New Britain herald., 1927-08-27

I the mainstay of her family in the absence of her father, who does not live with her mother. Mrs. Jerome enjoys i'll health. so Sally does the homework mornings and office work afternoons for Mir. Peevey. Beau, her brother. and Millie, her sister, give little towards the sup port of the home. and the burden 1 falls on Sally.
 In the flat below the Jeromes lives Ted Sloan, who wants Sally to marry him and keep on working. But the only man who interests her is John Nye. whose real estate of | flee is across the hall from MT. Peevey's. Millie is Yves secretary, and he is infatuated with her. How ever, she prefers a bond salesman named Davidson. of whom John is jealous, so she says.
 Beau "borrows" some money from the bank where he works, and Mir. Peevey gives Sally the money to cover the theft. Then Beau elopes with his girl, Mabel, and brings her home to live. They pay practi- cally no board, and Sally is frantic. Millie goes to the hospital for an appendicitis operation, and John Nye pays for her expensive room and a special nurse. While she is there Sally does her work in John Yves office. and when MT. Peevey retires from business, John offers Sally a position with him. But she refuses it, and goes into the way side inn business with her Aunt En- fly Jerome, an ex-school teacher.
 The business does not thrive, all though the food is delicious and the place is beautiful and comfort able. The winter passes with Aunt Elm and Sally doing all the work themselves, in a grand effort to keep afloat. In the spring Aunt Elm hires a jazz band, hoping that that will "pep up' the business. Then "The Lark" a nearby roadhouse. opens, and takes away many of their pa trons Ted Sloan takes Sally to sec some dancers there. and Sally and he decide to put on a dance-act themselves. It is great hit, and af- fairs slowly improve at Aunt Ems inn. Sally wears a mask and cos tune covered with bells when she dances. Her old one wears out and she buys an expensive new one, to the annoyance of her mother, who has come, with all the rest of the family, to live at the inn. She tells Sally that she ought to save her money and start housekeeping again.
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 CHAPTER XLVII
 It always made Sally utterly mis- crable to know that her mother was unhappy about anything.
 She felt toward Mrs. Jerome as doting parent might feel toward a child that was sickly and bad tempered and hard to please. She pampered her and petted her. and let her have her own way whenever, she could.
 
 of trouble now as she turned them upon her mothers discontented face.
 T thought you liked being here with Aunt Elm, dear" she said, re- membering how determined her mother had been about coming there.
 Mrs. Jerome sighed and shook ler head.
 T don't" she answered. "Your Aunt makes me get up so early in the morning. and yesterday when she asked me 10 shell two bushels of green peas just didn't know how I was going to do 1.-the smell of peas has always made me ter ribly sick to my stomach. want to go back to my own home"
 Sally's face. as she stopped the car and began to unload it, was very sober. Well, Momsie," she said slowly and quietly, I'll take another flat somewhere just as soon as I can. But I can't afford it right TOW"
 VI COulSe yOu NdIl dllolu II. The way you and your aunt are making money now" she snapped, heavily lowering her great body from the car, "Millie said this morning that you must be making a small fortune"
 We aren't" Sally was telling the truth. They were making more money than they had, but their ex- penses were heavier too.
 Then how could you afford that costume you've got there?" her mother wanted to know, her. doubt ing eyes on the brown paper bundle that was Sally's new dancing dress.
 Well, I couldn't, as I told you" Sally said bluntly But I had to have it. That dance seems to help our business. somehow or oth- CT. and the old costume was so shabby"
 "I don't believe anybody wants to see you dance,' Mrs. Jerome cut in. T think the business is picking up