New Britain herald., 1926-06-16
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II til [ l'i DiA'fE' ''S lN i'A 'f . A.hf'l up, 10 t'o great satisfaction ot AUNT AGONY. the old maid who reared her. Aunt Agony calls Rauny shiftless and lazy, 9ni says hcu never he true Q any woman. She urges Sylvia 10 marry PETER WILK. the bachelor brother Of her best friend. MISS SARAH WILK.
 Aun, AEouy's opirion Of Emny seems 10 be tho correct one. for he and Fay suddenly break their on- EaEement and he marrirs Sylvia after all. The pair settl" down in a tiny flat that Sylvia cells The Nest, and before long Ranny is back with his card playing crouj1s, gambling away mos of t1e family fuuis Then hc has second affair with tho fHghtv Fay. But whom Sylvia breaks the news that she's going 10 have q baby. ho turns over q new leaf and Irhavos himself for 2 time. Fay announce, her engagement 10 EDDIE CARTIER, and marrios him..
 Shortly after ,he birth Of the baby -"Juuey'' Rannv rjcl;nam"s him. Eanny goas back 10 his old tricks. and Sylvia has 10 give music lessons to pay the household bills. Theu Ranny falls in love with q divorcea. MRS. JhNE BRACKETT. who works for FATHER PHELPS real estate company. He says that he is only interested in Mrs. Rrackctt's business career. and Syl- yia decides 10 have q career too. and goes on studying voice. under MISS SHARP. her old tclole7.
 About this time NOTHEi; PHELPS tells Sylvia what 3 disap pointmcut Fanny has boen fo his father. And Father Phelps takes THOMAS BOYLE. Who married Ranny's young sieter. JOLLY, into the firm. This auErrs Eamv. but doesn't reform him. H. gives Syl- via less than S1h0 month and comes home only 10 sleep and change his clothes. "hen he buys a new car. and when Sylvia reminds him she is having q hard time keep ing the house going on her earnings ho calls her EraspinE and bangs himself out of the house.
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 CHAPTER NNNIlI
 Sylvia sat perfectly still at the table for q long time after the door of Tho Nest had banged behind Ranny,
 Her eyes were fixed on the cloth where some cake crumbs lay scat tered. Her fingers brushed them to- gether into a little heap. but she didn't Nncw they were there.
 Her thoughts were outdoors some~ here with Eanny, wherever he was.
 "Worc on each others nerves he and l." she vas thinking, and itsmy fault. I've lot him drift away from me all tbesc months. [ haven't played with him enough. I haven't been his pal. Ho'cs begun 10 think Of mo as nothing but household drudge"
 It came 10 her with shock that she hadn't been in Eanny's old automobile for months. She hadn't so much as gone 10 movie with him. No wonder he was such friends with Jane RracEeJ.
 "Tu end it." Sylvia made up her mind. "I'll end it tonieht,' She jumped up from the table. locked the door Of The Nost on the outside and ran down 10 the base mont of the flat. Thoro. in q little four-room suite, lived Mrs, Pigeon, the ianitress.
 She was q little plump woman Of sixty or so. and she had become very friendly with Sylvia. Several times she had offered to come I'D and sit with he baby if Sylvia want cd 10 go ont
 It vas about this offer that Syl- via had come 10 her now ! q wanted 10 ask you if you could give me one or two evenings q week." she said coming into the kitchen. "The hahy's old enough now, to be left, think. He never wakes mp at night any more, and
 Sure I'll be glad 10 comc!" Mrs Pigeon took the words out of Syl- vias mouth, "and can do your Intending, besides, while I'm sitting | mp there in your flat. Thirty cents an hour is what l charge. Is that all nleht?"
 Sylvia assured her that 1t was a fair price, and she ran upstairs tc The Nest. feeling that she had made a good start toward winning Ranuy away from Jane Bracket, Ii ought not be so hard a job anyway.
 From words that Fanny had dropped here and there she knew exactly what Jane Brackets urc was. Flatcry!
 Mrs Bracket says l have toc much vision to be just an ordinary business man." he would say tc | Sylvia sometimes.
 Or: Mrs, Bracket thinks that ( man Of my type ought 10 marry . woman much older than himself She herself was seven years older than Raany! And Sylvia knew ii!
 So her pretty mouth curlor scornfully now as she thought oyel these remarks while she cleared away the dishes and began 10 rur Iho hot water into tho dishpan.
 "When cverylhing's said anc done, Ranny loves me better tha1 anyone under the sun" she tolc herself. The words stuck in he' mind as she went on washing th' dishes. They began 10 sing them selves 10 her, and presently shr found herself humminE:
 ."And evcrything's done that need
 to be done,
 When I kiss the sweetest lip
 under the sun."
 She dropped the lishcloth ant went into the living room. She sa down at the old Steinwav piano
 that had been her mothers. an, began to pick ont the melody ol line yrllONpd keys.