New Britain herald., 1926-08-24
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because sLe won't study. To the disappointment of Mons, her ambi- tious mother, she takes a job in Lil- lie Da!e's beauty shop.
 At that time she ij having the one real love Sffair of her life - with Tony Gaines a serious. young lawyer who wants to marry her. Their enga cement ends when Merry, in a jealous rage, admits that she lets other men make love to her. Later letter comes from him, but it is Host" in the house before she has a chance to read it. Then she hears that Tony has left town. and gone to Montana to live After a year Merry learns that he is going to marry girl there.
 Cassie. her sister marries her rich employer. Morley Kaufman, but is not happy with him. Through Cassie. Merry meets Bill Erskine and be- comes engaged 10 him. But when she gets mixed up in the divorce case of Les Purcell and his wife, Bill drops her and marries another girl.
 Mons marries Mir. Hefflinger. Then Jimmy, the youngest sister. elopes with Derrick Jones; and home is no longer home to Merry. She drifts along for years. having one suitor after another; but finally she is left with one, George Leet.
 Tony gains fame when he becomes a criminal lawyer and wins cele- brated case. One day while she and Mons are cleaning house, Merry finds the long-lost letter from him a love letter.
 | Cassie cheerfully admits having | hidden it because she wanted Merry 10 marry Bill Erskine. That night 1 Merry breaks with George Leet, and a few days afterward when Les Purcell wants to take her out, she refuses to have anything 10 do with l him.
 1 Realizing how Tony has succeed 1 ed while she has done nothing with 1 her life, she leaves the shop and plans to go on with her secretarial course. Morley Kaufman promises her a'job, because Cassie is so jeal- ous of every girl who works for him, he says Cassie le;Jes him, after a quarrel, and comes home to Mons. She quarrels constantly with Jinny. | who is spending a week at home | with her twin babies. Tony's mother 1 dies, and Tony comes back to town | to the funeral. Merry sees him, but | does not speak 10 him. She wonders if he has brought Lis wife along with { him..
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 CHAPTER LXIV
 On Friday morning Cassie came | downstairs dressed for the street. Her air of dejection was gone, and | she was bright-eyed and alert. A small smile lowered on her thin red mouth and shone in her eyes. Where are you going?" Mons asked her in surprise when she | opened the dining room door at half past eight.
 "Tm going job-hunting, Mons she said,'" Cassie misquoted glibly. and took her place at the table.
 Merry almost dropped her coffee |, cup in sheer astonishment. "Job | hunting?" she echoed, and Cassie | nodded her head in its smart satin ! hat that cost more than many a | good stenographer earns week, i
 "Wheelright and Sukey have ad- | vertised for secretary-and I'm it. | That is, if some other girl doesn't I beat me to it." she said calmly.
 Now, Wheelright and Sukey were i keen competitors of Morley Kauf- , mans.
 And not only that, but Mrs Enos Wheelright and Mrs. Everard Su- | key were two of Cassie's bosom friends.
 Merry saw at once why Cassie was going to get job at Wheelright's establishment. simply to humiliate , Morley. To advertise to his friends that he was not supporting her. When Cassie set out to humiliate anybody, she certainly put her heart and soul into her work.
 "Oh, Cassie 1 wouldn't do that!" Merry told her anxiously. Think how rotten Morley's going to feel about your doing Buch thing!"
 Il single gleamiIg line. "I am thinking how rotten he'll feel!" she snapped. That's why I'm doing it- to make him feel the way he's made me feel many a time and oft! Get me?"
 But she did not go downtown to Wheelright's office, after ,aT. For n just as she was leaving the house, Maude Wheelright herself called up.
 By one of the Mysterious filings Of fate, Maude was giving an impromtu luncheon party that very noon for guest who had dropped into town unexpectedly.
 Cassie's face had lost part of It's ill-tempered look by the time she turned away from the telephone.
 "Maudie Wheelright's having a lunch at one.' she murmured, with eyes on the clack. Let's see-it's i after nine now. Do you suppose that Lillie could give a marcel wave now, if I dashed down to her shop, Mer- ry?"
 "Yes, but you'd better make 1t snappy," Merry replied. She's us- ually all dated up after ten o'clock"
 Cassie made 1t very snappy in deed, and came home at eleven with a glossy new wave, and finger-nails that shone like little suns.
 She hunted through her trunks until she found a cream and gold afternoon dress with slippers and hat to match.
 Then she busted the twins from the bath room where they were playing in the tub, and took a leis- urely bath.
 At one o'clock she came down. stairs looking like mannekin at a French race track, and fragrant as a Persian garden.
 How do you like that neV per funo of rniDp 2n she asked Merry and |