New Britain herald., 1926-06-24

! in Palm Beach with his sick father and every day he wrote to Sylvia. Long, lover-like letters.
 IL was during the last week Of his absence that pr, Buzzard told her she could get out of bed. for good.
 But you'll have to go slow. for a while.' he warned her. No rush ing around-no late hours-no wor- { ry" He scowled at her in his friend 1 ly way. and went
 Sylvia laughed at his retreating back-as if she wanted to rush tabout and keep late hours. All she wanted was 10 get out of bed, and mot be an invalid any more. She wanted 10 be Rannys wife and ! sweetheart, again Not a bedridden thing that lived on gruel and pills
 The day before Ranny came home the morning mail brought her a |check from the song publisher When Eycrything's Said" was still selling. and the check was for a 1 hundred dollars.
 What are you going to do with l Iit?" Lolly Boyle asked Sylvia, as she watched her take t out of its ] blue cracking envelope. Lollv had dropped in at Mother Phelps house, on her way down. town 10 buy herself some ne" clothes. She looked prettier than eyer to Sylvia as she sat perched Iup on one end of the breakfast table. like a bird q bird of Para disc. in her expensive plumage. Lol- ly was a slave to fashion. "You'd better buy yourself new dress with it. and knock Ranny's cycs out, when he comes home" Lolly advised her, without waiting for an answer.
 That was one lovely thing about LolIy. She chattored on and on, and you didn't have 10 answer her, if you didn't want 10. She asked her own questions and answered them herself. the way she thought they ought 10 be answered. AS her bus band often said, "Lolly can talk year without saying anything
 But this morning sylvia was lis- tening to her.
 Sna decided that Lollv's advice was inspired---It was ages since Rannv had seen her looking her best. r. was ages since he had seen her all "dolled up" in q dress that would make her eyes look more blue than they were, her skin more white. and her lips more red.
 Her eyes were dreamy when she answered little Lolly, T think I'll take vour advice and 20 downtown with you now, if you'll take me- she said.
 The dress she bought was q cum ming thing. + was as blue as her eyes. and all over it were little white organdie frills that looked like ruffles of foam along a sea wave
 She put it on the night of Ram nv's homecoming with his father. Lollv did her hair for her. and put the tinicst bit of rouge on her white cheeks, and some absolutely devas- .tating French perfume behind her cars and under her chin.
 'There. you handsome vamp, If he doesn't love you to pieces now, he never will" said Lolly when they heard the car turn in at the drive way. Sho gave her little push, and sent her down the stairs 10 RannY'
 So his first glimpse of her that night was nc as the pale, tired woman he had lef. behind him, but of 6 creature glowing with color, and radiant with the joy of his coming.
 She came down the wide stairs and straight into his arms, and the eyes and lirs that she raised to his face were like the starry eyes and the shy lips of a bride.
 And when he kissed her it was inc way man kisses woman for the first time.
 Two months later, Ranny bought the home Sylvia had been longing for, for three whole years.
 If was a little white house - Queen Anne cottage-out on Rex ford Road. near the edge of town where the air was clean and the trees were green. There were not many houses in the neiEhborhood' and q heavenly quiet brooded over the little white house and the green graden that surrounded it.
 Sylvia's own money went for the down payment on 1.-the $@,0oo that she had earned by writing "When Everything's Said"
 "Tho rest of the payments will be aasv 10 take care of" Fanny told her. in that sure way of his They won't he much more than we'd pay out in rent"
 All that summer he vas adorable He gave Sylvia an allowance that was more than enough to run the tinv place. She began to save some money. as the weeks went by for the furnishing of g room at the back of the house. A room on the sec ond floor. next door to Sylvia's own room.
 The things she wanted to buy with it were simple white things dotted Swiss curtains, q white rug, and tiny white crib.
 For the month Of February haf given her the only thing that could heal the wound that vas still in her heart.
 She know then that she was going to have another baby to take the place cs the one that had left her arms aching with emptiness.
 In November. on the night before Thanksgiving, Sylvia the Second was born.
 "We couldn't name her anything but Sylvia. the Second" Mother Phelps said to Aunt Agony, on Thanksgiving day. when the two Of .thnu, came +o nav their respects 10