New Britain herald., 1926-07-19
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By Beatrice Burton

and Merry heard the cruching of wheels on the driveway outside.
 Three or four minutes went by.
 Mons, with warning finger on her lips, was still peering out into the night, when Jimmy came running along the porch. f..r.
 She flung open the door and faced her. r.
 "So this is how you go to the movies!" she said in terrible voice. T saw you, letting that softly from next door kiss you! After all my talk and featuring! After all my care! Haven't I told you and told you and told you to keep yourself to yourself. Haven't IF"
 She seized the luckless Jimmy by her slim shoulders, and began to shake her as If she were six years old instead of 16.
 Jinny threw back her red head and giggled wildly.
 "Tll lock you up, my lady, if you don't behave yourself!' Mons voice rose higher and higher. "I'n see whether you'll stay out till mid night with that boy, or not"
 Jimmy, crying and laughing at once by this time. jerked herself away from her mother, picked up her fallen hat, and rushed upstairs,
 "Tll do as I please!" she sobbed loudly as she went. "Tll do just as I please, and it'll take more than you to stop me, too! You mix up in my business and see what hap pens. You leave me alone!'
 The slamuing of her bedroom door deadened the sound of her voice.
 Merry followed her up the stairs.
 CHAPTER XXIy :
 In the white, low-ceilinged bed her clothes as she un6ressed.
 Stormy eyed and bright checked. she turned as Merry came in and shut the door behind her.
 For heavens sake, lock it!" she cried. If Mons gets in, she'll go on raving till tomorrow morn ing!"
 "As If it would do her any good!" she added sharply. "She has just about as much chance of keeping me away from Derrick Jones as they have of keeping Mary Pick ford out of the movies!"
 ''Is that so?" asked Merry, who knew Mons when her mind was made up.
 "Yes, that's sol" Jimmy retorted, shaking out her stockings and hanging them over the foot Of the bed. q suppose she thinks girl can entertain her boy friend by making fudge or turning on the radio for him!! But you just flip it from me, that doesn't work any more! You pet 'em nowadays or they go where the betting isl"
 Thus crudely did Jimmy Locke, at the age of sixteen, sum up that which makes the world go round
 And, anyway" she went on. vigorously brushing her red hair with a pair of military brushes And. anyway, Derrick doesn't know the meaning of the word quit in Chinese-Listen!" She held up a slim forefinger.
 Outside there was the hum of a high powered car, then Cassie's voice calling Goodnight and the tap-tap of her high heels on the porch below.
 Jimmy gave sharp glance at the battered alarm clock on the dresser.
 Almost one o'clock" said she.
 Its all right for her to trail in at any old time. But when I do it, it's a different kind of bedtime story!"
 She's eight years older than you, Jin," Merry reminded her. and she's been going with Morley Kaufman for a long time"
 Jinny's straight eyebrows shot up a half inch.
 "Yes, and that's all the good il does her!' she returned snappily Hell never marry her, If she lives hundred years. If he wanted to- he'd have done 1t years ago."
 In her own mind. Merry agreed with her
 She was sure that Morley Kauf. man was not the marrying kind She figured him for the gun-sh. sort of bachelor that Bill Erskint was-fearful lest some sweet young thing slip up behind him and lasst him with a wedding ring.
 And so the next morning sht was not prepared for the new. that Cassie broke to them at th' breakfast table, between sips O coffee and bites of buttered toast
 Well, girls" she said, I've pu it over. I'm going to marry Morle. Kaufman in October"
 It was no secret in the bosom o the Locke family that Cassie hat been trying to get Morley to tn sticking point" for years. The. had all talked it over behind he back, many times.
 Hes the only man I've eve seen that I really want" she, her self, had said time and time again And if I can land him, I'm goini to!"
 Nobody knew whether 1t wa Morley or Morley's money that at tracted her. Probably both, Merr had decided.
 But now, looking at Cassie, sh wasn't so sure about that.
 There was a softness and sweetness in Cassie's face tha hadn't been there before-the loo of woman who knows that man adores her and wants her. look that Is partly dreamy shynes and partly high triumph.
 You're going to be my maid 0 honor" she said suddenly { Merry. "and Bill Erskine's goin to be Morley's best man."
 She crossed her arms on tn tablecloth, and outlined the plan for the wedding she had bee