New Britain herald., 1926-03-29

here almost every hour all evening"
 Morton chuckled. "So you don't think they love for myself aone"
 The girl took his hand and smoothed it between her own Maybe they love you maybe they can't help it. But if you didn't have much money you couldn't take them out places You have to work, and you'd be tired at night and would come home to me-
 Morton made little crooning noise in his throat makes to troubled child Arising he stopped and picked the girl up in his Carefully he mounted the steps to the second story of the duplex apartment and set he) down at the door of her own boudoir.
 q do work, truly' he said, gravey. Just because ] work at desk is no sign that don't do hard work. But never knew that the company of an old man like me would be missed by my pretty little kitten
 As the other girl had donc hour before Audrey held him by the shoulders.
 "Youre NOT od. she protested You won't be old for years and years and years, And I'd rather be with you than with anybody else.
 She slipped her forengels into his vest pockets and stood moment, her eyes cast to the floor Nhy didn't you get married?" she resumed Didn't you evel want to get married? Didn't you ever see anyone you wanted to marry?
 Mortons face contracted for moment as at painful thought but in moment he was smiling again.
 "Wel, I've thought about it sometimes Have IOU?' He tilted her head, crooked finger beneath her chin and looked moment into her eyes, She turned her head away Then standing tptoe she bestowed swift kiss upon his cheek, and fled into her room.
 Good night" she called from behind the closed door Thoughtfuy Morton descended the stairs and sank int the big leather chair which always awaited him, in the living At three o'clock, he still was sitting there thinking.
 For fifteen years. Harry Mortonand the girl Audrey had interested the people of New Britain.
 When Morton first appeared therc early in the year 1910 with te bueeyed fouryearold girl holding tightly his hand he went directly to the Burt hotel and engaged suite of rooms-two bedrooms, and sitting room. Almost at once he opened office, with the sign "IIan E. Morton, Broker, on the door,
 Just what form of property he dealt in his neighbor in the building not What attracted their atten ton and that of the folk in the lobby of the hotel that presently he appeared at the wheel of the largest howies automobile in town In this on Sunday mornings and often of weekday afternoon, he and the littl Andrew would speed away for long rides the country roads,
 When he bought house. it notable not for it's size, but for the number of servants that he installed in it. This two years after his appearance in New Britain
 By the standards of New Britain, home. equipped with two servants had bit of grandeur about it. Morton el, gagged four for his house in the outskira cook chaut feur, housemaid and personal maid for the little girl Naturally, there was talk good deal of it,
 Just as naturally, much of the talk unfrendly. Folk New Britain just apt to be suspicious things and theories and people that they do not understand the people Main street and in New York; and the remainder of the globe.
 Nobody understood Morton He continued his business, in his modest brokerage office, but New Britain found out exactly what that business Once fortnight and sometimes once week, he made journey to New York. Why he went, the most digent searchers after
  expensive apartment there well his home in New Britain.
 Evidently he had ample means His bankers greeted him cordially; with little deference. Occasionally he dabbled bit in local real estate. His motor of the finest the appointments of his house rich the little girl Audrey always dressed in fashions that came from Paris.
 The gossips heard and agreed that Morton was bach elor; that the little girl his adopted chd that he close-mouthed about his past and about his present. to most astounding degree and that he the most atrac tive figures among all the males of New Britain.
 Further than that there agreement at all Morton himself took pains to solve any of their doubts Ind ferent to the talk about him in the town he went his way, addressing compliments to such he knew offering gay companionshp and hospitality to the his circle giving generously to the Charity Chest drives Illness toward him in New Britain disappeared The culos ty, however, remained.
 On the day when he and Audrey returned from New York little crowd gathered at the station to greet ar incoming celebrity.
 Morton smiled he noted that he aroused as lively an interest the arriving notable He waved greeting to the crowd and Audrey smiled and nodded as they entered their automobile.
 You're a regular prima-donna yourself" she said to him.
 He laughed. Some of these people are simply going t. explode day, the mystery of my visits to New York.
 "Why don't you tell them?" she asked
 "Why should l." he countered.
 A neat housemaid opened the door of their home and dropped curtsey. She had come not long before from England and held to the of the English household where she had been bred.