New Britain herald., 1926-08-25

Then Mons said, "No, inded!" in ! a firm voice.
 She repeated it, NO, indeed! He knows how to get hold of you if he wants to see you. Don't ever run after a man, Merry"
 Without saying anything more. Merry started downstairs with the untouched tray.
 That was what all women said Don't run after man."
 And yet wasn't that what all women did as a matter of fact, Merry wondered.
 Perhaps they didn't do it in bold. obvious way. But they did it all the same! They had their own dainty, secret little ways of roping the male.
 They planned little parties and asked him to them. They had their own ways of leading up to the question of marriage. Sometimes. like Jimmy they let the man they wanted know that they were unhappy at home. Sometimes, like Cassie, they let man know that they were waiting for him to marry her, and wore him down by sheer persistence, year after year.
 And Merry knew a girl who told man she considered herself "sacredly bound to him forever and ever, because he had kissed her once-iust once!
 "Poof!" she said to herself, as she thought of it, eff I'd consider myself 'sacredly bound 10 a man just because he'd kissed me, I'd be 'sacredly bound to couple of dozen, at least!"
 But she never had tried to hold any of them. She prided herself on | that. She had even been willing 10 let Bill Erskine go, at the time when Mons had announced her en- gagement to him! "1 could have married him if I'd ! insisted on it." she told herself as she set Mons tray down on the i kitchen table.
 i How glad she was now that she had not married Bill. Somehow, it made her happy to think that she was free, just as Tony Gaines was | Even if she never saw him again. But perhaps he would come to see her. Perhaps he would call her up She waited.
 It began to dawn on her that he was not going to see her.
 Friday night passed.
 Saturday passed.
 Sunday came, and with it Der rick and-Morley Kaufman. i It happened that they came at the same time Morley's great shin ing closed car followed Derrick S disreputable speed buggy" into the driveway.
 From her bedroom window Mer- ry saw them arrive, as she brushed her hair for the day.
 She turned around to Cassie, who was propped up against the pillows of her bed, reading a new book on diet and exercise.
 "Morley's here" she said
 Morley" Cassie repeated in a tiny voice, Morley" And then she began to cry.
 She Uros oo+ y,rotty r-l,on eI o cried. Her nose and her eyes red dened in q most unbecoming way Moreover, her face was covered with anti-wrinkle cream, and hel tears made a shiny path through it
 Merry was amazed to see that she intended going downstairs looking the way she did.
 She got out of bed and stuck her feet into a pair of orchid satin mules, and flung an orchid break fast coat around her shoulders.
 Morley! Morley!" she called sobbingly, as she opened the door of the room and flew down the stairs to him.
 Whatever she said to him, and whatever explanations and apolo- gies Morley may have made to her, the family never knew. For they shut themselves up in the parlor, and even Jimmy. with her ear pressed tight against the door, could not hear a word they said. Only their low muffled voices.
 But at the end of quarter of an i hour they came out. and Cassie dressed aAd went home with her l bIshopd 4o tbo xra,4 -,~ei,d 1,nuae