New Britain herald., 1927-08-26
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 Sally Jerome, pretty and clever, is the mainstay of her family in the absence of her father. who does not ! live with her mother. Mrs. Jerome enjoys poor health. so Sally does the house work mornings and office work for MT. Peevey down town afternoons. Her brother. Beau, and sister. Mille. give little towards the support of the home. and the finan- cial burden 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 office is across the hall from Mir. Peevey's. Millie is Yves secretary, and he is infatuated with her. She delights in making him jealous with her flirtations, particularly one that | she is carrying on with a bond salesman named Davidson. Davd- son secretly admires Sally, who will have nothing to do with him.
 Beau passes some bad checks and "borrows" some money from the bank where he works, and Sally gets the money to pay these debts of dishonor from MT. Peevey. Beau elopes with his girl, Mabel, and I brings her home to live. He buys her a fur coat and a secondhand car, but pays Sally no board, and she is frantic with money worries. Then Milie goes to the hospital for an appendicitis operation, and while she is there Sally does her work in John Yves office. Later, when MT. Peevey retires from business, he of fers her permanent position. But Sally refuses it, and goes into busi- ness with her Aunt Emily Jerome, who has given up school teaching to turn her country home into a way side inn.
 The business does not thrive, al- place is beautiful and comfortable Finally Aunt Emily hires a jaz1 orchestra in one last effort to make her restaurant popular, although she disapproves of jazz. But "The Lark." a nearby roadhouse, takes away the business, and Aunt Elm and Sally are in despair. The family all move in, to make matters worse. When things look very black, John Wye comes out and offers Sally a job with him, but Millie tells her he really came to see herself Sally turns him down, and decides to ] stick to Aunt Elm. She and Ted Sloan hit upon the idea of doing some exhibition dancing to see if that will draw the crowds. Sally is | a marvellous dancer.
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 CHAPTER NLVI Aunt Emily was just as straight laced as she was strong minded. And the chances are that she never would have allowed Sally to put on her dance that night if it had not been for Mrs. Jerome.
 But the minute she found out that Mrs. Jerome was dead set against Sally's dancing, Aunt Emily was all for it. She took a certain bitter enjoyment in disagreeing with herCsister-in-la about every thing.
 Its a fine idea" she declared when Mrs. Jerome came to her to beg her to forbid Sally to make "a public show" of herself.
 Mrs. Jerome left her in anger and went upstairs to hunt through her trunks for a red satin mask that she had packed away years before, after N1illie had worn it to a high school masquerade.
 Presently she appeared in the' doorway of Sally's room with it dangling from her hand by it's elas- tic head-band.
 "Here!" she cried, and tossed it down upon the bed beside Sally If you must dance downstairs tonight, for my sake wear this thing to hide your face. |. . l think you're acting in perfectly disgraceful way, and I don't believe anybody wants to see fancy dancing anyway. The whole scheme sounds perfectly crazy to mel"
 She bounced out of the room, leaving Sally staring through the doorway with thoughtful eyes. She was wholly in sympathy with her mother and besides, the thought of facing all those strange people and dancing for them was a terri flying thought to her.
 She picked up the scarlet mask and put it on. Then she ran into Millie's room and hunted through Ter top dresser drawer until she found what she was looking fora bright red lipstick and pair of coral earrings.
 Every slick, sally.' she told her self, approvngly as she stood back from her mirror to get the effect.
 Through the holes in the mask her eyes flashed at her, and the corners of her scarlet mouth went up in a wide and lovely smile She began to shake those shoulders of ters ever so delicately. wit h dainty ripping movement-like the wave that runs over a wheatfield when a breeze is blowing.
 Then she turned to the bed and picked up handful of the little gilt bells that lay there in a box. She began to sew them to her satin
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