New Britain herald., 1926-10-16

| only because she is clever, but be cause she Is nice to have around l Everyone else at the mills like: Honey Lou. too, from Ann Ludlow the office vamp, to Joe Meadows the shipping clerk. But Honey Lol 1 is half afraid of Meadows, withou quite knowing why.
 Jack Wallack comes to work IT his fathers factory to learn the busi ness. He falls in love with Honey Lou's beauty the first time he see. her. and later with her old-fashioneG ways and her sweetness. Brought up by her unworldly widowed moth, CT. Mrs. Huntley. Honey Lou is g mixture of modern flapper and | clinging vine,
 At a party given by Jacks neigh. bor, Angela Allen. Honey Lou drinks the first cocktails she has ever had thinking they are fruit punch. She makes love to Jack all the way home. not realizing how she has dis illusioned him. Neither does she know that while she was uncon- scious, Angela told Jack that she had seven cocktails. and called her his hard-boiled friend"
 Angela and she become great friends. She sympathizes with Honey Lou when Jack stops com ing to see her. and tells her that he's not the kind of man to take seriously. Honey Lou half believes her.
 Jack finally comes to see Honey Lou again. making no explanation of his absence. He Is intensely jealous of every man that Honey Lou knows. including one of his own friends, Tim Donegal He is also jealous of Dr. Stephen Mayhew, a friend of Honey Lou's half-sister, Margret Moody. And one night when Honey Lou takes part in a Charleston contest, he walks out of the theater where she is dancing, furious that she is making a public show of herself. Honey Lou decides to leave Wallack's and try to forget him. She goes to work at hospital with Margret, and Ann Ludlow be- comes "Grumpy's" secretary. Then one day Jack comes to see her at the hospital to ask her to work for his father again. Grumpy" Is at home. sick with lumbago, and so ir- ritable that he can't get along with Ann Ludlow, who has a temper of her own.
 NOW GO WITH THE STORY
 CHAPTER xxx
 T think you'd better come back to work for my Dad" Jack Wallack said again. I know he's pretty tough to get along with some times. but"
 "Why he's nothing of the kind": Honey Lou cut him off short. Her brown eyes blazed. 'T could get along with him forever and ever amen. It's you can't" She stopped. She had not meant to say that.
 "What do you mean? That you can't get along with me?' he asked. DO you mean that you don't want to come back to the ills because I'm there? Is that it? Because if it is, can keep out of your way"
 He smiled. but the hurt In his smile denied the smile.
 Before that hurt look Honey Lou's little flag of stisf-necked pride fluttered down and lay in the dust. It was dreadful to sit her and say cold. horrid things to this man when she wanted, with all her soul, to get up and put her arms around him and hold him close.
 Well, I don't mean just that Not exactly that but you know you've been-awfully mean to me-" The words tumbled out Of her mouth in funny little broken phrases.
 She stood up and tapped the top of her desk with nervous fingers.
 But I will come bacli-Ill start Nol oll hollddS' SIlc saiu' 'oou' bye"
 My cars outside. I'm going to drive you home" he answered with his quick. engaging grin.
 It's not time for me to quit work yet" Honey Lous velvety brown eyes went to the clock on the wall between the high win dows.
 Then I'll wait. I'm going to drive you home" he said firmly, and before she could open her liRs to protest he was gone.
 Honey Lou did not work at all during the next hour and a half.
 She wrote, "Now Is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their party" several hundred times on her typewriter.
 She went to the dressing room q half dozen times to powder her nose and to draw her little per fumcd lipstic k across her tremu- lous mouth.
 Once she walked down the long white COrfldor 10 the front uOol Of the hospital to see if Jack really were waiting for her.
 He was. He was slouched down behind the wheel of the black car reading. He had the look Of man who is prepared to wait patiently for any length of time, for some thing that he very much wants.
 But Honey Lou was not at all patient. She could hardly wait for six o'clock to come. The hands of the big clock on the wall opostte her desk seemed to stand still.
 At five minutes to six she cleared off her desk, locked 1t and hurried down the hall to the dressing room.
 She was glad she had worn her purple hat today. The purple hat that Angela Allen had urged her to buy.
 It cast lovely glow on her face, and against its dark brim her hair was like spun copper.