New Britain herald., 1926-10-27

| against her will.
 Jack Wallack, who come to his fathers mills to learn the business, falls in love with Honey Lou the minute he sees her. Brought up by an old fashioned mother, Honey Lou is a mixture of flapper and clinging vine.
 Angela Allen pretends to be a friend of Honey Lou and tells her not to take Jack seriously. Jack is very jealous, of Dr. Steve May hew, a friend of Margret, Honey l Lou's sister.
 Honey Lou goes to work with Margret in the office of Holy Cross hospital. One day she goes to tea with the wi Angela and meets Jacks mother, whom Jack | calls The Head, because she man ages everything at home. She tells 1 Honey Lou that Grumpy is not sat ] isfied with his new secretary. Ann 1 Ludlow, the office vamp. Jack asks l Honey Lou to work for his father, who is at home sick with lumbago, and Honey Lou promises that she will.
 Honey Lou meets Angela. who 1 tells her that Jack Wallack Is talk ing her out to dance that evening. Honey Lou calls up Tim Donegal. determined to have him take her to the same place.
 Honey Lou goes with Tim to the restaurant and he has been drink ing. The place is raided by dry agents and Honey Lou escapes with Jack Wallack. Jack tells Honey Lou that he thought she was tricking him and ends by tell ing her that he loves her and wants her to marry him. Honey Lou tells her mother that she is to marry Jack Wallack the next day but her mother asks her to wait and have a wedding. Hon. ey Lou's engagement is announced and plans are made for the wed- ding.
 | She meets Angela downtown and she persuades her to open a charge account under the name of Mrs. Jack Wallack, Jr., and to put the shoes she is buying, along with some lingerie, on the account. But at home with Margret, who sees i through Angela, she decides to take back the lingerie and Margret pays for the shoes for a wedding gift.
 The day of the wedding is rainy, Jack comes to bring Honey Lou her engagement ring and his gift of a | brown dressing case in the morn | ing, all of which are signs of bad luck, according to Mrs. Huntley. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
 CHAPTER XIX
 Honey Lou was no fluttering | frightened, blushing bride. At the stroke of half past four she flung open the door of the lt- tie bedroom that she had shared with Margret for so many years, and walked serenely down the hall way to the sitting room.
 The day was dark, and al the lights in the house were turned on. In their glow, Honey Lou caught a glimpse of The Head, big and handsome in purple velvet. standing beside Grumpy who leaned on his cane.
 Just think, they'll be my father and mother-in-law in a few min | ok seemed as if it couldn't be true!
 Angela, in her shimmering white, stood beside them gazing at Jack with her wide dove-colored eyes.
 On the other side of the room were Honey Lou's own people. Mother and Margret, with their hands caught together as if to comfort each other. Aunt Lucy, dressed to kill in winecolored silk trimmed with cascades of told lace. Uncle Henry, biting the ends of his mustache and staring down at the floor. Uncle Henry was to give her away.
 Honey Lou's eyes swept past them all and went straight to Jacks grave, white face, as he stepped into the room. Her chin was held high as if the weight of the rose-point veil and 1 the orange blossoms on her queen ly little head dragged it back bit, and her parted lips smiled eagerly. 1 She could have posed for paint l ell a Ctnni [ there in the doorway with her eyes in her lovers eyes with her cheeks 1 flaming with sudden color AS she started toward him, light ming flashed across the room and 1 all at once the lights went out. A great crash of thunder seemed to l fairly shake the building.
 Close beside her, Honey Lou heard her mother give little moan. Poor mother who believed in signs!
 She probably thinks that this means bad luck for nc, too.' said 1 Honey Lou to herself with a light heart. She flashed her mother a smile as she passed her, the long | veil trailing out behind her like , blown mist But I'd get married today, if there's earthquakes, cy- clones and cloudbursts' + the end of the world came, I'd marry Jack, anyway"
 The room was in gray darkness now. except for the flickering { flames of two tall candles on the mantel-piece behind Jack and Dr. Merriam, the pastor of Mrs. Hunt 1 lcy's church.
 In the soft light that came from ! them, Honey Lou could sec only l Jacks face clearly. The others were all hidden from her in the l gloom.
 And so 1t seemed to her as if they stood alone. Just she and Jack-the two of them!
 In a dream, she heard Dr. Mer- riam's voice repeating the impress sive and beautiful words of the