New Britain herald., 1927-07-09
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| Sdlly JcTOilie, .O ana pTelty anC | clever, is the prop and mainstay ol I her family in the absence of hel | father who has been separated from her mother for nine years.
 The family consists of Mrs. Je-
 rome. the twins. Beau. who's the
 apple of his mothers eye, and Mil lie. young siren; and Sally. her
 self. Mrs. Jerome is an invalid, so Sally does the homework mornings and works ir MT. Peevey's office downtown afternoons.
 In the flat just below the Jeromes' flat lives young Ted Sloan. who's in love with Sally. Sally, however, has small interest in him except as a dancing partner. She adores danc- ing
 The only man she Is sentimental ly interested in is John Nye, whose real estate office is across the, hall from Mir. Peevey's office. She barely knows him, however.
 On a hot Monday in August Millie drops into Sally's office with the news that she's had to quit another job because another employer tried to make love to her. This is always Sally's story, but Sally knows that the real reason for Millie's quitting is because her employer did NOT make love to her. Beau's best girl, Mabel Wilmot, has told her that Millie just won't work around an office where there's nobody attrac- tive enough to give her thrill"
 Millie gets glimpse of young Mir. Nye and decides to run over and ask him if he needs a good steno- grapher. by any chance. Sally is dreadfully afraid that she will. She hates the thought of the siren, Mill lie. working for John Nye all day, six days week.
 But later that afternoon Wye tells her that his secretary has been mar ried, and asks her if she know of girl who would do for him. Sally unwillingly tells him about Millie and promises to send her down next morning. Millie is out when she gets home for supper. Beau's i'll, and Mrs. Jerome is in bed, worn out with the heat Ted Sloan helps Sally get some food ready for them, and casually asks her to marry him. When Mrs. Jerome hears about 1t she cries, and Sally promises never to marry Ted.
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 CHAPTER V
 Mrs Jerome dabbled at her eyes with a handkerchief that fairly reeked of cologne. She bathed her forehead with cologne whenever she had one of her sick headaches, and all of her clothes and her bedroom smelled of it from one years end to another.
 Sally" she said forlornly, butter ing a little piece of the Bohemian rye bread and poppings 1t into her Tt isn't only that I'm afraid you'll marry Ted Sloan. I don't want you to marry anybody-at least, not for long time. What on earth would I do without you, sick as l am? And, anyway. married life isn't all rosc-leaves and sugar pills, either! Don't you be in a hurry to jump into it. Look at me! l wish I'd never heard the word 'marry'!'
 Sally began to set the bedside tables to rights - brushing up the crumbs on it, smoothing down the dog -eared pages of book, putting the medicine bottles and the pill boxes in neat row along the back of 1t. Her hands moved quietly, quickly, deftly. like the hands of a trained nurse.
 T can't think married life Is so terrible, Mother." she said firmly. after a minute or two. Her blue eyes were serious and thoughtful. "Or so many people wouldn't get mar ried and live together, would they?"
 Mrs. Jerome's face began to puck CT up again. and Sally saw that for some reason or other she was going to cry again.
 "Of course. that doesn't mean that I want to get married" she hurried to say, "because I don't-and there | isn't chance that I'll marry for perfect ages. if I ever do. Ted Sloan's practically the only man l know except Beau and Mir. Peevey- and I wouldn't marry Ted if he ! were the last man on earth"
 Well. Pm glad to hear you say that, at any rate" her mother an- swered with long sigh. Turn off | that electric fan before you go out. Sometimes I think it makes my headache worse."
 Mrs. Jeromes sick headaches were the family tragedy. They had begun nine years before. soon after her | husband had left. And they had i teen growing worse ever since.
 The only person in the family | who did not take them seriously | was her sister-in-law, Miss Emily | Jerome, smart spinster who lived ! alone in the ramshackle Jerome | homestead far out on the River road. Aunt Emily only sniffed when she heard about the headaches.
 "Of course she has them!' ~ she !