New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1926-12-08
"JACK,' SHE SCREAMED, Jack! JACK!"

He laughed. Don't what? You
don't mind if I shake hands with
you now that you're going do
you?" His teeth flashed, strong
| and yellowish white as the teeth of
some handsome animal.
III tell you what you do, Joe"
she said wildly. not even answer
ing his question, I'm staying at
my mothers house right now.
You come there tonight, and we'll
talk over this affair of AIMS and
yours. My mothers house is on
Arbor street" Perhaps that
would hold him off now--if she
promised to let him see her to-
night. OF course, she needn't keep
that promise.
He laughed again, and swung her
around so that she faced him.
He pulled her slowly and ire
sistibly toward him. His left arm
went around her holding her close
to his great powerful body.
"Yeh, and when I got there I'd
found you'd changed your mind,
and the door would be shut in my
face" he said amiably enough.
You can't kid me that way. Honey
Lou. I know you'll know you too
well. You never could stand me,
could you?"
Honey Lou did not say a word.
But she suddenly began to struggle
in his arms. Tried to pull herself
away from him, using her hands
and her feet and all her strength.
Where she had been like strand
OF steel wire in his grasp only a
second before. she was like an en-
ragged wildcat now - beating him
with her fists, kicking at him with
her small feet.
And Joe Meadows only laughed,
and held up his face to protect 1t
from her beating hands.
What are you trying to kill me
for?" he asked in that thick laugh
ing voice of his, after a minute
Of silent struggle on Honey LOUIS
part. "Just give me a kiss till to-
night-just to make me sure you'll
be there waiting for me when ]
come"
Bargain nothing" gasped Honey
Lou, almost beside herself with
fright and fury, you take your
nasty hands off me-you. Dyou
hear me-"
With a great wrench, she was
suddenly clear of him and across
the room like lightning. Over the
top of some burlap bales she glared
at him with wide brown eyes that
held the look of an animal at bay.
Now, get out of my way and
let me co." she painted. you go
and open that gate out there or
PHI" She stopped short. What
could she do if he refused to
open the gate and let her go? What
could she do?
Honey Lou, you're making lit
tie fool OF yourself" he told her.
whats the matter with you, any
way? You'd think I was trying to
hurt you---" He came step or
two nearer, his eyes on her parted
red lips and the eyes that shone
between their fluttering lashes.
He came still closer. talking as
he came and smiling.
But Honey Lou did not hear a
word he said. Her brain was busy
with the sight OF him-with the
lowered. bull-like head, the blush
stubble of beard on his face, the
cruel line of the mouth.
In his coarse way. he was good
looking. The kind of man who is
used to a certain success in most of
his crude love-affairs.
Baby" he said to her coaxingly.
as If he were trying to argue a
child out OF its fear of the dark.
And Honey Louis fear of him
was just as foolish and just as
strong as a child's fear of the dark.
She couldn't understand 1t, herself.
He was the only human being she
ever had been afraid of, In her life.
You aren't honestly afraid of
me, are you?" he asked all at one.
ah If he read her thoughts. He
pushed a bale out of the way with
one of his great hands as if 1t had
been a child's wooden block, and
stood before her. The faint odor
of the pipe he smoked came to her
nostrils, sickeningly. He put his
grease stained hands on both OF her
little shoulders
The moment OF utter silence
seemed like a hundred years to
Honey Lou. And then all at once