New Britain herald., 1926-08-19

ING HER HEAD. T SEE ALL M tended to do
 You're a little fool" said Lillie in her downright way. I'd never give him back penny of it! You should worry about him, when he treated you the way he did! He's mighty lucky you didn't sue him for breach of promise, and walk off with twenty or thirty thousand dollars. You could have got it-just like that!"
 She snapped her fingers to show how easily Merry could have taken a small fortune away from Bill Erskine.
 But Merry shook her head. No --I didn't want his money" she said. Somehow, I don't want these things any more, either" she held out the diamond watch bracelet and some other bejewelled trinkets that Bill had given her, in the palm of her small hand. . | Lillie looked as her as if she had lost her mind. You don't mean to say you're going to send back that stuff to him, do you?" she gasped.
 Merry nodded.
 ,'Well. you poor little simp" Lil- lie cried. If you aren't a Dumb Dora, nobody on this earth isl"
 Nevertheless, Merry put Bills dia- monds into a box and gave it to Morley Kaufman.
 "I don't know Bills address and L don't want to know it. You send this box to him for me, will you?" she asked him, the day she called on him in his office.
 She knew that he would. Morley might be as crooked at dogs hind leg when it came to his dealings with women, but he was as straight as a die about money and other things.
 Through the open door of his pri- vate office Merry could see the beau- tiful blond private secretary with whom Morley was supposedly in love.
 She laughed suddenly. and looked straight into her brother-in-law's . tarial course, Morley" she said to him, "and then I'm coming down here to work for you. Will you let me?"
 She saw him dart lightning glance at tue blond head bent over a typewriter in his outer office, and then back at, her. Fair enough! Of course, I'll let you do it." he an- swered. "I'll be glad to do it. It'll stop Cassie from having mysteries, even if it does nothing else. I've never had a girl working for me yet, that Cassie didn't call every kind of vampire and siren known to man! Sure, I'll give you q job. She can't kick about her own sister working for me-, can she?"
 On the following Saturday Merry left the beauty shop for good.
 She walked away from it at five in the afternoon, feeling that she had. left the most unhappy part of her life behind her. Tony Gaines had never wanted her to go into that beauty shop, and she was sorry she had Sever entered it, a
 She felt that she had wasted eight of the best years of her life there, and that now she must go back to the place where she had been at twenty.
 "Pll take a weeks vacation, and put my clothes into some Kind of order, and then I'll start work at the business school" she told Mons the next morning.
 It was Sunday and the two of them were alone in the cool, neat kitchen that looked out onto the backyard.
 The two of them were alone at breakfast. Lillie had gone to Sum- set lake for the week-end and MT. Hefflinger was away on business. There was nothing to be done in the house, except to make the beds and Iwash the dishes, for they were go- ling to have an ice-box dinner. Cold roast beef, and potato salad, and peach pie that Mons had made the day before.
 "Nmm, what do you think of that?' Mons mufHlufeu as II she were talking to herself
 She was looking over the Sunday paper, and was reading the death Hist. She always read it before she even glanced at any other part of the paper
 irony Gaines mother dead" she went on. without raising her eyes. Somebody said she was sick, the other day. We'll, we all have to go sooner or later, don't we?"
 She sighed deeply and carried her dishes across the kitchen to the sink.
 "Fhe funerals to be Wednesday, !" she remarked presently. T suppose that's to give Tony time to get here from Montana. wonder how he'll leave that murder case of his"
 He won il" said Merry, wooden Iy. She had looked at the front page while Mons read the death list. The paper says so. this morning"
 "Well I shall certainly go to the funeral. 1 never miss a funeral. l see all my old friends at them" ob- .lserved Moma, solemnly shaking her