New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1927-07-25

Sally Jerome, pretty and clever
is the prop and mainstay of her
family in the absence of her father
who has not lived with her mother
for nine years. The family consists
of Mrs. jerome: the twins, Beau
and Mile; and Sally herself. Mrs
Jerome enjoys poor health, SO Sally
does the homework mornings and
officework for grouchy Mr.. Peevey
afternoons.
In the flat below the Jeromes
lives young Ted Sloan. an automo-
| bile salesman, who wants her to
| marry him and keep on working.
But the only man in whom she is
| truly interested is John Nye, whose
! real estate offices are just across
the hall from Mr.. Peevey's.
Nye hires the siren Mile as his
| nographer-secretary after Sally
has refused the place because Millie
was out Of work and needed job.
Shortly after Mile starts working
for him he becomes blindly intatu-
ated with her. and Sally is both
| heartsick and Jealous.
Millie and Beau rarely give Sally
any money for the upkeep of the
home. Occasionally a check comes
from the absent father. and once
in a while either Beau or Mile pays
$40 as board" money. But most of
the burden falls on Sally.
Suddenly, however, Beau blossoms
out with many new clothes and a
surplus of money. Sally becomes
suspicious because Beau works IN a
bank and has always been light
fingered. Ted Sloan tells Sally he
gave Beau a check for SO, but
Sally knows Beau had much more
extra money than that having spent
twice that easily one night buying
liquor fer a party given by his girl,
Mabel Wilmc:.
On a Saturday night Sally goes
dancing with Ted while her mother
and her spinster aunt, Emily Je-
rome, are at movie. Ted tries to
make love TO her, and when she
repulses him. shows her how Beau
altered his check to s110 instead of
SO. and adds that he could send
Beau to Jail for doing it. but will
tear up the check if Sally will
promise to marry him, Sally leaves
him at tho dance palace and walks
out, angrily telling him that she
will get that money for him some
how or other that very night
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
CHAPTER XVIII
Outside the Blue Lagoon an au-
tumn storm was raging. Rain was
coming down In sheets, and a cold
high wind howled and tore about
the streets.
Sally shivered as she stepped out
% The streaming darkness and
4rted along the wet. cleaning
,ilcwalks. The downpour drenched
her silk coat and thin dress in no
time, but she put her head down
and struggled on towards the street
car line at the corner.
She had no notion of where she
was going or what she was going
to do. Her thoughts We're as wild as
the weather itself. Beau had
stolen more than a hundred dollars
from Ted Sloan, and Ted had proof
of it. Proof that could send Beau
10 PRISON.. Somehow that money
must be found, and be paid back to
Ted tonight. Every nickel Of it. ...
But where was it to be found?
Where? Especially at this time of
night.
~ don't think that Ted really
would turn Beau over to the law
Sally told herself. sensibly. I'm sure
he would not go thatfar-and yet
ne might. You never can tell what
people will do when they're angry"
And Ted surely had been insanely
angry back there among the golden
lights and the haunting music of
The Blue Lagoon.
YES. I've got to get the money"
Sally finally decided. remembering
his white face and the look in his
eyes as he handed her the two
checks-the pink one and the blue
one. But where TO get it-thats
the question"
She racked her confused brain as
she went along. chilled to the bone
and buffeted by the wind - and
hardly conscious that she was cold
and wet and shaking all over.
She reached the corner and saw
a street car coming along through
the rain like lighted ship on
stormy sea.
Just as it slowed down to stop
Ted's little car skidded around the
corner ana stopped beside the curb.
He called to her. His words came
to her in snatches above the rush
OF the wind.
Hi. you.-can't be out on n
night like this-must be losing your
this thing over sensibly
- and so on.
Sally paid not the slightest bit of
attention to him.
With tho tail Of her eye she could
see him leaning out of his wet little
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