New Britain herald., 1927-08-29
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Sally Jerome. pretty and clever, i
 the mainstay of her family in thu
 absence of her father, who has no
 lived with her mother for years
 Mrs. Jerome enjoys ill health. SC Sally does the housework mornings and office work for MT. Peevey | afternoons. Beau, her brother, and Millie, her sister. give so little to- wards the support of the home that the entire burden falls on Sally. In the flat below the Jeromes lives young Ted Sloan. a "dancin' fool" who wants her to marry him and keep on working. But the only man who interests Sally is John Nye, whose real estate office is across the hall from MT. Peevey's. Millie is his secretary, and he is blindly infatuated with her. Millie, however, prefers a bond salesman named Davidson Davidson is secret ly in love with Sally, who will have nothing at all to do with him.
 Beau "borrows" some money from the bank where he works. and MT. Peevey gives Sally the money to cover the theft. Then Beau elopes with Mabel Wilmot and brings her home to live with his family. He pays practically no board, and Sally is frantic. Millie goes to the hospital for an operation and John Wye pays for her private room and special nurse. While she is ill Sally works for John Nye, and when MT. Peevey retires from business Nye offers her a job with him. But she declines it and goes into the wayside inn 'busi- ness with her aunt, Emily Jerome, an ex-school teacher.
 The business does not thrive, al- though Aunt Elm and Sally do most of the cooking, etc., themselves, Then Mrs. Jerome brings the whole family to live at the big house with Aunt Elm, and they are an extra eX- pense. Finally Aunt Elm hires a jazz band, and Sally puts on an eXhlbl- ton dance with Ted Sloan, in one last grand effort to pep up' the business. It does it, too.
 Mrs. Jerome imagines that they are making a small fortune and de- mands a new home, as she is tired of Aunt Ems matter-of-fact treat ment of her. She likes to be cod dled. Millie, too, threatens to stop work, if they keep on making money, and Sally wonders how any one lucky enough to be working in the same office with John could even think of leaving it. One night she finds herself alone with Davidson in Aunt Emily's office" and he starts making love to her. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
 CHAPTER XLVIII
 Sally did not know just what to do.
 It was one thing to smartly smack Ted Sloan across his cheerful, freckled face when he tried to force his love making upon her, as he did nearly every time they were tcgeth- CT.
 But 1t was going to be something different to deal with this older man, who was so much more a man of the world-and so much more serious and determined than Ted ever had been.
 Moreover, Sally was rattled. She looked up at Davidson with aston and confusion written in the blue-clear brilliance of her eyes. Her parted lips made no sound. She could think of nothing to say. She felt as if her brain had working, or as if it were didn't know which.
 Davidson's other hand came down I upon her other shoulder, and he | drew her body toward him so slowly | that the movement was scarcely mo- ticeable. But there was behind 1t l the slow, quiet firmness of shad- ow that seems not to move at all, l but gradually covers the sun.
 Sweet kid," he said huskily, his | head lowered a little as he leaned | close to Sally.
 The sound of his voice seemed to break the spell that held her. and i all at once she knew just how to manage this situation without 1 making a scene--without making an enemy of Davidson-without even making a disturbing noise in the luiet house.
 "Unhand me, Desperate pes- nond," she said with laugh, and if fer voice shook a little it was light lnd careless seeming, too.
 She tried to pass him and leave he cubby-hole of an office.
 But he stood in the doorway, with his hands on either side of he opening.
 "What have you against me,