New Britain herald., 1926-10-22

her against her will.
 Jack Wallack, who comes 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.
 At a party given by Angela AL len, Honey Lou has two cocktails which are her first taste of liquor. She passes out and Angela takes advantage of her unconscious state to turn Jack against her.
 Angela pretends to be friend of Honey Lou and tells her not to take Jack seriously. Jack begins to call on Honey Lou again, but he is very jealous and one night when Dr. Steve Meyhew comes to the house Jack is very angry although Steve is a friend of Margret, Honey Lou's sister.
 A few nights later while Honey Lou is taking part in a Charleston contest just for a lark, he stalks out of the theater where the con- test is held, furious because Honey Lou was making a holy show of herself" as he says. Honey Lou de- cides to leave Wallack's, and goes to work with Margret in the office of Holy Cross hospital. One day she goes to tea with the willy An gela and meets Jacks mother, whom Jack calls the Head because she manages everything at home. She tells Honey Lou that "Grum- py' is not satisfied with his new secretary, Ann Ludlow, the office vamp. The next day, Jack asks Honey Lou to work for his father. who is at home sick with lumbago, and Honey Lou promises that she will.
 Honey Lou is asked by "Grum- py' to bring the mail from his of fee to his siCkbod. At the office she has an encounter with Ann, who accuses Honey Lou of stealing her job. Later Grumpy" startles her by asking, What's this I hear about you and Jack running around together?"
 Honey Lou is angered by his question and decides to quit her Job, but is argued out of it by the fact that Grumpy" finally admits that he considers her good enough for Jack or anyone. Honey Lou meets Angela, who tells her that Jack Wallack is taking 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 telling her that he loves her and wants her to marry him. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY i.
 CHAPTER XIV
 Mrs. Huntley was worried.
 She sat up in bed, trying to read . her magazine, but she could not keep her mind on it.
 Every now and then, her anxious . yes would shift to the little clock on the table beside her four-poster ped. Half past one. Twenty minutes 70 two.
 She dozed off and woke sudden y when church bell, somewhere across the moonlit roofs of the 'ity, chimcd two.
 Two o'clock. and Honey Lou had lot come home. Where on earth 'ould she have gone with that wild Tim Donegal? She had never been 'ut so late before with him or any ,ne else.
 Perhaps she had been hurt in an accident - driving with that wild 'reature in his roaring torpedo of 'n automobile. Perhaps she was ying dead, right this minute. out 'n some frozen country road. Per lapSz-
 With her mothers heart beating ultocatingly. Mrs. Huntlcy got out 'f the bed and put on her napar. 'tte bathrobe and her slippers. l he hallway she stopped and thr,a Ter old cape around her shoulders
 She opened the door of the flai md slipped down the dark stain. 'ast Miss MacComber's door to tn, treet door.
 She pushed it open, and stepped ut into the crisp air. The street vas empty from end to end-dark nd silent under the night time ky.
 There was not a sound anywhere. 'ot even a rustling of dry leaves IT paper in the gutters, for there vas no wind.
 She was just turning to go back fl nto the building, when the distant urr of an automobile broke the I tlllneSs. It came nearer and nearer.
 Then headlights came flashing round the corner. and on up the treet toward her.
 Mrs. Huntley had just time | nough to run up the stairs to the l at, before the car stopped in front [ the house. She tiptoed to the I ay window of the sitting room. i ushed back the curtains, and 1oked out. i The car was at the curbstone, but ]
 was empty. Beside it stood two ' eople, locked in each others arms, ) that they seemed to be one fig . re as they stood there. IS
 Up went the window with q !, weep and a bang. Harriet Louise Huntley! Come : here this minute!' Mrs. Hunt ys soft southern voice was curt nd commanding, for once.
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