New Britain herald., 1927-09-03

Mabel giyes you your head. Vel
 let lne toll you someG;ine, Beal
 N''r" leaving this house this We" and you're going into a house O your own where you won't have s
 much loose money to throw ava on daughters of jazz."
 Sally could have given NIabe three cheers as she listened 10 her Really. hard mck vas making quit. d woman of little Nahsy, she sai, tc herself that night as she got int, Ter blue dress and strapped on he iue and silver dancing slippers Hard luck always brings ont th, l-st-or the worst in any woman r. all depends on the kind ot woman sar happens to be
 That ut-ht Nabel cam. to her when she was Ualr,-~in- for bed.
 "Will you do me the greatest kind of a favor?" sh" a4}.,l. "I want .c go house Hu0-irE-cr flat hunting, should tomorrow. And I've just started on tl.iN new iob and want to hold it for 9 while Win you take my place at Mr, Nyc's office while I look up 2 flot?'
 Sally'S heart seemed to turn a complete sonl,rsault in her breast.
 To go back 10 the familiar office in the Nye-NayIor building, To take oplers once again from the ,-rp. low voice Of John Ny", To aco his dark. handsome head h Il. over his desk, and his tunno1 hands urryousIv tapping the plate g}ass cover or tln telephone, The mer. thought of these things made l.rr hrra'b come ior}ily and 9 slow. painful flush stir in her cheeks.
 NO" sh" said. I'm sorry, Nab Sy" She remembered how MlHe had said ho hid laughed at her, and at in" small kindnesscs sh" hal tnna for him.
 ShD rememh,rr1. too that omhar- ras>iug moment when he had conn" upon her in I'd Sloau's arms under 'he willow tro" and tho current bushes in Aunt Eus dark garden not 90 l.@g aGo.
 "Anything else, 1d do for you, she declared. "hut not that"
 Nahors troubled faoc ar"w still more troubled. "I'v" got to find T 'lat.' she explained again. And the sooner I do find it the better for me, think. I'm not going to fuss with Erau about running out with this airl-hut I am going 10 get him 10 thc place where he won't have any money for anyone but me and the baby. Wild women won't run around with man who doesn't have q lot of money 10 spend. And I'm going to see that i}eau doesn't have ANY" Her face was firm with de- termination as she marched off to bed.
 The next morning whom Mabel wen. d0wns.air: for the bahya bottle she found Sally getting break fast in a bungalow apron that GOV cred her old office suit of black serge.
 Sally hed changed her mind.
 q thoucht I'd go down and talk" care of your work Mabsy," she said. without looking mp from inc ,rgs she was cracking for an omo- iar. After all. the most important thing for us right now is to get Beau hack on the straight and narrow. And even if I don't lik" John Nya. l don't mind spending 6 day in an office. while you look mp d place to liyc.'
 "Evyn f don't like John Nye." I, gave her the s'rang"st feeling 70 say that She knew, as she said it, that she loved him. She might hate him, in q way, because he had treated her more or less shabbily, hut she couldn't get over her feeling of thrill whenever she thought about him. . . What Was it the silly. popular song said:
 "But when ] hate you
 1rs cause l lofc you--"
 T. Was silly, but if was true.
 "Wnv .lonf you lik> John Ny"?' Nabcl's voice was an echo of her thoughts
 "Why don't T?' asked Sally, slip ping ont of the apron and popping the omrlet into the oven.
 "Nov, Mabsv you take that ont in 20 minutes,' she said. "Boau will he down for breakfast by then, and you might carry somo mp 10 AFillie. Why. I don't like him necau~,- -6ccauso-'
 "You don't like him because Mill lies trying 10 make you think that 1 he got smart with her." chirpcd Mabel, holding her head wisely. i ''5ut don't lct her come any of that , stuff on you, I heard all about ahnt really happened between her md John Nyo from Miss Krcss. ] i told you I'd find out, and I did.' Sally Jerome is tho prop and , nainstay Of her family in the ab- 1 -"ncc of her father, who does not i've with her mother. Mrs. Jerome ! -njoys ill health, so Sally does the ]
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