New Britain herald., 1926-07-13

iN nOI nlES ne" to Merry. Shes beer . doing that ever since she was six. . teen But this time she feels she has found the Real Thing. : One day she tries 10 flirt with the Man in Gray and after that he stops noticing her. But one night when she is at circus with her youngest sister. JINNT, and DER 7 RICK JONES, who lives next door. she meets the Man in Gray. He is a young lawyer named ANTHONY GAINES. and is T good friend of MORLEY KAUFMAN. who employs
 Merry's sister, CASSIE, in his office.
 Tony and Merry see a great deal of each other for a month, and he asks her 10 marry him. Merry wants 10 be married at once. but Tony insists that they wait for six months Merry has told him about .all her other love affairs, particu-
 larly about the one she had uith
 Derrick Jones; and Tony wants her
 10 he sure that she really cares for
 him before they settle down as husband and wife.
 Merry fails in her business
 course. and dreads telling MONS
 about if. While She Is trying to screw
 up her courage to break the news to her, DAD, Merry'S father. has
 stroke at the wholesale grocery where he is a clerk. and dies, Ieay- ing almost no money. Shortly after the funeral. HELEN, the oldest Of the four Locke sisters. announces
 that she has married BILL HEP 1 WORTH, whose father owns the
 store where Dad worked. Merry con- ffesses to Mons that she has failed in her stenoEraphic course. and of- fers to take over Helens job Of . helping with the bousework. But
 Mons firmly tells her she'll have to
 go to work outside the home i'm | mcdiately, because they need money.
 Merry hated the thought of work
 ing She begs Tony 10 get married | at once. But he refuses to. insist , ing that thoy wait until the six months are up.
 His mother returns from an out of-town visit. and Tony doesn't come to see Merry that night for the first time in weeks. Cassie tells her that he must be ashamed of her, or he'd have wanted her to meet his mother at once. For the first time, Merry begins 10 doubt Tony and his sincerity. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XIII
 Sometimes tiny thing that hap pens to us can change the whole current of our lives.
 And if was one of those tiny unimportant things that happened at this moment to Merry Locke. As she opened the door Of her own room. an automobile horn honked in the driveway that ran down between the Iocke's house and the house next door.
 That's Derrick. Whats he toot ing for, like that?" she asked with her hand on the knob of the door. It was the first time she had given a thought to Derrick Jones for day5 and days,
 D Mons. He's going to drive her over 10 see Helen's new house to- night" Cassie called out in her ! bored. drawling way.
 For @ second Merry hesitated l Then she swung around on her | high heels and was down the stairs ! like a flash. She ra1 out into the porch and leaned over the railing.
 "Dcrrick." she called, would : you have room in your car for me. tooo"
 She half expected him to say mo" He had been sulking ever since the night he had seen Tony kissing her goodnight under the willow tree at the gate.
 But. after a moments pause, he said "Yeah," In a grudging sort of way,
 "I guess I'll go along, too" Cas- sic decided, when Merry ran up- stairs again. q can sit on your lap in the car. I'd like 10 see what kind of place Bill Hepworths fixing up for Helen. Not much of a palace, I'll bet a last years hat.'
 It was nothing like palace. II was a tiny bungalow far out on Road. and all around it were little bungalows just like ii.
 The moonlight showed them as i, alike as row of June peas in a pod. They all were white. with | shingle roofs and paneled doors.
 Some of the roofs were stained green, and some were brown. Most \ of the doors were white, but the f ioor of the Hepworth house was I green with a brass knocker. That l was the only thing that marked II r IS different from Its neighbors. I
 Until this moment Cassie had r ,een bitterly unhappy over Helen's f marriage to Bill Hepworth. Un- lble to Hand" Morley Kaufman f herself she had been angry and re- II entful because the unattraCtive Helen had managed to bag hus- a ,and. K
 But now, as she looked at the a heap little house set on ifs sandy Y ot, she was sorry for Helen; and n he tOrEaVe her in her heart. n
 What a dump." she exclaimed, r. yeing the humble, sprawling TOW f little houses. 'Td never marry \ f couldn't better myself, would s' ou, Merry?" Ii
 "Oh, I don't know" answered Jerry. who would cheerfully have one 10 live with Tony Gaines in b hurricane cellar if he had asked W er to. si
 She climbed out of the roadster h nd followed her mother and h 'assie mp to the porch that was ot much bigger than a pocket h andkerchtef. hi Derrick refused to leave his car. fl No, I'll stay right here" he said Y hen they begged him 10 go into Il ne house. T hate family gather