New Britain herald., 1926-08-04
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 Merry Locke, pretty and gay q
 her name, is a born flirt. Her onl,
 ambition is to have a good tim, and plenty of beaux. At 20 she&Sail.
 Tn her course at business school be
 cause she won't study. Then wher her father dies suddenly, she takes
 job in Lillie Dale's beauty shor
 at tiny salary.
 Mons, her mother, takes Lillie
 Dale and Mir. Hefflinger into the
 house as boarders. At that time Mer-
 ry IS having the first real love af-
 fair of her life. The man in the
 case is Tony Gaines, an ambitious
 young lawyer. Their engagement lends when he learns that Merry has been going out with other men. He goes to Montana, and later Merry hears he is going to marry girl there.
 Helen, the oldest of the Locke sisters, marries. So does Cassie, the second oldest. She is not happy with
 Morley Kaufman, her rich husband But Merry envies her her easy life
 and decides to marry money, too, if
 possible.
 Jimmy, the youngest sister, elopes
 with Derrick Jones, who lives next door.
 | Through Morley Merry meets Bill Ersline, a wealthy bachelor. She be- comes engaged 10 him. but he keeps putting off the date of the wed- l ding.
 town, Merry meets an old beau of hers, Les Purcell. She sees a great deal of him and one night Bill Frs kline finds him at the house when he drops in unexpectedly. He and Mer- ry quarrel, and Merry refuses the cheap engagement ring he finally offers to buy for her.
 Bill goes away, and month passes, One day Les Purcell comes to the shop in high excitement. He tells Merry that he is married, and that his wife is going to divorce him and name her as correspondent. She hurries to go to see Nonie Purcell and explain matters to her But Nonie has taken poison to end her life and her troubles, and is in hospital Mons. who has announced 1 her sudden intention to marry Mr. i goes to see her, but she 1 is too i'll to see anyone. Merry waits ! for her to recover. when she in | tends to tell her that she did not l know Les was married. She goes 1 downtown one afternoon and bumps into Cabby Marsh. who is half en- gagged to Morley's sister, Muriel. He asks her to go for a drive with him. but she tells him that she can't. He asks her why.
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 CHAPTER XLVII
 Merry looked up at Cabby Marsh with laughter deep in her green eyes and on her parted lips.
 You didn't know I'm regular home wrecker, did you. Cabby?" she asked him, with her head tilted ,oquettishly to one side. "A regu- lar deep-sea siren that's mel" |,
 Cabby looked puzzled. s"I can be- ltN0 LllC utGIJ-HNt StuIl pIl IJSItt r 1e said, but where does the home come into the picture?"
 He put his hand under one of her f elbows and turned her around. l
 Come along" he insisted. "We l ant stand here in the middle of the f ;treet. I want to hear all about this. g It's too good to miss, I can tell Ir hat" r
 They zig gagged their way through he Fir street crowds to the Towers Z Hotel. |
 The big dining room was empty i t that time in the afternoon. They f ound a corner table and there, f yer coffee and cigarets, Merry told q i'm the story of Les Purcell and f .es Purcells wife, Nonie. S
 She told it to him between puffs t, q long Russian cigaret from a o ok of them that he had just bought & or her in the lobby. Merry had h cen working for more than a year ow, She had learned to "inhale" r nd she often said she needed a moke to quiet her nerves"-just II Ike a man.
 And so this PurcelIs wife is go- D 1g to drag you into the case." Cab- il y remarked, when she had finish d the sordid little story. Gosh, Ic hats tough, isn't it? Your name ST ill be plastered all over the news le apers, l suppose" S, Merry shook her head.
 No, indeed" she answered airily. n Because just as soon as Nonie Il urcell is well enough to see me, fl m going to tell her that I didn't a ven know that her beautiful duck a a husband was married until u