New Britain herald., 1927-08-08

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 Sally Jerome. pretty and clever. i. the prop and mainstay of her fam. fly in the absence of her father. who has not lived with her mother fol 1 nine years. The family consists o1 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 grouchy old MT Peevey afternoons.
 In the flat below the Jeromes lives young Ted Sloan, an automo- bile salesman, who wants Sally to marry him and keep on working. But the only man who interests her Is John Nye. whose real estate of- flee is just across the hall from MT. Peevey's. Nye hires Millie as his secretary and becomes blindly ln- fatuated with her. making her pres ents and lending her his car, etc. But Millie confesses to Sally that, although she thinks Nye is a good
 
 marry him for his money, she real ly prefers Davidson, former suit CT. She tries to persuade John Wye to take Davidson on as salesman. Beau and Millie give so little to- wards the upkeep of the home that Sally is often obliged to borrow from her aunt, Emily Jerome, who is giving up school teaching to turn her old country home into wayside inn. She wants Sally to go into | business with her, but Sally is afraid to risk her $21-a-week salary with Mir. Peevey to take chance with Aunt Emily.
 Beau gets $11o from Ted Sloan by means of bad checks. Sally borrows that sum from Mir. Peevey and gives 1t to Beau to turn over to Ted Sloan. But Beau uses it to elope with his fiancee, jazzy little Mabel Wilmot, and Sally has to start paying off his debt and hers at the rate of $2 a week to Ted and $2 a week to MT. Peevey. A check for $2o0 comes from Mr. Jerome. and Mrs. Jerome gives it to Beau and Mabel. who buy a cheap secondhand car with it.
 Millie is taken sick during one of John Yves absences from town and one afternoon Mrs. Jerome tele- phones Sally at Mir. Peevey's office telling her to get home as fast as she can-that something dreadful has happened to Millie.
 NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XXX
 For Just a half-minute Sally was too stunned to move or to think.
 Then her brain cleared in a flash, and began to work quickly and surely, as it always did.
 She phoned for a taxicab, scrib- bled a few lines to let Mir. Peevey know where she had gone, picked up her hat and purse, and went down stairs to wait for her cab.
 Five minutes after her mothers message she was on her way home, gazing out of the cab windows at the familiar streets with eyes that saw nothing. The ride was a night mare while it lasted.
 All her life seemed suddenly to have narrowed down to one single terror-the fear that Millie was dead or dying.
 Its my fault" she kept telling herself. 'I should have had the doc tor last night whether she wanted him or not I should have known that that sleep she was in wasn't a natural sleep. ,. [. It's all my fault"
 She prayed with stiff lips. She felt that there was nothing on earth she wouldn't do for Millie if only God would spare her now. . |. |. She would give her up to John Nye and never think of John Nye again. What did anything or anybody mat ter now that Millie was at deaths door?
 For Sally never doubted that Mill lie was there, and she was cold and shaking with fear as she went up the stairs to the flat.
 Half way up she heard the. door above her open. and Mrs. Jerome's heavy footsteps on the landing.
 '"That you, Sally?" And then she was sobbing on Sally's shoulder "Millie-NIillie's got to go to the hospital! She's got to be-operated on" Her words ended in a muf- fled shriek.
 Crying like a child and clinging to Sally with her large. soft hands, she followed her into the flat.
 Ted Sloan's red headed mother stood in the center of the living room floor. holding Mrs. Jeromes coat and her hat and her high laced shoes.
 I've been trying 10 get her into her clothes for the last half hour" she appealed to Sally. And l can't