New Britain herald., 1927-09-10

l NdIly J'IUiltt pretty anu young | is the mainstav of her family while 1 her father is separated from hor
 mother. Mrs. Jerome enjoys poor
 health so Sally does the housew ork mornings and office work down 1 town afternoons. Beau and Millie i her brother and sister. give nothing l practically. towards keeping up the i home.
 Ted Sloan is in love with Sally and wants her 10 marry hin.. Bu' 1 Sally is interested only in John ! Nye, for whom Millie works Nye is infatuated with Mnlic, who pre- 1 fcrs a bond salesman named Havid- son. Davidson worries Sally with 1 his attentions.
 During an illness of Millie's, Sally
 works for John. Later he offers her steady joh. But Sally. hurt by something Millie tells her he sad about her, refuses if. and goes in'o the wayside inn business with hcr Aunt Emily Jerome.
 The business does not prosper un- -il Aunt Elm hires jazz band, and Sally put on an exhibition 'shim- my" dance with Ted Sloan for danc-
 ing partncr-all this 10 the horror
 Of Mrs. Jerome, who brings the
 whole family out 10 the inn 10 live, including Beau's wife, Mabel, and
 her baby.
 Presently Ted confesses that he is ashamed of being a dancing fool,' and Sally sends him packing.
 Nlilie quits her job in John Yves office. explaining 10 Sally that he got fresh" with her. Mabel laughs ar this story, but Sally believes her. Then Millie goes to work for David son. and when she leaves him she tells the same kind of story about his getting smart" too. Only then does Sally doubt her. Mabel takes over Nillie's old job in Yves office, and Nillie goes to Rerm uda with her mother and Mr. Jerome, who has ccome ill and returned 10 his fam lily for help in his illness. On" night Davidson comes 10 the inn and tells Sally that the real reason why Millie stopped working in the office where he is employed was be cause she knew that he was in love with Sally. John Nyc drops in, finds Davidson making love 10 Sally. and later tells Sally that she ought 10 he ashamed of dancing in public in q roadhouse.
 NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
 CHAPTER TIN
 l. was a brcathless and bowilder- cd Sally who held out her hand to wish Davidson good night.
 She barely knew what she said 10 him, and she only half heard him assuring her that he would call her up in few days.
 After he was gone she climbed the stairs to her own room-and presently found herself standing be- fore the mirror of her dresser, with out any clear recollection of com ing upstairs.
 With quick. nervous fingers. she began 10 take off the gypsy dress the thin, scarlet silk, the gay. be- lowered calico. the little silk cap 1ll covered with bright brass bells.
 Then, slipping into her faded old cotton kimono, she rolled them all nto Il ball-all the bright, 2ay-look- ng garments-and carried them 10 he trunk-room at the head Of the | attic stairs.
 Her own trunk stood in corner, | behind the barricadc of bodst,ads, ! aoXes. old rockers and drcssors that 1 Mrs. Jerome had brought 10 the ! house months before
 Sally climbed over these things | with the quick, smooth ease of a at, and dropped down 10 1h" dusty !, loor beyond them. She flung up the !, i'd of her cheap. black lin trunk, ! md thrust the roll of silk and calico i Town at th" very bottom, under 1 jilcs of her winter clothes.
 "Thoro," she said aloud, and with l great satisfaction. "Thcre!" She | cit as if sh" had closed the door ipon one whole period Of her life. as she slammed the lid of the trunk | Town, and climbed back over her l mothers dusty houso hold goods and ! ockod the door of the trunk room i chind her.
 At 10 that night, when Aunt Elm | 'amG running up stairs to find out !, sh" wasn't doing the dance that | he did every night about that time, | sally was in bed. '
 But she was not asleep. She was l fitting bolt upright, with q mnnding 'askct before her on tho bedS and | he was darninr the sleeves of her l i'd black serge office suit.
 The frown on Aunt E,milys face ! .copon"d.
 What under high heaven ARE i, on doing. Sally Jorome?" she ' sl<od in Wondormont, and Sally . .el1 up tho dress to sho" her what ! he was doing. |
 "Mcndinr my old office dress, | ,unf." she said mcokly. '1'm going . .ut 10 look for job in the morning . an office job
 Aunt Elm was thunder-struck, labb"r- -gastcd. Here was T ,rnt'y kcttl" Of fish. shc seemed 10 7 ,e thinking. Her star attraction sud . .only showing a streak Of tomn.ra-