New Britain herald., 1927-08-02
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 the prop and mainstay of her fam fly 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 Millie, and Sally herself. Mrs. Je- rome enjoys poor health, so Sally does the housework mornings and office work for MT. Peevey down. town 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 interested is John Nye, whose real estate office is across the hall from Mr. Peevey's. Nye hires Mill lie as his secretary and becomes blindly infatuated with her. Sally is heartsick and jealous, and because of this, begins to see more of Ted Sloan than usual.
 Beau and Millie spend most of their earnil gs on themselves, and Sally's only real financial help is an occasional check from her spinster aunt, Emily Jerome, who is turn | ing her old home in the country to a wayside inn, serving chicken din- ners.
 Beau manages to get s110 from | Ted Sloan by means of two bad i checks, and Ted threatens to turn him over to the police. Sally or ! rows a hundred dollars from Mir. Peevey and gives it to him. But in 1 stead of paying Ted with t, he uses it to elope with his fiancee, Mabel | Wilmot, a jezzv, slangy little flap | per. He and Mabel return from their | honeymoon on night when Millie | has asked John Wye to supper and Sally is humiliated by their wild talk and behavior, for both of them l have been celebrating their mar | riage In liquor. Millie asks them to leave the flat, and they do, angrily promising never to return. Sally is | unhappy 10 have them go that way, but she knows that, with Beau's debts on her shoulders, she cannot afford to ask them to stay there. N[illie's love affair goes serenely on. and she tells Sally that Jchn Eye has hired an assistant for her so that she'll be free 10 go to lunch with him. One night when Sally and Ted have been dancing at the Blue 1 Lagoon Sally meets one of Millie's erstwhile suitors, Davidson. He asks her to dance while Ted is get ting her wraps.
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 CHAPTER NXV "Won't you dance with me now ." Millie's friend, Davidson asked, smiling down at her.
 Sally could feel his gray eyes go- ing over her face. They seemed, somehow, to be stroking 1t like caressng fingers. They moved on, over her neck 10 her slender light figure.
 She moved away from him an inch or two. She hated to be look ed at like that by a man.
 Don't you want to dance with me-" he was asking her now, and she shook her head and looked around for Ted. Surely he had had plenty of time to get her wraps from the check-room.
 "No, l don't want 10 dance any more tonight. The floors so crowd- ed" she answered, looking up at him. "Tm here with Ted Sloan - you remember him, don't you?- and we just decided 10 go home"
 "No. I don't remember him." the big blond man answered, bluntly, never taking his eyes from her "The only person I remember meet ing at your nouse was yourself"
 Sally's color deepened and stirred. What are you doing here?" she asked quickly, changing the sub ject.
 She really wondered, too, what Davidson was doing in place like rhe Blue Lagoon, which was haunt of the young and gay and poor, and where dances cost but nickel apiece. Surely he didn't be- long here, with his fine linen shirt, his expensive-looking clothes, and the gold cigarette case that he lid dled with as he talked.
 He belonged to another world-a world of hieh-powercd cars. road houses that Lad a cover charge and private dining rooms, tailor-made clothes and chased-selver liquor flasks. Anyone could tell that by looking at him.
 Then, too, Sally knew that h" never had taken MiIlie 10 places like the Blue Lagoon in the days when she had run around with him.
 "Oh. just dropped in on my way home from a card game" he said, indiffcrently. 'I do, sometimes. Been doing any more cooking latcly?' His face lighted up as he asked her that.
 Any more cooking?" cried Sally. "Why, l cook every day of my life. Where do yon suppose Ted can be" Let's go and look him up."