 You were right about the music" he declared when they were on the floor. His arm was around her waist-he was breathing the fra grance of her hair. He thrilled.
 She seemed instinctively 10 antici- pate every move he made-every suggestion of Q step, He clamored yainly for an encore when the or cheStra stopped playing.
 You seem as clever at dancing as you are at rescuing young ladies" she bantered when they were back at their table.
 Lady" he said, the young man is speeches.. l have been trying for two minutes to think of words to describe something-and there aren't any such words. You dance like a - like a breath. There that's as close as l can come"
 She laughed, and impulsively reached over and unused his hair with her hand-then immediately 1row away in confusion. She hl1-zhnd.
 "Mr. Rand" she said. "You-" Not Mir. Rand" he interrupted, Jimmy. I've already decided 10 call